Tatjana Smith, previously Schoenmaker, won silver at Tokyo 2020 in the 100m breaststroke. She's gunning for gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Tatjana Smith, previously Schoenmaker, won silver at Tokyo 2020 and aims to go one better in the 100m breaststroke final at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here are the details, South African fans.27-year-old Tatjana Smith, previously Schoenmaker, won silver in the 100m breaststroke event at Tokyo 2020 and won gold in a then-world-record time of 2.18.95 for the 200m breaststroke event. This year, few would bet against her doing the golden double.
Akani Simbine ran a time of 9.93 seconds at Tokyo 2020 in the 100m final. That meant he missed a bronze medal by a heartbreaking four-hundredths of a second behind Canada’s Andre De Grasse. Italy’s Marcell Jacobs was the surprise gold medalist four years ago in a wide-open field that Simbine fancied his chances of winning.
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