Hosszu misses hat-trick at swimming World Cup
The 2009 world 400-metre medley champion Katinka Hosszu of Hungary
narrowly missed what would have been a second hat-trick at the
short-course swimming World Cup meet in Tokyo on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old, who won the women's 200m and 800m freestyle and 200m
individual medley races on Tuesday, added two gold medals in the 400m
individual medley and 200m butterfly in 4:28.14 and 2:05.90,
respectively.
But she had to settle for runner-up place in the 100m individual
medley, behind Britain's Sophie Allen, who logged 59.50, and the 400m
freestyle to Melissa Ingram of New Zealand, who clocked 4:05.22.
Japan's Daiya Seto, who marked a new World Cup record of 4:00.02 to
win the men's 400m individual medley on Tuesday, made it a double by
winning the 200m in 1:52.48, beating Darian Townsend of South Africa
into second and his compatriot Kosuke Hagino into third.
Beijing Olympic dual gold medallist Britta Steffen of Germany easily
won the women's 100m freestyle in 52.42, beating Jeanette Ottesen Gray
of the Netherlands and Kotuku Ngawati of Australia.
The 2011 world 100m freestyle champion Jeanette Ottesen Gray of
Denmark won the women's 50m butterfly in 25.48, while American world
record holder Jessica Hardy won the women's 50m breaststroke in 29.92.
The Australian duo of Grace Loh and Rachel Goh clocked 57.71 and
57.72, respectively, to beat world record holder Shiho Sakai of Japan
into third in 58.44.
The Tokyo meet was the seventh leg of the eight-round World Cup
series this season, with the final meet in Singapore on November
10-11.AFP
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