Food writer Jenni Fleetwood recommends working up an appetite walking along the golden beach in Hout Bay, pausing to watch fur seals biding their time with a little backstroke before the fishing boats return to port.
Lochte finished third in the 200m backstroke and then got blitzed by Phelps in the 200m individual medley.
The original said that Ruta Meilutyte hit the front in the 100m backstroke rather than breaststroke.
Since the Olympics had no backstroke event for women, she entered the only three races open to women that year.
She had a chance to match the record of four individual swimming golds for a woman at an Olympics, set by East Germany's Kristin Otto in Seoul in 1988, but Hosszu settled for silver in the 200-m backstroke by just 0.06 second.
Later in 2011, in the 200-metre backstroke at the short-course World Cup meet in Berlin, she achieved her first world record (2 min 0.03 sec).
Their daughter Andrea won a silver in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and later married Olympic canoeing gold medalist Mihály Hesz.
At the 1976 Olympics, Naber became the first swimmer to break the 2-minute barrier in the 200-metre backstroke, winning the gold and setting a world record (1 min 59.19 sec) that would stand for seven years.
Along with Phelps, American swimmers took home a great number of those golds, notably teenage sensation Missy Franklin (who won four golds, including both the 100-metre and 200-metre individual backstroke) and Phelps's friendly rival Ryan Lochte (winner of two golds and five total medals).
Handstroke (a pull on the rope that rotates the bell almost 360° to the other balance position) alternates with backstroke (a pull on the rope that returns the bell to its initial position), two successive revolutions constituting a whole pull.
Hosszu won three medals at the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Russia, where she set the world record in the 200-m IM while winning gold in the 400-m IM and bronze in the 200-m backstroke.
