Paris 2024 Olympics: What is the schedule for Tatjana Smith’s 100m breaststroke final?

Tatjana Smith, formerly Schoenmaker, earned a silver medal at Tokyo 2020 and aims to improve in the 100m breaststroke final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Here are the details, South African fans.

TATJANA SMITH GUNS FOR GOLD IN TWO EVENTS AT THE PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

27-year-old Tatjana Smith, previously Schoenmaker, won silver in the 100m breaststroke event at Tokyo 2020 and won gold in a then-world-record time of 2.18.95 for the 200m breaststroke event.

This year, few would bet against her doing the golden double.

She won her heat and semi-final in the 100m event in Paris at the Paris La Defense arena in identical times of 1.05.00.

The 100m final will be contested on Monday, 29 July at 21:25 (SA time).

Don’t miss it. Speaking of South Africans in the pool, 20-year-old Pieter Coetze lines up in the men’s 100m backstroke final at 21:19.

WHEN DOES AKANI SIMBINE CONTEST THE 100M EVENT AT THE OLYMPICS?

Akani Simbine ran a time of 9.93 seconds at Tokyo 2020 in the 100m final. That meant he missed a bronze medal by a heartbreaking four-hundredths of a second behind Canada’s Andre De Grasse. Italy’s Marcell Jacobs was the surprise gold medalist four years ago in a wide-open field that Simbine fancied his chances of winning. Four years before that, Simbine came fifth in the 100m final in Rio De Janeiro; the medalists that night were the legendary Jamaican Usain Bolt with gold, USA’s Justin Gatlin claiming silver and De Grasse scooping the bronze. Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 contain painful ‘what if’ thoughts and memories for Simbine, but Paris 2024 can change all of that. Now 30, he has the chance to atone.

The preliminary round of the Men’s 100m event is on Saturday 03 August at 10:35 SA time. That’s followed by Round 1 at 11:45. Sunday 04 August sees the semi-finals at 20:00 and then the grand final, where Simbine will hope to line up, at 21:50.