Four more silver medals came South Africa's way as the African Games started to wind down here on Wednesday... two came the way of athletics and two in wrestling.

First 42-year-old veteran Chris Harmse hurled the hammer 73.49 metres as he was only bettered by Egypt's M El Gamal's 74.92 while fellow field athlete Ischke Senekal took silver in the women's discus with a throw of 50.53m.

The grappling brigade brought two more silvers to the team cause through Jan Combrinck (59kg) and Andries Schutte (130kg), both in the Greco-Roman division.

Those four medals took Team SA's total tally to 113 medals with two days of competition left to run.

Harmse was satisfied with silver but it's all part of a long term plan. 'It's all about getting to the Rio Olympics next year,' he said while watching the women's discus. 'I've been bothered by my left knee all year so I'm not 100% right but this is about what I expected.

'This throw would still have been good enough for silver at Commonwealth Games last year.' The Sasolburg giant has a best of 80.63 set 10 years ago and this season his best is a 74.00 effort at Potchefstroom.

Harmse and the African Games go back a long way. These are his fifth Games and he now has three gold and two silver medals to show for a sustained show of strength.

As for Senekal, the Port Elizabeth athlete was just as pleased. 'Yes, it went well although I wanted to throw near my personal best of 52.54 I'll take this for sure.

'It's my first African Games medal so that's pretty cool,' said the 22-year-old who is in her third year of an education diploma at Nelson Mandela Metropole University.

Her discus counterpart, Sonia Smuts, a medallist at the last Games in Mozambique four years ago, had a best of 44.51 to finish out of the medals.

For the rest there wasn't too much to show from the SA athletes although the organisation of track and field continued to be shambolic at best with events being rescheduled held over etc. for most of the day.

Finalist in the 100m, Roscoe Engel, took third in the 200m semi-finals with a 20.99, not enough to go through to the final.

Anneri Ebersohn was fourth in the 400m hurdles heats in 1min 01.02sec and in the heptathlon, Nienka du Toit was advised to withdraw with two events to go as she tweaked a hamstring. She was at risk of being sidelined for at least six weeks if she had continued.

The long jump had two SA entrants with Lynique Prinsloo ending sixth with a 6.13m best of the night and Zinzi Chabangu eighth with 6.08.