south africa 4x100 world champions?

[cacique]

did the south africans get their gold medals from the world championships after the US DQ because of montgomery, does anyone know?

[gh]

The IAAF recognizes South AFrica as the world champs, yes. If you're asking if they actually got--eventually--gold medals for it, and/or if the U.S. guys physically returned theirs, don't know the answer to that.

[cacique]

i was wondering since at the time the IAAF made the DQ decision, i read somewhere that the south african federation didn't even know where to find some of the quartet -- it had been a few years, and a couple of them weren't even active by then.