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
- Entries/Live Results
- Livestream (Prelims Only)
The 2025 Hungarian National Swimming Championships have been stealing several headlines this week as the action has brought us multiple records and world ranking-rattling performances.
On day two, we saw Hubert Kos down the national record in the men’s 100m back, with the Texas Longhorn ripping a lifetime beset of 52.24 while veteran open water ace Kristof Rasovszky followed suit in the men’s 400m free.
Add Ajna Kesely‘s World Championships-worthy 400m free performance into the mix and we’re anxiously awaiting the remaining days of the competition in Kaposvar this week.
Quotes courtesy of the Hungarian Swimming Association.
Kristof Rasovszky, Gold, National Record in Men’s 400m Free
“This was the goal: when I started training again in September, I told myself that I wanted to break the national record for the 400m in the next year or two. I’m very happy that I managed to do this – if only because this national championship is about time trials, because after that I won’t have much chance to qualify in the pool. That’s why I arrived here in the best possible condition, and yesterday I surprised myself in the 1500m, because I did better than I had hoped, after that I was really looking forward to the 400m. I wanted even a little better, 3:44, but I’m still very satisfied.”
Hubert Kos, Gold, National Record in Men’s 100m Back
“I’m swimming times at this national championship that I didn’t expect. This 100m I did really, really well – I’ve gone under 53 five times in my entire life, and I did it three times today. 52.2 is a time that would have won me a medal at the Olympics – I couldn’t advance from the semi-finals then, but this year I worked on it to make the 100m good, not just the 200m, and it went really well.”
Ajna Kesely, Gold in Women’s 400m Free
“I don’t know where to put my head, because this past six months have been terrible, my vertebrae have been hurting all the time, I haven’t been able to prepare as well as I wanted to – and yet I’ve really surprised myself. They say everything is decided in the head, and this has been confirmed again. I was like, after such a history, I have nothing to lose and this had a liberating effect on me, this was visible in yesterday’s 1500 and today’s 400.”
