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Peggy de Villiers
Peggy de Villiers (born 22 September 1993) is a South African deaf swimmer.[4] She represented South Africa at the Deaflympics in 2009 and 2013. She made her Deaflympic debut at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics and claimed 4 medals including a gold medal in the 50m backstroke event with a world record breaking timing of 31.11 for deaf swimming at that time.[5] She currently holds the deaf world swimming records in the women's 50m butterfly and women's 100m butterfly categories.[6] She completed her undergraduated swimming career with the University of West Florida as a member of the college team.[7][8] BiographyPeggy was born to Almero de Villiers and Marika de Villiers on 22, September 1993 and grew up in Somerset West, South Africa.[9] She contracted bacterial meningitis when she was just 6 months old. Despite her deafness, Peggy started swimming at the age of 12. Peggy wears a hearing aid. She has a brother, Ollie de Villiers. Peggy de Villiers studied at the Somerset College High School.[10] CareerPeggy de Villiers became a successful deaf swimmer at the age of sixteen after her dream debut at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics claiming gold medal in the women's 50m backstroke,[5] silver medals in women's 100m backstroke,[11] women's 100m freestyle[12] and a bronze medal in women's 50m butterfly.[13] Apart from Deaflympics, she has competed at the World Deaf Swimming Championships in 2011 and 2015, claiming medals in individual women's backstroke, freestyle, butterfly events.[14]<ref>"RECENT ICSD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: WORLD DEAF SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 which was held in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. from 17 August – 22 August, 2015. | www.DEAFSWIMWORLD.com". www.deafswimworld.com (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2017.</ref References
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