2019 HUNGARIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 27th – Saturday, March 30th
- Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen, Hungary
- LCM
- Meet Information
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Entry Lists
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap/Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Results (Look for Link)
Serbian Sebastian Sabo crushed a big swim in addition to Caba Silađi on the final night of the 2019 Hungarian Open National Championships. Sabo pulled the 100m fly upset against young gun Kristof Milak, beating the Hungarian racer who entered this meet ranked 3rd in the world.
Splitting 23.37/27.97, Sabo hit the wall in a 51.34 scorcher, a mark that frog hops Milak’s season-best of 51.50 and German Marius Kusch’s 51.35 to take over as the 2nd fastest performer in the world on the rankings list. The only man who has been fatser is Russia’s Andrei Minakov who holds the #1 time in the world with the 51.12 notched at the Youth Olympic Games.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 FLY
DRESSEL
49.50 *WR
| 2 | Maxime ROONEY | USA | 50.68 | 08/02 |
| 3 | Andrei MINAKOV | RUS | 50.83 | 07/27 |
| 4 | Mehdy METELLA | FRA | 50.85 | 04/21 |
| 5 | Kristof MILAK | HUN | 50.95 | 07/26 |
For Milak, his 52.00 is still a solid outing, but doesn’t clear the 51.96 FINA A cut, but his Youth Olympic Games time does.
Also missing the Gwangju cut in the race was 33-year-old Olympic icon Laszlo Cseh, as the veteran finished 3rd in 52.30.
Sabo already nailed a new Serbian National Record here in Debrecen, clocking a mighty 22.99 in the men’s 50m fly for gold.
At the 2018 European Championships, it was Milak who made the 100m fly final, touching in 51.51 for 4th, while Sabo was absent in the event.
The records of Szilágyi and Szabó are also Hungarian national records as they own dual citizenships.
I am not quite sure it is possible. BOGO
They were both born in Serbia and swim for Serbian national team. I might be wrong, but I think the records go by the nationality (passport) AND the federation one is registered with at the time of the swim.
When Čavić was WRH (for some short periods of time) no one claimed that as US records, even though Mike was both Serbian and US citizen simultaneously.
We have been unable to track down Hungary’s national record rules. For most countries, once an athlete has declared their sporting citizenship for another country, they can no longer break National Records for their former country (which is why, for example, Missy Franklin doesn’t have a bunch of Canadian Records). But, we’ve asked Hungary for more information on this.
Would be good to read about it once you got an answear. Why I brought this up is that I am sure Szilágyi’s 27.05 last year was the official Hungarian national record til now, meaning that the 26.99 at Euros didn’t count.