South Africa at the 1904 Summer Olympics

The future Union of South Africa, 4 British colonies (Cape Colony, Colony of Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal Colony) with a Boer delegation from the “Anglo-Boer War Historical Libretto”, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States.

It was first time to compete at the Summer Olympics, including 2 Tswanas, the first ever Black Africans to compete.

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1904 Olympic Marathon participants, Len Taunyane (left) and Jan Mashiani of the Tswana ethnicity