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Who is the greatest female South African swimmer to win a gold in the summer Olympics?
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Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, South Africans have won four Olympic gold medals in swimming. Three of those have been won by women.
Penny Heyns won two gold at the 1996 Games in Atlanta in women's 100 meter breaststroke and women's 200 meter breaststroke and Joan Harrison won gold in women's 100 meter backstroke at the 1952 Games in Helsinki.
Penny Heyns is the only woman in Olympic history to have won gold in the 100 meter breaststroke and 200 meter breaststroke at the same Games. She also won a bronze medal in women's 100 meter breaststroke at the 2000 Games in Sydney. At one time in the late 1990s she held five of the six breaststroke world records (50 meter, 100 meter, 200 meter).
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