South Africa: Team South Africa Hockey teams named for the Paris Olympic Games

On Wednesday evening in Johannesburg, SASCOC announced the next batch of Team South Africa athletes for the Olympic Games in Paris. The teams announced included the Team SA Hockey Men and Women’s team that will be taking part in field hockey tournament at the Olympic Games.

The SA Women will be participating for the 6^th time at the Paris Olympic having debuted in 2000. Giles Bonnet will become the first coach to lead the team to the games twice having previously overseen the SA Women’s team at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The SA Women’s squad features six players that played at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo namely Quanita Bobbs, Celia Seerane, Edith Molikoe, Kristen Paton, Onthatile Zulu and Erin Christie. Dirkie Chamberlain returns for her second Olympic games having played in 2012.

South Africa will compete in Pool B. They open their campaign against Australia on 28 July. Just over 24 hours later they are back in action against Argentina. After a one day break South Africa will play Great Britain and Spain in back-to-back days before rounding off the group stages with a game against United States.

The South African Men’s side, fresh off a bronze medal finish at the FIH Nations Cup, maintain the bulk of the squad that won the medal in Poland. Dayaan Cassiem will return to the lead the team. He is joined by his brother Mustapha as well as Keenan Horne, Matthew Guise-Brown, Ryan Julius, Tevin Kok, Dan Bell, Nic Spooner, Bili Ntuli and Sam Mvimbi from the squad that shocked Germany in Tokyo in 2021.

South Africa are in Pool A of the tournament and will start off against Netherlands and Great Britain. After the rest day they will take on Germany and then Spain before rounding off the pool stages with a match against tournament hosts France.

Details of broadcast will be shared on the SA Hockey Social media channels as well as the respective SASCOC pages.

Team SA Hockey Women – Paris Olympic Games 2024

Name	Caps	Name	Caps	Name	Caps
Taheera Augousti	26	Quanita Bobbs	184	Stephanie Botha	30
Dirkie Chamberlain	243	Erin Christie	105	Kayla de Waal	20
Paris-Gail Isaacs	7	Antonet Louw	26	Ongeziwe Mali	30
Ntsopa Mokoena	26	Edith Molikoe	34	Kristen Paton	72
Hannah Pearce	41	Celia Seerane	185	Anelle van Deventer	48
Onthatile Zulu	56	Travelling Reserve Aphiwe Dimba	12	Travelling Reserve Kayla Swarts	18

Staff:
Giles Bonnet, Marcelle Keet, Lynne Abrahamse & Wayne Lombard

Team SA Hockey Men – Paris Olympic Games 2024

Name	Caps	Name	Caps	Name	Caps
Dan Bell	106	Dayaan Cassiem	77	Mustapha Cassiem	54
Calvin Davis	1	Matthew Guise-Brown	67	Andrew Hobson	31
Keenan Horne	119	Gowan Jones	90	Ryan Julius	81
Tevin Kok	69	Zenani Kraai	18	Samkelo Mvimbi	58
Bili Ntuli	103	Brad Sherwood	42	Nic Spooner	71
Jacques van Tonder	27	Travelling Reserve Estiaan Kriek	36	Travelling Reserve Peabo Lembethe	76