Katinka Hosszu Edges Out Tight Field in Women’s 200 Fly Prelims

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Women’s 200 Fly

Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu put up the quickest time in the prelims as she chases her second medal of the week. Hosszu already won gold in the 200 IM Monday night, and she posted a 2:07.25 in the 200 fly to edge out China’s Zhang Yufei (2:07.50) and Spanish Olympic gold medalist Mireia Belmonte (2:07.59).

Another Chinese swimmer, Zhou Yilin, was fourth in 2:07.72, and another Hungarian, Liliana Szilagyi, qualified fifth in 2:07.73.

South Korea’s An Sehyeon and Germany’s Franziska Hentke tied for sixth at 2:08.06, and American Hali Flickinger tied with Italy’s Stefania Pirozzi for eighth in 2:08.84. The USA’s Dakota Luther was the tenths qualifier at 2:08.86.

Australia’s Brianna Throssell qualified 11th in 2:08.98, rounding out the crop of sub-2:09 swimmers, and the remainder of the semi-final qualifiers included Japan’s Suzuka Hasegawa (2:09.10), Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi (2:09.12), Great Britain’s Alys Thomas (2:09.13), Japan’s Hiroko Makino (2:09.14) and Slovenia’s Anja Klinar (2:09.21).

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Thomas A. Small

6 years ago

Congratulations