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没人料到她将夺冠。但是，美国选手西蒙娜·曼纽尔（Simone Manuel）在女子100米自由泳比赛最后25米奋力冲刺手触池壁的一刹那，创下了奥运新纪录。而且，她的胜利余波将远远不限于里约游泳馆的第三泳道。

曼纽尔成为第一位在奥林匹克游泳个人单项比赛中获得金牌的非洲裔美国女运动员。这位现年20岁、来自得克萨斯州舒格兰（Sugar Land, Texas）的美国选手与加拿大选手彭尼·奥莱克夏克（Penny Oleksiak）成绩相同，双双荣获冠军。

曼纽尔在出水后气喘吁吁地接受美国全国广播公司（NBC）电视台采访时说，“这枚奖牌不仅属于我。它属于走在我前面的许许多多人和激励过我的人——玛丽察[·科雷亚]( Maritza [Correia])，卡伦·[琼斯] (Cullen [Jones])——它也属于所有我身后的那些相信他们自己能够成功的人。”

玛丽察·科雷亚在2004年奥运会上夺得女子游泳接力赛银牌，卡伦·琼斯在2008年和2012年奥运会上赢得四枚奖牌。

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曼纽尔也是美国运动员36年来第一次在奥运女子100米自由泳比赛中夺金。她在本届奥运会上还与队友一道为美国队取得了女子4×100米自由泳接力赛银牌。

今年秋季她将返回加州斯坦福大学（Stanford University），开始大学三年级的学生生活。

曼纽尔说：“我希望有一天我们的人会更多，不再说‘西蒙娜，那位黑人游泳选手’，因为‘黑人游泳选手’这个称呼好像意味着我本不应能够赢得金牌，或者我本不应能够打破纪录。”

“而这不对，因为我同所有人一样地努力。我同所有人一样地希望获胜。”

本文采用美联社（Associated Press）报道来源。

In record swim, Simone Manuel makes history

She wasn’t expected to win. But after flying through the final 25 meters of the 100-meter freestyle, American swimmer Simone Manuel touched the wall to set a new Olympic record. Her victory will ripple far beyond lane three of the aquatics center in Rio.

With her historic swim, Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual gold medal in swimming at the Olympics. The 20-year-old from Sugar Land, Texas, shared the top spot on the podium in a tie with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak.

“This medal is not just for me,” Manuel said, breathless after getting out of the pool in an interview with the NBC television network. “It’s for a whole bunch of people who have come before me, and who have been inspirations to me — Maritza [Correia], Cullen [Jones] — and it’s for all the people after me who believe they can’t do it,” she said.

She was referring to Maritza Correia, who won silver in a women’s relay at the 2004 Olympics, and Cullen Jones, who won four Olympic swimming medals in the 2008 and 2012 games.

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Manuel’s win in the 100-meter freestyle is the first U.S. medal in the event in 36 years. Manuel also won a silver medal with the U.S. women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

In the fall, she will return as a third-year student to Stanford University in California.

“I would like there to be a day where there are more of us, and it’s not ‘Simone, the black swimmer,'” she said. “Because the title ‘black swimmer’ makes it seem like I’m not supposed to be able to win a gold medal, or I’m not supposed to be able to break records.”

“And that’s not true because I work just as hard as anybody else. I want to win just like everybody else.”

This article draws on reports from the Associated Press.

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