Mandy Loots
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Amanda Toni Loots |
| Nationality |  South Africa |
| Born | 3 August 1978 Gwelo, Rhodesia |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | butterfly |
Amanda Toni "Mandy" Loots (born 3 August 1978 in Gwelo, Rhodesia)[1] is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from South Africa. She swam for South Africa at the 1996, 2000 and 2008 Olympics.
In November 2009, she set the African Record and South African Record in the short-course (25m) 200 fly.
At the 1999 All-Africa Games, she was South Africa's most decorated athlete at the Games, winning 6 gold medals.[2]
She has swum for South Africa at the:
- Olympics: 1996, 2000, 2008
- Commonwealth Games: 1994, 2002, 2006
- All-Africa Games: 1999, 2007
- African Swimming Championships: 2008, 2010
References
- ^ Loots entry from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2010-09-22.
- ^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 6 by Neville Smith from SwimNews. Published 1999-09-18, retrieved 2011-07-30.
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Gweru
- Afrikaner people
- Zimbabwean people of Dutch descent
- Zimbabwean emigrants to South Africa
- South African people of Dutch descent
- Olympic swimmers of South Africa
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa
- African Games gold medalists for South Africa
- African Games medalists in swimming
- African Games silver medalists for South Africa