A team of more than 200 athletes flew the flag for South Africa at the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique in September.

South African athletes participated in: aquatics, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, chess, cycling, football, judo, karate, robbery, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball and beach volleyball.

[1] Among the canoeists was the crack K2 combination of Shaun Rubenstein and Mike Arthur as well as former World Cup K1 medallist Bridgitte Hartley.

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) were struggling to secure the names of the men’s football team.

[1] Five triathletes made the trip, among them Wian Sullwald, who was in the South African team that did duty at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore the previous year.