Lora Komoróczy Takes Down Katinka Hosszu’s Hungarian 50 Fly s/c Record
Lora Komoróczy rewrote Katinka Hosszu’s 50 fly national record that had stood for 11 years at the Hungarian s/c Championships in Debrecen.
Hosszu had stated at a competition in the last days of 2014 that her goal was to hold all the Hungarian s/c records at the same time. The three-time Olympic champion retired in January 2025 with 12 records in the short-course pool intact.
However, that number was reduced to 112 on Friday at the national championships when Komoróczy touched the wall in 25.62 after two lengths of fly, 0.02 inside Hosszu’s mark. Dominika Varga (26.32) and Petra Senánszky (26.48) followed her home.
Komoróczy,who’d already completed the 50/100 back double, said through the Hungarian Federation: “I was the most surprised, I didn’t expect this to be achieved at all. .At the finish I was blind, I just looked at the sign and said it was 26, then I saw that it was 25, but then it was 62… It flashed into my mind that this was a national record.”
Szebasztián Szabó won the men’s title in 22.57, underlining his sprint prowess in Hungarian waters a day after winning the 50 free.
Gábor Zombori made two trips to the top of the podium in the space of around 40 minutes in the men’s 200m breaststroke (2:08.58) and 400IM (4:08.58).
Hanna Zombori was the first Hungarian home in the women’s 200 breast, the 16-year-old stopping the clock at 2:24.97. Brigitta Vass touched first in the race albeit still representing Romania but from January 2026 she will wear the colours of Hungary.
Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy completed the the 200-400m medley double with a 4:36.95 victory in the shorter race and Panna Ugrai won the 200m freestyle in 1:54.98 to add to her 100 title on the opening night.
Nándor Németh won the men’s 200 free in 1:43.96 while an FTC quartet of Németh, Botond Takács, Benedek Kovács and Dávid Betlehem led the way in the men’s 4×100 free in 3:11.91.
Debreceni (Flóra Molnár, Adrienn Csoba, Dominika Varga, Petra Senánszky) won the women’s event in 3:38.70.
