Third Paralympic Gold medal for Natalie du Toit in London as she wins gold in the 200m Individual Medley SM9. Du Toit, who now has 13 Paralympic gold medals, will swim the final race of her career when she takes on the 100m freestyle S9 on Friday.

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South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon endured a similar fate to most of the other leading contenders looking to lift the tournament trophy on Saturday evening, carding a respectable par 2nd round to end the day with a share of third at three under with France’s Caroline Afanso.

Ashleigh Simon stormed into a commanding position on day 1 of the 2011 Aberdeen Ladies Scottish Open at Archerfield Links Golf Club, East Lothian, to end the day 3-under par, 3 shots behind the opening round leader, American Hannah Jun, with fellow South African Lee-Anne Pace a further three shots behind for a positive start for the two of them.

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South African representation at the 2011 FIFA Women’s Football Symposium in Germany. Pictured are (from left) MC Carol Manana, Nomsa Mahlangu, Pinky Lehoko, Veli Mbuli, Fran Hilton-Smith and (top) Mark Gleeson. Photo: Fran Hilton-Smith

The Springboks women’s rugby team was not able to repeat their heroics against USA, when they were beaten 29-9 by the Eagles in the third/fourth place playoff match at the IRB Women’s Nations Cup in Canada on Saturday.

The Springbok women’s team will have a chance of repeating their heroics against the USA (Eagles), when they meet again on Saturday in the third-place match at the Women’s Nations Cup in Toronto, Canada.

Messages of congratulations have been pouring in for the gsport… for Girls! initiative which celebrated its fifth birthday on Monday, 1 August 2011.

For a moment it looked like the form books had it all wrong when the SA U20 fullback wriggled through the 2011 Nations Cup form side defence to sprint the remaining 70 metres and score in the opening minutes of the final round-robin match, but the ray of hope was soon dashed as the superior European side went on to maul the Africans 66-7, in Santa Barbara on Thursday, 20 July.