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

Africans to compete in the Olympics: two Tswana men named Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani, who happened to be in St. Louis as part of the South African exhibit...

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...

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...

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