16th FINA World Championships
DAY TWO | Monday 3rd August 2015
COMPETITION INSIGHTS
KATINKA AND SARAH SOAR INTO THE RECORD BOOKS WHILE PEATY WINS THE BATTLE OF THE PRIZEFIGHTERS AND SUPERFLY GUYS SHARE BRONZE
There was excitement galore on a breathless night of swimming on the second day of the FINA World Championships in Kazan.
Hungarian Katinka Hosszú and Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström both set new world records in the 200m individual medley and 100m butterfly respectively.
Adam Peaty snatched victory from Cameron van der Burgh on the final stroke of a breath-taking 100m breaststroke while László Cseh and Konrad Czerniak were joint third in the 50m butterfly.
Katinka Hosszú had twice lowered her own European individual medley record in the heats and semi-finals and admitted she had the world record in her sights, if not in Russia then in the near future.
Katinka – who is known as the ‘Iron Lady’ – was outside world-record pace at the halfway point but her breaststroke and freestyle legs propelled her to the finish in 2:06.12 and into the history books.
Tears welled in the eyes of the 26-year-old who celebrated with husband and coach Shane Tusup. Katinka said: “Before the race I was just trying to give my best and race as fast as…
