Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information / Your California Privacy Rights are applicable to you. ^ Back to Top ^ © 2023 ESPN Internet Ventures. Schoenmaker's gold medal was the second African victory in Tokyo's Olympic pool, after Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui won the men's 400m freestyle on Sunday. "I don't wish my Olympic dream over, but I am excited to go and celebrate even just being at the Olympics." "It still hasn't sunk in," Schoenmaker said. CAPE TOWN - Tatjana Schoenmaker laid down a serious marker on Sunday that she is aiming for a breaststroke double at the Tokyo Olympics with a new 100m event record. King led until the 150m turn, when Schoenmaker went in front and delivered a powerful final length to smash the world record and grab gold. Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Medal Tracker Schoenmaker had previously won the silver medal in the women's 100m breaststroke, finishing second to Lydia Jacoby. Schoenmaker's South African teammate Kaylene Corbett, from Bloemfontein, finished fifth. Lilly King, of the United States, took the silver medal, with her teammate Annie Lazor third. Schoenmaker, from Johannesburg, won in a time of 2 min 18.95 sec, breaking the mark of 2:19.11 set by Denmark's Rikke Moller Pedersen at the 2013 world championships in Barcelona. Tatjana Schoenmaker has won South Africa's first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the swimmer taking out the women's 200 metres breaststroke in world-record time. Tatjana Schoenmaker wins South Africa's first gold medal at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Based on her social media posts, it’s apparent that Schoenmaker is in a romantic relationship with fellow swimmer Ruan Rus.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser The Olympic world record-holder is taken. Schoenmaker started swimming professionally at 14 years old. By the age of eight, she was representing her primary school’s swimming club. It would seem that the breaststroke specialist fell in love with the pools at a very young age. At the time, it was for water-safety purposes. She’s started swimming at a very young ageĪccording to her official sponsor, Ford, Schoenmaker started swimming when she was five years old. three gym sessions a week for 1 hr and 15 min each session.On double session days she swims +/- 11–14 kms a day.swims an average of five – 7km per swim session.At that time, Noraly didnt have money and house and was jobless and she. 48 weeks per year – only three or four weeks off a year Tatjana Schoenmaker scooped SAs first gold medal of the Tokyo Games as she won.Trains six days a week with Sunday being an off day.In numbers, her training schedule looks like this: The 24-year-old trains six days a week and takes Sunday off. Hard work truly pays off and it is all shown in the numbers she clocks in with her highly intensive training regimen. She literally trains everyday, except Sundays She went on to win the 100m breast (01:06:42) and the 200m breast (02:22:92) that year. As a TUKS student, Schoenmaker also bagged a South African national record when she competed in the semifinals of the 2019 World University Games. The 24-year-old is a Financial Science graduate at the University of Pretoria. While her natural-born talents are exercised in the pools, Schoenmaker is an accomplished ‘smart-pants’ too. At the age of 20, the swimmer became the first South African woman to earn gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games since the country was reintroduced to the competition, setting African records in the 100m breast (01:06.41) and 200m breast (02:22.02). Before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Schoenmaker had already made history at the Commonwealth Games.
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