"Extremely proud" Sjostrom adds 50m freestyle gold to 100m title, finishing Games on a high

Record ID: 1833123

  • Title: "Extremely proud" Sjostrom adds 50m freestyle gold to 100m title, finishing Games on a high
  • Date: 4th August 2024
  • Summary: NANTERRE, FRANCE (AUGUST 4, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF SWEDEN'S GOLD MEDALLIST SWIMMER, SARAH SJOSTORM, POSING WITH 50 METERS FREESTYLE AND 100 METERS FREESTYLE GOLD MEDALS SJOSTROM TALKING TO JOURNALIST (SOUNDBITE) (English) SWEDEN GOLD MEDALIST SWIMMER, SARAH SJOSTROM, SAYING: "I mean, I’m a double Olympic champion. 50 and 100 me
  • Embargoed: 18th August 2024 22:16
  • Keywords: Freestyle Gold Medal Olympic Games Olympics Paris 2024 Sarah Sjostrom Summer Games Sweden Swimming
  • Location: NANTERRE, FRANCE
  • City: NANTERRE, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Europe,Olympics,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA001435304082024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Sweden's world record holder Sarah Sjostrom said she was “extremely proud” after adding the women's 50 metres gold to her 100m title in her fifth Olympic Games Sunday (August 4) in Paris.
    “Everyone says the 100 meters freestyle is always like the queen event of swimming so, I mean, I couldn't be more proud. Like, I'm extremely proud. It's crazy that I have done this,” she told Reuters after the event.
    Australia's Meg Harris, a gold medallist in the 4x100m free relay, took the silver and China's Zhang Yufei secured the bronze for her fifth medal of the Games and ninth of her career.
    The Swede, whose 100m win was almost accidental after she made a late decision to enter, has defied the years by swimming as well as ever in a Games with few world records and where times have mattered less than tactics and mental strength.
    The other races on the final day of Olympic swimming saw iron-man Bobby Finke and the U.S. women's medley relay team shatter world records but the U.S. men's medley relay team suffered their first defeat ever at an Olympics with China taking the gold.
    (Production: Ben Makori, Louise Delmasso, Ilze Filks)
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