The fantastic female swimmer’s time of 58.45 seconds was three tenths of a second ahead of Team USA’s Kathleen Baker, making her first Olympic appearance and winning the silver medal.
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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Hungary’s Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu dominates the women’s 200-metre individual medley to claim her third gold of the Olympic Games in Rio.
The Hungarian, already a victor in the 100m backstroke and 400m IM, edged out Siobhan-Marie O’Connor on Tuesday. She has already won a pair of gold medals in these Olympics, in the 100 backstroke and 400 medley.
She led from the outset and despite appearing to battle late on, she held off O’Connor.
Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor took the silver medal, with Maya DiRado of the United States winning a bronze to add to her 400 IM silver.
Katinka will also race the 200m IM semifinal about an hour after getting out of the pool from the 100m backstroke final.
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Before then, she still has one event to go: the 200-meter backstroke beginning on Thursday. In her three previous Olympic appearances, she earned zero medals, though in 2012 was a threat in the medleys. DiRado’s teammate Melanie Margalis finished fourth with 2:09.21.
