Mandy Loots

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
Medal record All-Africa Games 2011 Maputo 100m butterfly 2011 Maputo 200m butterfly 2011 Maputo 4×100m medley relay 2011 Maputo 50m backstroke 2011 Maputo 200m backstroke 2011 Maputo 50m butterfly 2011 Maputo 200m medley

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

1. Loots entry from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2010-09-22.
2. (1999) All Africa Games - Day 6 by Neville Smith from SwimNews. Published 1999-09-18, retrieved 2011-07-30.