South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	RSA
Nocname:	South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2020
Flagcaption:	Flag of South Africa
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Competitors:	179
Sports:	19
Flagbearer Open:	Phumelela Mbande Chad le Clos
Flagbearer Close:	Anaso Jobodwana
Rank:	52
Gold:	1
Silver:	2
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto

South Africa competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-apartheid era, and twentieth overall in Summer Olympic history.

A week before the Games started, two football players and a video analyst were tested positive for COVID-19 while staying at the Olympic Village.^[2]

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Surfing	0	1	0	1
Swimming	1	1	0	2
Total	1	2	0	3

Multiple medallists

The following competitors won several medals at the 2020 Olympic Games.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey and football are not counted:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Artistic swimming	0	2	2
Athletics	25	5	30
Cycling	7	4	11
Diving	0	2	2
Equestrian	0	2	2
Field hockey	16	16	32
Football	17	0	17
Golf	2	1	3
Gymnastics	0	2	2
Judo	0	1	1
Rowing	6	0	6
Rugby sevens	12	0	12
Sailing	3	0	3
Skateboarding	2	2	4
Sport climbing	1	1	2
Surfing	0	1	1
Swimming	8	9	17
Triathlon	2	2	4
Water polo	13	13	26
Total	115	64	179

Artistic swimming

See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet event, by securing a berth as the highest-ranked pair, not yet qualified, from Africa at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, heralding the country's return to the sport for the first time since Barcelona 1992.

Athletics (track and field)

See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Thirty South African athletes achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^{[3] [4]}

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gift Leotlela	align=left rowspan=3	100 m	10.04	1 Q	10.03	4	Did not advance
Shaun Maswanganyi	10.12	3 Q	10.10	6	Did not advance
Akani Simbine	10.08	1 Q	9.90	4 q	9.93	4
Anaso Jobodwana	align=left rowspan=3	200 m	20.78	3 Q	20.88	8	Did not advance
Shaun Maswanganyi	20.58	2 Q	20.18	4	Did not advance
Clarence Munyai	20.49	4 q	20.49	6	Did not advance
Zakithi Nene	align=left rowspan=3	400 m	45.74	5	Did not advance
Wayde van Niekerk	45.25	3 Q	45.14	5	Did not advance
Thapelo Phora	45.83	5	Did not advance
Lesiba Mashele	5000 m	13:48.25	15	Did not advance
Antonio Alkana	110 m hurdles	13.55	6	Did not advance
Sokwakhana Zazini	400 m hurdles	49.51	3 Q	48.99	6	Did not advance
Gift Leotlela Shaun Maswanganyi Clarence Munyai Galaletsang Ramorwa Akani Simbine	4 × 100 m relay			Did not advance
Ranti Dikgale Zakithi Nene Thapelo Phora Lythe Pillay Wayde van Niekerk	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.18	7	Did not advance
Elroy Gelant	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:16:43	34
Desmond Mokgobu
Stephen Mokoka
Wayne Snyman	20 km walk	1:24.33	20
Marc Mundell	50 km walk	4:14:37	40

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Dominique Scott	5000 m	15:13.94	13	Did not advance
10000 m	32:14.05	20
Wenda Nel	400 m hurdles	56.06	3 Q	56.35	7	Did not advance
Gerda Steyn	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon	2:32.10	15
Irvette van Zyl

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Cheswill Johnson	align=left rowspan=2	Men's long jump		—	Did not advance
Ruswahl Samaai	7.74	22	Did not advance
Kyle Blignaut	align=left rowspan=2	Men's shot put	20.97	8 q	21.00	6
Jason van Rooyen	20.29	19	Did not advance
Rocco van Rooyen	Men's javelin throw	77.41	23	Did not advance
Jo Ane van Dyk	Women's javelin throw	57.69	24	Did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

South Africa entered a squad of five riders (three men and two women) to compete in their respective Olympic road races, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) and top 22 (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Stefan de Bod	Men's road race	6:16:53	52
Men's time trial	57:57.10	14
Nicholas Dlamini	align=left rowspan=2	Men's road race	Did not finish
Ryan Gibbons	Did not finish
align=left rowspan=2	Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio	Women's road race	3:54:31	13
Women's time trial	32:37.60	8
Carla Oberholzer	Women's road race	Did not finish

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, South African riders accumulated spots for both men and women in the sprint and keirin, as well as the men's omnium and madison, based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Jean Spies	Men's sprint	9.787 73.567	27	Did not advance
Charlene du Preez	Women's sprint	10.974 65.610	22 Q	L	L	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	3rd Round	Final
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Jean Spies	Men's keirin	5 R	5	Did not advance
Charlene du Preez	Women's keirin	4 R	5	Did not advance

Omnium

Mountain biking

South Africa entered one rider each to compete in both men's and women's cross-country race, respectively, by virtue of their best individual ranking at the 2019 African Championships.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Alan Hatherly	Men's cross-country	1:26:33	8
Candice Lill	Women's cross-country	1:26:20	24

BMX

South African riders qualified for one men's quota place in BMX at the Olympics, by accepting a continental berth for Africa from the Union Cycliste Internationale based on its rankings of June 1, 2021.^[6]

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South African divers qualified for two individual spots each in the women's springboard, respectively, at the Games through the 2019 African Qualifying Meet in Durban and the 2021 FINA World Cup series in Tokyo.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Micaela Bouter	align=left rowspan=2	Women's 3 m springboard	216.15	26	Did not advance
Julia Vincent	228.90	25	Did not advance

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa entered two riders into the Olympic equestrian competition by the following results: a top two finish each, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group F (Africa and Middle East) in both dressage and eventing, respectively.^[7]

Dressage

Rio 2016 pair of Seymour and Ramoneur got nominated to compete on June 18, 2021. The Tokyo Olympics are to be the final career international competition for the Oldenburg stallion.^[8] Seymour was forced to withdraw while in Tokyo after Ramoneur suffered laminitis.^[9]

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser

Eventing

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
South Africa men's	Men's tournament	L 1–3	L 3–5	L 4–9	W 4–3	D 4–4	5	Did not advance
South Africa women's	Women's tournament	L 0–2	L 1–4	L 0–5	L 1–4	L 3–4	6	Did not advance

Men's tournament

See main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. South Africa men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2019 Men's African Olympic Qualifier in Stellenbosch.^[10]

Team roster

Group play----------------

Women's tournament

See main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. South Africa women's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2019 Women's African Olympic Qualifier in Stellenbosch.

Team roster

Group play----------------

Football (soccer)

See main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. South Africa men's football team qualified for the Games by winning the bronze medal and securing the last of three available berths of the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations.^[11]

Team roster

Group play--------

Golf

See main article: Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa entered two golfers (both men) into the Olympic tournament. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (world no. 46), Garrick Higgo (world no. 38), and Ashleigh Buhai (world no. 76) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective events based on the IGF World Rankings.^{[12] [13]} Louis Oosthuizen and Lee-Anne Pace were initially selected but opted not to play.^{[14] [15]} Ashleigh Buhai later withdrew and was replaced by Paula Reto who also withdrew.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	68	70	68	67	273	−7	=16
Garrick Higgo	71	71	70	72	284	E	=53

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

South Africa entered two artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Caitlin Rooskrantz received a spare berth from the women's apparatus events, as one of the twelve highest-ranked gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified directly through the all-around, at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Meanwhile, Naveen Daries claimed an additional place to join Rooskrantz on the South African squad with a bronze-medal finish in the women's individual all-around at the 2021 African Championships in Cairo, Egypt.^[16]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Naveen Daries	All-around	13.300	12.366	8.933	11.766	46.365	76	Did not advance
Caitlin Rooskrantz		12.800	13.300	12.200	11.633	49.933	61	Did not advance

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa qualified one judoka for the women's extra-lightweight category (48 kg) at the Games. Geronay Whitebooi received a continental berth from Africa as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021.^[17]

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa qualified one boat in the men's pair by finishing third in the B-final and securing ninth out of eleven berths available at the 2019 FISA World Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.^[18] Meanwhile, the men's coxless four rowers were added to the South African roster with their top-two finish at the 2021 FISA Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Luc Daffarn Jake Green	Men's pair	7:04.03	5 R	6:57.01	4	Did not advance
Lawrence Brittain Kyle Schoonbee John Smith Sandro Torrente	Men's four	6:25.34	5 R	6:30.34	6 FB	6:09.85	10

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Rugby sevens

See main article: Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. The South Africa national rugby sevens team qualified by advancing to the quarterfinals in the 2019 London Sevens, securing a top four spot in the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series.^[20]

Team roster

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Fifth place match

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South African sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.^[21]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Leo Davis	Men's Finn	17		19	19	18	19	12	18	18	19	EL	159	19
Alex Burger Benjamin Talbot	Men's 49er	13	15	18	17	17	14	12	13	17	10		17	EL	163	19

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Skateboarding

See main article: Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa entered four skateboarders (two per gender) to compete across all events at the Games. Dallas Oberholtzer (men's park), Brandon Valjalo (men's street), Melissa Williams (women's park), and Boipelo Awuah (women's street) granted an invitation from the World Skate as the highest-ranked skateboarders from Africa vying for qualification in the street and park events based on their performances in the federation's Olympic Rankings of June 30, 2021.^[22]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Dallas Oberholtzer	Men's park	24.08	20	Did not advance
Brandon Valjalo	Men's street	16.41	18	Did not advance
Melissa Williams	Women's park	8.30	20	Did not advance
Boipelo Awuah	Women's street	Withdrew due to injury

Sport climbing

See main article: Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa entered two sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Erin Sterkenburg and Christopher Cosser qualified directly for the women's and men's combined events, respectively, by advancing to the final stage and eventually winning the gold medal at the 2020 IFSC African Championships in Cape Town.^[23]

Athlete	Event	Qualification									Final
		Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank	Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank
		Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place			Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place
Christopher Cosser	Men's	6.48	9	0T2z 0 15	16	29	—	10	1440.00	16	Did not advance
Erin Sterkenburg	Women's	11.10	20	0T1z 0 1	17	7+	—	20	6800.00	20	Did not advance

Surfing

See main article: Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. South Africa sent two surfers (one per gender) to compete in their respective shortboard races at the Games. Bianca Buitendag secured a qualification slot for her nation in the women's shortboard as the highest-ranked and last remaining surfer from Africa at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan.^[24] On the men's side, Jordy Smith finished within the top ten of those eligible for qualification in the World Surf League rankings to join Buitendag on the South African roster for Tokyo 2020.^[25]

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Seventeen South African swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of two swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially one at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^{[26] [27]} To assure their selection to the Olympic team, swimmers must attain an Olympic qualifying cut in each individual pool event at the 2021 South African National Championships (April 8 to 12) in Johannesburg.^[28]

Seventeen swimmers (eight men and nine women) were officially named to the South African roster for the Games on June 24, 2021, including London 2012 gold medalist Chad Le Clos in the men's butterfly double and 2019 world silver medalist and national record holder Tatjana Schoenmaker in the women's breaststroke double.^[29]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Martin Binedell	200 m backstroke	1:58.47	21	Did not advance
Pieter Coetze	100 m backstroke	54.05	24	Did not advance
Ethan du Preez	200 m butterfly	1:58.50	30	Did not advance
Michael Houlie	100 m breaststroke	1:01.22	37	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Chad Le Clos	100 m butterfly	51.89	=18	Did not advance
200 m butterfly	1:55.96	16 Q	1:55.06	3 Q	1:54.93	5
Michael McGlynn	10 km open water	1:51:32.7	8
align=left rowspan=2	Matthew Sates	100 m butterfly	52.34	32	Did not advance
200 m individual medley	1:58.08	15 Q	1:58.75	14	Did not advance
Brad Tandy	50 m freestyle	22.22	=24	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Emma Chelius	50 m freestyle	24.65	=11 Q	24.64	13	Did not advance
Kaylene Corbett	200 m breaststroke	2:22.48	4 Q	2:22.08	4 Q	2:22.06	5
align=left rowspan="2"	Erin Gallagher	100 m butterfly	59.69	26	Did not advance
align=left	100 m freestyle	54.75	25	Did not advance
Rebecca Meder	200 m individual medley	2:14.79	23	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Tatjana Schoenmaker	100 m breaststroke	1:04.82	1 Q	1:05.07	1 Q	1:05.22
200 m breaststroke	2:19.16	1 Q	2:19.33	1 Q	2:18.95
Michelle Weber	10 km open water	2:06:56.5	21
Aimee Canny Duné Coetzee Erin Gallagher Rebecca Meder	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:01.56	11	Did not advance
Aimee Canny Erin Gallagher Tatjana Schoenmaker Mariella Venter	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:03.02	14	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
		Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total
Henri Schoeman	align=left	Men's	17:55	0:45	56:41	0:28	Did not finish
Simone Ackermann	align=left rowspan=2	Women's	19:08	0:45	1:03:17	0:34	37:30	2:01:14	17
Gillian Sanders	20:18	0:45	Lapped

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. South Africa qualified to compete in the men's water polo tournament for the first time since Rome 1960, and in the women's water polo tournament for the first time ever.

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
South Africa men's	Men's tournament	L 2–21	L 3–20	L 1–23	L 5–28	L 9–24	6	Did not advance
South Africa women's	Women's tournament	L 4–29	L 1–21	L 1–31	L 1–14		5	Did not advance

Men's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play----------------

Women's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Team roster

Group play------------

See also

• South Africa at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Notes and References

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4. Web site: IAAF Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 Entry Standards. IAAF. 8 April 2019. 8 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190408160334/https://cdn.dosb.de/user_upload/Olympische_Spiele/Tokio_2020/internationale_Qualifikationskriterien/IAAF_-_Athletics_20180806.pdf. dead.
5. News: Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. UCI. 18 November 2019. 23 November 2019.
6. Web site: BMX Racing Athletes quota for Cycling – BMX Racing men’s events. 4 June 2021. www.uci.org/. Union Cycliste Internationale. 4 June 2021.
7. News: Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI. FEI. 17 February 2020. 1 March 2020.
8. Web site: Tanya Seymour Nominated as South Africa's Individual Olympic Rider for Tokyo . en . Eurodressage . 18 June 2021. 18 June 2021.
9. Web site: Tanya Seymour's Sad Tokyo Ending, Ramoneur Out due to Laminitis . en . Eurodressage . 21 July 2021. 22 July 2021.
10. News: Tokyo beckons as South Africa's continental success continues. International Hockey Federation. 18 August 2019.
11. News: Egypt conquer Africa to head up Olympic trio. https://web.archive.org/web/20191125005530/https://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/news/egypt-cote-divoire-south-africa-olympics-tokyo-2020. dead. 25 November 2019. FIFA. 22 November 2019. 24 November 2019.
12. News: Four Americans headed to Tokyo as Olympic qualifying wraps after U.S. Open. 6 July 2021. Golf Channel. 21 June 2021.
13. News: Romine . Brentley . Korda sisters headline 60-player Olympic women's golf field. 6 July 2021. Golf Channel. 29 June 2021.
14. Web site: New Olympic WDs: Sergio Garcia, Tyrrell Hatton and Louis Oosthuizen . Brentley . Romine . Golf Channel. 22 June 2021.
15. Web site: Korda sisters leading four Americans to Olympics; South Korea also gets maximum four bids . ESPN. 29 June 2021.
16. News: Lynn . Butler . Tokyo-bound Naveen Daries says SA gymnastics on the rise as she books dream Olympic spot. 11 June 2021. News24. 12 July 2021.
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18. News: B-finals take on new meaning when Tokyo 2020 spots are available. International Rowing Federation. 31 August 2019. 31 August 2019.
19. News: Final spots for the Olympics determined on the Rotsee. International Rowing Federation. 16 May 2021. 20 May 2021.
20. News: Blitzboks struggle in London, but qualify for Tokyo 2020. Springbok Sevens. 26 May 2019. 26 May 2019.
21. News: Olympic dream comes true for winners at Mussanah Open Championship. World Sailing. 9 April 2021. 20 May 2021.
22. News: The List of Future Olympic Skateboarders is Official!!!. World Skate. 9 June 2021. 3 July 2021.
23. Web site: Morgan. Liam. Sterkenberg claims African Climbing Championships gold to seal Tokyo 2020 quota. www.insidethegames.biz. Inside the Games. 19 December 2020. 19 December 2020.
24. News: World's Top Women Approach Gold Medals, Capture Olympic Qualification in Miyazaki. International Surfing Association. 9 September 2019. 15 September 2019. 17 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191117111205/https://isasurf.org/wsg/2019/en/worlds-top-women-approach-gold-medals-capture-olympic-qualification-miyazaki/. dead.
25. News: Congrats Jordy Smith!. World Surf League. 7 October 2019. 20 October 2019.
26. Web site: FINA – Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Qualification. . 23 March 2019.
27. News: Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System. . . 6 March 2021.
28. News: Nick. Pecoraro. T. Schoenmaker Breaks Own 50 BR National Record (30.32) at 2021 RSA Nationals. SwimSwam. 7 April 2021. 9 April 2021.
29. News: Retta. Race. Woman-Less South African Swimming Roster In Rio Now Boasts Six For Tokyo. SwimSwam. 7 April 2021. 9 April 2021.