Ebert Kleynhans

Ebert competed at three Paralympics winning three gold medals and one silver. His first games were in 1996 where he won the 50m freestyle in a new games record. He then finished second in the 100m freestyle behind Canadian Walter Wu, who set a new Games record. He finished fifth in the 400m freestyle, and fifth in the 100m butterfly and was disqualified in the breaststroke.

In the 2000 and 2004 he competed in the 50m and 100m freestyle and the 100m butterfly. At the 2000 Games he defended his 50m freestyle title in a new world record time and added the 100m freestyle and finished sixth in the 100m butterfly.

At the 2004 Games he could only manage seventh in the 50m freestyle and eighth in the 100m freestyle as well as missing out on the final of the 100m butterfly.

24 Oct 2000: Darren Leach (bronze)of Great Britain, Ebert Kleynhans (gold)of South Africa and Yoshikazu Sakai (silver) of Japan during the medal presentation for the Mens 100M Freestyle S12 Final held at Olympic Park during the Sydney 2000 ParalympicGames, Sydney, Australia.