Wrestler Nicolaas de Lange scooped a 97kg freestyle silver for Team SA at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, while boxing added two bronze and athletics a third.
De Lange was fighting in the same division where SA took gold at Gold Coast 2018, courtesy of Martin Erasmus, but he came up against skilled Canadian Nishan Randhwawa in the final, going down 3-9 on points.What he lacked in skill he made up for with heart, trying until the very end to score an unlikely win.Boxers Simnikiwe Bongco and Phiwokuhle Mnguni both lost their semifinals on points, but that entitled them to bronze.
Zeney van der Walt delivered a sensational storming finish in the women’s 400m hurdles as she came from near the back of the field to take the bronze in a 54.47sec personal best.Had she timed her run a little better she might have been stunned Jamaica’s defending champion Janieve Russell, the winner in 54.14.The men’s hockey team lost a hardly fought semifinal against India 3-2, relegating them to the bronze-medal playoff on Monday, the final day of the Games.
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