By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
2021 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming: Monday, May 17th – Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prelims at 10:00 am local/Finals at 6:00 pm local
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Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu further cemented her legacy on Thursday at the European Aquatics Championships by taking a silver medal in the women’s 200 meter butterfly final.
That swim gives her 23 total European Aquatics Championships medals, which ties her with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom as the most ever won at the meet. With 15 gold medals, ahead of Sjostrom’s 14, Hosszu is now the most-decorated swimmer ever at these championships, and she still has the 200 IM to come. Hosszu has won the last 5 European Championships gold medals in that 200 IM, and is the dop seed in the event by over two seconds, so she will likely break her tie with Sjostrom for the most medals during that event.
After winning the silver medal today in the women’s 200 fly, Katinka Hosszú became the female swimmer with the most medals in the history of Euro Aquatics Championships. She has won 23 medals since 2008, tied with Swedish Sarah Sjöström. Hosszú, however, has won more gold medals. pic.twitter.com/7yWRH9wBEG
— Swimming Stats (@SwimmingStats) May 20, 2021
Hosszu’s first gold medal came at the 2008 European Championships, when she was just 18 years old, and won silver in the 400 IM. From there, her career took off, and she has won at least 1 gold medal at each European Championship since.
All-Time European Aquatics Championship Medals (LCM):
2008
- Silver – 400 IM
2010
- Gold – 200 fly
- Gold – 200 IM
- Gold – 800 free relay
- Silver – 400 IM
2012
- Gold – 200 fly
- Gold – 200 IM
- Gold – 400 IM
- Silver – 800 free relay
2014
- Gold – 100 back
- Gold – 200 IM
- Gold – 400 IM
- Silver – 200 free
- Bronze – 200 fly
2016
- Gold – 200 back
- Gold – 200 IM
- Gold – 400 IM
- Gold – 800 free relay
- Silver – 100 back
2018
- Gold – 200 IM
2020
- Gold – 400 IM
- Silver – 200 fly
Hosszu has another 26 medals at the European Short Course Championships, including 20 gold – which makes for a grand total of 35 career European Championships so far. Her Short Course podium career began in 2004 at 15, though it would take 8 years, until 2012, for her to win another.
Also among Hosszu’s resume are 9 World Championships and 3 Olympic gold medals from Rio in 2016.
Alexander Popov leads all male individual medalists with 26, while Hosszu’s countrymate Laszlo Cseh, also racing at this meet but who so far doesn’t have any medals, also has 23 European medals in long course.
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