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W400IM: Katinka Hosszu Delivers Twin 4:30.9 Efforts In Heat & Final To Retain Crown
- Updated: May 16, 2016
European Championships
London, Day 1 Finals
Last on her blocks and clapping her hands in a gesture that spoke both of self-motivation and sending a message of “this ones got my name on it” to rivals, Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was not about to let dominance abandon her.
On 4:30.97 in heats, the World champion retained the crown in 4:30.90 for her second Championship record of the day. The silver went to Hannah Miley (GBR) in 4:35.27, bronze to Zsuzsanna Jakabos (HUN) in 4:38.39, a time slower than the 4:37 heats effort of Britain’s Aimee Willmott, fourth in the showdown on 4:40.08.
The winner was a second down on the European record she established in a quiet no-pressure moment in France early this year to become the second woman in history inside 4:30 in textile.
The splits compared:
1:02.19; 2:11.73 [1:09.54]; 3:29.75 [1:18.02]; 4:28.43 [58.68] Ye Shiwen CHN London 2012 (Olympic Gold, WR) 1:01.19; 2:10.35 (1:09.16); 3:28.35 (1:18.00); 4:29.89 (1:01.54) Katinka Hosszu HUN Marseilles Golden Tour March 2016 1:01.99; 2:10.61 (1:08.62); 3:28.84 (1:20.22); 4:30.90 (1:02.06) CR Katinka Hosszu, London 2016 gold
Hosszu had a lead of almost a second over Miley after butterfly. The gain was 3.5sec after backstroke but reduced to just over 2sec after breaststroke before a 1:02.06 on freestyle brought the Hungarian home to gold.
Hannah Miley by Patrick B. Kraemer
Katinka Hosszu by Patrick B. Kraemer
The 4:29.89 European record Hosszu set on Golden Tour this winter past swept her inside the time in which she claimed the 2009 world title in shiny suit and inside the efforts that granted her the 2013 and 2015 world crowns and the 2014 European title.
The splits showed where progress has been made compared to her historic best splits – a touch on ‘fly, a chunk of more than a second on freestyle, with more left in the tank at the end on the back of better pacing than was the case in some of the break-neck swims she has carved out in the past three seasons.
The exhaustion at the end of titles won in Berlin in 2014 and Kazan in 2015 were reflected in freestyle finishes of 1:04, 2.5sec slower than she swam the last 100m for the European record. The difference on backstroke: a little over 2sec.
Fourth ever inside 4:30 and second ever in textile. In textile, Hosszu now has eight of the all-time top 10 performances, all in 2013-2016, her 14 entries in the all-time top 30 including 10 efforts from the past year alone.
Katinka Hosszu by PB
Beyond national championship and major international moments, the closest on the clock to Hosszu, all-time, is a 4:33.25 from Miley on Mare Nostrum tour as she prepared to defend (and did so successfully) her Commonwealth crown for Scotland.
Miley, who has pipped Hosszu more times than Hosszu has beaten her head to head over 400IM since 2006, said: “It’s always going to …
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