Balázs Makány

Balázs Makány
Personal information
Full name Balázs Makány
National team  Hungary
Born (1987-05-23) 23 May 1987
Pécs, Hungary
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Kőbánya SC
College team Texas A&M University (U.S.)
Coach Gyorgy Turi
The native form of this personal name is Makány Balázs. This article uses the Western name order.

Balázs Makány (born May 23, 1987) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in sprint and relay freestyle events.[1] Makany is a member of Kőbánya Swimming Club, and is coached and trained by Gyorgy Turi. He is also a varsity swimmer for the Texas A&M Aggies, and a graduate of computer science at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Makany made his first Hungarian team, as a 17-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, along with his teammates Balázs Gercsák, Tamás Szűcs, and four-time Olympian Tamás Kerékjártó. Swimming the third leg, Gercsak recorded a split of 1:52.75, and the Hungarian team went on to finish heat two in last place, for a total time of 7:31.78.[2]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Makany competed as an individual swimmer in the men's 100 m freestyle. Leading up to his second Games, he cleared the FINA B-standard entry time of 49.79 at the Hungarian National Trials in Budapest to secure a selection on the Olympic team.[3][4] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including Czech Republic's Martin Verner and Shaune Fraser of the Cayman Islands. Makany raced to a second-place tie with Lithuania's Paulius Viktoravičius, posting a personal best of 49.27 seconds. Makany, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminary heats.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Balázs Makány". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "A&M's Makany, Picasso Qualify for Second Olympic Games". Texas A&M Aggies. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 6. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 5". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 17 December 2012.

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