{"id":625751,"date":"2025-11-05T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=625751"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:11:35","slug":"david-betlehem-posts-1500-free-rankings-topper-at-hungarian-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/david-betlehem-posts-1500-free-rankings-topper-at-hungarian-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e1vid\u00a0Betlehem Posts 1500 Free Rankings Topper At Hungarian Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00e1vid\u00a0Betlehem Posts 1500 Free Rankings Topper At Hungarian Championships<\/h4>\n

D\u00e1vid<\/strong>\u00a0Betlehem<\/strong> became the first man inside 14:30 this year as he went top of the 1500 free rankings at the Hungarian Short Course Championships in Debrecen.<\/p>\n

The Olympic 10k bronze medallist posted 14:27.39 which was 2.61secs swifter than Sam Short’s<\/strong> 14:30.00 previous rankings topper from the World Cup last month.\u00a0Krist\u00f3f Rasovszky<\/strong> and M\u00e1t\u00e9 K\u00e1rp\u00e1t<\/strong> tied for second in 14:58.62, the latter tipped for a exciting future in the open water in which the former won the Olympic title in Paris last year.<\/p>\n

Betlehem had mixed feelings, bemoaning the lack of competition during the race which may have pushed him to a quicker time. Nor was he certain whether his plans would include the short-course Europeans in Poland next month.<\/p>\n

Speaking through the Hungarian Federation, he said: “This is definitely a message, first and foremost to myself. The others weren’t in the form I would have liked. To be honest, I was a bit bored between eight hundred and a thousand and I had to fight mostly with my own demons.<\/p>\n

“It hurt, and it had been hurting for a long time, but there was no one to watch next to me, so in the end I thought that if I beat everyone else, maybe I could swim an early 14:20 or even better. It didn’t work out, I was already scratching a lot at the end, and it wasn’t the time I wanted. I should go to the European Short Course Championships, where there would be five or six people next to me who know what I do. But maybe I’ll leave it to them now and take a rest, and then next year, at the European Championships in Paris.”<\/p>\n

\u00c1d\u00e1m J\u00e1sz\u00f3<\/strong> and G\u00e1bor Zombori<\/strong> won two titles apiece. J\u00e1sz\u00f3 enjoyed narrow victories in the 100 free (46.58) and 50 back (23.79) with Zombori taking the 200IM (1:55.58) and 100m breaststroke (59.94) while also placing third in the 50 back (24.04).<\/p>\n

Panna Ugrai<\/strong> won the women’s 100 free in 53.17 and was second in the 50 back, behind winner Lora Komor\u00f3czy<\/strong> (26.57).<\/p>\n

Ajna K\u00e9sely pulled away from Napsug\u00e1r Nagy<\/strong> and Vikt\u00f3ria Mih\u00e1lyv\u00e1ri-Farkas<\/strong> at the 1000m mark in the 1500 to win in 16:04.08 as she made a successful return to the pool after she missed the World Championships in Singapore with injury. Nagy (16:06.81) and Mih\u00e1lyv\u00e1ri-Farkas (16:13.60) followed her home.<\/p>\n

Eszter Szab\u00f3-Felt\u00f3thy<\/strong> won the 200IM (2:10.62)m and Henrietta F\u00e1ngli<\/strong> took the 100m breaststroke in 1:05.39.<\/p>\n