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| show-medals = yes }} Krisztina Egerszegi ((:ˈkristinɒ ˈɛɡɛrsɛɡi); born 16 August 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five time Olympic champion; and one of three individuals (Dawn Fraser and Michael Phelps being other two) to have ever won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the most successful and greatest female swimmer of all-time with 5 individual Olympic gold medals and she is the first and only female swimmer who won 5 individual Olympic gold medals.〔http://www.olympic.org/krisztina-egerszegi〕〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407900156.html〕〔http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/eg/krisztina-egerszegi-1.html〕 She held the world record in the long course 200 m backstroke for almost 17 years. Egerszegi is considered by many to be the greatest female backstroker of all-time. ==Biography== She made her international debut at the 1987 European Aquatics Championships at the age of 13, coming fourth in the 200 m backstroke and fifth in the 100 m backstroke. At the 1988 Summer Olympics she won silver medal in the 100 m backstroke and became Olympic champion in the 200 m backstroke. At the age of 14 years and 41 days she became the youngest-ever female Olympic champion in swimming. This youth record was broken in 1992 by Kyoko Iwasaki of Japan, who won a gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games at the age of 14 years and six days. At the end of 1988, she was the top-ranked swimmer in 200 m backstroke in the world ranking as well as she became the Swimmer of the Year and the Best Female Athlete of the Year in Hungary. At the 1989 European Aquatics Championships she competed in three events adding the 400 m medley to the 100 m and 200 m backstroke, winning silver medal in all three events despite she struggled with a strong cold during the entire Championships. At the end of that year, she topped again the world ranking in 200 m backstroke and she was selected again the Best Female Athlete of the Year in Hungary. In July of 1990, at the Goodwill Games in Seattle, she won the Hungarian team's only gold and silver medal (first in 200 m backstroke, second in 100 m backstroke), with which Hungary finished 16th in the overall standings.〔1990 Goodwill Games〕 At the Hungarian Championships, which was held in December due to the World Championships in Australia she won 12 gold medals. Egerszegi finished the year of 1990 again as the Best Swimmer and as the Best Female Athlete of Hungary. In 1991 she competed at the World Championships in Perth, Australia winning both backstroke events (100 and 200 metres) and becoming the first Hungarian female swimmer of all-time who won gold medals at the World Championships. A few months later at the European Championships in Athens, Greece, she won three gold medals and set world records in the 100 m (1:00.31 min) and 200 m (2:06.62 min) backstroke events. 11 years after Rica Reinisch (East-German), Egerszegi was the first female swimmer since 1980 (Olympic Games, Moscow), who set world records on both 100 m and 200 m at the same event! Since 1983 (when Rick Carey completed this feat in Clovis, USA), Egerszegi was the first swimmer who broke both world records of the backstroke at the same event! At the Hungarian championships, she added 10 gold medals to her unique collection. In December, she won her 4 consecutive awards as the Best Swimmer and the Best Athlete of the Year in Hungary. The Italian Gazzetta dello Sport has been voted her as the world's second best athlete. In April of 1992, along with the 2 time Olympic champion sprint canoer Zsolt Gyulay has administered the official Olympic oath on behalf of the Hungarian Olympic Team and athletes. At the Hungarian national championships, she collected 8 more gold medals. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won three individual gold medals, becoming the only female athlete at the Games to do so. End of 1992, she got the most votes again at the Best Swimmer and Best Athlete of the Year selection. The Gazzetta dello Sport has been top-ranked her as the Best Female Athlete of the Year. In 1993, she claimed 10 first places at the Hungarian National Championships then at the European Championships in Sheffield, England, she competed in the 200 m butterfly for the first time and went on to win four gold medals also winning the 400 m medley and the 100 m and 200 m backstroke. In December, she was selected the Best Swimmer and Best Athlete of the Year in Hungary and the Gazzetta dello Sport as well as the L'Equipe voted her as the Best Female Athlete of the Year. In 1994, she won 9 gold medals at the Hungarian Championship and then she announced that she would retire after the World Championships in Rome which was overshadowed by the suspicious Chinese swimmers' performances. China won 12 of the 16 women's titles, however these achievements were sullied less than a month later when seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for banned drugs at the Asian Games in Hiroshima.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181553/Ye-Shiwen-Olympic-committee-chief-sticking-Chinese-swimmer.html〕〔http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-17/sports/sp-63897_1_world-champion〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5XO24joSM〕 In Rome, Egerszegi lost on 100 m and 200 m backstroke, the events were won by He Cihong,who was only 13th (1:03.50!) on 100 m backstroke 2 years earlier in Barcelona, where Egerszegi won with an Olympic record time (1:00.68). In 1996, at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, He Cihong was 25th on the 100 m backstroke. On the 200 m backstroke,He Cihong qualified for nor Barcelona, neither Atlanta; both Olympic golds won by Egerszegi. After getting fifth place in the 100 m backstroke and coming second in the 200 m backstroke, Egerszegi decided to compete for two more years, citing the two defeats as the main reason. At the Hungarian Championship in 1995, she claimed 9 gold medals. She competed at the 1995 European Aquatics Championships where she won the last two of her nine European titles in the 400 m medley and the 200 m backstroke event. For the first time, she competed in the 4x100 m medley relay where one of her teammates was a young Ágnes Kovács, a future Olympic champion. They came second and Egerszegi has named this silver medal as 'the one that made her the happiest'. She decided not to compete in the 100 m backstroke even though her time of 1:00.93 clocked during the 4x100 m relay final was better than Mette Jacobsen's winning time of 1:02.46 by almost two seconds. In 1996, she closed her final appearance at the Hungarian National Championships with collecting 9 gold medals. In Atlanta, at the Centennial Olympic Games, although Egerszegi advanced into the final with the best time on 400 individual medley, she finished in third. This was her first and only bronze medal during her Olympic career! She competed in the 4×100 m medley relay as member of the Hungarian team, who finished in 11th. Interestingly, her time in this event at the qualification round, would have won the 100 m backstroke event! Her final career appearance was one of the finest farewell of all-time in swimming sport: she won her beloved 200 m backstroke event with the greatest margin in any short distance events of the swimming sport, collecting her 5th individual gold medals and defending her titles for three consecutive Olympic Games! 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Krisztina Egerszegi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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