Seven-year-old Lydia Jacoby became the first Alaskan to win a medal at the Summer Olympics. She defeated US teammate Lilly King in Tokyo to win the 100 million breaststroke gold medal.
The defending champion and world record holder Kim has not lost a long distance breaststroke competition since 2015, but did not answer her young compatriot when she won the bronze medal. South Africa’s Tajana Schoenmaker set a new record in the preliminaries. The Olympic record Americans want silver.
Jacoby had been planning to participate in the Olympics with her family as a fan last year until the pandemic forced the Olympics to be postponed, but her remarkable progress in 2021 made her spring in the US trials unexpected and became the first ever Alaskan swimmer. Be the American team.
Despite this, she was still the main outsider to Tokyo, but she performed well in several rounds and created a new personal best of 1:04.95 in the final and achieved a shocking victory.
