HOSSZU Katinka

Date of Birth: 3 May 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Place of birth: PECS

Birth Country:

Hungary

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 200m Backstroke
	Women's 200m Butterfly
	Women's 200m Individual Medley	7
	Women's 400m Individual Medley	5

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
WR	Women's 200m Individual Medley	2:06.12	3 August, 2015	Kazan (RUS)
WR	Women's 400m Individual Medley	4:26.36	6 August, 2016	Rio de Janeiro (BRA)
OR	Women's 400m Individual Medley	4:26.36	6 August, 2016	Rio de Janeiro (BRA)
OR	Women's 200m Individual Medley	2:06.58	9 August, 2016	Rio de Janeiro (BRA)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Individual Medley - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Individual Medley Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Butterfly - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke - Heat 3	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Free	100Back	200Back	200Fly	200IndMed	400IndMed	4x200Free
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	-	1st (58.45)	2nd (2:06.05)	H (DNS)	1st (2:06.58)	1st (4:26.36)	6th (7:51.03)
2012	London, GBR	-	-	-	SF (2:07.69)	8th (2:14.19)	4th (4:33.49)	H (7:54.58)
2008	Beijing, CHN	-	-	-	-	H (2:13.05)	H (4:37.55)	-
2004	Athens, GRE	H (2:04.22)	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Championships - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	100Back	200Back	200Fly
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	H (1:59.44)	H (DNS)	8th (2:10.08)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	7th (1:56.35)	H (58.80)	2nd (2:05.85)	3rd (2:06.02)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (DNS)	5th (1:56.19)	H (58.78)	3rd (2:06.84)	SF (2:08.91)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	SF (1:56.80)	H (59.40)	6th (2:09.08)	3rd (2:05.59)
2011	Shanghai, CHN	-	-	-	-	H (2:10.06)
2009	Rome, ITA	-	-	-	-	3rd (2:04.28)
2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	-	H (2:02.00)	-	-	-

World Championships - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	200IndMed	400IndMed	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	1st (2:07.53)	1st (4:30.39)	-	6th (7:54.57)	-	H (3:48.44)
2017	Budapest, HUN	1st (2:07.00)	1st (4:29.33)	-	6th (7:51.33)	-	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	1st (2:06.12)	1st (4:30.39)	-	-	-	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	1st (2:07.92)	1st (4:30.41)	-	-	-	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	6th (2:11.24)	H (4:42.96)	-	5th (7:52.39)	-	-
2009	Rome, ITA	3rd (2:07.46)	1st (4:30.31)	8th (3:39.53)	6th (7:48.04)	H (4:03.63)	-
2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	SF (2:16.12)	H (4:46.19)	-	-	-	-

European Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	200Fly	200IndMed	400IndMed	4x200Free	4x100Medley W
2020	Budapest, HUN	-	-	2nd (2:08.14)	3rd (2:10.12)	1st (4:34.76)	-	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	4th (59.64)	H (DNS)	-	1st (2:10.17)	-	4th (7:31.19)	8th (4:04.58)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	200Free	400Free	100Back	200Back	100Fly	200Fly	200IndMed	4x100Free	4x100Medley
2020	2 x 4th	-	2 x 4th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd	2 x 4th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd	-	1 x 3rd
2019	1 x 4th	1 x 1st, 1 x 4th	1 x 1st, 2 x 4th	1 x 1st, 2 x 2nd	-	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd	3 x 1st	1 x 2nd	1 x 4th

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	200m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	2:09.95
1	2020	200m Butterfly	Shenzhen, CHN	2:07.68
1	2020	200m Individual Medley	Shenzhen, CHN	2:10.42
1	2019	400m Freestyle	Guangzhou, CHN	4:05.16
1	2019	100m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	59.58
1	2019	200m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	2:09.05
1	2019	200m Butterfly	Budapest, HUN	2:06.62
1	2019	200m Individual Medley	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:08.50
1	2019	200m Individual Medley	Budapest, HUN	2:08.81
1	2019	200m Individual Medley	Guangzhou, CHN	2:08.72

World Championships Short Course - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	800Free	50Back	100Back	200Back	200Breast	100Fly	200Fly
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	-	-	-	H (DNS)	2nd (56.26)	4th (2:01.99)	-	H (DNS)	1st (2:01.60)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	2nd (1:52.28)	4th (3:59.89)	8th (8:36.76)	2nd (25.99)	1st (55.54)	1st (2:00.79)	H (DNS)	1st (55.12)	1st (2:02.15)

World Championships Short Course - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	100IndMed	200IndMed	400IndMed
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	1st (57.26)	1st (2:03.25)	1st (4:21.40)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	1st (57.24)	1st (2:02.90)	1st (4:21.67)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Katka, Iron Lady (fina.org, 10 Nov 2013; NF, 24 Mar 2007)

Occupation:

Psychology - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Partner Mate Gelencser

Languages spoken:

English, French, Hungarian

Iron Swim [Budapest, HUN]

Mate Gelencser [partner, personal], HUN, from 2019

Sporting relatives:

Her father Istvan was a basketball player who received 200 caps with the Hungarian national team. Her older brothers have played professional basketball in Hungary. (olympictalk.nbcsports.com, 15 Apr 2015; NF, 24 Mar 2007)

She began swimming at age five in Baja, Hungary. (NF, 24 Mar 2007)

She was made to learn how to swim and stayed in the sport afterwards. (NF, 24 Mar 2007)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (swimswam.com, 02 Dec 2019)

US basketball player LeBron James. (swimswam.com, 18 Dec 2017)

Her grandfather Laszlo Bakos. (edition.cnn.com, 11 Jul 2017)

Philosophy:

"Hard work always pays off." (ironswim.hu, 04 Jun 2020)

She was named European Swimming League [LEN] Female Swimmer of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019. (bbc.co.uk, 09 Jan 2020; swimswam.com, 07 Jan 2016)

She received the International Swimming Federation [FINA] Female Swimmer of the Year Award in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 16 Dec 2018; edition.cnn.com, 11 Jul 2017)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Hungarian Olympic Committee in 2009, 2013 and 2014. (swimswam.com, 20 Dec 2014; usctrojans.com, 01 Oct 2010)

General Interest

General
COACH SPLIT
In November 2019 she split from coach Arpad Petrov, who she began working with in 2018, and confirmed initially that she would coach herself in the lead up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Her partner Mate Gelencser has supported her in her training and has accompanied her to international competitions before officially becoming her personal coach. (24.hu, 07 Mar 2021; jochapress.hu, 06 Jan 2020; swimswam.com, 02 Dec 2019)

CLUB FOUNDER
In August 2018 she founded the Iron Swim club in Budapest, Hungary. "The love of water and swimming has been decisive in my childhood. It has given me so much pleasure in the sport and movement that I have been aiming for. I would like this experience to reach as many people as possible." (ironswim.hu, 16 Dec 2018; infostart.hu, 25 Nov 2018)

SWIMMERS UNION
In 2017 she set up the Global Association of Professional Swimmers [GAPS]. The union, which had the support of 29 professional swimmers from around the globe on its launch, aims to give athletes a voice on the direction the sport is heading and any future rule changes. (swimswam.com, 20 Oct 2017, 21 Jun 2017)

Milestones

She became the first female swimmer to win the same event at the world championships five times when she claimed gold in the 400m individual medley at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. She had previously won the event in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 28 Jul 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 13 Aug 2019)

She has won the most gold medals [nine], and most overall medals [15], by a Hungarian swimmer at the world championships. (SportsDeskOnline, 13 Aug 2019)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/katinkahosszu
Facebook Team: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Iron-Swim-1941250016174339
https://instagram.com/hosszukatinka
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katinka-hosszu-674065102/
https://twitter.com/HosszuKatinka
Athlete Website: https://ironswim.hu

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
OR:: Olympic Record
WR:: World Record

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