Daniel Erasmus

Daniel Erasmus is a South African Paralympic athlete who won twelve medals across three Paralympic Games in the 1960s and 1970s. At the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo he medalled in all four of his athletics events, taking gold in the discus and the shot put and silver in the club throw and the javelin. At the 1968 Games in Tel Aviv he entered five athletics events and medalled in four, winning gold in the shot put and the javelin and silver in the club throw and the discus; he also competed in lawn bowls that year, winning the singles and finishing second in the pairs. His last Paralympic appearance was at the 1972 Games in Heidelberg, West Germany, where he won silver in the shot put and bronze in the javelin.