Tokyo Olympics: South African Swimmer Tajana Schoenmaker Broke The World Record And Won The Women’s 200m Breaststroke Gold Medal.
South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker broke the long-term women’s 200m breaststroke world record on Thursday and won the Olympic gold medal.
The 24-year-old Schoenmaker won the silvermedal in the 100m race,approached the record in the preliminaryround and made no mistakes in the final, which showed his intentions.
Jin quickly exited and turned first at both the 50m and the end. At the 100meters,Schönmaker made ashotand the US teamtookthelead. Thismakes her the first South African woman to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Penny Heyns swept the women’s 100 and 200 breaststrokes in 1996.
This is an improvement for Kim, because hewon 12th in the Rio Olympics-thisis the third world record of the Tokyo team, but after the Australian women’s 4x100m relay set a new record, the Chinese teamAlso created the same record.Women’s 4x200m relay.