By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2025 HUNGARIAN NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, April 9th – Saturday, April 12th
- Prelims at 9am local (3am ET)/Finals at 5pm local (11am ET)
- Csik Ferenc Swimming Pool, Kaposvar, Hungary
- LCM (50m)
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The 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships kicked off today from Kaposvar and 22-year-old Hubert Kos wasted no time making his presence known.
Racing in the prelims of the men’s 50m backstroke, University of Texas star Kos fired off a new national record of 24.63 to easily take the top seed.
Kos’ time overtook the longstanding Hungarian benchmark of 24.76 Richard Bohus put on the books at the 2018 Gyor Open.
Kos, the reigning Olympic champion in the 200m back, was the sole swimmer of this morning’s field to dip under the 25-second barrier. Adam Jaszo was the next-closest swimmer in 25.40 and Benedek Kovacs captured the 3rd seed in 25.43.
Entering this competition, Kos’ lifetime best in the 50m back sat at the 24.85 he notched for 5th place at last year’s European Championships so he sliced .22 off that previous outing to become the fastest Hungarian ever.
As swift as Kos was, he’ll need to drop significant time to check in among the top 20 performers in history; he’s now #43 on the all-time list. In the meantime, he ranks 4th in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 50 Back
Casas
24.23
| 2 | Yoon Ji-hwan | KOR | 24.48 | 03/27 |
| 3 | Ksawery Masiuk | POL | 24.60 | 03/16 |
| 4 | Oliver Morgan | GBR | 24.77 | 02/16 |
| 5 | Pavel Samusenko | RUS | 24.78 | 02/19 |
NCAA champion Kos is slated to race the additional events of 100m back, 50m/100m fly and 200m IM at this competition, the latter of which he snagged the top seed in a time of 2:03.45 ahead of his 50m back record.
Additional Notes
- Olympic gold medalist Kristof Milak and Jaszo both clocked a time of 49.74 to share the top seed in the men’s 100m freestyle.
- The women’s 100m free saw Nikolett Padar punch a result of 55.20 to land lane 4. Panna Ugrai was also sub-56 with a morning swim of 55.71.
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