{"id":323885,"date":"2018-08-05T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=323885"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:24:24","slug":"kristof-milak-rattles-phelps-world-record-in-200-fly-wins-in-152-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kristof-milak-rattles-phelps-world-record-in-200-fly-wins-in-152-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristof Milak Rattles Phelps’ World Record in 200 Fly, Wins in 1:52.79"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary’s\u00a0Kristof Milak\u00a0<\/strong>swam under world-record pace for the first 100 meters of the 200 fly final, and he was just a tenth off the pace with 50 meters to go. The teenager became the first man in years to give a real challenge to the world record, the 1:51.51 set by\u00a0Michael Phelps\u00a0<\/strong>nine years ago in Rome.<\/p>\n

Milak ended up fading badly on the final 50 meters and touching in 1:52.79, off not only Phelps’ world record but also countryman\u00a0Laszlo Cseh’s\u00a0<\/strong>European record (1:52.70 from 2008) and Milak’s own world junior record (1:52.71 from last year). Milak did beat Cseh’s meet record of 1:52.91 from 2016.<\/p>\n

Another Hungarian,\u00a0Tamas Kenderesi<\/strong>, took silver in 1:54.36. Kenderesi struggled in 2017 after winning Olympic bronze in 2016, but he bounced back nicely for a medal in Glasgow. Italy’s\u00a0Federico Burdisso\u00a0<\/strong>claimed bronze in 1:55.97.<\/p>\n

Denmark’s\u00a0Viktor Bromer\u00a0<\/strong>and Belgium’s Louis Croenen\u00a0<\/strong>tied for\u00a0fourth in 1:56.33, followed by Poland’s\u00a0Jan Switkowski\u00a0<\/strong>(1:56.53), Azerbaijan’s\u00a0Maksym Shemberev<\/strong> (1:56.73) and Bulgaria’s\u00a0Antani Ivanov<\/strong> (1:57.88).<\/p>\n

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