South Africa’s rowing team of Sizwe Ndlovu, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and James Thompson secured the country’s third gold medal of the London Olympic Games
The team finished first in the men’s lightweight four final on Thursday afternoon.
Over the last 500m stretch, however, they fought back and passed hosts Great Britain, Australia and Denmark to clinch gold in six minutes, 02.84 seconds (6:02.84).
Britain secured silver, 0.25 seconds behind the SA quartet, with Denmark bagging bronze a further 0.07 seconds behind.
The SA rowing team's medal adds to golds secured earlier in the week by swimmers Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos.
As at press time, the only African country on the medals table apart from South Africa is Egypt, courtesy the Silver medal won in Fencing. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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