Making waves as water baby surfs to the Paralympics
Similo Dlamini, who has only one fully functioning leg due to a birth defect, has found her niche in swimming and surfing
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Similo Dlamini, who has only one fully functioning leg due to a birth defect, has found her niche in swimming and surfing
Tracy McKay is among a team of nine Team SA para surfing athletes who travelled – often solo on multiple 24-hour-plus journeys – to represent their country at the World Para Surfing Championship a few weeks after the gees of the Bok victory in Paris.
Athletes are required to cough up about R70,000 to compete in the World Para Surfing Championships in the US next month.
It was the first time the event returned to Muizenberg since the inaugural SA Para Surf Championships in 2017 and was the first stop of the newly launched Global Para Surf League.
Surfing burst onto the Olympic calendar at the last Games in Tokyo in 2021 and will also feature when Paris hosts in 2024.