Laszlo Cseh produced a shuddering performance in the 200m butterfly to send a shot across the bows of Michael Phelps and Chad Le Clos on another glittering night for arena at the European Championships in London.
Wearing the arena Powerskin Carbon-Air, Laszlo produced the second fastest time in a textile suit in history, second behind only Phelps and faster than fellow arena swimmer Chad Le Clos.
Laszlo was in a world of his own, winning in a championship record of 1min 52.91secs, 2.44secs ahead of another arena athlete, Viktor Bromer of Denmark in second.
For the 30-year-old, though, there was plenty to work on ahead of the big one in the summer.
“I wanted to break my European record from 2008“ he said. “I lacked some things to achieve that but it’s all fine as I know I am far away from my peak”.
“If I arrived in Rio in this shape I would be utterly disappointed.”
That was one of a number of golden moments for arena with Laszlo’s fellow Hungarian and arena athelete Katinka Hosszu also in the medals.
Katinka won two more golds as well as one silver medal last night.
Katinka set a new championship record of 2:07.30 with an emphatic victory in the 200m individual medley with fellow arena swimmer Hannah Miley in third.
She returned for…
