Australia’s Emma McKeon becomes first female to win 7 medals at single Olympics

"It still feels pretty surreal. I never thought I would win two Gold medals in one session... I’m very proud of myself," McKeon said.

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Australia’s swimmer Emma McKeon made Olympics history on Sunday by winning a women’s 4x100m rally. The team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell touched a new Olympics record by finishing the rally at 3 minutes 51.06 seconds. They were followed by the team of Canada in 3 minutes 52.60 seconds and the team of US in 3 minutes 51.73 seconds. With this Gold medal, Emma became the first female to earn seven Gold medals at a single Olympics game.

It was 27-year-old Emma’s fourth gold in Tokyo Olympics 2020, she has won three bronze medals as well.

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Emma has overtaken East German Kristin Otto and American Natalie Coughlin who won six medals in single Olympic Games in 1952 and 2008 respectively. 

The blistering butterfly swim from Emma closed the gap between the other two teams and Cate Campbell sprinted home for Gold.

McKeon said, “She grew up watching the swimming and watching amazing athletes do amazing things in Australia and I grew up wanted to do a similar thing.”

Campbell gave full credit to her teammate and told the media channel after the rally, “I would just like to say full credit to Emma. I think that we just need to acknowledge what an incredible job she has done. And I honestly could not be happier for her. And she is such an important part of this team and I think that needs to be recognized.” 


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