Emma McKeon, the multi-awarded athlete, announced her retirement from swimming competitions this Monday, November 25 on Instagram. Throughout her career, she collected fourteen medals.
Swimmer Emma McKeon, heroine of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 and again a medalist in Paris this summer, announced this Monday, November 25, that she was retiring from sport at the age of 30.
“Today I officially retire from competition” announced on his account Instagram the Australian who won a total of six gold medals, three silver and five bronze at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, Tokyo and Paris. Behind closed doors at the Tokyo Games, postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Emma McKeon became the second woman to win seven medals (4 gold and 3 bronze) in one edition, almost 70 years after the Soviet gymnast Mariya Goroskhovskaya (2 gold, 5 silver) in Helsinki in 1952. She had again won silver in the 4X100 m medley relay in Paris this summer.
“Before Paris, I knew this would be my last Olympic Games, and the months that followed gave me time to reflect on my journey and what I wanted for my future in swimming,” she said today. Her career initially seemed to be off to a bad start in 2012, when she failed to qualify for the London Olympics. She ultimately became her country's most decorated Olympic athlete.
