Rebecca Soni holds her Gold from Beijing

USA gets another Gold in Swimmimg

Rebecca Soni, the hot fin from USA, wins 200m Breaststroke with a new World record. Thats not all, she became the first ever, to hold her Gold medal in successive Olympics. She was also the Gold medalist in 200m Breaststroke in Beijing 2008.
Rebecca clocked a World record time of 2.19.59 to hold her tag of Breaststroke Champion in Olympics.

            

Apart from this Gold, Soni has won a total of twenty-one medals in major international competition, thirteen gold, seven silver, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, the Universiade, and the Pan Pacific Championships. 

She burst onto the international scene at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she won two silver medals and one gold. In the 200-meter breaststroke at the Olympics, she set the world record en route to winning gold, shocking Australian favourite Leisel Jones. She won Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year award in 2010 and 2011, and the American Swimmer of the Year award in 2009, 2010 and 2011.