Hubert Kos Enters New 100 Backstroke Territory With 52.24 Hungarian Record

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
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Day two prelims at the 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships saw Olympic gold medalist Hubert Kos put up a near-lifetime best of 52.91 to capture the top seed.

That indicated something special was about to transpire during tonight’s main event and the 22-year-old Texas Longhorn did not disappoint.

Kos fired off a shiny new lifetime best and Hungarian national record of 52.24 en route to winning the gold medal, his third since the competition began yesterday.

Kos opened in 25.07 and closed in 27.17 to defeat the field by well over a second. Runner-up status went to Adam Jaszo who notched 53.92 for silver and bronze went to Benedek Kovacs who touched in 54.09.

Entering this competition, Kos’ lifetime best and national standard rested at the 52.78 he logged in the heats at the 2024 Olympic Games. There in Paris, he ultimately finished 10th overall with a semi-final result of 52.98.

Comparing Kos’ trio of his fastest performances, tonight’s carried the fastest opening 50m by a significant margin:

His outing tonight renders him the #1 performer in the world, usurping South African Pieter Coetze and British swimmer Oliver Morgan who shared the crown with their previously top-ranked times of 52.71.

Additionally, Kos now ties Japanese Olympic icon Ryosuke Irie as the 14th-best 100m backstroke performer of all time.

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