Full name Boglarka Kapas Role Swimmer Club Ujpesti TE Name Boglarka Kapas | Weight 56 kg National team Hungary Height 1.67 m | |
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Born 22 April 1993 (age 31) ( 1993-04-22 ) Similar People Laszlo Cseh, Eva Risztov, Katinka Hosszu, Peter Bernek, Zsuzsanna Jakabos | ||
Boglarka Kapas Wins Women's 800m Freestyle Final LEN European Swimming Championships London 2016
Boglárka Kapás ([ˈboɡlaːrkɒ ˈkɒpaːʃ]; born 22 April 1993) is a Hungarian competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle events. She was the youngest member (15 years, 111 days) of the Hungarian Olympic Squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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- Boglarka Kapas Wins Womens 800m Freestyle Final LEN European Swimming Championships London 2016
- Boglarka Kapas Wins Womens 400m Freestyle Final LEN European Swimming Championships London 2016
- Career
- Awards
- References
Boglarka Kapas Wins Women's 400m Freestyle Final LEN European Swimming Championships London 2016
Career
Kapás won Hungary's first ever gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in 200 m butterfly. Qualified for the final with the best time, she swam a personal best 2:08.72, finishing 1.4 seconds ahead of second placed Judit Ignacio. She won one more gold medal in 400 m freestyle and a silver medal in 200 m freestyle.
At the 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven Kapás won the silver medal in 800m freestyle, with a time of 8:18.56. The event was notable in that it was a heat-declared result (medals based on times from heats with no final swum), where Kapás won the heat for the top seeded swimmers by a comfortable margin; however, lost the event to Federica Pellegrini who had raced earlier in the 'slower' heat.
She passed the Olympic A-standard in 800m freestyle and earned a quota for the Games at the first meeting of the 2011 Mare Nostrum series in early June. In July 2011 at the 2011 Swimming World Championships she set a new national record in the same distance with a time of 8:24.79, which was enough for the fifth place. In November Kapás suffered a rib injury, that forced her to miss both the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships and the United States–Europe swimming gala.
After returning from injury, Kapás won the 800m freestyle event of the 2012 European Aquatics Championships on home soil in Debrecen.
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