2020 FFN GOLDEN TOUR CAMILLE MUFFAT – NICE
- Friday, February 7th – Sunday, February 9th
- Piscine Jean Bouin, Nice
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Information
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
American Kathleen Baker put up another strong performance here in Nice, firing off the 4th fastest 200m backstroke in the world this season. Hitting the wall in 2:07.22 this evening, Baker topped the podium and beat the field by four and a half seconds. You can read more about her head-turning performance here.
Also in that race was Hungary’s Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu, who placed 8th in a time of 2:19.87, but that was after the 30-year-old already completed a grueling 1500m free/400m IM double in the same session.
Hosszu first tackled the longest freestyle event and hit the wall in 16:27.83 to comfortably claim the gold. Her 400m IM time of 4:38.60 came just 2 events later, giving her a second victory in just over 30 minutes.
In fact, Hosszu raced every event in the morning heats, finishing 11th in the 50m fly (28.04) and 12th in the 200m breast (2:35.22). In addition to the 200m back, 400m IM and 1500m free finals, Hosszu also raced the 200m free where she placed 8th.
French woman Melanie Henique captured 50m fly gold in the only sub-26 second of the field tonight. She produced a solid effort of 25.83 to hold off yesterday’s 100m backstroke winner Michelle Coleman of Sweden, who settled for silver here in 26.48.
American Kendyl Stewart secured bronze in 26.53 after taking 100m fly gold last night.
The men’s 200m IM saw Jeremy Desplanches of Switzerland get it done for gold in a time of 1:57.76. His performance fell just slightly behind the 1:57.59 he logged in December at the Swim Cup Amsterdam. With that outing, he sits as the 6th fastest performer in the world this season.
Additional Winners:
- Apostolos Christou got gold for Greece, taking the men’s 50m back in 25.46.
- Swiss athlete Lisa Mamie clocked a time just over a second off her own national record, touching in 2:25.56 for 200m breast gold. Her Swiss standard of 2:24.47 was notched in Gwangju at the 2019 World CVhampionships.
- The women’ s200m free saw home nation swimmer Charlotte Bonnet take the victory in 1:58.10 as the only sub-2:00 swimmer.
- Maxime Grousset added another gold to France’s tally, hitting the wall in 49.16 to take the men’s 100m free. Michael Chadwick of the United States was runner-up in 49.40.
- Erik Persson of Sweden notched a time of 2:12.18 in the men’s 200m breast to top the podium in that race.
LOL Yozhik, you’re a necessary evil to these boring swim forums!!
Even though I’m a die hard Katinka Hosszu fan, the level of entertainment you bring to the table is unmatched…
I’d love to have a Yozhik VS Rowdy Gaines tv show, kinda like a “Shane & Skip” format
Dear OLYMPIAN, I’m ready to discuss a swimmer with the name Hosszu as any other swimmers. But whenever there is a talk about “ironness”, “ladyness”, “federerness”, “legendness”, “modestness”, and similar “ness”es I can’t help myself to joke about human stupi.dity. I like numbers and facts and whatever I’m saying about Hosszy-swimmer and Hosszu-person is absolute true.
I’m glad you are not getting bored by reading my posts, but entertaining you is not why I’m here.
I actually don’t know why…
u are wasting so such time trying to get attention ….like an old outdated mind loop ..maybe its time to put an end to it some time soon .
“old outdated mind loop” 😀 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU
AGREED 100 % – what a troll he is at times ….its nearly boring now
Katinka is the Federer of swimming !
And likewise Federer is Hosszu in tennis. Do you think he will be flattered with this comparison. You should hurry to be first bringing this exciting news to him. 😀
Tennis is very popular. Tennis is perfect for commercial exploitation. Swimming is not. I doubt if Federer knows much about swimming greats. The Austral winner pocketed $4.12m.
It shows your bias and ignorance if you are unable to comprehend that with her versatility, Katinka is for swimming what Federer is for tennis. One dimensional swimmers compare to tennis players with huge serves combined with limited ground-strokes.
Katinka is the greatest!
All I ask is that she win two(2) more golds fin Tokyo, for a total of five(5) Olympic golds. That is all I ask -:)
Don’t be shy with your emotions. Let them flow freely flooding this forum with excitement. I’ll help you.
THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST!
😀 😀
..don’t be shy with your emotions. Let them flow freely, flooding this forum with excitement. I’ll help you.
THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST!
Damn it. I’m getting to look like OL’ LONGHORN, by repeating myself. It got proved to be contagious and can spread from human to human. 😀
Legend.
Legendary 2:20 in 200BK. Now I understand what IRON swim is. 😀 It is hard to find a high school girl in Hungary who cannot do it.
Dang…. I knew she was a beast, but wow… that is serious beastliness.
no kidding, 4:38 after a pretty good 1500 is crazy
Interesting to note that Hosszu raced 1500 distance only 12 times (including today race) during her long swimming career. Without much of noticeable progress.. Six of them were done in 2017 season when this distance became an Olympic event. What is that? A backup plan to be an Olympian?
Also what double is more difficult: 1500 & 400 or 1500 & 200.? At first glance it should be the first one because the total distance is longer. But the change in the rhythm isn’t that significant. Making sprint after 1500 may happen to be more difficult. In Kazan Ledecky barely made to final in 200 semi-final after 1500 race.
Miley used to swim every event . Belmonte also . Its just hard core 400 imers .
Little more than that but nearly all before June.