Taunyane

Len Taunyane (1880s– after 1904) was a South African track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis the Men's marathon, and was therefore one of the first two black Africans to participate in the modern Olympic Games. Taunyane was a member of the Tswana people and a veteran of the Second Boer War, having served as a despatch runner. A photo taken between 1900 and 1902 shows him as a prisoner-of-war on Saint Helena.