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The South African records in swimming in Swimming are the fastest times ever swum by a swimmer representing South Africa. These records are kept/maintained by South Africa's national swimming federation: Swimming South Africa (SSA). Records are recognized for long course (50m) and short course (25m) events:
Pages in category "Olympic swimmers for South Africa" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, OIS (born 12 April 1992) is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion. He is the African record, Commonwealth record, and South African record holder in the short course and long course 200-metre butterfly and the short course 100-metre butterfly. He also holds ...
The first South African woman in the Olympics was swimmer Barbara Nash in 1920, and the first women to win medals were the 1928 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay quartet, who came third. [2] The South African Olympic and Empire Games Association was awarded the 1934 British Empire Games in Johannesburg but backed out when it became evident that ...
Tatjana Smith (née Schoenmaker; born 9 July 1997) is a South African retired swimmer who specialised in breaststroke events. She is a two-time Olympic champion and the most decorated South African Olympian in history.
South Africa 9 April 2018: Commonwealth Games: Gold Coast, Australia [23] 200m freestyle: 1:56.80 r: Aimee Canny South Africa 12 April 2024: South African Championships Port Elizabeth, South Africa [24] 400m freestyle: 4:07.92 Karin Prinsloo South Africa: 31 January 2014: Aquatic Super Series Perth, Australia [25] 800m freestyle: 8:25.71 Wendy ...
Olympic swimmers for South Africa (105 P) + South African female swimmers (6 C, 35 P) South African male swimmers (6 C, 3 P) B. South African backstroke swimmers (2 C)
Penelope ("Penny") Heyns OIS (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 Atlanta Olympic Games – making her South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medallist following South Africa's re-admission to the Games in 1992.