Hubert Kos Crushes 50.55 100 Fly PB To Grab Gold Ahead Of Kristof Milak

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 wrapped up tonight from Kaposvar but not before 22-year-old Hubert Kos put up another head-turning performance.

After already winning the men’s 50m back, 100m back and 200m IM here, the Texas Longhorn fired off a new lifetime best en route to topping the men’s 100 butterfly podium.

Kos not only won the gold, but he defeated Olympic medalist and #2 performer of all time Kristof Milak in the process.

Kos stopped the clock at a tenacious time of 50.55 to hold off Milak who was a hair behind in 50.67. Richard Marton earned the bronze in 52.91.

Kos opened in a feisty 23.68 and closed in 26.87  to keep Milak at bay, with the latter coming home strong in 26.52.

Entering this competition, Kos’ lifetime best stood at the 50.84 he produced at last year’s Pro Swim Series in San Antonio so tonight he shaved .29 off that performance to remain Hungary’s #2 performer ever in the event.

Kos now ranks #2 in the world this season, with only Swiss ace Noe Ponti having put up a quicker mark of 50.27. Milak is now the #3 swimmer in the world.

The women’s 50m breaststroke saw Henrietta Fangli down its national record en route to completing her trifecta of victories in the discipline.

Fangli punched a time of 30.61, getting under the 31-second barrier for the first time in her career.

Her outing this evening smashed her previous PB of 31.31 and erased the 31.04 Hungarian benchmark Anna Sztankovics put on the books in 2021.

Fangli is carrying momentum from this year’s NCAA Championships, where the Hungarian became Houston’s first All-American since 1986 after finishing 6th in the women’s 100 breaststroke.

Additional Notes

• 30-year-old veteran Katalin Burian logged her fastest 200m backstroke time since 2022 en route to victory. Burian touched in 2:10.55 to hold off USC Trojan Dora Molnar who settled for silver just .07 back in 2:10.62. The pair both cleared the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 2:11.08 needed for Singapore.
• Benedek Kovacs represented the sole swimmer of the men’s 200m back field to delve under the 2:00 threshold. He notched a swift 1:56.77 to get the job done essentially in a one-man race. Kovacs easily beat the ‘A’ standard of 1:58.07 and was within a second of his PB of 1:55.85 from placing 5th at the 2023 World Championships.
• Open water ace Kristof Rasovszky already broke the Hungarian national record in the 400m free and he doubled up with gold in the 800m free. He stopped the clock at 7:47.04 to hold a nearly one-second advantage over David Betlehem who registered 7:48.02 for silver. Indiana’s 1650y NCAA champion Zalan Sarkany rounded out the podium in 7:53.34. Rasovszky’s lifetime best remains at the 7:44.42 he posted to place 5th in Doha at last year’s World Championshps.
• Panna Ugrai scorched a new lifetime best of 58.47 to take the women’s 100m butterfly. That overwrote her previous PB of 58.76 established in October of 2023. Her time tonight was within striking distance, although short, of the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 58.33 needed for Singapore.

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