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The Hungarian swimmers keep winning medals in London
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Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu and index.hu report the latest successes of Hungarian swimmers at the European Championship in London. Boglárka Kapás, Katinka Hosszú, László Cseh and the women’s free relay team won gold medals. Hosszú also won a silver just like Richárd Buhos, while Tamás Kenderesi got hold of a bronze.
The 4th day (May 19) of this year’s European Aquatics Championship, held in London, brought victories for the Hungarian swimmers. The first one to be on top of the podium was Boglárka Kapás, who got into the 800m freestyle final with the best time result, writes szeretlekmagyarorszag. In the final, she was the first to turn at 350m and could keep being ahead of the others.
Eventually, the 23 years old swimmer’s time (8:21.4) was 2.12 seconds better than that of the second, Jazmin Carlin. In an interview Kapás told M4 that she wanted to finish the heat by a better time, but was happy she could do everything she discussed with her coaches and managed to win gold after 4 years again.
Next up was Katinka Hosszú’s turn at the 200m medley final. Following the butterfly leg, as she turned for backstroke, Hosszú got way ahead of the field and after being almost reached at breaststroke, in the final 50m she outswam the others and won gold ahead of Siobhan-Marie O’Connor with a time of 2:07:3. Evelyn Verrasztó, the other Hungarian competing in the final became 5th and was really happy about it, according to Index.
Right after receiving her well-deserved gold medal for the medley, Hosszú was found in the pool again. She competed in the final of 100m backstroke too, where 2 years ago she shared gold with Mie Oe. Nielsen. This time, even though Hosszú started well, the Danish Nielsen won alone and the Hungarian became 2nd.
Then came the men’s 200m butterfly final with László Cseh and Tamás Kenderesi. They swam very well, Kenderesi became 3rd and Cseh won with a great time, 1:52.91. As len.eu, the official site of LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) put it, “[the] only rival [of Laszlo Cseh, having, perhaps, the best phase of his career] was the virtual red line on the screen, showing the pace of the European record – which he set in the shiny-suit era eight years ago”.
