Hungarian female swimming phenomenon Katinka Hosszú has opened with re-establishing her world record on 400 metre medley on the first day of the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships held in Netanya, Israel.
In the qualifying run on 400 medley, the 29-year-old Hungarian improved Spanish swimmer Mirea Belmonte’s record by four tenth of a second, finishing with a time of 4:19.16.
I got back my World Record that I “lost” last year! I have been waiting a whole year, so I wasn’t going to wait until the afternoon to try…Thank
You for all your congratulations, your support means a lot to me!
400 IM 4:19,46 WR – Katinka Hosszú on Facebook today
Click to watch her spectacular performance:
via index.hu
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