Joining Kos as headliners of the home nation are Olympic bronze medallist David Bethlehem, World bronze medallist Nandor Nemeth, and World short course bronze medallist Szebasztian Szabo.
Image Source: Boglarka Kapas celebrates after winning the Women’s 50m Breaststroke Final at the European Swimming Championships 2016 in London, England (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
The World Swimming Championships is also where the versatile Boglarka Kapas – the 2019 World titleholder in the women’s 200m butterfly and Olympic bronze medallist in the women’s 800m freestyle at the Rio 2016 Games – is set to bring her career to a close. The 31-year-old first competed on the international scene in 2010 where she won two golds and a silver at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
In addition to winning the men’s 200m backstroke at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Kos has a World title at the distance from Fukuoka 2023, two wins at the 2024 European Championships, and tasted victory in Duna Arena by winning the Swimming World Cup in 2021 in his preferred distance in his home pool.
Image Source: Hubert Kos competes in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
Hungary can count on short course specialist Szebasztian Szabo, who won three European Championship golds in 2021 and set the men’s 50m butterfly World Record that same year as a medal-winning favourite. Szabo was the last Hungarian to medal at the World Swimming Championships (25m) when he won bronze in the men’s 50m butterfly in Melbourne, Australia, in 2022.
All told, Hungary selected 18 men and 15 women to compete in the Duna Arena, where the Championships will run from 10 to 15 December.
- Benedek Andor (100m individual medley)
- David Bethlehem (400-800-1500m freestyle)
- Olivér Gál (50m breaststroke)
- Balázs Holló (400m medley)
- Dávid Horváth (100m breaststroke)
- Ádám Jászó (100m backstroke)
- Hubert Kós (50-100-200m backstroke, 100m butterfly)
- Richard Márton (200m freestyle, 200m butterfly)
- Nándor Németh (50-100m freestyle)
- Dragon Zalán (400-800-1500m freestyle)
- Szebasztián Szabó (50m freestyle, 50m butterfly)
- Adam Telegdy (200m backstroke)
- Dominik Török (200m individual medley, 400m individual medley)
- Gábor Zombori (200-400m individual medley)
Men’s Team | Relay-Only
- Magda Boldizsár
- Dániel Mészáros
- Kovács Attila
- Kovács Benedek
- Oliver Papa
- Lilla Minna Abraham (200m freestyle)
- Eszter Békési (200m breaststroke)
- Henrietta Fángli (50-100m breaststroke)
- Vivien Jackl (800m freestyle, 400m medley)
- Boglárka Kapás (400m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 400m medley)
- Ajna Késly (400-800-1500m freestyle)
- Lora Komoróczy (50m backstroke, 50m butterfly, 100m individual medley)
- Viktória Mihályvári Farkas (1500m freestyle)
- Dóra Molnár (100-200m backstroke)
- Nikolett Pádár (100-200m freestyle)
- Dalma Sebestyén (200m butterfly, 200m individual medley)
- Petra Senánszky (50m freestyle)
- Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy (200m backstroke)
- Panna Ugrai (100m freestyle, 100m butterfly)
Women’s Team | Relay-Only
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