{"id":534193,"date":"2023-07-28T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=534193"},"modified":"2023-07-29T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T22:51:25","slug":"worlds-how-hubert-kos-went-from-203-to-gold-in-mens-200-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/worlds-how-hubert-kos-went-from-203-to-gold-in-mens-200-back\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: How Hubert Kos Went from 2:03 to Gold in Men&#8217;s 200 Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worlds: How Hubert Kos Went from 2:03 to Gold in Men&#8217;s 200 Back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 200 backstroke had become something of a forgotten event for <strong>Hubert Kos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t exactly portend greatness. In the 2020 season abbreviated by COVID-19, his best time hovered at 2:05.58.<\/p>\n<p>Three and a half years later and more than nine seconds faster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-six-finals-hubert-kos-gets-his-time-to-shine-with-gold-in-200-backstroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kos is a world champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kos\u2019 journey is a remarkable instance of sticking with an event. It\u2019s also a testament to his training, both in Hungary and in his six-month crash course since joining <strong>Bob Bowman\u2019s<\/strong> group at Arizona State.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2023-world-aquatics-championships\">World Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2023\/world-aquatics-championships-sw-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even then, though, Kos said that the focus was on his individual medley, until a serendipitous swim in April at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont brought a time of 1:55.95 and a renewed focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went out to Arizona State to focus on my IM because the IM group there is kind of good,\u201d Kos said Friday night, a tinge of sarcasm on the end. \u201cWhen I got there, we were getting ready for the 2IM, and it was really good working with Leon (Marchand), working with Chase (Kalisz) on that and I felt like I was getting really good on that. But leading up to one of the TYR Pro Series at Westmont, Bob said, let\u2019s try the 2-back, let\u2019s try to qualify for that. And I swam a really good time in that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the time that was the best time in the world, (1:)55.9. That was a really good swim, I thought. There was a couple of mistakes in there that I knew I could fix, but I think that was the moment that I knew that I was going to swim it at Worlds and really focus on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t have come out of nowhere. Kos is cut from the same mold as past Hungarian stars like<strong> Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> and <strong>Laszlo Cseh<\/strong>, consummate IMers with versatility in the 200 strokes, particularly back and fly. He swam both IMs at NCAAs for the Sun Devils, finishing 11th in a disappointing 200 but recovering for fourth in the 400 IM before garnering bronze in the 200 back.<\/p>\n<p>That led into the Westmont swim, which fueled a focus on backstroke training to achieve Friday\u2019s gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think after Westmont, after I swam the top time in the world, I was like, OK, there\u2019s a realistic possibility if I really train well,\u201d Kos said. \u201cAnd I hadn\u2019t been focusing on the backstroke too much in practices leading up to that point. But after that, I just grabbed a little bit of extra motivation and put that into my training and really went for the backstrokes when I could. I think maybe three or four months before Worlds is when I thought I had a realistic possibility, and here I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kos speaks glowingly of his training environment in Tempe, surrounded by an Olympic champion in <strong>Chase Kalisz<\/strong> and <strong>Leon Marchand,<\/strong> the three-time champ at these Worlds, including the IM double. He called the work with Bowman \u201cmagic,\u201d and cited the dynamic in the group as vital in pushing each other forward.<\/p>\n<p>He and Bowman narrowed down a race plan that Kos executed, by his estimation, \u201cperfectly\u201d in finals. He seems adept at taking on feedback and correcting his mistakes from one swim to the next.<\/p>\n<p>He went out in 27.04, third in the field, but worked the middle two hard. His 27.78 in the second 50 trailed only <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, and just by .03, then he went 29.05 to seize the lead on the third 50. Murphy had the superior wall coming home, but Kos outswam him by .5 over the last 50 meters in 29.27 to the 100 back champ\u2019s 29.77.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI split the same first 50 last night and I wrote it down on my 50 and said, I have to go out the same exact time with the same amount of strokes to control it a little bit, and then go for it from there,\u201d Kos said. \u201cI kind of almost fell asleep last night in the third 50, and I fell asleep in the second 50 in the morning, so I managed not to fall asleep tonight. \u2026 Yesterday, when I had a 30-plus split on my third 50, he was like, don\u2019t ever try that again. I was like, OK boss. I didn\u2019t tonight, and here we are now with a gold medal on my neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kos finished seventh in the 100 back in Fukuoka this week. He scratched the 200 IM to focus on the 200 back. He says he\u2019s got \u201canother trick up my sleeve\u201d of a different event he can go with in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the speed, Kos showed a little feistiness this week. The Hungarian team that was missing <strong>Kristof Milak<\/strong> was underestimated. While Kos took that personally, they were on track to miss the medals altogether if not for his star turn. Even in Budapest last year at Worlds, Milak\u2019s butterfly double accounted for the nation\u2019s only medals.<\/p>\n<p>With Kos and Milak, the Hungarians head for Paris with a pair of bona fide, young stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing into this World Championships, we were kind of written down without the likes of Milak, Laszlo, Katinka \u2013 names who\u2019ve been there for years and years and have done so well,\u201d Kos said. \u201cComing into this Worlds, somebody said this is one of the worst teams we\u2019ve ever had, and I was like, OK we\u2019re not going to talk about the Hungarian team like that. So I kind of stepped up to the plate there, and wanted to prove that without them, we still have swimmers, we still have people who can swim and do well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worlds: How Hubert Kos Went from 2:03 to Gold in Men&#8217;s 200 Back The 200 backstroke had become something of a forgotten event for Hubert Kos. 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