Hungarian swimmer (born 1993)
Boglarka Kapas
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National team
| Hungary
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Born
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1993-04-22
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22 April 1993
(age 31)
Debrecen
, Hungary
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Height
| 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
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Weight
| 52 kg (115 lb)
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Sport
| Swimming
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Strokes
| Freestyle
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Club
| BVSC-Zuglo
(2001?15)
Ujpesti TE
(2016?)
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Coach
| Balazs Nagy
(?2015)
Ferenc Virth, Ferenc Kovacshegyi
(2016?)
[1]
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Boglarka Kapas
(
pronounced
[?bo?laːrk?
?k?paː?]
; born 22 April 1993)
[2]
is a Hungarian competitive
swimmer
. She is the
world champion
(
2019 Gwangju
) in
200 m butterfly
and a bronze medallist at the
Olympic Games
(
2016 Rio de Janeiro
) in
800 m freestyle
.
Career
[
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]
Kapas 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
Kapas 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 Kapas 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 Kapas 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, Kapas won the 800m freestyle event of the
2012 European Aquatics Championships
on home soil in
Debrecen
.
[10]
At the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio
, Kapas came third in the 800m freestyle behind
Katie Ledecky
and
Jazz Carlin
, thus getting the bronze medal. She set a new national record time for this event of 8:16:37.
At the
2019 World Aquatics Championships
she won the gold medal in the
200m butterfly
event.
[11]
In the 2019
ISL
season she was in team London Roar and they got the second place in the first ISL final in history. In 2020 she changed teams and was part of the
NY Breakers
and swam in the semi-finals.
[1]
She is going to participate in her 5th consecutive Olympics in Paris in 2024, with the first one being Beijing in 2008.
Personal life
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Kapas, who goes by the nickname "Bogi," is married to fellow Breaker
Adam Telegdy
.
[12]
She has two cats named Vanilla and Csoki, which means “chocolate.” She cites winning a maths contest in elementary school as one of her most memorable accomplishments.
Awards
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References
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External links
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- 1983:
East Germany
(
Otto
,
Strauss
,
Sirch
,
Meineke
)
- 1985:
East Germany
(
Strauss
,
Konig
,
Stellmach
,
Friedrich
)
- 1987:
East Germany
(
Mohring
,
Stellmach
,
Strauss
,
Friedrich
)
- 1989:
East Germany
(
Stellmach
,
Friedrich
,
Strauss
,
Mohring
)
- 1991:
Denmark
(
Poulsen
,
Jensen
,
Puggaard
,
Jacobsen
)
- 1993:
Germany
(
Van Almsick
,
Kielgass
,
Stellmach
,
Hunger
)
- 1995:
Germany
(
Hase
,
Jung
,
Kielgass
,
Van Almsick
)
- 1997:
Germany
(
Hase
,
Gotz
,
Buschschulte
,
Kielgass
)
- 1999:
Germany
(
Van Almsick
,
Szalai
,
Stockbauer
,
Kielgass
)
- 2000:
Romania
(
Potec
,
P?duraru
,
Diaconescu
,
C?slaru
)
- 2002:
Germany
(
Dallmann
,
Ries
,
Stockbauer
,
Van Almsick
)
- 2004:
Spain
(
Rouba
,
Caballero
,
Roca
,
Villaecija
)
- 2006:
Germany
(
Dallmann
,
Samulski
,
Steffen
,
Liebs
)
- 2008:
France
(
Manaudou
,
Balmy
,
Lazare
,
Popchanka
)
- 2010:
Hungary
(
Mutina
,
Dara
,
Hosszu
,
Verraszto
)
- 2012:
Italy
(
Mizzau
,
Nesti
,
Carli
,
Pellegrini
,
De Memme
)
- 2014:
Italy
(
Mizzau
,
Pirozzi
,
Masini Luccetti
,
Pellegrini
)
- 2016:
Hungary
(
Jakabos
,
Verraszto
,
Kapas
,
Hosszu
)
- 2018:
Great Britain
(
Faulkner
,
Greenslade
,
Hibbott
,
Anderson
)
- 2020:
Great Britain
(
Hope
,
Van Selm
,
Hibbott
,
Anderson
)
- 2022:
Netherlands
(
De Jong
,
Holkenborg
,
Van Kooten
,
Steenbergen
)
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