{"id":324546,"date":"2018-08-08T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=324546"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:52:56","slug":"katinka-hosszu-touches-out-ilaria-cusinato-for-200-im-gold-at-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katinka-hosszu-touches-out-ilaria-cusinato-for-200-im-gold-at-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Katinka Hosszu Touches Out Ilaria Cusinato for 200 IM Gold at Euros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary’s\u00a0Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> will leave the European Championships in Glasgow with just one medal, but it will be a gold. Hosszu fought off a surprising finish from Italy’s\u00a0Ilaria Cusinato<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for her fifth-straight continental title in the 200 IM.<\/p>\n

Hosszu touched in 2:10.17, a full four seconds off her world record (2:06.12) but plenty fast enough for gold. Cusinato swam a sterling time of 2:10.25 to take silver, and Switzerland’s\u00a0Maria Ugolkova\u00a0<\/strong>claimed bronze in 2:10.83.<\/p>\n

The most surprising story of the race was Great Britain’s\u00a0Siobhan-Marie O’Connor\u00a0<\/strong>taking fourth in 2:10.85. O’Connor just missed bronze by two-hundredths, but she swam a full second slower than her semi-final time of 2:09.80. If she had merely repeated that mark in the final, she would have easily claimed gold.<\/p>\n

France’s\u00a0Fantine Lasaffre<\/strong>, the European champion in the 400 IM, took fifth in 2:11.71, followed by Turkey’s Viktoria Zeynep Gunes<\/strong> (2:12.17), Great Britain’s\u00a0Aimee Willmott\u00a0<\/strong>(2:13.13) and Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jako<\/strong>bos\u00a0<\/strong>(2:13.37).<\/p>\n

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