As an international swimmer, Penny Heyns established herself as the world’s greatest female breaststroker of the 20th Century by becoming the only woman in Olympic history to win both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events in Atlanta 1996, bronze in Sydney 2000 and by breaking a total of 14 individual world records during her career. 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. Penny Heyns -Motivational Speaker as an international speaker, Penny Heyns has established herself as the world’s greatest female breaststroker of the 20th century, by becoming the only woman in Olympic history to win both the 100 and the 200 meter breaststroke events in Atlanta 1996, bronze in Sydney 2000 and by breaking a total of 14 … Together their main passion and company focus is the development of individual human potential through various Module 1 & 2 Swim Clinics/Camps.
The main thing is that she came home really inspired, she wrote down her goals.
I have learnt this weekend (or remembered) what motivation is all about. As an international swimmer, Penny Heyns established herself as the world’s greatest female breaststroker of the 20th Century by becoming the only woman in Olympic history to win both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events in Atlanta 1996, bronze in Sydney 2000 and by breaking a total of 14 individual world records during her career. Professional Speaker, Double Olympic Gold & Olympic Bronze medallist, Swimming Clinician & Businesswoman Heyns swept a rapt South Africa public along 10 years ago to became the first South African Olympic Gold Medallist in 44 years, when she … Tatjana Schoenmaker slayed the last of Penny Heyns’s national records on Sunday as she added the 50m breaststroke SA short-course crown to her 100m and 200m titles.She was one of eight swimmers to beat qualifying marks for the world championships in China in December on the final day of the SA trials at the King’s Park pool‚ although Doug Erasmus was the only new face to make the list that totalled 11 in the end.Schoenmaker‚ who took Heyns’s 50m and 100m long-course marks at the Commonwealth Games in April‚ beat the longest-standing SA record in the morning heats.Heyns’s 30.60 had stood since 1999‚ but Schoenmaker went 30.44 in the preliminaries and then lowered it to 30.39 in the afternoon final.“It’s an honour to do it‚” said Schoenmaker‚ who now owns five of the six senior national breaststroke records across short-course and Olympic-distance long-course.“She [Heyns] did it without goggles. 4 talking about this. Thank you. Ashleigh Simonis – swimmerThanks a mil for the very inspirational weekend clinic …. Professional Speaker, Double Olympic Gold & Olympic Bronze medallist, Swimming Clinician & Businesswoman Facebook. Amanda Nano - August 23, 2018. She was probably the youngest there at 9, all she wanted was to get in the pool and swim!
“I’ve got four months to the world champs‚ that’s a full training cycle.“That’s what I did before Commonwealth Games and that worked out.”Van der Burgh‚ who will probably not do the World Cup events to focus on his training and business‚ is set to compete at his 12th consecutive world championship‚ across short course and long course.And he’s won at least one medal at every one of them. Google+. Jenna Bohling – swimmerLoved the swim clinic ….
Omni Share was born out of a uniquely successful sporting partnership between This winning association began in 1996 when Zelda accepted the request to act as Penny’s manager for the remainder of Penny’s swimming career until her retirement in 2001; during which time the Penny Heyns brand was successfully protected, managed and shaped.After Penny’s retirement they formed Omni Share Holdings. The athletes’ committee consists of eight athletes representing artistic swimming, …