Tatjana Smith will win Team South Africa's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics 2024 - if bookmakers are to be believed ...
Tatjana Smith will win Team South Africa’s first gold medal of the Paris Olympics 2024 – if bookmakers are to be believed … Image: Anton Geyser / Team SAas the silver medallist from Tokyo in the 100m breaststroke and the gold medallist in the 200m.She certainly laid down that marker by blazing her way to victory in both her heat and semi-final in the 100m at the Paris La Defense Arena on Sunday.races on the day in 1:05.00.
“I haven’t been close to my time from Tokyo , so to be swimming my best times since then is an amazing feeling. I’m just happy to be enjoying every race and it doesn’t matter what times I do put up. It’s about the experience and how happy I am to be here doing what I’m doing.” The first semi-final of the evening was won by China’s Qianting Tang in 1:05.83. She was leading the world rankings in the event coming to Paris, with a time of 1:04.39, but she hasn’t threatened that time in Paris and won the first semi-final, the slower of the two, in 1:05.83. That places her fourth fastest heading into the final, with Mona McSharry and Lily King emerging as bigger threats to the South African.
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