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Hungary’s Benedek Toth has introduced his intention to affix Virginia Tech males’s roster in fall 2025. Toth races for the Kobanya Sport Membership, based mostly out of Budapest.
I’m extraordinarily glad and proud to announce my verbal dedication to Virginia Tech! I believe that is the most effective place to turn out to be the most effective model of myself. I additionally need to seize the second to thank to my coaches, my household and pals. With out you this all wouldn’t be attainable. And an enormous thanks @subicule for serving to and main me via this course of, and I additionally need to thank to @sergiolopezmiro for giving me this chance and turning my desires into actuality. Can’t wait to be there! GO HOKIES
#gohokies #thisishome #hokienation
A butterfly specialist, Toth most not too long ago competed on the XCVI Orszagos Ifjusagi Bajnoksag—the Nationwide Youth Championships—in August 2024, the place he swam lifetime bests within the 100 and 200 butterfly. Within the 100 fly, Toth dropped .21 seconds, going 54.20. In April, he broke 55 seconds for the primary time, popping his earlier greatest time of 54.41 after swimming a 55.08 PB in prelims.
He made an excellent larger enchancment within the 200 fly, swimming a 2:01.93 to chop 2.66 seconds from his greatest, which he’d additionally swam in April.
Toth’s LCM Private Bests:
- 100 butterfly — 54.20 (47.73 transformed)
- 200 butterfly — 2:01.93 (1:47.29 transformed)
- 200 freestyle — 1:54.37 (1:39.58 transformed)
- 1500 freestyle — 16:00.31 (15:37.43 transformed)
Virginia Tech has constructed up a core of worldwide swimmers on its males’s and ladies’s roster over the previous few seasons and continues to usher in worldwide recruits like Toth. He’ll overlap in Blacksburg with fellow Hungarians Fanni Gyurinovics and Levente Balogh, additionally from Budapest.
The Virginia Tech males positioned third on the 2024 ACC Championships with 960.5 factors, although after all the convention will look totally different when Toth arrives on campus with Cal and Stanford getting into the ACC this season. At 2024 NCAAs, the Hokies, led by Youssef Ramadan and Carles Coll Marti (who will each graduate earlier than Toth joins the crew) completed ninth with 172 factors.
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