Hubert Kós won the 200-meter backstroke with a world record on Thursday, the opening day of the third stop of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup series in Toronto.
At the last World Cup stop in Westmont, Illinois, Hubert Kós said that he might be able to “get a taste” of the world record. This was not to be expected in the first half of the race, as after 100 meters he was about three tenths of a second behind Mitchell Larkin’s 2015 time. In the second hundred meters, however, he practically left the imaginary line marking the world record behind and triumphed with a tremendous time.
The 22-year-old Hungarian swimmer triumphed with a time of 1:45.12, beating Australian Mitchell Larkin’s ten-year-old world record of 1:45.63 by more than half a second.
The world champion and Olympic champion Kós set his first adult world record.
The Hungarian athlete won this event at all three World Cup stops, thus collecting the triple crown. He is the second active Hungarian world record holder, with Kristóf Milák’s 200-meter butterfly time the best of all time.
Kós was also in the final of the 100-meter medley, the last event of the day, where he surpassed his national record of 50.99 set a week ago at the last stop, finishing second with a time of 50.56.
A world record was also set in the men’s 100-meter butterfly, with Josh Liendo winning in front of the home crowd with a time of 47.68 seconds, breaking the record of 47.71 set by Switzerland’s Noé Ponti last year at Duna Arena in Budapest.
(Hungary Today / MTI)
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