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Tokyo 2020: Schoenmaker wins Gold for South Africa, breaks World Record

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South Africa has won the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics, as Tatjana Schoenmaker won the 200 meter women’s breaststroke and dominated the race by breaking the world record for 2 minutes, 18.95 seconds, at 8 years of age.

A very surreal experience for the 24-year-old.

“I feel like it really hasn’t sunk in yet. We were even saying before the medals, like, did we just swim? (laughs) The whole process went really quick. So, yeah, I feel I was very excited to finally also finish my individual races and I’m excited to go home and celebrate just being at the Olympics with my family and stuff,” Tatjana Schoenmaker is a post-race conference.

“And I think it will kick in when I get home, probably I don’t know if it should be kicking in now, because if I was crying that much when I’m half there and half not, I just can’t imagine.”

This is the second medal for Tatjana Schoenmaker at the Tokyo Olmpics, after coming second in the 100-meter breaststroke race, three days ago.

Source: Africanews with AFP

TOA Correspondent

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