Tag: Katinka Hosszu
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LEN Awards 2015 – Cseh and Hosszu finish atop
World champions highlight the winners’ list of the 2015 LEN Awards. European athletes were dominant at last year’s showcase in Kazan, in most disciplines it was a hard call to choose among the best performers. The winners in swimming came from the same nation: Laszlo Cseh and Katinka Hosszu both represent Hungary. Earlier only the…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 4
Katinka Hosszu: the one-woman show With six gold medals already in her possession, Katinka Hosszu might even lead the medal table on her own. Hungary’s Iron Lady added two more titles to her tally on Day 4. Italians enjoyed another fine day with two more golds, one delivered by Federica Pellegrini. German Marco Koch clinched…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 3
Paltrinieri beats Hackett 13 year-old WR World and European records fell on Day 3 proving that the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships are a true year-ending showcase featuring some of the greatest stars on the planet. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri was the one stealing the show in Netanya by cracking the 1500m free WR, joining Hungary’s…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 2
Laszlo Cseh celebrates his 30th birthday with a gold Legendary Hungarian swimmer Laszlo Cseh celebrated his 30th birthday by winning a gold medal at the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Netanya. Soon after the race ended, spectators, VIP guests and athletes joined in singing him “Happy birthday to youâ€. It was Cseh’s 17th s/c…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 1
Katinka Hosszu cracks WR in the heats, wins first gold in the evening Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was fresh to set the first world record of the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in the morning heats of the opening day. Later she added the title in the 400m IM and his team-mate Peter Bernek also earned…
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 4:19.46 and new World Record in the 400 IM
This morning at the LEN 2015 European Short Course championships in Netanya, Israel, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu broke the 400 meter individual medley world record, clocking 4:19.46 where Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s world record from the Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships was 4:19.86. See the result list here. Katinka Hosszu said after the race: “Ever…
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Amazing Swimming World Cup 2015 finale in Dubai (UAE)
Katinka Hosszu (HUN) and Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) are the winners of the 2015 edition of FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup after the conclusion of the eighth leg of the competition, organised in Dubai (UAE) on November 6-7. At the end of the series, the Magyar star collected 669 points, while the South African star…
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Swimming stars show power in the Doha leg of the Swimming World Cup
At Doha’s Hamad Swimming Centre, the venue which hosted the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Seebohm stole the scene by claiming gold in three events – the 50m, 100m and 200m back in respectively 27.85, 58.34 and 2:07.19. Her three golds won in Doha helped her total 60 points for the leg. She ranks…
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Short stop in Singapore (SIN) for the Elite of Swimming
Hungary’s “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu and Cameron Van Der Burgh of South Africa remain the provisional overall leaders of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 circuit. At the fifth meet of the event in Singapore (SIN) on October 3-4, Hosszu kept consistent by winning the longest events, the 400m free and medley. These two wins…