TOKYO: From growing up in a small town in Tasmania to winning two gold medals at her first Olympic Games, Ariarne Titmus said she has proved that anything is possible if you believe in yourself after the Australian took the 200m freestyle title at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday .
Titmus, dubbed the Terminator, accelerated in the final metres to touch just ahead of Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey and finish far ahead of favourite Katie Ledecky, who she beat for a second time after winning the 400m freestyle on Monday."I'm just from a small town in Tasmania, and it just goes to show if you believe you can do something, you can 100 per cent do it if you work for it," she told Australia's ABC News.
The 20-year-old won in a time of 1:53.50, an Olympic record, with Haughey, who had set the pace for most of the race, second in 1:53.92. Canadian Penny Oleksiak took the bronze in a time of 1:54.70 while Ledecky, a five-time Olympic gold medal winner, finished fifth in a time of 1:55.21. Ledecky had been the favourite, but Titmus knew that Haughey was a real threat, and while the time was slower than she had been gunning for, winning gold was all that mattered.
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