Team USA’s Regan Smith takes bronze medal in 100 back at Tokyo Olympics

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TOKYO — American Regan , the former world-record holder in the women’s 100 backstroke, won the bronze

medal Tuesday morning at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Current world-record holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia won gold in 57.47 seconds followed by Canadian Kylie

Masse in 57.72. McKeown’s time was an Olympic record.

Smith was this in 58.05.

Smith, 19, one of 11 teenagers on the U.S. Olympic swimming team, the most since 1996, set the Olympic record

in qualifying Monday in 57.86 seconds. She was the third swimmer to do it here, following Masse and McKeown.

They are the only three swimmers in history to break 58 seconds.

McKeown’s world record, set at the Australian Olympic trials last month, is 57.45 seconds.

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Among other topics discussed, Smith shared why she fell in love with the sport: her older sister Brenna.

“I pushed really hard because I wanted to follow my sister’s footsteps,” Smith said, thinking back to when she was

seven years old. “… We did like five or six things and I won by like a lot, and I had so much fun. I looked so silly

out there — I remember I was wearing a little tankini. I looked ridiculous, but I loved it.”

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Team USA’s Regan Smith takes bronze medal in 100 back at Tokyo Olympics