Who is penny heyns married to
- •
Penny Heyns Biography
Heyns' Career Highlights<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>
- Two-time Olympic gold medalist; Three-time medalist
- First Woman in Olympic history to sweep the breaststroke events
- First athlete to win a gold medal for South Africa since 1956
- Olympic record holder, 100 & 200-meter breaststroke
- 1996 Swimming World World Swimmer of the Year
- 1996 Big Eight Female Athlete of the Year
- 10-time First-Team NCAA All-American
- Five-time honorable-mention NCAA All-American
- First Husker swimmer to win a National Championship (100-yard breaststroke, 1:00.27, 1996)
- 14-time Big Eight Conference Champion
- Three-time Pan Pacific Champion
Heyns' World Records
50-meter breaststroke (long course): 30.83
100-meter breaststroke (long course): 1:06.52
200-meter breaststroke (long course): 2:23.64
100-meter breaststroke (short course): 1:05.57
It's not every day you run across a golden penny.
But for South Africans and Nebraskans alike, there was one shining bright at the 1996 Olympic Games in <?xml:namespace pre
- •
Penelope Heyns
South African swimmer (born 1974)
Penelope ("Penny") HeynsOIS (born 8 November 1974) is a South African former swimmer, who is best known for being the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events – at the 1996 AtlantaOlympic Games – making her South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medallist following South Africa's re-admission to the Games in 1992. Along with Australian champion Leisel Jones, Heyns is regarded as one of the greatest breaststroke swimmers.[1][2]
Sporting career
Heyns was the youngest member of the South African Olympic team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She was also a member of the South African squad at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke event.
Heyns broke her first world record, the 100 m breaststroke, in Durban in March 1996. Heyns was again part of the South African Olympic team in Atlanta in 1996, where she won the gold medal for the 100 m breaststroke (also breaking the world
- •
The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver
Penelope Heyns (1974 - ) Awarded for:
Outstanding and unparalleled achievement in the field of swimming.
Profile of Penelope Heyns
Penelope ‘Penny’ Heyns was born in 1974 in Springs. In 1992, Penny was the youngest member of South Africa’s Olympic team to Barcelona. In that year, Penny became the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to win both the 100m and 200m breaststroke events.
In 1999, Penny broke a total of four individual world records in one event, on two separate occasions.
In that same year, she broke eleven new world records within three months. Both these performance records are achievements unparalleled in the history of swimming.
To date, Penny has broken 14 world records, which places her in the same category as other swimming icons such as Mark Spitz, Lenny Krazelburg and Ian Thorpe.
Penny Heyns’s achievements crown her as arguably the best breaststroke swimmer ever. It is an undisputed fact that she is the greatest female breaststroke swimmer of all time.
Copyright ©cafebee.pages.dev 2025