Tatjana Schoenmaker clocked 2min 18.95sec to higher the two:19.11 set by Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013.© AFP
South African Tatjana Schoenmaker smashed the long-standing ladies’s 200m breaststroke world document Thursday to win the Olympic gold medal. The 24-year-old timed 2min 18.95sec to higher the two:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013. America’s Lilly King was second in 2:19.92 along with her team-mate and coaching accomplice Annie Lazor third in 2:20.84. The 24-year-old Schoenmaker, who gained silver within the 100m occasion, had signalled her intent by going near the document within the heats and she or he made no mistake within the remaining.
King went out quick and turned first at each the 50m and 100m mark earlier than Schoenmaker made her transfer, reeling within the American to the touch first.
It made her the primary feminine South African to win an Olympic swimming gold since 1996, when Penny Heyns swept the ladies’s 100 and 200 breaststroke.
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Despite lacking gold, it was an enchancment for King who positioned 12th on the Rio Olympics.
It was the third world document within the Tokyo pool, however the first particular person one after Australia’s ladies set a brand new mark within the 4x100m relay and China did the identical within the ladies’s 4x200m relay.
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