Kristof Milak<\/strong> drew on his determination and experience to overcome the effects of the coronavirus with a golden 40 minutes during which he went 51.07 in the 100 fly and won the 200 free in a PB at the Hungarian Championships.<\/p>\n

Ajna Kesely<\/strong> also won double gold in the 200 and 1500 free to finish her competition with a clean sweep of the freestyle events from 200 up.<\/p>\n

It brought to an end the competition in Kaposvar which had evening prelims and morning finals, mirroring the schedule at the Olympics in Tokyo in July 2021.<\/p>\n

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Kristof Milak: Photo Courtesy: Patrick B. Kraemer<\/p><\/div>\n
Milak’s PB stands as his world junior record of 50.62 from the 2017 World Championships in Budapest aged 17.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s performance would have been quick enough to dislodge Chad Le Clos<\/strong> from the bronze-medal position at last year’s World Championships in Gwangju, the South African having clocked 51.16, one place ahead of Milak.<\/p>\n
That came after a final-length blast secured victory in the 200 free following a stroke-for-stroke duel with Nandor Nemeth<\/strong> as the placings in the 100 free were reversed.<\/p>\n
The pair turned at 150 locked at 1:19.88 but Milak unleashed a power surge of 26.80 to Nemeth’s 27.52 to win in 1:46.68.<\/p>\n
Nemeth stopped the clock at 1:47.40 with Gabor Zombori moving from fourth to third in 1:48.60.<\/p>\n
Milak’s coach Attila Selmeci\u00a0<\/strong>said after the four-length race: \u201cHe feels the rhythm so much, he swims so cleverly that it\u2019s incredible,” before watching on as he completed his competition in the fly.<\/p>\n
Milak finished with two gold and three silver medals, reward for drawing on determination, resilience and experience.<\/p>\n
He told musz.hu:<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a hard time getting up, just getting out on time, trying to get the warm-up through normally.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Quoting a Hungarian proverb, he continued:<\/p>\n
“I was down and out as one who is taken to be hanged.<\/p>\n
“Then I realised again that I really felt this way: to bring out the best in myself in such a frayed, dilapidated state.<\/p>\n
“After all, I\u2019ve been doing this since 2017, I swim in several meets with little breaks, and it still worked today.<\/p>\n
“Apparently I also had to have a gold after the three silvers, although I\u2019m not saying I was unhappy with my previous performance.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m happy to take the 200m title, then in the 100m fly I was kind of approaching the last 25m like everyone was dropping his trunks.<\/p>\n
“I just had to give everything, this was the last 25m of the whole meetand now I had to focus solely on myself and I swam, just swam.<\/p>\n
“The time is fine, though I prefer to see it beginning with 50.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kesely Completes Clean Sweep<\/h3>\n
Kesely led from start to finish to win the 1500fr in 16:34.43 ahead of Viktori Mihalyvari-Farkas\u00a0<\/strong>before returning to the pool for the 200.<\/p>\n
The four-time European medallist went ahead on the third length to secure a clear victory in 2:00.13 with Laura Veres<\/strong> – born in 2005 – second in 2:01.11.<\/p>\n
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Ajna Kesely: Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n
Kesely said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 1500 was very much a morning swim, it actually warmed me up for the 200.<\/p>\n
“Since there was no Bogi (Boglarka Kapas) and Zsu (Jakabos), there was no need for a better time now – if they had been here too, we would definitely have gone under two minutes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dalma Sebestyen<\/strong> overcame a deficit of 0.13 at halfway to win the women’s 100fly in 1:00.19, just 0.01 ahead of Evelyn Verraszto<\/strong> in second in 1:00.20.<\/p>\n
The fastest time of the day however was the 1:00.08 by Boglarka Kapas<\/strong> in the B final as the world 200 fly champion brought to an end a rollercoaster competition.<\/p>\n
The Rio 2016 800fr bronze medallist pulled out of the 200 fly<\/a> after feeling unwell in warm-up and revealed she had been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis,<\/a> months after she had contracted the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Kapas then returned to win the 400IM but didn’t progress from Friday night’s 100 fly prelims.<\/p>\n
“I ruined the preliminaries, I thought a looser swim would be enough, and then I ended up in the B-final, which was absolutely my fault.<\/p>\n
“Now I clearly wanted to be at my personal best, which I did, even though I have so many regrets that I haven\u2019t been under a minute but in the morning it is a pretty good time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00c1kos Kalm\u00e1r<\/strong> won the men’s 800 free in 7: 58.05,\u00a0Katalin Burian<\/strong> completed the backstroke clean sweep with victory in the 50 in 28.89 with Richard Bohus<\/strong> took the men’s title in 25.05.<\/p>\n
Csaba Szil\u00e1gyi <\/strong>won the men’s 50br in 27.15 with Anna\u00a0Stankovics<\/strong> taking the women’s title in 31.65.<\/p>\n
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