All Data Set In Budapest’s Duna Enviornment

2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

From December 10 to fifteen, 2024, a number of the most distinguished swimmers within the world aquatic scene will dive into the water. Among the many lanes of the Duna Enviornment, athletes like Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith, Hubert Kos, and Siobhan Haughey can be able to proceed Hungary’s custom as a stage for numerous and spectacular world information.

THE DUNA ARENA

The place the place magic occurs lies reverse Margit-sziget, Margaret Island and is called the Duna Enviornment. It’s within the waters of this pool that extraordinary performances have occurred, reminiscent of these by Adam Peaty in breaststroke or Caeleb Dressel throughout the Worldwide Swimming League. Between 2017 and 2023, these lanes noticed a complete of 33 world information, 10 of which stay unbeaten.

This temple of magic remains to be comparatively younger, because it was inbuilt 2017, however has shortly turn out to be one of many main palaces of the game. Accomplished in a document time of two years, this marvel of Budapest was initially meant to be prepared for the 2021 World Championships. Nonetheless, after Guadalajara withdrew its bid to host the 2017 World Championships, the Hungarian capital was chosen as a substitute.

Hungarians hoped the venue may ultimately host the 2024 Olympics and expanded the unique challenge, although that bid was ultimately awarded to Paris. The Duna Enviornment rises 44 meters tall—simply two meters shorter than the Statue of Liberty in New York—with an space overlaying 2/3 of Buckingham Palace and a water capability equal to 150,000 barrels of beer!

Able to accommodating 5,000 to 12,000 spectators, the Duna Enviornment is able to welcome 1000’s of followers who will witness a number of the best moments within the fashionable period of swimming, particularly given its comparatively younger age.

THE TEMPLE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

In its seven years of existence, this pool has hosted two long-course World Championships (2017 and 2022), one European Championship (2021), two seasons of the Worldwide Swimming League (quick course), and two World Cup phases. Now, it’s getting ready to host a short-course World Championship for the primary time.

Does the water on this pool possess some magical energy over the masters of swimming?

Leaving apart these poetic however scientifically unsupported phrases, it appears clear that, a minimum of to this point, the ambiance generated by the Duna Enviornment does certainly have a particular impact on worldwide champions. I’m not referring to the pool’s depth or the presence of cameras, however I’m firmly satisfied that the ambiance, timing, and spectators play an infinite—if not the best—function in producing extraordinary performances.

It’s no coincidence that the 2017 World Championships, with an extra 10,000 seats within the Duna Enviornment’s stands, almost reached 15,000 spectators per finals session and noticed the very best variety of information set. A special situation unfolded throughout the Worldwide Swimming League, held throughout the pandemic. Swimmers have been confined to the “swimming bubble” on the Duna Enviornment. In that case, the contributing components to breaking many limits have been totally different, together with the behavior of competing regularly at such a excessive stage. But even then, the information set on the Duna Enviornment have been among the many most spectacular.

WHAT RECORDS HAVE BEEN SET IN THE DUNA ARENA?

Listed here are the 33 world information set to this point on the Duna Enviornment. Equally divided between males’s and ladies’s occasions, backstroke (9 information) and breaststroke (8 information) dominate the statistics.

Of those, 10 are present unbeaten information and are marked with an asterisk.

* present information

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BUDAPEST 2017 (50m)

2^ LEG OF WORLD CUP SERIES 2018 (25m)

1^ INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE 2019 (25m)

2^ INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE 2020 (25m)

EUROPEAN CHAMPS BUDAPEST 2021 (50m)

WORLD CHAMPS BUDAPEST 2022 (50m)

3^ LEG OF WORLD CUP SERIES 2023 (50m)