Sport in South Africa

Major sports of South Africa

• Rugby Union
• Cricket
• Football (Soccer)
• Boxing

South African Sporting Success

• Rugby World Cup winners 1995, 2007

Athletes from South Africa

• Zola Budd (athletics)
• Gary Player (golf)
• Kepler Wessels (cricket)
• Ernie Els (golf)

South Africa Sports trivia

• Jukskei is a 200 year old folk sport that was developed and is played in South Africa.

• South Africa was absent from international sport for most of the apartheid era due to sanctions.

South Africa at major events

• South Africa at the Summer Olympics
• South Africa at the Winter Olympics
• South Africa at the Commonwealth Games
• South Africa at the FIFA World Cup

Past sporting events hosted in South Africa

• 1995 Rugby World Cup
• 2003 Cricket World Cup hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya
• 2010 FIFA World Cup will be hosted in South Africa

Upcoming sporting events in Sth Africa

Annual sporting events held in South Africa

• Comrades Marathon

Sporting Facilities in South Africa

• Sports Science Institute of South Africa
• Soccer City (Johannesburg)
• Ellis Park (Johannesburg)
• Greenpoint Stadium (Cape Town)
• Moses Mabhida Stadium (Durban)
• Nelson Mandela Stadium (Port Elizabeth)
• Loftus Versveld (Pretoria)
• Free State Stadium (Bloemfontein)
• Royal Bafokeng Stadium (Rustenburg)
• Peter Mokaba Stadium (Polokwane)
• Mbombela Stadium (Nelspruit)

Other

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