Tatjana Schoenmaker

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Tatjana Smith
Personal information
NationalitySouth African
Born (1997-07-09) 9 July 1997 (age 26)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight63 kg (139 lb)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  South Africa
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2023 Fukuoka 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2019 Gwangju 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2023 Fukuoka 100 m breaststroke
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 100 m breaststroke
African Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville 200 m breaststroke
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2017 Taipei 200 m breaststroke
African Youth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Gaborone 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2014 Gaborone 100 m breaststroke
African Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lusaka 4×100 m medley

Tatjana Smith (neé Schoenmaker; born 9 July 1997) is a South African professional swimmer specialising in breaststroke events.[2] She is the former world record holder in the long course 200-metre breaststroke and is the African record holder in the long course and short course 100-metre breaststroke as well as the short course 200-metre breaststroke.[3][4][5] She is a former African record holder in the long course 50-metre breaststroke and former South African record holder in the short course 50-metre breaststroke.[4][3] She won the gold medal and set the world record in the 200-metre breaststroke and also won the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games.[6]

Career

2018 Commonwealth Games

She competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning gold medals in women's 100-metre breaststroke (1:06.41) and the women's 200-metre breaststroke (2:22.02).[7][8][9]

2021

Leading up to the 2021 South Africa National Swimming Championships, Smith set a new South African record in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:05.89 at a South African Time Trials competition in Stellenbosch in February.[10][11] On day one of the 2021 South Africa National Swimming Championships, 7 April in Gqeberha, she won the national title in the 50-metre breaststroke with a South African record time of 30.32, which was 0.10 seconds faster than the South African record time of 30.42 she set in the preliminaries and 0.10 seconds faster than the record prior to that, which she set in December 2020.[12] On the third day of competition, she won the 200-metre breaststroke national title with a South African record time of 2:20.17.[13] The fourth and final day, she won a third national title in an individual breaststroke event, this time finishing first in the final of the 100-metre breaststroke with a South African record time of 1:05.74, which was 1.66 seconds faster than silver medalist Lara van Niekerk.[14] Her times in the 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke, qualified her to represent South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[15]

2020 Summer Olympics

See also: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics
2020 Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 200 m breaststroke 2:18.95 (WR)
Silver medal – second place 100 m breaststroke 1:05.22

Smith entered the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan as the number one seed and predicted winner of the 200-metre breaststroke.[16][4] She also entered the 100-metre breaststroke as the number four seed.[4]

In the prelims of the 100-metre breaststroke, Smith ranked first out of all heats, advanced to the semifinals, and set a new Olympic record and a new African record in the event with her time of 1:04.82.[4][17][18][19][20] The Olympic record she broke was a time of 1:04.93 set at the 2016 Summer Olympics by American Lilly King.[17][19][20] Her time of 30.21 seconds for the first 50-metre portion of the event set new African and South African records in the 50-metre breaststroke.[4] In the semifinals, Smith swam the fastest time of 1:05.07 and ranked first heading into the final.[21] In the final, Smith won the silver medal with a time of 1:05.22, which was the first medal for a South African woman in swimming at an Olympic Games since 2000.[22][23]

In the prelims heats of the 200-metre breaststroke on day five of competition, Smith swam a 2:19.16, setting a new Olympic record, advancing to the semifinals ranked first overall and swimming less than a tenth of a second slower than the

Penny Heyns at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[28][29][30] Her teammate, Kaylene Corbett, also reached the finals, making it the first time since Sydney 2000 that two South African women reached the finals of the same event.[31]

2022

At the 2022 South Africa National Swimming Championships, Smith won the silver medal in the 50-metre breaststroke, placing second less than three-tenths of a second behind Lara van Niekerk with a time of 30.87 seconds and achieving a qualifying time for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games in the event.[32][33] She won the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke on day three with a time of 2:24.01.[34][35] In her third event, she swam a 1:06.06 to win the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke, which also marked the third event she qualified in for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games.[36][37] In June, she was named as one of twelve women on the South Africa swim team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[38]

2022 Commonwealth Games

2022 Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 200 m breaststroke 2:21.92
Silver medal – second place 100 m breaststroke 1:06.68

For the preliminaries of the 50-metre breaststroke, on day one, in swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Smith swam a 30.76 and qualified for the semifinals ranking fourth.[39] She qualified for the final the following day with a time of 30.94 seconds in the semifinals.[40][41] In the final, she finished in 30.41 seconds and placed fourth.[42] The next morning, she ranked first in the preliminaries of the 200-metre breaststroke by over three full seconds with her time of 2:21.76, qualifying for the evening final.[43] She won the gold medal in the final, swimming 1.20 seconds slower than the Games record of 2:20.72 set by Leisel Jones of Australia in 2006 with her time of 2:21.92.[44][45] It was the third gold medal for South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games across all sports.[46] On the fourth morning, she ranked second in the preliminaries of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:07.10 and qualified for the semifinals.[47] She ranked second behind Lara van Niekerk again in the semifinals, finishing in a time of 1:06.43 to qualify for the final.[48] In the final, she won the silver medal with a time of 1:06.68.[49][50][51]

2023

On the first day of the 2023 South Africa National Swimming Championships in April, Smith won the national title in the 100-metre breaststroke with a 2023 World Aquatics Championships qualifying time of 1:05.89 as well as a national title in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, swimming the second leg of the relay to contribute to a final mark of 7:13.91.[52][53][54][55][56][57] She won the national title in the 200-metre breaststroke two days later with a World Championships qualifying time of 2:22.44, finishing 2.96 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.[58][59] She won the silver medal in the 50-metre breaststroke on day four less than one second behind the gold medalist with a World Championships qualifying time of 30.71 seconds.[60] The final day she withdrew from further competition in the 400-metre freestyle after swimming a 4:25.27 in the morning preliminary heats.[61]

International championships (50 m)

Meet 400 freestyle 50 breaststroke 100 breaststroke 200 breaststroke 200 medley 4×100 freestyle 4×200 freestyle 4×100 medley 4×100 mixed medley
Junior level
AJC 2013 6th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) —
AYG 2014 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) —
Senior level
AG 2015 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WUG 2017 12th 4th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 30th —
CG 2018 4th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) —
WUG 2019 4th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 2019 17th 6th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 17th 15th
OG 2020 — 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 14th
CG 2022 4th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 2023 WD[a] 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
a Schoenmaker placed 14th in the preliminary heats but chose to withdraw from the semifinal.

International championships (25 m)

Meet 50 breaststroke 100 breaststroke 200 breaststroke 200 medley 4×50 medley 4×100 medley
WC 2014 37th 35th 29th 40th 10th 13th

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m breaststroke 30.21 †, h 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021 Former AF, NR [4]
100 m breaststroke 1:04.82 h 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021 AF, NR, OR [4][17][18][19][20]
200 m breaststroke 2:18.95 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 30 July 2021 WR, AF, NR, OR [5][27]
Legend: WR – World record; AF – African record; NR – South African record; OR – Olympic record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m breaststroke 30.20 2020 South Africa Short Course Championships Pietermaritzburg 26 October 2020 Former NR [3]
100 m breaststroke 1:03.89 2020 South Africa Short Course Championships Pietermaritzburg 25 October 2020 AF, NR [3]
200 m breaststroke 2:18.02 2020 South Africa Short Course Championships Pietermaritzburg 26 October 2020 AF, NR [3]
Legend: AF – African record; NR – South African record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

World records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
1 200 m breaststroke 2:18.95 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 30 July 2021 [5][27]

Awards

Personal life

In February 2023, Smith confirmed her relationship with Joel Smith, of the Kolisi Foundation, via the social media platform Instagram.[72] They got married in Robertson on November 4 2023.[73][74]

See also

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External links

Records
Preceded by World Record Holder
Women's 200 Breaststroke
30 July 2021 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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