South Africa: Manyonga Breaks New Ground On Gold Coast

Athletes Luvo Manyonga and Anaso Jobodwana provided for a sweet and sour night of drama for Team South Africa at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday.

Manyonga and fellow long jumper Ruswahl Samaai, Sunette Viljoen (javelin) and Reinhardt Hamman (shot put) had a field night as they added four more medals to the rainbow nation's tally with Manyonga winning gold in the long jump with a Games record of 8.41 metres with his sixth and final jump.

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