As South Africans celebrate Freedom Day on Saturday, swimming great Penny Heyns' double Olympic gold has been recognised as the "Greatest Moment in SA Women's Sport". Gsport, SA's leading movement for ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, October 1. SOUTH Africa's Penny Heyns, the 1996 Olympic champion in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, was in Dubai over the weekend to take part in the opening of a new ...

1996 — Penny Heyns becomes the first South African to win two Olympic golds at a single Games since tennis player Charles Winslow in 1912, as she wins the 200m breaststroke. Having won the 100m ...

South Africa’s two-time Olympic gold medalist Tatjana Smith has been hailed the country’s greatest Olympian by none other than swimming legend Penny Heyns. Smith will be gunning for her second gold ...

Deja vu for Yuliya Efimova as lawyers placed on alert; Penny Heyns played a key role in watering down four-year anti-doping sanction on Russia described by one former investigator as “neither a ban ...

Legendary South African swim star Penny Heyns’ twin gold medals at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 have been recognised as the greatest moment in women's sport since the dawn of democracy in South ...

Heyns, the iconic double gold medallist, has been left in awe by Smith’s performances in the pool at the Paris Games. “As far as South Africa is concerned, Tatjana has surpassed me in the Olympic ...

1971 — Lee McGregor wins the 200m backstroke title for his fifth crown of the SA swimming championships at Newlands, winning the highest number of titles by a male swimmer at a national gala. The ...

You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. JEREMY MAGGS: There was not a South African sports fan, I’ll wager, who was not on the edge of their seats last night as Tatjana Smith took silver ...

While South Africa was celebrating her historic performance in the pool on Friday, Olympic star Tatjana Schoenmaker said she had been so focussed on the task at hand that she hadn’t even noticed.