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
- Entries/Live Results
- Livestream (Prelims Only)
We entered day three of the 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships with several key swimmers staking their claims on World Championships-worthy performances.
We reported how 22-year-old Hubert Kos fired off a time of 52.24 to take the men’s 100m backstroke, establishing a new lifetime best and Hungarian national record in the process.
His time now renders him #1 in the world and adds the event to his list of victories here, tripling up with his 50m back and 200m IM podium-topping swims from last night.
Additionally, open water Olympic medalist Kristof Rasovszky undercut a supersuited record en route to winning the men’s 400m free.
Rasovszky notched a winning effort of 3:45.32 to overtake Gergo Kis‘ longstanding benchmark of 3:45.68 put on the books at the 2009 World Championships.
Another Olympic champion dove in for an event this evening, as 25-year-old Kristof Milak contested his signature race of the men’s 200m butterfly.
Milak stopped the clock at a time of 1:56.13 to take the decisive win, beating the pack by over a second.
Dominik Torok snagged silver in 1:57.40 and Richard Marton bagged bronze in 1:57.82.
Milak’s time may be pedestrian by his standards, but the result was enough to dip under the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 1:56.51 needed for Singapore.
He uncharacteristically ranks outside the top 5 performers in the world at the moment, checking in as the 9th-swiftest thus far this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 200 Fly
URLANDO
1:52.37
| 2 | Krzysztof Chmielewski | POL | 1:54.36 | 04/04 |
| 3 | GENKI TERAKADO | JPN | 1:54.73 | 03/21 |
| 4 | Sou Ogata | JPN | 1:55.34 | 03/21 |
| 5 | Michal Chmielewski | POL | 1:55.36 | 04/04 |
| 6 | TAKUMI TERADA | JPN | 1:55.52 | 03/21 |
| 7 | Tomoru Honda | JPN | 1:55.66 | 02/16 |
| 8 | Trenton Julian | USA | 1:56.02 | 03/06 |
| 9 | Kristof MILAK | HUN | 1:56.13 | 04/10 |
| 10 | Petar Mitsin | BUL | 1:56.29 | 03/30 |
The sole World Championships qualifying time on the women’s side came courtesy of Ajna Kesely‘s winning effort in the 400m freestyle.
National record holder Kesely nabbed a time of 4:08.82 as the gold medalist, easily clearing the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut of 4:10.23 needed for Singapore.
Kesely owns the Hungarian standard at the lifetime best of 4:01.31 she produced in 2019. Nevertheless, the 23-year-old now ranks 7th in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 400 Free
LEDECKY
4:01.04
| 2 | Yang Peiqi | CHN | 4:05.17 | 03/22 |
| 3 | Ichika Kajimoto | JPN | 4:07.58 | 03/20 |
| 4 | Li Jiapeng | CHN | 4:07.75 | 03/22 |
| 5 | MIYU NAMBA | JPN | 4:08.55 | 03/20 |
| 6 | Mary-Sophie HARVEY | CAN | 4:08.67 | 03/06 |
| 7 | Ajna KÉSELY | HUN | 4:08.82 | 04/10 |
| 8 | Gabrielle RONCATTO | BRA | 4:09.01 | 03/06 |
| 9 | Simona QUADARELLA | ITA | 4:09.24 | 03/22 |
| 10 | RUKA TAKEZAWA | JPN | 4:09.27 | 01/26 |
Additional Notes
- Laura Ilyes topped the women’s 200m fly podium in a time of 2:10.59.
- Katalin Burian reaped gold in the women’s 100m back race with a swim of 1:01.30.
- Petra Senanszky was too quick to catch in the women’s 50m free, registering 25.27 as the victor.
- The men’s 50m free saw Szebasztian Szabo get to the wall first in 22.13. Luka Cvetko held onto his 2nd position from prelims with a time of 22.21 as Nandor Nemeth, competing in his sole event of this meet, notched 22.23 for bronze.
Barely in the top 10. He couldn’t even beat Mr Piano. Pretty lazy effort considering this is a National championship
I’m hearing that bro missed every training session since 2012, his coach is very worried guys
Bro is really giving the Hungarian Swimming Federation and Hungarian media some ammunition with this one. I’m sure he’s fine, he hit an A cut and won, but they don’t give him much latitude.
Who cares about what Hungarian Swimming Federation says at this point?
Hopefully no one. They have certainly lost all of my respect with the way they continually mistreat their swimmers. I’m just acknowledging CasualSwimmer’s joke and saying it wouldn’t even surprise me if they used a swim like this against him now or in the future.
What happened man? Maybe he isn’t tapered at all
lol, either not tapered at all, or extremely waaaay too tapered😂 but don’t mean to hate, I love Kristof
I’m hoping he is not tapered at all. The couple of years he has been pretty inconsistent with his training so I think this time he’s grinding through nationals. I love Kristof too
His 100 free was quite good.
Let’s see his 100 fly.
It’s reported he was just coming back from altitude training in Italy, but I think 1:56 is still a bit off by his standard even if he’s in heavy training. It’s probable he hasn’t been back to training for too long either. And we all love Kristof.