{"id":38844,"date":"2021-07-25T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38844"},"modified":"2021-07-25T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:34:24","slug":"tokyo-olympics-tunisias-hafnaoui-wins-shock-swimming-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38844","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Tunisia’s Hafnaoui wins shock swimming gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui took a shock gold medal in the men’s 400m freestyle on Sunday. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The 18-year-old won from the outside lane after qualifying slowest, but finished with stunning pace to beat Australia’s Jack McLoughlin with a time of three minutes 43.36 seconds. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“I just can’t believe it. It’s a dream and it became true. It was great, it was my best race ever,” said Hafnaoui.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Tunisia’s fifth ever gold – and third in swimming. <\/span><\/p>\n

US swimmer Kieran Smith took bronze at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hafnaoui, son of former Tunisian national basketball player Mohamed Hafnaoui, competed in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, finishing eighth in the 400m and seventh in the 800m.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, he told Tunisian outlet La Presse he was aiming to win his first gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hafnaoui will have a second shot at gold as he competes in the 800m freestyle, with heats starting on Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ohashi said she has been enjoying the Olympic experience, especially “spending time in the Olympic village with all the athletes and volunteers”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hosts Japan also celebrated a surprise gold in the women’s 400m individual medley, as Yui Ohashi pipped two Americans to the top step of the podium. <\/span><\/p>\n

“It doesn’t feel real. It is like a dream for me,” said the 25-year-old. <\/span><\/p>\n

“I couldn’t go to the Rio Olympics, so for the past five years this became a big dream for me. This accomplishment is amazing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Around<\/span><\/span>\"Around<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui took a shock gold medal in the men’s 400m freestyle on Sunday. The 18-year-old won from the outside lane after qualifying slowest, but finished with stunning pace to beat Australia’s Jack McLoughlin with a time of three minutes 43.36 seconds. “I just can’t believe it. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119563613_5e171915-e2e9-4e70-8ee5-43aaf9962f47.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}