Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Braden Keith.
With a thunderous punctuation to what has been a solid meet for the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, she put an exclamation mark on the women’s 200 IM by swimming the new fastest time in the world in 2015 and a new U.S. Open Record as the fastest swim ever done on American soil. The old record was a 2:09.34 done by Julia Smit in 2009 at U.S. Nationals.
Hosszu’s backstroke, which has been her most improved stroke over the last two years, broke this race open for her ahead of American Melanie Margalis, who took 2nd in 2:10.57. That swim from Margalis was overshadowed by Hosszu, but moves her to 4th-place in the world this year.
Just 20 minutes after breaking the U.S. Open Record in the 200 IM, Katinka Hosszu returned to the blocks and took a big win in the 200 meter backstroke with a 2:07.79, moving her to third place in the world and out-pacing Canadian runner-up Dominique Bouchard easily (2:10.25).
2:06 high this year in the 200 IM. 2:05 next year possibly?