"Lyndon Ferns" is a retired Olympic gold-medalist and former List of world records in swimming/world record swimmer from South Africa. He swam for South Africa at the South Africa at the 2004 Summer Olympics/2004 and South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics/2008 Olympics.

At the South Africa at the 2004 Summer Olympics/2004 Olympics, he was a member of the South Africa's Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay/Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay that won the event in a World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay/world record. Three of the team were a part of the relay that broke the record and won gold at the Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games/2006 Commonwealth Games.

During the 2007 World Championships held in Melbourne, Australia, Lyndon became the first man out of Africa to complete the 100m butterfly in under 52 seconds, touching the wall in 51.90 seconds and with that breaking his own African record. He was also part of the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay, both placing fourth.

Lyndon also competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where he set the African record in the 100m freestyle at 48.00, earning a sixth place in the finals. He also competed in the 100m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay.

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We don't have a lot of quantity, but a lot of quality. Other teams have 18 guys, but they barely qualified six of them. We have 10 guys and all of us are good enough to final in all of our events.

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We mean business. We've got nine guys. We want to win the championships, and we showed it tonight.

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We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonight.

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