#katinka hosszu

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29 reasons why katie ledecky is a sporting icon: a reminder

she is the most decorated individual world champion of all time

she is the 2nd most decorated individual champion (behind only phelps) in the history of olympic swimming

she has set 14 individual world records in the olympic pool (2nd most all time behind, you guessed it—phelps). her biggest rivals, summer mcintosh and ariarne titmus, have set 2 each.

her first world record in the 800 free would no longer podium at the 2023 world champs. she still won this year by 4.5 seconds.

she has gone undefeated in the 800 free since london 2012...

...and undefeated in the 1500 free since barcelona 2013.

she won the singular 1500 freestyle at the 2014 pan pacific championships by 26 seconds, which the national team director called the best race he'd ever seen in his 50 years in the sport

she is the only swimmer to win four individual freestyle events (200, 400, 800, 1500 free in 2015) at a single world championships...

...and split a 52.7 100 free (same as olympic champion penny oleksiak) on the way to olympic silver in the 4x100 free relay.

she went a 3:56 400 free when everyone else was going 4:01

she went an 8:04 800 free when everyone else was going 8:16

she is still going 15:2X in the 1500 free when only one other woman in history has broken 15:40.

when she broke the 800 free WR in jan 2016, olympic finalist and worlds medallist leah smith had just turned for her final 50.

you think she only wins by big margins because she swims longer events? the men's 1500 at worlds was won by 0.05 seconds. ledecky won by 17.

what about in 2022, when gregorio paltrinieri routed the field on his way to the (then-)second fastest swim of all-time? he won by 4 seconds. in the women's race, ledecky won by 14.

she had an off meet at worlds in 2017 and won five gold medals.

she was hospitalised at worlds in 2019 and still won gold in the 800 free, in a time that was faster than anyone else in history.

she had an off Olympic meet, adding a combined 25 seconds in the 800 and 1500 free, and still won two individual gold medals.

people expected her to break the short course world record the first time she swam the 1500 scm freestyle. she defied expectations and ended up breaking it by nearly ten seconds.

she swam the third-fastest performance of all time in the short course 800 free...on her way to that world record swim in the 1500. to the feet.

TEN MINUTES LATER, she went a personal best 1:52.3 in the 200 free, becoming the third-fastest american of all time.

you still think she's washed in the sprints? her 200 relay split in tokyo was the fastest out of not just the US team, or the medalling teams, but out of all 32 swimmers in the final.

...and she went even faster in budapest 2022.

as a bonus, she's a national champion in the 400 IM — her fifth best event? that time would've won a world championship medal, and she doesn't even swim the event internationally.

hell, she was the one to break katinka hosszu's all-time record in the 400 yard IM and is still the #2 performer in history

and she's still getting better in her main events. ten years after her first WR, ledecky reset her us open record in the 1650 yard free ... which was the fastest in the country by 42 seconds.

at an age where most female distance swimmers have retired, she won the 2023 world championship in the 1500 free in a time that was two seconds faster than her world record in 2014.

because who else would not be at her best and still win AP Female Athlete (athlete, across all sports) of the Year?

because no one else has ever owned an event as she has in the 800 free. no one else, in anything, has ever had the top 29 times in history.

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Summer McIntosh a 16 anni vince i 400 metri misti e batte il secondo record mondiale

La canadese Summer McIntosh ha stabilito il suo secondo record mondiale della settimana, vincendo i 400 metri misti individuali ai Canadian Swimming Trials in 4 minuti e 25,87 secondi. La sensazionale sedicenne ha battuto il record di 4:26.36 stabilito dall’ungherese Katinka Hosszu alle Olimpiadi di Rio 2016.  Pochi giorni fa, McIntosh aveva aperto la selezione canadese valida per i Campionati…

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梁智基: 為何奧運會好好看?

自公元前776年以來，人們一直在參加奧運會，現在每四年一次，它們成為世界上最大的觀賞性活動。我們很容易被這一切的戲劇性所吸引，但是是什麽讓奧運會如此特別？運動Blogger 梁智基先生與我們一起重溫奧運會的歷史。

奧運會是對人類最強健的個體及其決心和技能的慶祝。它們就像運動員的一個大聚會，每個人都在那里慶祝為準備這些活動所做的艱苦工作。奧運會期間還有一種國際精神--一種自二戰以來從未見過的友愛之情。

現代奧運會被正式稱為 "奧林匹亞運動會"，是以奧林匹亞的宙斯命名的。然而，雖然這個名字從1896年才開始使用，但奧運會本身的歷史實際上可以追溯到古希臘。奧林匹克 "一詞來源於希臘的奧林匹斯山，傳統上說，宙斯在那里養育了許多不同的神和女神。他邀請他們到他的山中聖地，在那里他們互相競爭，他用禮物獎���獲勝者。這些比賽在奧林匹斯山--地球上最高的地方--之後被稱為 "奧林匹克"，其含義接近於 "最高的"。

奧運會是最值得觀看的體育賽事之一。這是一個偉大的時刻，可以看到世界各地一些最優秀的運動員在各種運動中競爭。一些亮點包括邁克爾-菲爾普斯贏得他的第18枚遊泳金牌，尤塞恩-博爾特打破了100米的世界紀錄，凱蒂-萊德基打破了她自己創造的女性獲得遊泳金牌最多的紀錄。為了看到這些亮點，重要的是要知道何時何地觀看。奧運會在NBC和許多其他頻道播放。從7月中旬開始到8月中旬的兩個月時間里，每天各個時段都會有賽事播出。你可以觀看賽事的時間經常變化，因此在觀看任何奧運報道之前，你必須查看電視列表。

運動Blogger 梁智基先生直言認為，對於那些還沒有收看今年奧運會的人來說，這里有你所錯過的東西。

2016年8月12日，邁克爾-菲爾普斯在4x100米混合泳接力中遊泳時，以破紀錄的第18枚金牌成為有史以來最偉大的奧運選手。他與蘇聯體操運動員Larisa Latynina和匈牙利遊泳運動員Katinka Hosszu並列，後者也各自獲得了18枚獎牌的總成績!

[slaveofimagination]

I wish there was a swimming fandom on Tumblr so I could speak about all the amazing swimmers I’ve watched at the Olympic Games and how anxious I’m for the start of the third season of the International Swimming League and, like, yeah, pretty men and women. That’s it.

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[gaywoso]

hosszukatinka Oh hi 🐧

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[julienbakr]

can we talk about the iron lady for a hot second

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Nuoto, 16enne McIntosh batte secondo record mondiale

(ANSA) – TORONTO, 02 APR – La canadese Summer McIntosh ha stabilito il suo secondo record mondiale della settimana, vincendo i 400 metri misti individuali ai Canadian Swimming Trials in 4 minuti e 25,87 secondi. La sensazionale sedicenne ha battuto il record di 4:26.36 stabilito dall’ungherese Katinka Hosszu alle Olimpiadi di Rio 2016.    Pochi giorni fa, McIntosh aveva aperto la selezione…

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[guessmysoul]

Women’s 200 m Individual Medley 🥇Katinka Hosszu 🥈Yui Ohashi 🥉Madisyn Cox

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Katinka Hosszu of Hungary competes during the Women's 100m Backstroke Heats on day eleven of the Budapest 2017 FINA World Championships on July 24, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

[gaywoso]

hosszukatinka The new 2020 Powerskin @arenawaterinstinct has just launched! Looking fast 💨🏊🏼‍♀️

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Olympic Poster Stars: Who will shine in Tokyo 2020?

BBC Sport’s Olympic Poster Stars series picks out five athletes aiming to become global stars at the Tokyo 2020 Games. As Olympic hopefuls prepare for the biggest event in sport, we speak to swimmers Caeleb Dressel and Katinka Hosszu, sport climber Miho Nonaka, wrestler Bajrang Punia and middle-distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen. We discover their hopes and expectations for Tokyo, plus explore…