Alaskan Lydia Jacoby wins swimming gold for the US

(AP) — Alaska has an Olympic swimming champion.

Seventeen-year-old precocious schooler Lydia Jacoby gave the United States a triumph successful the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, knocking disconnected teammate and defending Olympic champion Lilly King.

Jacoby was the archetypal swimmer from the authorities ever to marque the U.S. Olympic swimming team.

Now, she’s heading backmost to Anchorage with a golden medal, rallying to triumph successful 1 minute, 4.95 seconds.

South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker claimed the metallic successful 1:05.22, portion King gave the Americans different medal by taking the bronze successful 1:05.54.