2021 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming: Monday, May 17th – Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prelims at 10:00 am local/Finals at 6:00 pm local
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Reported by James Sutherland.
WOMEN’S 200 FLY FINAL
- European Record: 2:04.27, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2009
- European Championship Record: 2:04.79, Mireia Belmonte (ESP), 2014
- FINA ‘A’ Cut: 2:08.43
- Boglarka Kapas (HUN), 2:06.50
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2:08.14
- Svetlana Chimrova (RUS), 2:08.55
Boglarka Kapas assumed control of the women’s 200 fly final on the second 50 and cruised to victory in a time of 2:06.50, successfully defending her title from 2018.
Kapas shoots up from fourth to second in the 2020-21 world rankings, improving on her season-best of 2:06.85 set in March.
Katinka Hosszu charged home on the final 50 to snag the silver medal in 2:08.14, giving her a new season-best as the Hungarians go 1-2. This is Hungary’s third 1-2 finish in the last six championships, also doing so in 2010 and 2012 (when Hosszu won).
2018 silver medalist Svetlana Chimrova came in for the bronze in 2:08.55.
I did a 2.5 hour Saturday practice all fly way back in my age group days after losing some stupid bet with my coach. He took pity on me about 90 minutes in and let me put on fins, but that was still a beyond hellacious 9k+ yards fly, and I was a 200 flyer used to what I thought were high yardage fly sets.
I can’t imagine doing anywhere remotely near that kind of fly yardage on a regular basis!
Imagine if Florent Manaudou and Ben Proud were born in Hungary.
They would have switched sports after the first practice🤣🤣🤣
Pass that sauce
It is such a pity that she must wear the mask. She has the most attractive smile of any long distance swimmers.
Such a pity you haven’t been banned from this site yet.
I’m still waiting.
Gross, dude.
Wrong, it’s stupid he said that because they wear masks for a *good* reason, because of a much more important thing than looking pretty for random people on the internet.
And it was also unnecessary to imply that all the other distance swimmers weren’t as pretty (in his opinion).
It’s not gross to say someone has a pretty smile tho
I agree with you, she’s a charming person anyway,this doesn’t mean other swimmers are not pretty, this is his opinion,why is this big protest?:)
I too enjoy not breathing before my fly sets because the government told me it’s safer this way. In Soviet Russia we would also not eat food when the government scientist told us that was better for us.
Imagine if Florent Manaudou and Ben Proud were born in Hungary.
They would have switched sports after the first practice🤣🤣🤣
Excuse me what
I was 12 when my team flew to a training camp in Budapest. There I saw 10 year old Hungarians doing a set of 10*200 fly LCM.
Some kids are burnt out, some kids turn to be Milak and Hosszu🤷🏻♂️
Hungarian here! I was a swimmer as a kid. Our coach decided that 10*100 fly (lcm ofc) was a great way to start every single practice (after warmup ofc, group consisting of approx 10-13 year olds). When we went to training camp, it was 10*200 fly before the main set every time. It was horrible and I couldnt handle it mentally and it was one of the reasons that not long after I finished swimming competitively.
Disclaimer: it was in a relatively small rural club that produced 1 olimpian in 30 years but it was my experience
Why do Hungarians love 200 fly so much? Like why are sets like that so ingrained in the swimming culture?
Unfortunately many hungarian coaches kept the “old trainings” (usually 7-9km per practice) and they think it’s good for everyone, even for the adult swimmers. That’s why we mostly don’t have good sprinters on 50-100free from the women’s.
Tokyo 2021 Olympics
Women’s 200 meter butterfly
Yufei
Kapas
Flickinger
Toss in Hasegawa as a dark horse.
Smith will be faster than Flickinger come Tokyo.
Do you think Smith would want to swim the 200fly in Tokyo?
Regan Smith is far better in the women’s 200 meter butterfly than the women’s 100 meter butterfly.