PARIS: Kate Douglass underlined her remarkable versatility with gold in the women's 200 metres breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, beating Tokyo champion Tatjana Smith who bowed out of swimming with a silver medal in her final race.
Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Women's 200m Breaststroke Final - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - August 01, 2024. Kate Douglass of United States in action. REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaPARIS: Kate Douglass underlined her remarkable versatility with gold in the women's 200 metres breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, beating Tokyo champion Tatjana Smith who bowed out of swimming with a silver medal in her final race.
A master of all strokes, she also took the 200m individual medley bronze at Tokyo and is a major contender for gold in the same event in Paris. Having won the 100m breaststroke gold on day three, Smith was bidding to match compatriot Penny Heyns who took both the 100 and 200m golds at the 1996 Atlanta Games and remains the only women's swimmer to do so.
She had to settle for silver but it gave her a total haul of four Olympic medals - two golds and two silvers - surpassing Chad le Clos as South Africa's most decorated Games swimmer.
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