Rebecca Soni set a new world record in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke on Wednesday. All she did on Thursday was set another one while winning the gold medal in the event.
Rebecca Soni Wins Gold For U.S., Sets Another World Record In Women’s 200m Breaststroke Final
Rebecca Soni set another world record and won gold in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke on Thursday.
Soni finished the event in 2:19.59, smashing her own world record by .41 seconds and outpacing the rest of the field by more than a second. Satomi Suzuki of Japan finished in 2:20.72, and Yuliya Efimova of Russia set a new European record with a 2:20.92. But this was Soni’s race from start to finish, and she churned through her final 100 meters and added more than four-tenths of a second on Suzuki in the final 50.
How fast was Soni throughout the Olympics in this event? Her qualifying time, a 2:21.40, would have won the bronze in this event.
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