McKeon creates history with gold in 50m freestyle | tomdecent
Emma McKeon has become the first Australian Olympian to win 10 medals with her victory in the 50m freestyle final on Sunday.
McKeon is now the only Australian with double digit Olympic medals. Her 50m first place leaves her with six medals in Tokyo, to go with the four medals she won in Rio in 2016. Australia now has eight gold medals, three silver and eight bronze from the pool - an extremely pleasing haul compared to other years. It equals the tally of eight golds set at Melbourne in 1956.McKeon has now surpassed Shane Gould , Ian Thorpe and Alicia Coutts , who all won five medals at individual Olympics.
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