Wayne Ferreira and Piet Norval became the first South Africans to win an Olympic medal since 1960 when they won the silver medal in the men's doubles at the Barcelona Olympics. Ferreira and Norval lost in four sets to the Germans Boris Becker and Michael Stich. Elana Meyer won South Africa's second post isolation Olympic medal when she finished in second place behind Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu at the Barcelona Games in 1992. Tulu outsprinted Meyer for the gold medal to win by 30m. Tulu then waited for Meyer at the finishing line and together they set off on a victory lap that symbolized hope for a new Africa. At the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 Penny Heyns became the first women in history to win both the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the same Games. She also bettered the world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke. Penny Heyns won South Africa's first Olympic gold in 44 years with her victory in the 100m breaststroke at the Atlanta Olympics. She also won the 200m breaststroke. In 1999 South Africa's golden girl broke 11 world record in three months on three different continents to establish herself as arguably the greatest breaststroker of all times. Marianne Kriel won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke, 44 years after Joan Harrison won South Africa's last swimming medal at the 1952 Games in Helsinki in the same event. Hezekiel Sepeng ran the race of his life to claim the silver medal in the 800m at the Atlanta Olympics. Vebjoern Rodal of Norway was the surprise winner of the gold medal. In 1996 in Atlanta Josiah Thugwane came from relative obscurity to claim gold in the marathon, one of the Olimpics' most prestgious events. Penny Heyns could not repeat her Atlanta heroics at the Sydney Games in 2000, but South Africa's most successful swimmer ever, still managed to earn a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke. She retired after the Sydney Olympics. Terence Parkin became the first deaf swimmer to win an Olympic swimming medal. Parkin won silver in the 200m breaststroke at the Sydney Olympics. Frantz Kruger broke the African record to win a bronze medal in the men's discus throw at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Llewellyn Herbert won an Olympic bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the Sydney Olympics. Herbert's time of 47.80 in Sydney was a South African record that stood for 11 years until LJ van Zyl broke the record in February 2011. Hestrie Cloete flirted with the Olympic title, but had to settle for the silver medal in the high jump at the Sydney Olympics behind Yelena Yelesina of Russia. Both athletes had cleared 2.01m, but the Russian achieved it with fewer attempts. The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling stunned the swimming world when they snatched relay gold in a world record time in the 4x100m freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Roland Schoeman won his second medal of the Athens Olympics when he claimed a silver medal in the final of the men's 100m freestyle. Roland Schoeman became South Africa's most decorated athlete at a single Olympics when he won a bronze medal in the men's 50m freestyle at the Athens Olympics. Schoeman won a gold medal as a member of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team. He also won silver in the showcase 100m freestyle event. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi on his way to a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente claimed the men's coxless pairs bronze medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 to give South Africa a first ever Olympic medal in rowing. Hestrie Cloete won her second successive silver medal, this time leaping 2.02m, but she was out-jumped by Yelena Slesarenko of Russia. Slesarenko cleared an Olympic record height of 2.06m to claim the gold medal. Godfrey Mokoena won South Africa's only medal of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Mokoena took home the silver medal in the long jump.