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
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- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Entries/Live Results
- Livestream (Prelims Only)
Day two prelims at the 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships saw Olympic gold medalist Hubert Kos put up a near-lifetime best of 52.91 to capture the top seed.
That indicated something special was about to transpire during tonight’s main event and the 22-year-old Texas Longhorn did not disappoint.
Kos fired off a shiny new lifetime best and Hungarian national record of 52.24 en route to winning the gold medal, his third since the competition began yesterday.
Kos opened in 25.07 and closed in 27.17 to defeat the field by well over a second. Runner-up status went to Adam Jaszo who notched 53.92 for silver and bronze went to Benedek Kovacs who touched in 54.09.
Entering this competition, Kos’ lifetime best and national standard rested at the 52.78 he logged in the heats at the 2024 Olympic Games. There in Paris, he ultimately finished 10th overall with a semi-final result of 52.98.
Comparing Kos’ trio of his fastest performances, tonight’s carried the fastest opening 50m by a significant margin:
| Kos’ NEW 52.24 Record | Kos’ Prelims 52.91 | Kos’ OLD 52.78 Record |
| 25.07 | 25.85 | 25.71 |
| 27.17 | 27.06 | 27.07 |
His outing tonight renders him the #1 performer in the world, usurping South African Pieter Coetze and British swimmer Oliver Morgan who shared the crown with their previously top-ranked times of 52.71.
2024-2025 LCM Men 100 Back
KOS
52.24
| 2 | Pieter Coetzeé | RSA | 52.71 | 04/09 |
| 2 | Oliver Morgan | GBR | 52.71 | 02/14 |
| 4 | Thomas CECCON | ITA | 52.84 | 03/15 |
| 5 | Ksawery Masiuk | POL | 52.90 | 03/15 |
Additionally, Kos now ties Japanese Olympic icon Ryosuke Irie as the 14th-best 100m backstroke performer of all time.
Nite nite Murph👋🏼
A real shame we won’t get to see him swim a tapered 200 until Worlds, that textile best is long overdue revision.
Was waiting for this. Backstroke seems to have the highest correlation of any stroke between 100-200 swimmers. Basically every elite backstroker was good at both. Kos will go 51 before LA
Yeah it did feel like this was in the cards… I wasn’t particularly sure if his 1:54 low in the 200 would correlate with a particularly fast 100 though – I mean, look at Greenbank: 1:54 low-mid 200, but I don’t think he’s ever broken 53 in the 100 back.
I feel like even the best 100 backstrokers that choose not to swim the 200 could at least be solid there. The same cannot be said for the other strokes.
Case in point: Apostolos Christou.
Although there is a decent overlap in breaststroke: Lily King, Qin, Fink, Kamminga etc.
In his previous swims, he used to be taking a nap in the first 50 with that 25 high.
Now he’s attacking it from the get go and the results are showing.
Also, what on earth is that Ceccon 51.6 WR lol ??
I feel like it’s not talked about that much as one of the most impressive records out there.
Ceccon came home in 26.4, that’s otherworldly. Hubi actually opened faster than Ceccon’s WR lol.
Exactly. Kos going from 25.7 to 25.0 is a massive difference. Now he’s in contention with the big dogs earlier in the race, rather than relying on the back end, that can only be so much improved.
Don’t forget that Ceccon went 25 low as well going out, same thing with Murphy in his previous WR.
Anyone who is known as a closer is not maximizing
Bob is an effective coach. Some people try to say otherwise… but come on
I don’t think it’s his effectivity that was criticized lately.
But come on – that’s purely a straw man. His “effectiveness” is not what comes under criticism.
Greatest coach of all time, and I say that as a person who hates how he treats his swimmers who were cut
Who says Bowman isnt good at producing great swims from his swimmers? No one.
I just don’t like when he unfairly gets favours from WA to favour his swimmers to the detriment of everyone else.
No one criticize his effectiveness
This may very well be the first credible threat to Piersol’s 200 WR in 15+ years
Hahahaha! He’s never broken 1:54 in his life, so how do you expect him to go sub-1:52?. Plus, he was faster in Fukuoka 2023 (1:54.14) than in Paris (1:54.26), so it’s not like he’s been consistently improving from year to year.
Both Kos and Bowman have talked about how he swam the 200 back to win it in Paris and it was not the race he should have had. He probably would have been 1:53 if he wasn’t swimming strategically. Given his improvements in every other event he swims a 1:52 in his best event is not outside the realm of possibility, which would make him a credible threat to 1:51.9
Typo here:
Kos fired off a shiny new lifetime best and Hungarian national record of 54.24 en route to winning the gold medal, his third since the competition began yesterday.
Thanks…was hype-typing
happens to the best of us
Impressive to fly across the world and do this right after NCAAs. I always could barely get out of the pool after the 400 free relay on the last day…