South Africa’s Tatjana Smith flew to Olympic glory on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 within the ladies’s 100m breaststroke to take her nation’s first gold medal within the occasion since 1996.
She touched the wall with a time of 1:05.28 earlier than breaking down in tears of pleasure.
Folks’s Republic of China’s Tang Qianting took the silver medal with 1:05.54, adopted by the Republic of Eire’s Mona McSharry, who took third with 1:05.59.
USA’s Lilly King, who was the 2016 Olympic champion within the occasion, missed the rostrum by one-hundredth of a second, to complete tied for fourth with a time of 1:05.60.
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