Boglárka Kapás (; born 22 April 1993) is a Hungarian retired competitive

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. She is the world champion ( 2019 Gwangju) in 200 m butterfly and a bronze medallist at the

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( 2016 Rio de Janeiro) in 800 m freestyle.

Career

Kapás won Hungary's first ever gold medal at the

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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. She won one more gold medal in 400 m freestyle and a silver medal in 200 m freestyle. At the 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in

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Kapás 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 Kapás won the heat for the top seeded swimmers by a comfortable margin; however, lost the event to

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who had raced earlier in the 'slower' heat. She passed the Olympic A-standard in 800m freestyle and earned a quota for the Games at the first meeting of the 2011

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series in early June. 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. In November Kapás suffered a rib injury, that forced her to miss both the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships and the United States–Europe swimming gala. After returning from injury, Kapás won the 800m freestyle event of the 2012 European Aquatics Championships on home soil in

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. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Kapás came third in the 800m freestyle behind

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and Jazz Carlin, thus getting the bronze medal. She set a new national record time for this event of 8:16:37. At the

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she won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly event. 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-final

She participated in her 5th consecutive Olympics in Paris in 2024, with the first one being Beijing in 2008.

Personal life

Kapás, who goes by the nickname "Bogi," is married to fellow Hungarian swimmer Ádám Telegdy. 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

*Hungarian Junior Athlete of the Year – the National Sports Association (NSSZ) awards: 2010 * MOB Junior award (2010) *Junior Príma award (2010) *Hungarian swimmer of the Year: 2011 * Cross of Merit of Hungary – Bronze Cross (2012) *For

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award (2016) * Cross of Merit of Hungary – Golden Cross (2016) *Budapest Pro Urbe award (2016)

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