Jan Mashiani information

Jan Mashiani was a South African track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics in the marathon. He finished thirteenth of the fourteen...

1904 World's Fair to compete. General Piet Cronjé, Len Taunyane, and Jan Mashiani, all Boer War veterans who had been taken prisoner by the British at...

1904 Olympic Marathon participants, Len Taunyane (left) and Jan Mashiani of the Tswana ethnicity...

rotten apples. The ninth and twelfth place finishers, Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani, were the first South Africans to compete in the Olympics. American runner...