{"id":214659,"date":"2016-08-04T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=214659"},"modified":"2016-07-31T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T20:13:15","slug":"swimming-world-olympic-predictions-womens-200-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-olympic-predictions-womens-200-im\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World Olympic Predictions: Women’s 200 IM"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brent T. Rutemiller<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hungary\u2019s Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> will be competing in her fourth Olympic Games. With 56 international medals to her name, she may be the most decorated swimmer never to capture any Olympic hardware. That should change, though, in Rio. She won the gold medal in the women\u2019s 200 IM (2:06.12) at last year\u2019s World Championships, lowering the world record\u2014set in 2009 by Ariana Kukors<\/strong>, who was wearing the now-banned technical racing suit\u2014by three one-hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n

Hosszu went 2:07.46 in 2009 while training with Dave Salo<\/strong>. Now, seven years later\u00a0and coached by her husband, Shane Tusup<\/strong>, Hosszu is quicker. She has the world\u2019s fastest time this year (2:07.30) and is nearly two seconds ahead of her competition, which includes Siobhan-Marie O\u2019Connor<\/strong> of Great Britain (#2, 2:09.03, and last year\u2019s bronze medalist at Worlds in 2:08.77) and Maya DiRado<\/strong> of the United States (#3 in 2:09.54 and fourth-place finisher at Worlds, 2:08.99).<\/p>\n

TALK ON DECK<\/strong><\/p>\n