Team SA wins gold at 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo

Anrune Weyers has won Team SA’s first medal of the Tokyo Paralympics with victory in the women’s 400m (T47) final. She won in 56.05 seconds.

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Anrune Weyers Twitter @TeamSA2020

Celestine Hendricks

28 August 2021, 16:28 [SAST]

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Team South Africa(SA) has won its first medals of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, two golds.

Ntando Mahlangu won Team South Africa’s second gold medal on day four of the games after setting a new world record of 7.17 metres to win the T63 long jump event.

GOLD!!! ?Ntando Mahlangu won #TeamSA’ s 2nd medal of the #Tokyo2020 Paralympics with a final leap of 7.17m in the men’s T63 long jump to give him the GOLD. It was a WORLD RECORD in the T61 category

— Team South Africa (@TeamSA2020) August 28, 2021

This came just minutes after reigning world champion, Anrune Weyers, had won the T47 400 metres final to win gold and also become a paralympic champion.

Weyers won in 56.05 seconds to clinch gold.

This is what it means to win GOLD!!
???❤️@AnRUNel #TeamSA #ParaAthletics #Paralympics pic.twitter.com/LnhfgQ2hoa

— Team South Africa (@TeamSA2020) August 28, 2021