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Key facts
- Born
- Tatjana Schoenmaker , ( 1997-07-09 ) 9 July 1997 (age 28) , Johannesburg , South Africa
- Height
- 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
- Weight
- 63 kg (139 lb)
- Sport
- Swimming
- Strokes
- Breaststroke
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tatjana
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Johannesburg
- Occupation
- swimmer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Country for sport
- South Africa
- Height
- 178
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1997-07-09
- name in native language
- Tatjana Schoenmaker
- relative
- Siya Kolisi
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Tatjana Smith (née Schoenmaker; born 9 July 1997) is a South African retired swimmer who specialised in breaststroke events. She is a two-time Olympic champion and the most decorated South African Olympian in history. Smith won the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke and the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games, setting Olympic records in both events and the world record in the former, and the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke and the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2024 Olympic Games. She is also a World Championships gold medalist (2023) and two-time silver medalist (2019, 2023).
Smith is the former world record holder in the long course 200-metre breaststroke and is the African record holder in the long course and short course 100-metre breaststroke, as well as the short course 200-metre breaststroke.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tatjana Smith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.