Katinka Hosszu stayed red-hot at the Indian Ocean Championships, winning 5 events for the third straight day and this time sweeping all of the women’s events. The meet wrapped up Monday in Reunion Island, a French territory near Madagascar.
After winning five of six events on day 1, then repeating that feat on day 2, Hosszu was unbeatable on day 3. She won the 50 fly, going 27.13, broke a meet record in a 2:05.03 200 IM win, then showed off her distance prowess by winning the 800 free with a time of 8:49.88.
Hosszu came off that race to take the 200 breast in an extremely tight race on very short rest, going 2:24.11 to nip Ganna Dzerkal‘s 2:24.13. After that it was just a simple, cruising 100 free victory (54.38) for Hosszu to close out the day with her 15th win of these championships, one of the most dominating international performances in history.
Hungary’s David Foldhazi won a pair of events to open the meet, going 25.15 to win the 50 fly and 2:01.97 for the 200 IM victory. Hosszu’s new training partner also finished second (although a distant second) to countryman Daniel Gyurta in the 200 breast. Gyurta went 2:07.12 for a meet record, crushing the field by over 14 seconds to complete a sweep of the breaststrokes this weekend.
Italian freestyler Gregorino Paltrinieri won the 1500 free, going 15:05.62 to set a new meet record, and the final event, the 100 free, went to Bradley Vincent in 50.16. Mathieu Marquet was a close second (50.26) and Foldhazi took third in 50.30.
French should send in some reinforcement to protect Reunion Island against the Hungarian invasion.