Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins seven medals at Tokyo Olympics – 2020: first female to win seven medals at single Olympics

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Tokyo: Australian women swimmer Emma McKeon scripted a history by clinching seven medals at Tokyo Olympics – 2020. She won her seventh medal in Tokyo and became the first female to win seven medals at single Olympics.

She won four Gold Medals and three Bronze Medals in the Tokyo Olympics – 2020. She won Gold Medal in women’s 4x100m relay by defeating US team on Sunday. Their team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, McKeon, and Cate Campbell touched in a new Olympic record 3mins 51.60secs ahead of the US in 3:51.73 and Canada in 3:52.60. It was McKeon’s seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.

It was McKeon’s fourth gold in Tokyo to go with her three bronze, overtaking East German Kristin Otto’s six medal in 1952 which was matched by American Natalie Coughlin in 2008.

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