Anastasia Pagonis hopes to break down stereotypes by educating her 2 million. Swimming Teenage swimming star Anastasia Pagonis breaks world record twice in women's 400m S11 to secure USA's first gold at Tokyo 2020,while Japan's SUZUKI secured the first victory for host nation in 100m freestyle S4 on day two at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. In her first race of the first major international meet of her career, 17-year-old swimmer Anastasia Pagonis etched her name in the history books, breaking her own world record and winning the United States’ first gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics.