Katinka Hosszu wasted little time this morning at the 2015 European Short Course Championships as she downed the world record in the women’s 400-meter IM in Israel.
Hosszu clocked a top time of 4:19.46 in prelims to break the previous record of 4:19.86 set by Mireia Belmonte Garcia back in 2014.
Comparative splits:
Hosszu: 27.63, 59.19 (31.56), 1:32.01 (32.82), 2:04.32 (32.31), 2:41.88 (37.56), 3:19.75 (37.87), 3:50.06 (30.31), 4:19.46 (29.40)
Belmonte Garcia: 28.34, 1:00.02 (31.68), 1:33.70 (33.68), 2:06.53 (32.83), 2:43.30 (36.77), 3:20.27 (36.97)
3:50.40 (30.13), 4:19.86 (29.46)
That gives Hosszu a clean sweep of the IM short course records as she also owns the 100 IM (56.70) and 200 IM (2:01.86) marks.
“Ever since Mireia Belmonte broke my world record in Doha a year ago I wanted to regain it so badly. Well, I couldn’t wait with it until the afternoon… I felt the legs came together really well and since I wanted to get back the WR as soon as possible, I can say, I wasn’t surprised to make it in the morning. I don’t know if it could be better in the afternoon, however. I think I can be faster but don’t forget that the short-course season has started only a couple of weeks ago as we had the World Cups in 50m pool so the rhythm is not the same. If I have a couple of wrong turns in the afternoon, I can’t improve this time. But after all it’s not appropriate to approach the final this way: there you must race, go for the gold medal, time is secondary.” – Katinka Hosszu
Race Video:
Fay Salam