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Swimming: Hungarian successes at the Golden Tour
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The three days of the Golden Tour, French swimming competition, brought successes for the Hungarian swimmers, as collected by nemzetisport.hu and hvg.hu.
The second destination of the Golden Tour swimming series was held in Marseilles over this weekend (March 3-5) and called swimmers to compete against each other in a 50m pool. The victories did not only bring prestige but money prize as well. Several of the amazing Hungarian swimmers could bid farewell with shiny medals on their necks.
The finals of the opening day kicked off with Boglárka Kapás defeating everyone on 800m (8:25.89) and 1500m (16:12.86) freestyle. These finals also had Katinka Hosszú and she became the second in both cases (8:32.22; 16:16.92). But she could top that by winning gold when it came to the 400m medley (4:37.16) and had a sixth place on 50m backstroke (29.53).
Dávid Verrasztó also scored a victory on the 400m medley (4:10.01), while Gergely Gyurta won silver (4:13.36) just behind him. The tables turned, however, on the 800m free, as Gyurta was first (7:54.47) and Verrasztó became third (7:59.00).
Dávid Verrasztó continued his winning strike and became the very first in the final of 200m breaststroke (2:12.88) and 200m medley (1:59.49). Bence Biczó could also stand on the top of the pedestal, as he swam the fastest on 200m fly (1:57.44).
