2015 European Short Course Swimming Champions at the Wingate Institute in Netanya, Israel
- Wednesday, December 2nd-6th
- Prelims at 9:30 am local (2:30 AM EST)/Finals at 5:30 pm local (10:30 am EST)
- Meet Information
- Event Timeline
- Live Stream: LEN Webcast
- Live Results
Laszlo Cseh Video Interview, Courtesy of Shvoong
In the finals session of the 2015 European Short Course Championships, Laszlo Cseh won the A-final of the 100 scm fly and lowered his own Hungarian National Record down to 49.33 on his birthday. His prelims time of 49.93 and semis time of 50.10 were also under his previous best, a race he swam in 50.72 at Istanbul’s 2012 Worlds. He’s joined by Italy’s Matteo Rivolta (49.70) and Russia’s Nikita Konovalov (50.28) for the top-three.
Cseh took out all three of his 100s under 24 seconds, which is considerably quicker than his previous record split of 24.20. With each race Cseh split the first half faster and faster; he started with 23.79, moved to 23.53, and end with a 23.33. The 100 scm fly final would be his best race as he closed the last 50 in a 26 flat.
In his post race interview, Cseh tells the camera that he’s been trying a new training session that’s led to an increase in his speed, something pretty evident in his 100 fly races in Israel. His time of 49.33 places him 7th on the list of All Time Top Performers on USA Swimming’s SCM Rankings. Going into Rio and preparing for another Hungarian Olympic debut, Cseh says, “We have, need to make our plan for Rio, before Rio,” and in regards to these races in Israel they are “good for his training and good for us”. He’ll swim the first round of the 200 IMs tomorrow.
Prelims: 49.93 – 23.79/26.14
Semifinals: 50.10 – 23.53/26.57
Finals: 49.33 – 23.33/26.00
2012 Istanbul: 50.72 – 24.20/26.52
Steve, I watched him at World Long Course in Kazan in the summer.
Check out the results there.
Check out the previous two years of results too..
A lot of swimmers improve with age.
Are you a physiologist Tim? Have you seen the ins and outs of Cseh’s training regime? Enough so that you can comment upon this with underlying insinuations about his methodology?
We are looking at an improvement in short course swimming after an admitted shift towards more speed training. Is this so illogical to believe this could yield a best time? Maybe he was partying like Phelps and has given up drinking too! so much bias in the world of conjecture, Tim.
Furthermore, hs previous best was from 2012 – an Olympic year when one could reason athletes are in peak condition. Guess what? We are on the brink of 2016.
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Tim wheyster michael phelps is 30 and swam a 1:52 200 fly, sub 51 100 fly and 1:54 200IM in long course!!!!? recently. It,s not only the hungarians defying physiology.
HUNORIX, BOBOGIGISUPERFAN
I’m not doubting the nation or the individual talent of some of your exceptional athletes, I was asking how they are defying science by getting quicker when they shouldn’t be ? It’s not as if they were late starters. Also where are your super talents in some of the other endurance based sports ?
This is logical and to be expected.
I have followed Cseh since he was merely a 10 yo little boy and knew he was going to become a huge star, Olympics champion and all.
But yes, what’s their seceret of swimming fast?
This is a big question.
A lot of Hungarian swimmers seem to be defying physiology and are improving with age.
I wonder what their secret is ?!
@Tim Wheyster
It may sound exaggerating, but many Hungarian believe that the reason why we have so much success in many fields compared to our relatively small size is because of the right combination of the East and West meeting in our gene pool. Lots of healthy mixing between various people went through in Hungary in the past thousand years.
They are very good in water sports in general e.g. cayak, Canoe (also marathon), waterpolo and swimming. They spend way more time training than other nations. I think their swimmers are more nervous/less confident than US swimmers, so they screw up more often when young and probably that is the reason they have the urge to keep going and prove themselves at later age when they gained enough experience at competitions and have more fonfidence. Yes 30 is quite old, and Cseh changed trainer in January, just 1.5yrs before the Olympics…