Mammule Rankoe
| Mammule Rankoe | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 August 1999 | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
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| Gym | Johannesburg Gymnastics Centre | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2022 | ||||||||||||||
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Mammule Rankoe (born 22 August 1999) is a South African former artistic gymnast. She represented her country at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2019 World Championships, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Gymnastics career
[edit]Rankoe began gymnastics when she was eight years old.[1]
Junior
[edit]Rankoe won a silver medal with the South African team at the 2012 African Championships, and she placed fifth in the balance beam final.[2] At the 2013 Serbia Memorial Cup, she won the all-around silver medal and won a gold medal on the uneven bars.[3] She won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2014 African Junior Championships behind Egypt's Nada Ayman Ibrahim,[4] and she helped South Africa win the team silver medal behind Egypt.[5] She was then selected to represent South Africa at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[6][7] There, she finished 33rd in the all-around during the qualification round and did not advance into any finals.[8]
Senior
[edit]Rankoe became age-eligible for senior international competitions in 2015. She placed fifth in the all-around at the 2015 South African Championships.[9] She missed the rest of the 2015 season due to a shoulder cyst.[1] She returned to competition at the 2016 South African Championships and won bronze medals on the balance beam and floor exercise.[10] She competed on the uneven bars and the balance beam at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup but did not advance into the finals.[11]
Rankoe won the all-around silver medal at the 2019 South African Championships behind Naveen Daries.[12] She then competed at the 2019 Guimaraes World Challenge Cup and finished seventh in the uneven bars final.[13] She was selected to compete at the 2019 World Championships, and she placed 133rd in the all-around during the qualification round.[14]
Rankoe placed fifth in the all-around at the 2021 African Championships and did not win an Olympic berth.[15] She finished fifth in the balance beam final at the 2022 African Championships and won a silver medal with the South African team.[16] She was then selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and helped the team place fourth. She announced her retirement after the Commonwealth Games.[17]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Rankoe Mammule - FIG Athlete Profile". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (16 April 2012). "2012 African Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ "Mammule Rankoe is SA's golden girl in Serbia". Team South Africa. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ "12th African Championships Junior WAG AA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ↑ "12th African Championships Junior WAG Team" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Turner, Amanda (23 July 2014). "Roster Released For Youth Olympic Games". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019.
- ↑ "Three Junior Gymnasts Selected for Youth Olympic Games". Gymnastics South Africa.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Artistic Gymnastics Women's All-Around Qualification" (PDF). Nanjing 2014. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (6 June 2015). "2015 South African Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (2 July 2016). "2016 South African Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ "Results for FIG World Challenge Cup 2017 Koper (SLO)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (18 August 2019). "2019 South African Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ "Results for FIG World Challenge Cup Guimaraes (POR)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ "49th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Stuttgart (GER), 4 October - 13 October 2019 Women's All-Around Qualification" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (27 May 2021). "Ibrahim and Daries Earn Continental Berths to Tokyo at African Championships". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (14 July 2022). "2022 African Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ↑ Gunston, Jo (31 July 2022). "Caitlin Rooskrantz on an emotional Birmingham 2022 for South Africa's gymnasts". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
