Kristóf Milák wins Hungary’s third gold in 100m men’s butterfly – PHOTOS

Kristóf Milák secured Hungary’s third gold at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with a fantastic swimming in the 100m men’s butterfly. His time was below 50 seconds.

Milák could win Olympic gold in two consecutive Olympic Games like Krisztina Egerszegi and Tamás Darnyi. Before, he secured Hungary’s first silver in men’s 200m butterfly. Afterwards, many seemed disappointed since they expected him to defend his first place earned in 2021 in Tokyo.

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Now, they received a solid answer to all concerns about his swimming career. Sports leaders and the press criticised Milák before the Olympics. He disappeared in 2023 and did not talk to journalists. He said before the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Japan that he was both mentally and physically unfit to participate.

He had the best time both in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. In the final, the French Maxime Grousset and the Canadian Josh Liendo fell only milliseconds behind him, telex.hu wrote.

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Hungary’s swimming captain did not trust Milák last December

The world record holder Caeleb Dressel and the four-time Paris Olympic champion Léon Marchand did not participate in the 100m men’s butterfly.

Milák is the first Hungarian Olympic champion of the 100m men’s butterfly.

Milák won silver in Tokyo in 100m and gold in 200m. In Paris, he switched up the two results.

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In December, the Hungarian swimming team’s captain, Csaba Sós, said Milák’s condition was catastrophic because he missed more than half a year in training. He said there was no sign of Milák struggling with depression.

The Hungarian athlete refuted all the critics with his miraculous performance in Paris. Congratulations!

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