Boldizsár Kiss (born April 8, 1985) is a Hungarian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. He won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2003 European Junior Swimming Championships in

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. Kiss is a member of the swimming team for

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, and a graduate of information management and technology at

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. Kiss qualified for the men's 400 m freestyle at the

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, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 3:57.86 from the national championships in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, where South Korea's

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was disqualified for a false start. He rounded out the field to last place by more than three seconds behind Brazil's

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in 4:02.87. Kiss failed to advance into the final, as he placed thirty-eighth overall on the first day of preliminaries.

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Player Bio – Syracuse Orange
1985 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Hungary Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Hungarian male freestyle swimmers Hungarian male butterfly swimmers Syracuse Orange men's swimmers Swimmers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-swimming-bio-stub