Tatjana Smith

Tatjana Smith
Personal information
Birth nameTatjana Schoenmaker
Born (1997-07-09) 9 July 1997 (age 27)
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
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 200 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 (née Schoenmaker; born 9 July 1997) is a South African retired swimmer who specialised in breaststroke events. She is a two-time Olympic champion and the most decorated South African Olympian in history. Smith won the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke and the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games, setting Olympic records in both events and the world record in the former, and the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke and the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2024 Olympic Games. She is also a World Championships gold medalist (2023) and two-time silver medalist (2019, 2023).

Smith 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.

  1. ^ a b "Tatjana Schoenmaker". Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.