Transgender student of the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas, won her second championship. The transgender athlete set a record in the 200-meter freestyle at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday.
Lia Thomas won the competition between prominent universities with a time of 1 minute 43.12 seconds, swimming almost 3 seconds faster than Harvard's Samantha Sheldon (1:45.82). Crimson varsity Molly Hamlin finished third with a time of 1:47.33.
Thomas' time broke the Ivy Leauge championship record (1:43.78), which was set by Harvard's Miki Dahlke in 2020. Dahlke also held the previous pool record, which he set in 2018 with a time of 1:45.00.
By winning the 200-meter breaststroke, Thomas became the first swimmer at the 2022 Ivy Championships to win two individual events. Two days earlier, the transgender swimmer also swam the top of the pool in the 500-meter fast race (4:37.32), after which she was also able to leave with a gold medal.
The swimming results in this competition are well below the biological man's previous highs, because at the Zippy Invitational held in Ohio in December, Thomas achieved the best time in the country in both the 200 (1:41.93) and 500 (4:34.06) freestyle. which qualified him for the NCAA Championships (National Collegiate Athletic Association) in Atlanta in March.
For three years, until November 16, 2019, 22-year-old Lia Thomas was a competitor of the men's team of the University of Pennsylvania under the name Will Thomas, then after coming out, she transferred to the women's swimmers and broke records one after another.
The trans swimmer's scandal emerged from daily news reports illustrating the widespread spread of gender ideology and caused a national outrage when a video appeared on Twitter in which the male-muscled Thomas thoroughly schooled the women's field: he set an absolute record in the 1,500 meter sprint with an amazing margin, winning by 38 seconds. ahead of the biological woman who finished second.
Source: Hirado.hu
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