After winning the silver medal in Rio 2016 and the bronze medal in Tokyo 2020, the New Zealander I’m Lydia completed the circle this Saturday and became with gold in the women’s golf tournament at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, played from Wednesday at Le Golf National course.
In the final full of emotion and uncertainty, Lydia Ko, who won the table with a five-stroke margin, finished first with an advantage of two over the German Esther Henseleit, who got silver after climbing the eleven position on the last day and put New Zealand in trouble.
Ko reached the final hole with just one impact on Henseleit and all the pressure on his back. However, he masterfully solved the ballot. It prevents the nerves and with a birdie on the last par 5 of the championship he won the gold medal.
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The bronze, thanks to a birdie on 18, went to the Chinese Xi Yu Janet Lin, who prevented what was intended to be a playoff for the third step on the podium with four other players. She finished three behind Lydia Ko.
The 27-year-old from New Zealand arrived at the Paris Games whose only goal is to be proclaimed champion Olympic after two editions bordering on glory. And with his efforts he achieved the goal he had between his eyebrows thanks to a total score of 278 strokes (10 under par) and rounds of 72, 67, 78 and 71.
Ko was born in Seoul on April 24, 1997. but he arrived in New Zealand when he was 6 years old with his parents, immigrants from South Korea. He acquired New Zealand citizenship at the age of 12.
Since then his career has been filled with success. A professional since 2013, she has 28 professional titles on her record, 20 of them on the LPGA Tour and has two unique qualities, her two ‘majors’: the 2015 Evian Championship, at 17 years old, and the 2016 ANA Inspiration , at the age of 18. He is the youngest to have two greats in his display cases.
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In February 2015, at 17 years, nine months and eight days, She became the youngest player, male or female, to reach world number 1. Since then he has been proud to be an Olympic champion and left a bad 2023, where he finished outside the top 60 in the world ranking. Now he is 22 and has entered the World Golf Hall of Fame forever.
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For his part, in his last tournament as a professional player, the Colombian Mariajo Uribe came with some options on the last day, but a card of 73 (+1), to him but during the tournament, making her 18th with a -4 in the aggregate and tied for ninth with American Rose Zhang, Chinese Yin Ruoning and Swedish Maja Stark.