Hungarian swimmers Katinka Hosszu and Daniel Gyurta ruled the pool smashing world records on the first day of the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup held at the Hamdan Sports Complex Dubai on Sunday.
Gyurta set a new world record in the men's 200m Breaststroke with a time of 2:00:48 while Marco Koch of Germany claimed the silver clocking 2:01:28 and Yukihiro Takahashi bagged the bronze with a time of 2:05:00. Reigning World Cup champion Hosszu of Hungary lived up to her ‘Iron Lady' image setting a new world record in the women's 200m Individual Medley clocking 2:02:13.
Caitlin Leverenz of US emerged second clocking 2:07:30 while Lisa Zaiser claimed the third spot with a time of 2:06:76.
Hosszu was earlier shy of smashing yet another record in the women's 200 Freeestyle. She lost steam after the third lap losing her grip on world record. She progressed clocking 1:52:25 to clinch the gold followed by Lisa Zaiser of Austria claiming the silver with a time of 1:54:25 and Evelyn Verrasztro of Hungary the bronze with a time of 1:55:99.
Honshu, lived up to her expectations clinching her third gold in the women's 50m Backstroke clocking 26:10 while Ukrainian Daryna Zevina swam in second with 26:45 and Poland's Aleksandra Urbanczyk emerged third with a time of 26:70.
The ‘Iron Lady' bagged her fourth gold in the women's 200m Backstroke clocking 2:01:17. Daryna Zevina of Ukraine bagged the silver with a time of 2:03:76 and Carolina Colarado Henao bagged the bronze clocking 2:06:96.
"It feels really good. The amazing part is that last year and the year before I was swimming four or five races in the afternoon and I was just so tired. But I felt really happy to be on the podium in some of them but today I am like in all four of them,” said a beaming Hosszu.
Thomas Fraser Holmes of Australia set a new championship record and Commonwealth record in the men's 400m Individual Medley clocking 3:58:69.
Holmes held on to his lead to claim his first gold with Hungarian David Verrasztro emerging second with a time of 4:02:52 and Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia came in third.
Holmes claimed his second gold in the men's 400m Freestyle clocking 3:38:22 with Velimir Stjepanovic of Serbia claiming the silver with a time of 3:38:32 and Ahmed Mathlouthi claiming the bronze with 3:41:43.
South Africa's Chad Le Clos bagged the gold in the men's 100m Freestyle with a time of 46:24 and surged ahead to claim his second gold in the men's 50m Butterfly clocking 22:02.
"It been a good run for me. I am very happy. I usually win and I like to keep up the winning streak,” said Le Clos.
Source: WAM