An Olympic bronze medal is coming to Brooklyn, thanks to teenage swimmer Lia Neal. Neal, who is half African-American and half Chinese, is the second woman of African-American descent to make the U.S. Olympic swim team.

The 17-year-old Brooklyn resident was part of the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay team that came in third place on Saturday night. This is her first Olympics.

Neal swam in both the morning preliminaries and the evening race.

The first black woman to make the U.S. Olympic swim team was Maritza Correia, a silver medalist in the 4×100 freestyle relay in 2004.

Neal joins a pantheon of Asian American Olympic women swimmers that includes Evelyn Kawamoto, Catherine Fox and Natalie Coughlin.

She’ll be starting her senior year in high school in the fall. She has been swimming for Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics on the Upper East Side since she was 8.

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