2017 HUNGARIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- April 19th-22nd, 2017
- Debrecen, Hungary
- LCM
- Results
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Recap
- Day 3 – prelims recap
- Day 3 – finals recap
Always in the “iron mode”, Katinka Hosszu has again entered all events. Prelims start with the women’s 50m breaststroke and 15-year old Reka Vecsei, who already won the double distance yesterday, clocked the fastest time in 32,41 while Katinka Hosszu placed third in heats in 32,47.
Daniel Gyurta is the 2017 Hungarian Champion in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and also took the top seed for tonight’s final in the sprint distance in 28,34.
Sara Joo came in with the fastest time in the women’s 50m backstroke in 29,31, Hosszu will be in the third seed in 29,64. On the men’s side Bence Szentes took the top spot in 25,90.
Outside the swimmers who made it into the finals, Krisztina Egerszegi‘s son Balint Vigassy-Egerszegi (17) clocked a 28,28. Krisztina Egerszegi is one of Hungary’s most successful swimmers ever – she is a five time olympic champion – she won the gold medal in the 200m backstroke three times in a row at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. She has three sons. Overall she won seven Olympic medals. Her Hungarian national records in the 100m and 200m backstroke were the oldest ones on the list of Hungarian records and it took more than 20 years until the Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu was able to better the 100m backstroke record in 2013 and the 200m backstroke record in 2015.
16-year old Anja Kesely swam the swiftest morning 200m freestyle time in 2:00,62 for the top spot in the women’s final followed by Hosszu in 2:01,56. Richard Marton scored the top seed in the men’s 200m freestyle in 1:50,93.
Liliana Szilagyi clocked the fastest tim in the 100m fly in 1:00,42, Suisse’s Sasha Touretski came in third in 1:00,80 – Touretski starts for the Hungarian swim club Gyori Uszo Sportegy. (Note: Hungarian Nationals are open for international swimmers.) Normally Touretski’s training base is in Switzerland, her coach is her father Gennadi Touretski, best known for training multiple Olympic gold medalists Alexander Popov and Michael Klim through the 1990s. He also trained Austalia’s Olympic champion Ian Thorpe in 2011 during his comeback attempt.
Olympic silver medalist Laszlo Cseh checked in with a 52,92 in the 100m butterfly for the #2 seed in finals, Bence Pulai hit the wall first in 52,60 in the morning heats.
If Egerszegi hadn’t been afraid of the Chinese, she would have most likely won the 100 back in Atlanta 1996. She didn’t swim the individual event, but her time leading off Hungary’s medley relay was faster than Beth Botsford went to win the event. She would have been without peer in winning the 100 AND 200 Back for three consecutive Olympiads.
Hungarian Team after the champs, the race is still open for an A level time for the empty places. Swimmers in paranthesis are potential starters as there is a chance for a withdrawal in that event. Fresh 100FR record holder Németh Nándor skips the invidual events as he has a medal chance at the junior WC. I think Gyurta Gergely has an A level time for 1500 FR, but seems like he skips it (probably too much with the 800 FR and the 400 IM).
Men
50m FR: Takács Krisztián, Lobanovszkij Maxim
100m FR: Bohus Richárd, Kozma Dominik
200m FR: Kozma Dominik, Bernek Péter
400m FR: Bernek Péter
800m FR: Gyurta Gergely
1500m FR: Rasovszky… Read more »
Interesting cultural differences in the order of swimming men and women events. I see that in Hungarian National Championships when during swimming session men and women have to swim same events then men do it first followed by women’s race of same event. American do it in opposite order.
Results of the individual events on the final day:
200 FR M
1. Bernek Péter 1:48.54
2. Milák Kristóf 1:48.82
3. Németh Nándor 1:49.25
200 FR F
1. Hosszú Katinka 1:57.29
2. Késely Ajna 1:57.86
3. Verrasztó Evelyn 1:58.44
50 BR M
1. Gyurta Dániel 28.11
2. Danila Dolenko 28.51
3. Horváth Zoltán 28.81
3. Rozanovic Ádám 28.81
50 BR F
1. Molnár Flóra 32.12
2. Szurovcsák Ivett 32.24
3. Hosszú Katinka 32.28
50 BK M
1. Bohus Richárd 25.16
2. Balog Gábor 25.56
3. Szentes Bence 25.62
50 BK F
1. Hosszú Katinka 28.54
2. Joó Sára 28.95
3. Burián Katalin 28.97
100… Read more »
Hungarian W4x200 relay looks better on paper now than Canadian one after trials. The one that some people saw the Champion in three months.
There are a lot of discussions of who is greater trying to compare swimmers of different epoch that stands apart sometimes for more or close to a half of a century. It is not a fair question because everything was different. Different was level of competition, number of competitors and number of countries that competed. Different was equipment and rules. Different was coaching approaches and scientific knowledge about swimming techniques and biological processes. But with all these differences there are some Names that won’t cause any doubts by anybody about their greatness. Because performance times speak for them decades later. Krisztina Egerszegi is one of them.
Atlanta 1996 200 back Egerszegi gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqoiH5aqEE
Barcelona 1992 100 back gold 200 back gold 400 IM gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEEuW4sB3Y
That 400 IM race was incredible.
Athens 1991 European championships 200 back Egerszegi gold. World record 2.06.62
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0g8Y11mgoQ
i think 1991 is the first year one didn’t have to hand touch the wall on the turns and back flip turn came about. That swim was pretty amazing considering no tech suit and she just learned the new turn.
Really, really incredible performance (same level that historical Meagher’s WR in the 200 fly) from an incredible swimmer.
Last Olympics 200 back (one of the most exciting races): Di Rado 2.05.99, Hosszu 2.06.05, Caldwell 2.07.54.
If (yes, I know that is an useless topic) Egerszegi had swum 25 years later:
1) That race would have been exciting for the second place far behind Egerszegi
2) Considering all the advantages of today’s backstrokers (turns, starts, swimming-pools, suits, training methods, “supplements”, etc etc) I don’t know if Egerszegi would have swum 2.03 or even faster..