Rio De Janeiro: Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu won her third Olympic gold medal in four days on Tuesday with victory in the women’s 200m individual medley.

The 27-year-old, who set an Olympic record of two minutes, 6.58 seconds, had already won the 400 individual medley on Saturday and 100 backstroke on Monday.

Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor took the silver medal, with Maya DiRado of the United States winning a bronze to add to her 400 IM silver.

Hosszu, the ‘Iron Lady’ who withdrew from the 200m butterfly earlier on Tuesday to prepare for the evening race, is entered in one more individual event, the 200 backstroke.

If she wins that she would equal the women’s record of four solo swimming golds at a single Games set by East Germany’s Kristin Otto in Seoul in 1988.

Hosszu led from the start, inside world record pace for the first 100 metres, with 2015 world championships bronze medallist O’Connor second all the way for the first Olympic medal of her career.

O’Connor, 20, was Britain’s youngest swimmer at her home Games in 2012 and became the country’s third individual medallist of the Rio swimming meet.

Her time of 2:06.88 was a British record. DiRado finished in 2:08.79.