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Mpumelelo Mhlongo won the race in 11. 12 seconds, ahead of Cuba’s Yamel Vives Suarez (11. 20) and Malaysian Eddy Bernard (11. 58).
Mpumelelo Mhlongo ran a time of 11. 12 seconds to finish ahead of Cuba’s Yamel Vives Suarez, who finished strongly in the men’s T44 100m final.
Tatjana Smith can become Team South Africa’s most decorated Olympian of all time if she can bag another gold in the 200m breaststroke on Thursday night.
The bronze medallist from the Rio 2016 Games Henri Schoeman will have another crack at Olympic glory triathlon events were given in the green light.
Former SA youth Olympian Wian Roux took part in the archery ranking round, where 64 archers had two halves where they had to shoot 72 arrows to determine their rankings for the single elimination bracket.
First up for South Africa at the Stade de France, just north of Paris, will be a clash against Ireland at 5. 30pm in the fifth match of the day.
Wian Roux will have to be at his best right from the start as he takes aims at a target during the Paris Olympic Games on Thursday.
South Africa won a total of 27 medals – 11 gold, 13 silver and three bronze. KwaZulu-Natal archers won three bronze medals, two silver and one gold. KZN archer Danya Thompson, 14, returned with a bronze medal.
Neve Quail 15, won in the KZN Recurve Women Under-18 division and broke four national records that had stood since 2012.