Kristóf Rasovszky (born 27 March 1997) is a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics winning the silver medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim at the 2020 Olympic Games.

Career

Rasovszky competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the 5 kilometre and the 25 kilometre open water swim in the 2018 European Aquatics Championships. He won the 5 kilometre open water swim in the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.

Kristóf Rasovszky

In 2021, he won the bronze medal in the team relay event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Later in the year, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and contested in Tokyo, Japan, he won a silver medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:48:59.0.

Kristóf Rasovszky

At the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, held in August in Rome, Italy, Rasovszky helped achieve a finish in 59:53.9 in the open water mixed team relay, anchoring the relay to a silver medal victory only behind the gold medal-winning team from Italy.

Kristóf Rasovszky

Following a fourth-place finish in the 10 kilometre open water swam at the third leg of the 2022 FINA Marathon Swim World Series, held later the same month as the European Championships at Lake Mégantic in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, Rasovszky ranked first based on his results from the first three legs of the World Series circuit. At the fifth and final leg of the World Series, held three months later in Eilat Israel, he placed fourth in the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:46:45.40 and tied Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy for the overall highest-scoring male competitor spot.

At the second leg of the 2023 FINA Open Water Tour, held in May in Golfo Aranci, Italy, Rasovszky won the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:47:17.60, sharing the podium with Domenico Acerenza of Italy (silver medalist) and Oliver Klemet of Germany (bronze medalist). One leg earlier, held also in May only in Egypt, he placed fourth in the same event with a time of 1:52:55.00. Later in the month, on the second day of the tour leg in Setúbal, Portugal, he contributed to a final time of 1:24:13.10 in the 4×1500 metre mixed open water relay to help win the gold medal.

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1997 births

Living people

Hungarian male swimmers

Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic swimmers for Hungary

European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming

Sportspeople from Veszprém

World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming

Male long-distance swimmers

European Games competitors for Hungary

Swimmers at the 2015 European Games

Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists for Hungary

Olympic silver medalists in swimming

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics