Teenager Lara van Niekerk has added significant depth in the women's breaststroke.
Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett after the women's 200m breaststroke final at the Tokyo Olympics. Picture: Getty Images
For the last three decades, South African swimmers have been able to consistently put up a fight against the best in the world, but for most of that period, they were nearly all men. At nine editions of the Fina World Championships between 2001 and 2017, seven South African men raked in a total of 28 medals , but no women stepped on the podium.Similarly, while breaststroke specialists Penny Heyns and Marianne Kriel earned four of South Africa’s five medals in the pool at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, their success was followed by a long dry run.
Making the result even sweeter, Kaylene Corbett helped launch a new era reminiscent of the one led by Heyns and Kriel 20 years earlier, finishing eighth in the four-length final.
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