Mexican María Fernanda González finishes in 28th position in the 100-meter backstroke race at the 2017 Budapest Swimming World Championships, which featured local star Katinka Hosszu.

The 27-year-old from Celaya placed fourth in heat three of the qualifying round for the semifinals, with a time of 1:02.03 minutes, one second and 14 hundredths behind Spain's África Zamorano, who won the heat with 1:00.89, but neither of them advanced among the top 16, Zamorano finished in 19th place.

González Ramírez, a multi-medalist in the Central American and Caribbean Games, knows that her competitiveness is not enough for further stages in the world championships, and that's why she said she would take advantage of Budapest 2017 to improve her records, but she was far from her Mexican record of 1:00.94.

While everyone else tried to advance to the semifinals, the Olympic champion in the distance, the host Katinka Hosszu, decided not to compete in the semifinal round because 30 minutes later she will be in the final of the 200-meter individual medley, where she obviously wants to secure the gold medal.

Hosszu, who swam the 100-meter backstroke today in 58.80 seconds, the second best time in the first round, will experience a situation she went through in Kazan 2015, when she did not participate in the final of the 200-meter backstroke in order to secure the gold in the 200-meter individual medley, one of her favorite events, where she won the yellow medal.