{"id":49873,"date":"2026-11-03T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49873"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:20:12","slug":"sa-wins-swimming-bronze-rugby-silver-at-dakar-youth-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-wins-swimming-bronze-rugby-silver-at-dakar-youth-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"SA wins swimming Bronze, rugby Silver at Dakar Youth Olympics \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team South Africa (SA) added two more medals to their tally at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar on Monday, with swimmer Chanel Veldsman claiming bronze in the girls&#8217; 200m breaststroke and the men&#8217;s rugby sevens team securing silver.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Veldsman delivered an impressive performance in the pool, finishing third in the final after qualifying as the third-fastest swimmer to earn Team SA&#8217;s second individual medal of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The momentum carried onto the rugby pitch, where the men&#8217;s sevens side powered into the final with a commanding 24\u201312 victory over Argentina. In a thrilling gold-medal match, South Africa narrowly missed out on the top spot, falling 26\u201319 to France to settle for the silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dual-medal haul lifted SA&#8217;s total tally at the Games to three. The surge follows Leah Markgraaff&#8217;s silver medal in the girls&#8217; 400m freestyle on Sunday, while rower Callum Dreyer also advanced to the quarter-finals of the coastal beach sprints competition to round out a strong day for the national contingent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33964,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-49873","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Team South Africa secures swimming bronze and rugby silver at Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics","published_date":"2026-11-03 16:19:48","news_description":"Team South Africa secures swimming bronze and rugby silver at Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49875,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49873\/revisions\/49875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}