Olympian wins same metal for same event as her father (Smile File)

This Olympic swimmer, Katherine Berkoff, won the exact same Olympic medal in the same sport her father did! (Smile File)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back in nineteen ninety two, a swimmer named David Berkhoff
won a bronze medal in the one hundred meter backstroke
event at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It was one
of the highlights of a really cool career that he had.
Well fast forward to this year and David has been
enjoying watching his daughter Katherine Berkoff have swimming success as well.
She's currently competing at the Paris Olympics, and wouldn't you

(00:22):
know it, she also end up winning a bronze medal
in the one hundred meter backstroke, more than three decades
after her dad did it. What are the odds that cool?
They have to be incredible odds against that. That's pretty
cool and that's why manks our smile file