Terence Parkin

Personal information

Born

12 April 1980

Medal record

Men's swimming
Representing South Africa
Olympic Games
	Sydney 2000	200 m breaststroke
World Championships (SC)
	2000 Athens	200 m breaststroke
	2000 Athens	400 m individual medley
Pan Pacific Championships
	1999 Sydney	200 m breaststroke
Commonwealth Games
	2002 Manchester	200 m breaststroke

Terence Mike Parkin (born 12 April 1980 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) is a swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke. Parkin, who is deaf, also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2005 Deaflympics in which he took home two gold medals.

In 2011, Parkin saved a young boy from drowning.

Parkin competed in his first Olympic games in 2000 at the age of 20. He used sign language to communicate with his coach. About his trip to the Olympics, Parkin said "I am going to the Olympics to represent South Africa, but it's so vitally important for me to go, to show that the deaf can do anything. They can't hear, they can see everything. I would like to show the world that there's opportunities for the deaf."

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