2021 HUNGARIAN SPRING NATIONALS
- March 23 – 27
- Budapest, Hungary (Danube Arena)
- LCM (50m)
- Day two prelims results
Aside from the new Hungarian national record in the 4×200 free relay, which got a huge 1:44.86 anchor from Kristof Milak, 17-year-old Hubert Kos cracked the European junior record in the 200 IM during day two prelims at Hungarian Spring Nationals .
Kos, who turns 18 in a few days, dropped a 1:57.58 to easily clear Russian teenager Ilya Borodin‘s previous mark of 1:58.00. Borodin hit that time pretty recently, the performance coming from October 2020.
Kos neared the record a few months ago with a 1:58.31, which won the Hungarian title at their December championships. He enters the top-five in the world rankings, surpassing Japanese star Kosuke Hagino for the #5 spot this season.
2020-2021 LCM Men 200 IM
Shun
1:55.00
| 2 | Michael Andrew | USA | 1:55.26 | 06/17 |
| 3 | Duncan Scott | GBR | 1:55.28 | 07/30 |
| 4 | Jeremy Desplanches | SUI | 1:56.17 | 05/19 |
| 5 | Daiya Seto | JPN | 1:56.22 | 07/30 |
Katinka Hosszu cruised to the top time in the women’s 200 IM this evening, hitting a 2:12.69.
After the 4×200 free relay time trial, Gabor Zombori, who led off the relay in 1:48.79, swam a 3:53.76 to lead the 400 free prelims. 11 men broke four minutes, and after the relay and the 50 fly, Milak just squeezed into the A-final at eighth (3:56.65).
In the women’s 400 free, another young Hungarian distance specialist is on the rise. Bettina Fabian, born in 2004, clocked a 4:10.69 to chop almost two seconds off of her old best from December. She led prelims ahead of Ajna Kesely (4:12.16) and her older sister, Cal commit Fanni Fabian (4:13.80), while Boglarka Kapas was fourth (4:14.87).
OTHER NOTABLE SWIMS
- Szebasztian Szabo clocked a 23.42 for the quickest time in the 50 fly prelims, just ahead of Milak (23.87) and Peter Holoda (23.94).
- Two women broke 27 in the 50 fly, led by Beatrix Bordas at 26.89, just ahead of Monika Olle (26.96).
Bold prediction time! Milák will break the Hungarian National Records in the 100/200 free and the 100 fly at this meet.
100 free is the most questionable out of these 3, but based on that 22.19… 47.xx? Maybe
I think it would be great if he could break one of them.
1:45.54 in the 200 free seems realistic, not sure about the other two.
Europe might finally have a couple of IMers who could really break up the USA vs Japan domination in the next couple of years.
+ IM L. Marchand from France
Hopefully three: Kos, Borodin and Marchand.
Papastamos?
Also i think that Ceccon could become very good in the 200 IM if he can become decent in the breaststroke.
A couple of years ago Europe had Johannes Hintze and Hugo Gonzalez who both looked very promising and haven’t turned into anything, so it is certainly too early to celebrate.
He is Hungarian and a very promising IMer. That should be enough to know that he will be great based on Hungary’s reputation on IMers throughout swimming history.