Dylan Bettencourt
Tatjana Schoenmaker won the gold medal in the women’s 200m breastroke event with a time of 2:21.92 seconds on Sunday night.
Schoenmaker holds the world record in the event and was the favourite to win the gold medal when she lined up in lane four.
And the 25-year-old dominated the race from the moment she dived into the pool – holding the lead for the entire race.
Schoenmaker won the gold medal in the same event at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
This time she won South Africa’s third gold medal of the Commonwealth Games.
Making the deal even sweeter, her fellow South African Kaylene Corbett finished in third to claim the bronze medal.
The 23-year-old finished with a time of 2:23.67 seconds.
In a show of Schoenmaker’s class, she immediately swam over to congratulate Corbett before celebrating her own victory.
South Africa now have five medals in total at the games, three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal.
