Hungarian World Championships team has been announced after the national championships

The Hungarian swimming championships finished on Saturday evening and an hour later Csaba Sós, the national coach announced the hosts’ team for the 17th FINA World Championships to be held in July in Budapest. It seems that in the history of the championships Hungary delegates competitors for all events.

The Hungarian swimming championships were held in Debrecen, which city had organized European Championships in 2012. All of the top swimmers of Hungary participated at the event, since it was qualification race for the World Championships.

The Iron Lady, 3-time Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú started at all events in women’s competition. She claimed 6 gold medals, even though she considered the national championships only as one step towards the World Championships in summer. ‘I did not plan to swim world-leading time of 2:09.38, I did not feel how good form I was in, but it gives me plus motivation’ said Katinka after the 200 m individual medley.

Boglárka Kapás also performed the best time of this year’s in 1500 m freestyle with 16:04.19, however the Olympic bronze medallist of 800 m freestyle in Rio was not perfectly satisfied, since she planned to go under 16 minutes. Kapás also claimed gold in 800 m freestyle on the last day of the championships to celebrate her birthday in her hometown. In 400 m freestyle 15-ear-old multiple junior European champion Ajna Késely finished first with top10 time in the world ranking. She qualified for the WCH team earlier in 1500 m freestyle.

As of men’s competition 17-year-old Nándor Németh broke the national record in 100 m freestyle and with his time of 48.64 he got into top10 in the world ranking. However, based on Csaba Sós’s decision, he will only compete in relay events in the 17th FINA World Championships in order to be able to reach top form for the Junior World Championships to be held at the end of August where he has real chance even for gold.

Dániel Gyurta, Olympic champion of London in 200 m breaststroke claimed all three gold medals of breaststroke events and he qualified for these individual events in the World Championships. László Cseh, who won silver medal in the memorable 3-membered tie in 100 m butterfly in Rio (with Michael Phelps and Chad le Clos) was surprisingly defeated in this event by 16-year-old Kristóf Milák, but Cseh started training only at the beginning of the year because he had a longer relaxation period after Rio. In 200 m butterfly Tamás Kenderesi, the bronze medallist of Rio claimed gold and qualified for the World Championships besides László Cseh.