World Aquatics Coverage Headline Speaks from our Hearts: Hungary dominates 14-16 mixed relay – FINA hails our success in its report on the final day of the Open Water Youth World Cup.
After two silvers and a bronze, Hungary's long-awaited gold was also born at the World Age Group Open Water Swimming Championships in Italy, and our quartet's victory on Sunday off the coast of Sardinia saw the national team finish third in the team event, just behind United and behind the junior guards of the United States and Italy.
In the Mediterranean waters, on the last day of the competition in Alghero, the 4x1500m relay competition was held, which was held Naji Napsogar, Anna Bartalos, Marton Huszty, Matej Karpati Our four-man team, which even beat second place by half a minute, won with great confidence. Of course, not at all surprising and by no means unprecedented: our foursome, in fact, with the same composition, became European champions at the continental open water competition in Vienna in mid-July. It is
The best in Europe has become the best in the world in the 14-16 age group.
“After the European Championship, we were expecting a medal, and we are especially happy that it has become the World Cup gold.” – World Aquatics quoted Máté Kárpáti as the quad's advocate, and its on-site correspondent also spoke to Nagy Napsugár, who said: “I am very proud of myself and my teammates!”
As we do with them! And as for the future, it is no less encouraging – as I said before. Gabor Gellert The captain of the national team told our website while checking in on the plane to Budapest on Monday afternoon – that the team of the world champions is very young: Nagy, Hosti and Karpati are 15 years old, while Bartalos is only 14, so there is reason to count on them, and even more outstanding successes can be expected from them in future world competitions as well… It is also worth noting here that in addition to the joint victory in the Italian competition, the youngest also excelled in winning individual laurels: Anna Bartalos took second place in the 5 km race, as in the European Championships, Palin Krech, born in 2009, took second place in the boys' category and took the silver medal, while Nagy Napsgar managed to stand on the bottom step of the podium in the 16-17 age group at a distance of 7.5 km.
The specialist pointed out that it was
We could have also won the World Championship points competition,
For example, Hunor Kovács-Seres would have reached the finish line with greater joy in the finals of the latest Sparkler competition, which debuted in Italy, i.e. the direct elimination sprint competition, because he then finished on the podium. However, instead of a silver medal, he had to settle for fourth place. The final standings could have been different even if he had not fallen ill during the World Cup. Glenda Ebony Toothwhose much-anticipated good performance was badly wasted, as the Americans were barely five points ahead of us, and the Italians were second with only one point (!) in the final aggregate…
“I am not, I cannot be dissatisfied, in fact…” Gabor Gellert affirmed. –
I don't feel like I'm missing out, we prepared well, three very balanced teams got the first three places, and the final standings depended on the nuances between them…”
He also pointed out that 41 countries from all over the world were present at the current event, compared to 27 countries in the previous event, and he believes that it is a very good result to be able to be in the top three. We can even go further next year.
(In our featured image: The Hungarian open water team was “exactly” the third best team in the world at this year's youth competition. Source: musz.hu)
