SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side, or you can find the poll embedded at the bottom of this post.
Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers to pick the best female swimmer through the first two days of competition in Rio:
RESULTS
Question: best women’s swimmer through 2 days:
- Katie Ledecky – 55.3%
- Sarah Sjostrom – 4.7%
- Katinka Hosszu – 40.0%
More than half of voters picked Katie Ledecky as the early female swimmer of the meet choice.
Through 2 days of competition, Ledecky had one gold and one silver medal, having won the 400 free in an amazing new world record and having swum two clutch legs on the American 4×100 free relay.
Ledecky would go on to win a hotly-contested 200 free on day 4, plus the 4×200 free relay on day 5. She now has three golds and a silver with one world record and one individual event remaining (the 800 free, which could yield another WR and gold medal).
Hosszu pulled 40% of the vote, coming off of her insane 400 IM world record. Through two days, she had also swum through semifinals of the 100 back, qualifying 2nd. She would go on to win the event on day 3.
Hosszu also won the 200 IM later in the meet and now leads all women with 3 individual golds. She still has the 200 backstroke coming.
For as dominant as Sjostrom was in the 100 fly, she only earned 4.7% of the early votes. She set a new world record in crushing the field in that event, and has followed it up with a silver medal in the 200 free. She’ll swim for a 100 free medal tonight and could fight for another in the medley relay on day 8.
Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which asks voters who Team USA should have used on its 4×200 free relay in the medal final:
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Hosszu for Swimmer of the Meet, hands down! Ledecky is great, no doubt but only swims on style. Hosszu swam different events, distances and overall a better all around swimmer throughout the meet. Both achieved world records but the fact that Hosszu has more variety under her belt makes the difference.
Here is a drug quiz. Sweden’s Sarah Sjostron lowered the 50 fly record by 2.55%. Ethiopia’s Almaz Anaya lowered the 10,000m track record by 0.81%, A Swedish athlete raised drug questions about one of these two. Guess which one.
I am tired of accusations regarding of Katinka. Is she would swim under american flag she would be the next hero. Michael Phelps everone????
But because she swims in Hungarian colours she gets nasty attacks from American media and others. Why because she snapped the gold from USA twice. Ledecky is talented so does Katinka. So just enjoy the olympics games and leave the politics out.
And just for a last note Hungary placed in Central Europe it is not placed in Eastern Block or Balkan.
She gets nasty attacks because she looks just like the East German swimmers from 1976. Some of us have eyes that actually work. Compare her physique to every other female swimmer who competed at Rio. To what do you attribute that? Weight training? Don’t you think the likes of Maya DiRado and Elizabeth Beisel are lifting weights too? Factor in her husband and his physique and It’s Michelle Smith all over again. It’s as plain as day.
Yeah ledecky is more dominant than phelps but she isn’t versatile. Phelps us an old man and he’s still killing it. The GOAT
Isn’t this talk very SILY who is better Katie or Katinka??? Hah even their names are the same 🙂
They are both magnificent swimmers the best in the pool right now (among women of course)
Katie is younger probably has a longer carrier ahead. Katinka had a rough ride to the peak of her life which is probably now.
Katie comes from the US a country of 320million and vast resources. Katinka comes from a much-much poorer country of 9.5 million with a LOT less resources but an admirable swimming heritage.
If you accuse any of them with drug usage or PED you can accuse both. It might even be true or not we will never know.
All the… Read more »
Rockjano. Are you absolutely there is no possibility that one of the two is on drugs while the other is no? It would be one thing to say we should look at the possibility of drug use for both or neither–but to insist without actually looking at the evidence that we come to the same conclusion for both is ridiculous. .
Can someone tell me where to find this survey? I’d like to vote, too.
** = likely
Ledecky:
Gold, OR, WR (400 free) – dominant fashion
Gold (200 free) – close
**Gold, OR, likely WR (800 free) – dominant fashion
Hosszu:
Gold, OR, WR (400 IM) – dominant fashion
Gold (100 back) – close
Gold, OR (200 IM) – close
**Gold, no OR or WR (200 back) – probably not as close as the IM or 100 back, but not as dominant as the 400 IM
If everything pans out as expected, Ledecky will have three individual golds with two WRs/ORs. Hosszu will have four individual golds with one WR and one OR, so more WRs for Katie but more golds for Katinka. Their respective 400s… Read more »
Using Kazan’s calculation for swimmer of the meet, Hosszu’s 4 golds and 1 WR will beat Ledecky’s 3 golds and 1 WR (with possible another one).
In Kazan, Adam Peaty won 2 golds with 1 WR losing to Sun Yang’s 2 golds and 1 silver without WR.
When Hosszu wins her fourth individual gold in 200 backstroke (oh you and I know she’ll win it), the award of the female swimmer of the meet should be hers.
Oops… I guess you were a bit premature on that prediction, weren’t you?