Laszlo Cseh Downs Nikolay Skvortsov’s 200 Fly European Record at Euro SC

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Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh took down the European record in the men’s 200-meter fly at the 2015 European Short Course Championships.

Cseh clocked a time of 1:49.00 for the win tonight, downing the 1:49.46 set by Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov back in December 2009 at the European Short Course Championships. That swim originally crushed the former European record of 1:50.53 set by Skvortsov in February of 2009.

Cseh split the race 24.19, 51.79 (27.60), 1:20.16 (28.37), 1:49.00 (28.84).

The swim moved Cseh to third in the all time rankings as he also crushed his former Hungarian record of 1:50.87 from 2011.

“Well, it might have been better if someone could push me a bit harder as I wanted the smash the world record but swimming lonely in front it’s a hard task and I couldn’t make it. My swim was fine after all, turns were OK, though I wasn’t as dynamic in the last 25m as in the morning.” – Laszlo Cseh

Only Chad le Clos (1:48.56) and Daiya Seto (1:48.92) have been faster than Cseh at this point in time.

All Time 200 Fly

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—and it's a ER for @CsL007 in the #200m #Fly! 1:49.00, that's fast! :) #Netanya2015 #ArenaBOOM pic.twitter.com/ZmjQuK0bGJ

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Alejandro Urista Camacho

8 years ago

Ricardo Parra Hdz

Jacob Limaldi

8 years ago

Andrew Smith Zachary DiGiaro Tyler Kauth

Tamas Fekete

8 years ago

En stor idrottsman är den gode Laszlo

Dave Hoover

8 years ago

….a race that Phelps has probably never swum.