The 17th World Short Course Swimming Championships will begin on Tuesday in the Duna Arena, where 34 people will represent Hungary. The Olympic bronze medalist, world and European champion Boglárka Kapás is coming to the last stop of her career, saying goodbye to the audience and the competition in the Duna Arena.

With the arrangement, Hungary "completes" the swimming Grand Slam, because among the major world competitions, only the short-course WC was missing from the line-up. A record 194 countries participated in the event, the previous peak was 176 from the 2022 World Cup in Melbourne.

Among the reigning Hungarian Olympic champions, only Hubert Kós will jump into the 25-meter pool: alongside the 200-meter backstroke gold medalist in Paris - in which he is among the contenders - he will compete in the 100- and 50-meter backstroke, as well as the 100-meter butterfly. The organizers expect a full house every day of the World Cup, which runs until Sunday.

Szebasztián Szabó, the last Hungarian short-track World Cup medalist, and Nándor Németh, who has reached the finals of every world competition since 2018, will be in the field. This year, at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, he became the first Hungarian podium finisher in the history of the track with his third place, and at the summer five-hoop games, he missed the bronze medal by only one century.

The Olympic bronze medalist, world and European champion Boglárka Kapás is coming to the last stop of her career, saying goodbye to the audience and the competition in the Duna Arena.

In addition to the Hungarians, many foreign world stars have also announced their participation, the Canadian excellence Summer McIntosh, who previously handed the world record of the three-time Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú to the past in the 400 meter medley, will be there at the competition, or the American Kate Douglass, who will compete in the short track World Cup following the Olympics -series, he cut 1.44 seconds off the 200-meter breaststroke world record.

The sports channels of the public media focus on the domestically organized world championship. Spectators can watch the morning preliminaries live from 8:45 a.m. on M4 Sport and m4 sport.hu, the afternoon finals from 5:15 p.m. on Duna World, and on M4 Sport + on weekends.

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