WATCH | Tatjana Schoenmaker describes the moment she realised she set a world record

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Minister of sport Nathi Mthethwa has lavished praise on SA swimming sensation Tatjana Schoenmaker after she smashed the women’s 200m butterfly world record on her way to a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Schoenmaker scooped SA’s first gold medal of the games in a world record-breaking time of 2 min 18.95 sec beating the previous record of 2:19.11 that was set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013.

South Africa's Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa congratulates SA Olympic gold medalist Tatjana Schoenmaker, who claim a Tokyo 2020 gold in the women's 200m breaststroke final and set a world record on Thursday, July 29 2021. “I just focused on my own race‚ I just wanted to try to get as close to my times as possible so that even if it [the world record] didn’t happen I would be happy with my times that I had swum‚” she said.

 

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the is a difference between butterfly and breaststroke. Please get your facts correct. NotCool

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