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Message: <blockquote data-quote="r.pathirana" data-source="post: 20529350" data-attributes="member: 371091">'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu wins 200 IM for third Olympic gold<img src="http://img.techpowerup.org/160810/capture517.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />RIO DE JANEIRO – The Iron Lady was golden again Tuesday night, and now only one race stands between Katinka Hosszu and an Olympic record.Hosszu, the Hungarian swimmer nicknamed for her ability to swim a staggering number of events without tiring, won her third gold medal of the Rio Games, overwhelming the field in the 200-meter individual medley to set an Olympic record at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.American Maya DiRado, who finished second to Hosszu in the 400-meter IM, came away with a bronze medal.Like American star Katie Ledecky, Hosszu came into the Games hoping to break the female record of four Olympic golds in a single Games, held by American swimmers Missy Franklin and Amy Van Dyken. While Ledecky settled for silver in a relay race, Hosszu dropped the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday, focusing instead on her specialty, the IM.Hosszu’s grip on the race was tenuous coming in, as Brit Siobhan-Marie O’Connor posted the fastest qualifying time, but the Iron Lady held her off down the stretch with a finish of 2:06:58, three-tenths of a second ahead of O’Connor. DiRado finished third with a time ofමේකි නම් යකඩ ගෑණියක්ම තමයි රන් පදක්කම් 3 ක් ගත්තා ලංකාවට මේ වගේ එකෙක් හදා ගත්තනම් .</blockquote>

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