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As Hype Builds for Paris Olympics, Men's 100 Butterfly Could Be a Race to Remember At the last Olympics, the men’s 100 butterfly unfolded as a showdown of two world-record-holding, Olympic-gold-medal-winning swimmers with very different racing styles. The United States’ Caeleb Dressel, already the g...

Hungarian Championships: Kristof Milak Marks Return With 200 Fly/50 Free Double in A Cut Times   Kristof Milak, in case you’re keeping score at home, is back. And in a very big way. Milak bookended the finals session of Day 2 of the Hungarian National Championships Wednesday by winning the men’s 200...

Kristof Milak made a winning return to the water and Katinka Hosszu retraced her steps to the podium at the Hungarian Championships in Budapest. Milak, the Olympic 200 fly champion and world record-holder, has been seldom seen in international waters since 2022 when he won the 100/200 double at the ...

Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

World Swimming Championships (Kristof Milak) Gwangju 2019 Day Four Finals (Men's 200 Fly) Hungary's Kristof Milak crushed the world record in the 200 fly on Wednesday night at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.  Milak, 19, crushed the world record at 1:50.73 to lower...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

David Popovici Sets 100 Free World Record Of 46.86 David Popovici set a new world record of 46.86 in the 100m freestyle final at the European Championships in Rome. The 17-year-old sliced 0.05secs off the previous standard of 46.91 set by Cesar Cielo in the very same Foro Italico at the 2009 World C...

Ranking the Men's World Records From Softest to Most Challenging Our sport’s world-record book features 17 individual standards for long-course competition. Some of the marks are newer in age, such as the three-month-old 100-meter freestyle record of Romanian teenager David Popovici. Some are more m...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World’s Top 25 Male Swimmers The title of the top female swimmer in the world has shifted on several occasions this year. Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown have all been considered for that spot throughout the past several months, but at the Olympics, ...

Worlds: How Hubert Kos Went from 2:03 to Gold in Men's 200 Back The 200 backstroke had become something of a forgotten event for Hubert Kos. The Hungarian had shown early promise in the event, even if a 2:02.58 at age 16 at the 2019 World Junior Championships didn’t exactly portend greatness. In the...

World Championships Day Four Preview and Predictions: Kristof Milak Set to Dominate 200 Butterfly At the last edition of the World Championships held in Budapest in 2017, the crowd inside the Duna Arena went crazy when Hungary's biggest swimming star, Katinka Hosszu, raced in a final. Hosszu is stil...

European Championships, Day 3 Finals: David Popovici Fires Off 46.88 100 Free; Third-Fastest Performance All-Time David Popovici went 46.88 in the 100 free with the third-fastest time in history and one only he and Pan Zhanle have bettered. The Romanian split 22.79/24.09 to retain his European title...

Tokyo Flashback: Hungary's Kristof Milak Blasts Field For Gold in 200 Butterfly One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals – each on their...

Split analysis for the 200 LCM butterfly is sponsored by LumaLanes. At the recent FINA Champions Series meet in Beijing. Daiya Seto of Japan scorched to a new Asian record 1:52.53, breaking the previous record set at the 2008 Olympic Games by fellow countryman Takeshi Matsuda. His swim moves him to ...

Paris Olympics, Day 4 Prelims: Kristof Milak The Only Man Inside 1:54 To Top 200 Fly: Tomoru Honda 22nd It's five years and six days since Kristof Milak first broke the 200 fly world record, crushing Michael Phelps' previous standard that had stood for 10 years. The young Hungarian's time of 1:50.73...

Olympic 200 fly champion Kristof Milak will spearhead a Hungary squad of 13 at the European Short-Course Championships which are being held next week in Kazan, Russia. Milak will compete at the continental 25m meet for the first time and is joined by fellow Tokyo Olympians Ajna Kesely, Katalin Buriá...

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Kristóf Milák On Preparation, Paris 2024 And His Desire To Compete At The 2028 Olympics "I have the intention to be (in LA) and win. My chances are good. Together with Hubert Kós we definitely want to be Olympic champions again. For now I can promise to swim this year's World Championships in Singap...

Paris Olympics: Kristof Milak Dominates 100 Fly Prelims at 50.19; Liendo Second As Grousset, Ponti Tie for Third At the last Olympics in Tokyo, only six men swam under 51 seconds in the entire competition, with Caeleb Dressel and Kristof Milak winning gold and silver, respectively, as they cemented ...

Energy Standard and Team Iron have confirmed their full rosters for the upcoming International Swimming League second season in Budapest. Energy Standard won the title in the inaugural season of the ISL with victory at the grand finale in Las Vegas, thanks to Florent Manaudou's progress through the ...