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/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap/Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Entries/Live Results
- Livestream (Prelims Only)
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.
2024-2025 LCM Men 100 Fly
PONTI
50.27
| 2 | Hubert KÓS | HUN | 50.55 | 04/13 |
| 3 | Kristóf MILÁK | HUN | 50.67 | 04/13 |
| 4 | Shaine Casas | USA | 50.82 | 03/08 |
| 5 | Nyls KORSTANJE | NED | 50.97 | 04/13 |
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.
Amazing performance from both Hungarians! Congratulations!
studentATHLETE, seriously curious how he and all the other college kids that travel in addition to their NCAA schedules and don’t they have a minimum course load?
Kos not only won the gold, but he defeated Olympic medalist and #2 performer of all time Kristof Milak in the process.
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To be more precise, Milak is Olympic champion. He won 100 fly in Paris.
Milak must be salty af losing to his countryman in this event at home
Nah. He smiled and congratulated Hubi right after the win. I didn’t think he was going to be such a gracious loser (I suspected Hubi will win here – he’s at the end of a long taper whereas Milak is by all accounts unrested).
It was a great race, Milák seemed fine and he gave it all he had. They are good friends, no saltiness at all. Hopefully it’ll rekindle the fire in his belly. I suspect, he might have been jaded for a few years when he essentially had to race by himself, but now that Ponti, Hubi and others have gained strength, he just might turn on the engines in training and competitions. So far, it’s promising, I’m glad, he shook off the blues…
He’s in much better mood than last year. Happy to see it.
Kos is operating on a different level right now
Kinda fast for milak i assume kos is tapered but milak isnt i expect a 49. Mid from milak at some point
I have some doubts after the 200 fly, but this swim makes me have more faith in Milak for the summer.
Milak was also 2nd in the 50 fly behind Szabo, low 23s. Their techniques are so radically different: Szabo and Kos (who came 3rd) breathed 2-3 times, while Milak took a breath at EVERY stroke after 30 meters, took about 17 strokes, while Szabo and Kos about 20 (i’m not exactly sure the camera angles were off-putting). Amazing stuff…
The USA is so far behind the rest of the world.
Then what does that make GB
Wait why are they behind cause am I missing something
In swimming? What on earth are you talking about?
in some events sure, 100 fly is fine though
The men’s side probably have the same problem in the breaststroke.
Switching to meters could help… lol.
Hungary has less than 10 million people and world-class swimming pools, USA 330 million (sans illegals) and hard to find 50m pools.
On the men’s side, they are falling behind the European men, but they will always have more depth than any single country in the relays. Europe is not a country, so they cannot spin up a relay team
On the women’s side, the US is killing it with Gretchen Walsh, Katie Douglas, and co. For some reason, the European women are way weaker in swimming than the European men at the moment. It’s the Australian women who are providing some competition here.
I don’t think that Milak would’ve gone anywhere near that fast if Kos wasn’t next to him
Much faster than I expected