Olympics-Swimming-Schoenmaker wins women's 200m breaststroke gold in world record time
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Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa won the gold medal in the women's 200m breaststroke in a world record time of two minutes, 18.95 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.
The time bettered Dane Rikke Moller Pedersen's mark of 2:19.11 at the 2013 world championships.
Americans Lilly King and Annie Lazor won the silver and bronze respectively. (Editing by Nick Mulvenney.)
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