# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/penelope-heyns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:03:52.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/penelope-heyns"
name: "Penelope Heyns"
slug: "penelope-heyns"
description: "Penelope (\"Penny\") Heyns OIS 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. Along with Australian champion Leisel Jones, Heyns is regarded as one of the greatest breaststroke swimmers."
tagline: "Swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Penelope_Heyns_at_Save_the_Dream_event_in_Times_Square%2C_New_York.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1974-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.55543733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  246
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm12052041"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.pennyheyns.com/"
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    title: "彭妮·海恩斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Penelope Heyns"
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    title: "Пенні Гейнс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump