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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)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Entries/Live Results
- Livestream (Prelims Only)
We entered day three of the 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships with several key swimmers staking their claims on World Championships-worthy performances.
We reported how 22-year-old Hubert Kos fired off a time of 52.24 to take the men’s 100m backstroke, establishing a new lifetime best and Hungarian national record in the process.
His time now renders him #1 in the world and adds the event to his list of victories here, tripling up with his 50m back and 200m IM podium-topping swims from last night.
Additionally, open water Olympic medalist Kristof Rasovszky undercut a supersuited record en route to winning the men’s 400m free.
Rasovszky notched a winning effort of 3:45.32 to overtake Gergo Kis‘ longstanding benchmark of 3:45.68 put on the books at the 2009 World Championships.
Another Olympic champion dove in for an event this evening, as 25-year-old Kristof Milak contested his signature race of the men’s 200m butterfly.
Milak stopped the clock at a time of 1:56.13 to take the decisive win, beating the pack by over a second.
Dominik Torok snagged silver in 1:57.40 and Richard Marton bagged bronze in 1:57.82.
Milak’s time may be pedestrian by his standards, but the result was enough to dip under the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 1:56.51 needed for Singapore.
He uncharacteristically ranks outside the top 5 performers in the world at the moment, checking in as the 9th-swiftest thus far this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 200 Fly
URLANDO
1:52.37
| 2 | Krzysztof Chmielewski | POL | 1:54.36 | 04/04 |
| 3 | GENKI TERAKADO | JPN | 1:54.73 | 03/21 |
| 4 | Sou Ogata | JPN | 1:55.34 | 03/21 |
| 5 | Michal Chmielewski | POL | 1:55.36 | 04/04 |
| 6 | TAKUMI TERADA | JPN | 1:55.52 | 03/21 |
| 7 | Tomoru Honda | JPN | 1:55.66 | 02/16 |
| 8 | Trenton Julian | USA | 1:56.02 | 03/06 |
| 9 | Kristof MILAK | HUN | 1:56.13 | 04/10 |
| 10 | Petar Mitsin | BUL | 1:56.29 | 03/30 |
The sole World Championships qualifying time on the women’s side came courtesy of Ajna Kesely‘s winning effort in the 400m freestyle.
National record holder Kesely nabbed a time of 4:08.82 as the gold medalist, easily clearing the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut of 4:10.23 needed for Singapore.
Kesely owns the Hungarian standard at the lifetime best of 4:01.31 she produced in 2019. Nevertheless, the 23-year-old now ranks 7th in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 400 Free
LEDECKY
4:01.04
| 2 | Yang Peiqi | CHN | 4:05.17 | 03/22 |
| 3 | Ichika Kajimoto | JPN | 4:07.58 | 03/20 |
| 4 | Li Jiapeng | CHN | 4:07.75 | 03/22 |
| 5 | MIYU NAMBA | JPN | 4:08.55 | 03/20 |
| 6 | Mary-Sophie HARVEY | CAN | 4:08.67 | 03/06 |
| 7 | Ajna KÉSELY | HUN | 4:08.82 | 04/10 |
| 8 | Gabrielle RONCATTO | BRA | 4:09.01 | 03/06 |
| 9 | Simona QUADARELLA | ITA | 4:09.24 | 03/22 |
| 10 | RUKA TAKEZAWA | JPN | 4:09.27 | 01/26 |
Additional Notes
- Laura Ilyes topped the women’s 200m fly podium in a time of 2:10.59.
- Katalin Burian reaped gold in the women’s 100m back race with a swim of 1:01.30.
- Petra Senanszky was too quick to catch in the women’s 50m free, registering 25.27 as the victor.
- The men’s 50m free saw Szebasztian Szabo get to the wall first in 22.13. Luka Cvetko held onto his 2nd position from prelims with a time of 22.21 as Nandor Nemeth, competing in his sole event of this meet, notched 22.23 for bronze.
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