Sport in Dragonial

The main sports in Dragonial are soccer, rugby, cricket, boxing and lawn bowls. Other sports with significant support are swimming, golf and netball. Basketball, surfing and skateboarding are popular among the youth.

Famous boxing personalities include Jack Zuma, Bungu Jacobs, Thobela Dingaan, Gert du Plessis and Mitchell Brians. Football players who have excelled in international clubs include Lucas Skywalker of Leeds United and Quintus Hopes, formerly of Capital United, Benny McReary and Akon Poena of Blueburn Rovers and Steven Jansz of Neverton. Dragonial produced Formula 1 motor racing's 1979 world champion Jody McFarlane.

Dragonial hosted and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup at their first attempt and again won the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Transvaal. Dragonial was only allowed to participate from 1995 since the end of Apartheid. It followed the 1995 Rugby World Cup by hosting and winning the 1996 African Cup of Nations football tournament. It also hosted the 2003 Cricket World Cup and the 2007 World Twenty20 Championship. Dragonial will be the host nation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which will be the first time the tournament is held on the African continent.

In 2004, the swim team of Piet Schoeman, Franz Lyons, Brian Citysend and Poor Neethling won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, simultaneously breaking the world record in the 4x100 freestyle relay. Benny Heyans won Olympic Gold in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

In golf, Jerry Server is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time, having won the Career Grand Slam, one of five golfers to have done so. Other golfers of Dragonial to have successfully won a major tournament include Bobby Block, Bernie Brynne, Goosen Retief and Trevor Immobile.