2026 Hungarian National Championships
- April 15-19, 2026
- Prelims
- Day 1, 3, 5: 9:00 am local (3:00 am ET)
- Day 2 & 4: 10 am local (4:00 am ET)
- Finals — 5:30 pm local (11:30 am ET)
- Sopron, Hungary — Lővér Swimming Pool
- LCM (50 Meters)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Meet Central
- Live Results and Start Lists
- Livestreams on YouTube
- Day 1 Finals Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
Day three prelims of the 2026 Hungarian National Championships saw 26-year-old Kristof Milak capture two top seeds to continue his successful comeback campaign.
Racing in his first competition since last year’s edition of this meet, Milak tried both the men’s 50m fly and 200m free on for size this morning, after having reaped gold last night in the 100m free (48.36).
Milak produced the fastest time of the morning in the 50m fly, logging 23.59 to lead the heats.
The next-closest competitor was Zoltan Bagi, who notched 23.95 as the only other sub-24-second performer.
17-year-old David Antal, last night’s 200m fly victor after Milak dropped the final, earned the 3rd seed in 24.31 while Szebasztian Szabo lurks as the 4th-seeded athlete in 24.49.
30-year-old Szabo is the reigning national record holder in this event, owning a lifetime best of 22.90 from the 2019 World Championships.
Milak ranks as the nation’s 3rd-best performer of all time, possessing a PB of 23.27 from three years ago.
Next on Milak’s list this morning was the men’s 200m free, where he led the pack once again.
The versatile ace established a field-leading outing of 1:50.18 to hold a narrow advantage over Nandor Nemeth, who will try to upgrade his 100m free silver to gold, hitting 1:50.37.
Milak has been as swift as 1:45.74 in his career, a time he posted for 5th place at the 2021 European Championships.
As a refresher, new this year is the fact that these championships include semi-finals of all events at the 50-100-200 distance. That means swimmers need to race these events three times in order to vie for medals.
He just went 23.03 in the 50 fly, a sizeable PB.
Even if he doesn’t recover in the 200 fly because of too little training or whatever, it looks like he should still be able to throw down strong 100s
According to some fairly reliable sources (his coach) he was expecting to be sub 1:55 in the 200 fly. I suspect he chose to scratch it to swim the 100 free, and he will get the QT (we have those too now) at a Mare stop or Sette Colli or whatever.
He got 9th in the 200 semis, if no one scratches he misses the final
For many of the other events they have taken 10 to the final, so he might be in
He is in. Finals have 10 swimmers because of the new system. Don’t ask me why.