South Africa: World Champ Manyonga Is SA's Sports Star of the Year

Olympic silver medallist and world long jumper Luvo Manyonga won the South African Sports Star of the Year award at the rainbow nation's annual sports awards in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Twenty-six-year-old Manyonga missed gold in Rio by just one centimetre and went one place better in London at the IAAF World Championships. A leap of 8.48 metres brought the gold medal to South Africa.

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