Boglárka Kapás

The native form of this personal name is Kapás Boglárka. This article uses the Western name order.
Boglárka Kapás
Personal information
Nationality  Hungary
Born April 22, 1993
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club BVSC

Boglárka Kapás (born 22 April 1993)[1] is a Hungarian female freestyle swimmer. She was the youngest member (15 years, 111 days) of the Hungarian Olympic Squad (88 men and 83 women) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.[2]

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.[3] She won one more gold medal in 400 m freestyle[4] and a silver medal in 200 m freestyle.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

After returning from injury, Kapás won the 800m freestyle event of the 2012 European Aquatics Championships on home soil in Debrecen.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Boglárka Kapás Biography and Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Hungary at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Kapás Boglárka Olimpiai Bajnok" (in Hungarian). Úszóvilág. August 16, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Aranyos nap az uszodában" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. August 20, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Kapás Boglárka ezúttal ezüstérmet nyert" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. August 18, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Rövidpályás úszó Eb: Kapás Boglárka ezüstérmes" (in Hungarian). Heti Világgazdaság. November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Cseh László és Kis Gergő is nyert Barcelonában - ezzel olimpiai kvótát szereztek". Hungarian Press Agency (in Hungarian). Úszósport.hu. June 5, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Felgyorsultak a magyar gyorsúszók - Kapás ötödik, Takács hatodik lett a vébén" (in Hungarian). Origo. July 30, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Kapás Boglárka még siratja a gálát" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. November 23, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  10. ↑ "Pazar: Hosszú, Kapás, Cseh és Gyurta is aranyérmes!" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. May 24, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2012.

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