Athletics

M's High Jump Final, 110m Hurdles SF&F, 400m Hurdles
W's 1500m Final, Javelin Throw, Long Jump, 400m Hurdles, 200m

Rio 2016 | Olympic Games

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Athletics Integrated: Day 11 Evening | Rio 2016 Replays

Sara Kolak wins the gold medal for Croatia in the women's javelin at Rio 2016.

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Kolak clinches Olympic Javelin gold

United States of America

Simone

Simone Biles - Olympics.com

Sweden

Armand

Armand Duplantis - Olympics.com

Mikaela

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Ilia

Ilia Malinin - Olympics.com

Sunette VILJOEN

Sunette

Big gestures in small places are sometimes enough to create a ripple that is felt well into the future.
What started as a desire for recognition when she was just a tween had turned into Olympic success for Jo-Ané van Dyk, the newly crowned queen of South African javelin throw.

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 10: Silver medalist Jo-Ane van Dyk of Team South Africa celebrates following the Women's Javelin Throw Finalthe on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Jo-Ané van Dyk

Jo-Ané van Dyk: The rise of South Africa's new javelin queen

A full 128 years since it first featured at the Olympics, cricket will make a comeback at the LA 2028 Games.
The first-ever competition at Paris 1900 saw just two nations take part as England beat France by 158 runs to claim the first - and only - gold medal

Cricket

 Sunette Viljoen 

The ultimate all-rounders: Four cricketers who competed at the Olympics in other sports 

Olympic javelin silver medallist Sunette Viljoen-Louw has set her sights on representing South Africa at the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup on home soil, 20 years after she retired from the sport.
The throwing ace had dedicated two decades of her life to athletics and becoming Olympic champion.

Athletics - World Cup London 2018 - London Stadium, London, Britain - July 14, 2018   South Africa's Sunette Viljoen reacts during the Women's Javelin   Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley

Sunette Viljoen competing at the 2018 World Cup in London

Olympic javelin medallist Sunette Viljoen-Louw targets T20 Cricket World Cup

Age has never been a barrier for Sunette Viljoen.
At only 17 years, she became the youngest South African woman to play international cricket.
In 2021 she hopes to celebrate her 38th birthday as a javelin Olympic champion.
And the Rio 2016 silver medallist is not planning a Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 | Olympic Games

Sunette Viljoen poses with the Olympic silver at Rio 2016.

Sunette Viljoen aims for fifth Olympics: "No matter what, I will get back up"

Rio 2016 silver medallist Sunette Viljoen started her career as a promising cricket player and became Africa's most successful female javelin thrower. Her determination is inspiring. "Every morning I want to go to the gym, I want to be stronger, I want to be faster, more explosive," she tells us. Just don't mention her age...

Sunette VILJOEN

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Kolak clinches Olympic Javelin gold

Sunette VILJOEN
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Kolak clinches Olympic Javelin gold

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