Katinka Hosszu’s Triple Highlights Second Morning of Berlin World Cup

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Katinka Hosszu swam three events on Monday morning at the FINA World Cup in Berlin and she is the top seed in every single one of them. She will go head to head with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom in the first event of the finals in the 100 IM. Sjostrom will be chasing her World Record in the 50 free later in the session.

Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu was just off her World Record with a 56.99 in the heats as she missed her record of 56.67. Hosszu leads Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom (57.92) and Finland’s Jenna Laukkanen (59.43). This will be a well anticipated final between two of the biggest names in women’s swimming.

Tom Shields of the United States posted a strong 1:50.60 in the heats of the 200 fly have the top seed going into the final. Shields was ahead of the Japanese duo of Masayuki Umemoto (1:53.90) and Masaki Kaneko (1:54.23).

Hosszu returned later to the session to swim a 2:00.18 200 back top seed as she was just off her 1:59.23 World Record from 2014. She had a large margin over second place Nadine Laemmler (2:06.35) and third place Jenny Mensing (2:07.05) from Germany. World Champion from Budapest Emily Seebohm of Australia is sixth at 2:10.08.

Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus has the number one prelim time of the 50 breast with a 26.16 on Monday morning. He leads a tight field ahead of Russia’s Kirill Prigoda (26.26) and Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli (26.36).

Sjostrom returned for her second swim of the morning with a 23.22 in the 50 free, just off her 23.10 World Record from last week’s World Cup in Moscow. Sjostrom is ahead of the Netherlands’ Femke Heemskerk (23.99) and Australia’s Cate Campbell (24.21) in Monday’s final.

Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys had the fastest morning time in the 200 free with a 1:42.28 ahead of Hungary’s Dominik Kozma (1:43.03) and Poland’s Kacper Majchrzak (1:43.04). Notably absent from the heats was South African Chad Le Clos who was not on the entry list.

Hosszu returned for her third event of the day with a 55.52 100 fly to lead the Netherlands’ Ranomi Kromowidjojo (56.63). Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi (57.36) is the third seed.

Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki is the top seed for the 100 back with a 50.89 ahead of Norway’s Markus Lie (51.13) and Russia’s Grigory Tarasevich (51.20). Australia’s Mitch Larkin is also in the field at eighth with a 51.54 in the heats.

Spain’s Mireia Belmonte had a strong morning swim in the 400 free with a 4:02.58. She is head and shoulders ahead of the rest of the competitors as Chile’s Kristel Kobrich (4:05.46) and the Netherlands’ Femke Heemskerk (4:05.79) sit in second and third.

Finland’s Laukkanen (1:04.87) had the fastest 100 breast of the morning just ahead of Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson (1:05.71) and Denmark’s Rikke Pedersen (1:06.01).

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신상조

6 years ago

@채예지

Valerio Jose Jose

6 years ago

Excelente…

Cali Ahmed

6 years ago

Always best ??‍♀️??????