South Africa At The 2004 Summer Olympics
South Africa competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. South Africa athletes are represented by the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA). 106 competitors, 66 men and 40 women, took part in 68 events in 20 sports.
Since South Africa's return to the Olympic Games in 1992 after a four-decades long absence resulting from a ban imposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the country's Apartheid policies, it has seen mixed success; achieving three gold medals, a silver and a bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta but only managing two silver medals and three bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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