Dubbed the Iron Lady, Katinka Hosszu of Hungary reversed her fourth place finish from the 2012 London Games to a shining gold medal at Rio in the 400-meter individual medley event through some unbelievably rigorous regimen. The 27-year-old made a glorious swim to end up with a world record timing of 4:26.36 that shed nearly 2 seconds off Chinese Ye’s Shiwen’s 2012 record of 4:28.43.
The indefatigable Hungarian, who is also the holder of the World Championships title in the same event, went on to add the 100m backstroke gold a day later. More records could be falling in the next few days with Hosszu set to participate in 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly as well as the 200m individual medley.
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Sudeshna Banerjee
Sudeshna is a veteran Indian Sports and International Tennis journalist as well as editor at Sportskeeda. She has an overall experience of over 10 years with top publications like The Bridge, Fox Sports Asia, and gained a keen interest in Indian sports since the 2002 Commonwealth and Asian Games when she was in school.
Sudeshna holds a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. She attends tournaments regularly and being a highly experienced journalist, she ensures she only contacts the correct people from her network for the most authentic information to be put in her articles.
Sudeshna’s favorite Indian athlete is PV Sindhu owing to her big-tournament performances. She also admires Tennis legend Rafael Nadal for his resilience and has witnessed the Spaniard in action at the French Open, due to which, Roland Garros is her all-time favorite Grand Slam tournament.
Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics made a lasting impact on Sudeshna. She has also interviewed him along with Badminton star Chirag Shetty and several other sports personalities. She has done on-ground reporting on multiple ITF tournaments along with the Premier Badminton League, Asian Boxing Championships and the Davis Cup.
When not using her skills and years of experience in crafting compelling content, Sudeshna likes to read, watch movies and travel.
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