freestyle swimming gold medal – Paralympics (2004) 200 m SM9 individual medley swimming gold medal – Paralympics (2004) 400 m S9 freestyle swimming gold medal – Paralympics (2004) 50 m S9 freestyle swimming gold medal – Paralympics (2004) 800 m freestyle swimming gold medal – All-Africa Games (2003) 800 m freestyle swimming silver medal – Afro-Asian Games (2003) 400 m freestyle swimming bronze medal – Afro-Asian Games (2003) David Dixon Award for outstanding athlete – Commonwealth Games (2002) 100 m freestyle swimming EAD (multi-disability) gold – Commonwealth Games (2002) 50 m freestyle swimming EAD (multi-disability) gold – Commonwealth Games (2002) Awards and honours In August 2002 she was awarded the Western Cape Golden Cross. During the award ceremony Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said she had gone "beyond gold and swam her way into the hearts of not only South Africans but the whole world". Du Toit was voted 48th in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004 by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She won the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award in 2008. In December 2009 she received the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold "for her exceptional achievements in swimming." On 10 March 2010, she was awarded the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability for "breaking down the barriers between disabled and able-bodied sport". In 2013, she was made an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Paralympic sport. See also Athletes with most gold medals in one event at the Paralympic Games List of athletes who have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics national flag bearers List of flag bearers for South Africa at the Olympics 2008 Summer Paralympics national flag bearers George Eyser Olivér Halassy Natalia Partyka Notes References External links 1984 births African Games gold medalists for South Africa African Games medalists in swimming Afrikaner people Amputee category Paralympic competitors Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games South African female backstroke swimmers South African female butterfly swimmers South African female freestyle swimmers Female long-distance swimmers Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Olympic swimmers of South Africa Paralympic gold medalists for South Africa Paralympic silver medalists for South Africa Paralympic swimmers of South Africa Recipients of the Order