Kristof Milak & Panna Ugrai Reap 100 Free Golds On Day Two Of Hungarian Championships

2026 Hungarian National Championships

• April 15-19, 2026
• Prelims
  • Day 1, 3, 5: 9:00 am local (3:00 am ET)
  • Day 2 & 4: 10 am local (4:00 am ET)
• Finals — 5:30 pm local (11:30 am ET)
• Sopron, Hungary —  Lővér Swimming Pool
• LCM (50 Meters)
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• Meet Central
• Live Results and Start Lists
• Livestreams on YouTube
• Day 1 Finals Recap

While last night’s semi-finals saw Olympic champion and world record holder Kristof Milak take on the men’s 100m free and 200m fly events within about 15 minutes of one another, we reported how the 26-year-old wound up dropping the latter race for tonight’s medal-contending contests.

Thus diving in for his sole final of the men’s 100m free, Milak indeed found success, touching the wall in a solid effort of 48.36.

Although that result was well off his lifetime best and Hungarian national record of 47.47 put on the books in 2022, it was still what many would consider a successful swim, as the versatile ace’s last race came at the 2025 edition of this competition.

Tonight it was former national record holder and top-seeded Nandor Nemeth who settled for silver just .08 behind in 48.44, while Szebasztian Szabo clocked a result of 49.16 as the bronze medalist.

Milak is still scheduled to race the 50 free, 200 free, 50 fly, and 100 fly here in Sopron.

Sans Milak in the 200m fly event, 17-year-old World Junior Championships silver medalist David Antal took full advantage of the opportunity to vie for the gold medal.

The teen threw down a new lifetime best of 1:56.45 to take the top spot, undercutting the 1:56.87 he produced last year in Otopeni.

Richard Marton was first to the wall at the halfway mark, logging a 54.98 front half to Antal’s 55.53. But the teen surged on the final 50m to ultimately get to the wall first. Marton settled for silver in 1:56.59, well outside his PB of 1:54.54 from 20203.

Balazs Hollo rounded out the podium in 1:58.38.

Antal and Marton now sit just outside the list of top 25 performers in the world on the season.

The women’s 200m fly saw European Championships multi-medalist Vivien Jackl, just 17, soar to the wall first, logging a gold medal-worthy time of 2:10.36.

But the teen wasn’t alone at the top of the podium, as Boroka Kertesz shared honors in the identical 2:10.36 time.

Evy Rozeboom collected the bronze this evening in 2:11.19.

This is one of Jackl’s first meets back after having broken up with coach Shane Tusup last November.

She returned to Marta Kocsis in Tatabánya after a relatively disappointing 2025 year of racing.

Jackl’s tutelage under Tusup, one-time coach and husband of Hungarian swimming legend Katinka Hosszu, was short-lived. The teen left Kocsis for Tusup in February of this year so their association lasted just over eight months.

Her time this evening represents a huge lifetime best, knocking about two solid seconds off her former PB of 2:12.46 established in 2024, pointing to a positive move for this promising teen’s future career.

The women’s 100m free final saw Panna Ugrai register the sole time of the field under the 55-second barrier.

Splitting 26.31/27.93, Ugrai hit the wall at 54.24 to beat her competitors by nearly a second.

Spain captured the minor medals behind Ugrai, with Ainhoa Campabadal and Irene Ciercoles tying as the runners-up in an identical outing of 55.13.

For Ugrai’s part, her performance this evening checks in as a big-time personal best, destroying her former PB of 54.94 from the 2024 European Championships.

She is now Hungary’s 5th-fastest female of all time in this event.

Top 5 Hungarian Female LCM 100 Freestyle Performers of All-Time

1. Katinka Hosszu – 53.64, 2014
2. Evelin Verraszto – 53.74, 2009
3. Lilla Abraham – 53.97, 2025
4. Nikolett Padar – 54.17, 2024
5. Panna Ugrai – 54.24, 2006

Finally, the men’s 800m free saw the tightest of battles transpire between David Betlehem and Kristof Rasovszky, with the duo separated by just .01 when all was said and done.

Betlehem stopped the clock at 7:48.08 to Rasovszky’s 7:48.09 in essentially the two-man race.

Zalan Sarkany finished in 7:49.44, good enough for bronze.

Betlehem’s performance represented the 4th-best outing of his career, one which boasts a lifetime best of 7:47.02 from the 2023 World Championships.

Dual-discipline man Rasovszky, who also races in open water, has been much faster, owning a PB of 7:44.42 from placing 5th in the event at the 2024 World Championships.