Heath was 23 years old at the time of the Salt Lake City Olympics.[7] He was returning to the Olympics after representing South Africa at the 1998 Winter Olympics.[7] On 10 February he participated in the downhill, finishing the race in a time of 1 minute and 48.84 seconds, which put him in 51st place out of 53 competitors who finished the contest.[8] The gold medal was won by Fritz Strobl of Austria in a time of 1 minute and 39.13 seconds.[8] On 13 February the combined was held; the competition consisted of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, with the total time of all three legs determining the final positions.[9] Heath finished the downhill portion of the combined in 1 minute and 47.27 seconds,[10] but failed to finish the first of the two slalom runs.[11]
Over a week later, on 21 February, he was part of the giant slalom, finishing his first run in 1 minute and 19.32 seconds.[12] Heath was faster on his second run, finishing in 1 minute and 17.95 seconds.[13] His total time was 2 minutes and 37.27 seconds, which put him in 48th position; the gold medal was won by Austria's Stephan Eberharter in 2 minutes and 23.28 seconds.[14] His final event, on 23 February, was the slalom, where he finished his runs in 56.37 seconds and 1 minute and 0.56 seconds.[15][16] His total time for the event was 1 minute and 56.93 seconds, which placed him 27th out of 33 classified finishers; the gold medalist was Jean-Pierre Vidal of France, who turned in a time of 1 minute and 41.06 seconds.[17] Heath would later represent South Africa at the 2006 Winter Olympics.[7]
