There was a double Hungarian victory within the first last of Thursday’s competitors day of the European Swimming Championships in Belgrade: Kristóf Milák received gold and Hubert Kós received silver within the 100-meter butterfly.
The battle of Kristóf Milák and Hubert Kós ended with gold and silver within the 100 butterfly on the European Championships
Kós is one of the best, whereas Milák was ready for the ultimate with the third time, though the latter was nonetheless within the last of the 100 meters quick 10 minutes earlier than Wednesday’s semi-final.
The ultimate was an amazingly shut workforce, the 2 Hungarians took second and third place, and the Polish Jakub Majerski was main even with 5 meters to go, however the Olympic silver medalist within the observe and the Hungarian world champion within the 200-meter backstroke each touched the wall earlier.
Hubert Kós: I’m glad that I used to be so near Kristóf Milák
Milák received the third gold of the Hungarian delegation on the continental competitors within the Serbian capital.
After the ultimate, Hubert Kós informed M4 Sport that he was very happy with the time outcome, that he would have signed the 50.96 upfront, and that he was particularly completely satisfied that he got here so near Kristóf Milák. Kós said that, along with the 200-meter backstroke, he will certainly undertake this occasion on the Paris Olympics. He added that there may be one other quantity within the French capital.
Ábrahám Minna, along with European silver, additionally swam Olympic stage within the 200 breaststroke
Ábrahám Minna received a silver medal within the 200-meter dash with an Olympic-level time. Ábrahám improved his private greatest (1:57.96 minutes) within the semi-finals and crossed the end line with a time of 1:57.65 minutes, so he was not far behind the Olympic stage (1:57.26), thus ready for the ultimate in one of the best place.
Within the last, the Czech Barbora Seemanova received by a big margin, and the 18-year-old Ábrahám touched the wall in second place in an enormous battle and surpassed the five-ring stage with one other private greatest, 4 hundredths of a second, 1:57.22.
“I got here right here desirous to implement an ideal race plan, and a very good time will come from that. The extent was the primary for me, and the truth that I received a silver medal is sort of unbelievable. I labored extremely exhausting for this stage, it was very exhausting, but it surely needed to be that manner” – stated Ábrahám, who will be capable to symbolize the Hungarian colours in Paris on this situation with Pádár Nikotel, who is identical age as him.
Lora Komoróczy completed in fourth place within the 50-meter backstroke with a private greatest. She improved the Hungarian competitor’s greatest time (28.08 seconds) by six hundredths, she missed the rostrum by two hundredths, the quantity was received by the Irish Danielle Hill with a time of 27.73.
Lora Komoróczy is fourth within the European Championship within the 50 backstroke
“Sadly, I am in some way not on good phrases with these centuries. In my profession, I recurrently should undergo for achievement. That once I get there, I will be happier” Komoróczy informed MTI.
Lora Komoróczy: It appears that evidently my time will come later
Three out of 4 Hungarians secured their place within the last from the semi-finals. Within the ladies’s 100-meter butterfly, not far behind Ugrai Panna’s private greatest (58.93 seconds), she completed sixth in her race with a time of 59.10 seconds, and completed her efficiency in thirteenth place general.
Within the males’s 50-meter backstroke within the morning, Kós (24.96 sec) and Ádám Jászó (25.33) superior from the preliminaries with private bests, and the 2 Hungarians had been positioned in the identical race this time. Half an hour after the ultimate of the 100-meter butterfly, the place he received the silver medal, Kós was presumably much more drained, so he crossed the end line with 25.07, whereas Jászó completed with one other, this time, an enormous particular person report of 24.97. Each shall be there in Friday’s finale, with the sixth and eighth occasions.
“It appears to be like like the primary fifty are already there, I simply have so as to add the opposite one. In any case, I’m very completely satisfied concerning the private greatest and that I shall be a European particular person finalist for the primary time in my life” Jászó, whose 100-meter backstroke has an Olympic stage and that’s his primary quantity, informed MTI.
Within the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke, Eszter Békési considerably surpassed her time within the morning (2:30.63 minutes) and with a time of two:27.77, she instantly certified for the ultimate because the runner-up, the place she has the sixth greatest outcome.
“The morning was horrible, I arrived twenty minutes early within the final name room, the place I used to be sitting at about fifty levels, now I did not make that mistake and the climate is a bit more nice. Lately, I at all times cringed at a very good outcome, however I’ve already taken that off, tomorrow shall be a pleasure swim” – stated Békési, who received a bronze medal as a member of the 4×100 meter medley relay.
Outcomes:
males’s 100 m butterfly, European champion:
KRISTOF MILÁK 50.82 seconds
2. HUBERT KÓS 50.96
3. Jakub Majerski (Poland) 50.98
ladies’s 50 m backstroke, European champion:
Danielle Hill (Eire) 27.73 seconds
2. Teodora Draku (Greece) 27.87
3. Adela Spikorska (Poland) 28.00
4. KOMORÓCZY LORA 28/02
Cowl picture: Belgrade, June 19, 2024. Kristóf Milák within the semi-finals of the boys’s 100-meter butterfly on the European Swimming Championships in Belgrade on June 19, 2024. MTI/István Derencsényi
