South Africa at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics explained

Noc:	RSA
Nocname:	South African Deaf Sports Federation
Games:	Summer Deaflympics
Year:	2017
Location:	Samsun
Competitors:	4
Sports:	2
Rank:	35
Gold:	0
Silver:	2
Bronze:	0

South Africa competed in the 2017 Summer Deaflympics for the 7th consecutive time in the Summer Deaflympics since making its debut in 1993.^[1]

South Africa sent a delegation of just 4 participants in the Games including 3 swimmers and an athlete.^{[2] [3]} South African team received 2 silver medals in the competition. Cornell Loubser was the only medalist for South Africa during the event bagging 2 silver medals.^[4]

Participants

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Swimming	1	2	3
Athletics	1	0	1

Medalists

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Cornell Loubser		Swimming	Women's Butterfly 100m
Cornell Loubser		Swimming	Women's Butterfly 200m

Medal table

Sport				Total
Swimming	0	2	0	2
Athletics	0	0	0	0

External links

• Deaflympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Deaflympics 2017 Samsun. deaflympics2017.org. tr. 2017-10-15.
2. Web site: Games Deaflympics. www.deaflympics.com. en. 2017-10-15.
3. News: SA team in Turkey to tackle Deaflympics TeamSA. 2017-07-20. TeamSA. 2017-10-15. en-US.
4. Web site: Countries Deaflympics. www.deaflympics.com. en. 2017-10-15.