Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women's 200m Freestyle Final - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 24, 2019. Federica Pellegrini of Italy after winning the race. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
TOKYO (Reuters) - Two of the defining women swimmers of recent years, Italy's Federica Pellegrini and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, bowed out of the Olympics on Wednesday with no medals but with their world records intact and a place in the history books assured.
Pellegrini, 32, had made it clear that this was her last dance and while Hosszu isn't ruling out continuing to Paris in 2024, she would be 35 at those Games and her participation at this stage looks unlikely.
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