'Still so unreal' - Schoenmaker 'shocked' at record-breaking gold

'Still so unreal' - Schoenmaker 'shocked' at record-breaking gold
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30/07/2021 - 07:52
South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker reacts after winning gold and setting a World Record during the final of the women's 200m breaststroke swimming event Jonathan NACKSTRAND AFP
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Tokyo (AFP)
South African Tatjana Schoenmaker said it felt "so unreal" after she smashed the long-standing women's 200m breaststroke world record to win Olympic gold Thursday.
Schoenmaker timed 2min 18.95sec to better the 2:19.11 set by Denmark's Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013.
It made her the first female South African to win an Olympic swimming gold since 1996, when Penny Heyns swept the women's 100m and 200m breaststroke.

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