{"id":583915,"date":"2024-04-10T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=583915"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:33:25","slug":"tatjana-schoenmaker-drops-two-219s-to-win-200-breast-at-sa-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tatjana-schoenmaker-drops-two-219s-to-win-200-breast-at-sa-national-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatjana Schoenmaker Drops Two 2:19s to Win 200 Breast at SA National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tatjana Schoenmaker Drops Two 2:19s to Win 200 Breast at SA National Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reigning Olympic champion Tatjana Schoenmaker<\/strong> dropped a pair of 2:19s in the 200 breaststroke Wednesday to book passage to the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

Swimming under her married name, Tatjana Smith,<\/strong> at the South African National Championships, she was led the way in prelims at 2:19.92. She sped up at the evening session to win the event in 2:19.01.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not far from the time she used to win Olympic gold in Tokyo, 2:18.95, which was then a world record. (It\u2019s since been lowered by Russian Evgeniia Chikunova<\/strong> to 2:17.55; Chikunova is unlikely to be at the Paris Olympics given her nation\u2019s status in international competition).<\/p>\n

Second was Kaylene Corbett<\/strong>, who finished fourth in the 200 breast in Tokyo. She went 2:23.71, which is under the A standard. Her 2:23.84 in the morning confirmed that.<\/p>\n