Hungarian Swimming Coach is Featured in Time Magazine

The March 24, 2008 issue of Time magazine, in a feature article titled “Innovators,” includes a full-page story about Laszlo Kiss, the head of the Hungarian national swimming team.  The article recounts that Kiss, as a young swimmer, was very disappointed when he failed to win a medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960.  Several years later Kiss quit competitive swimming and turned to coaching full time, and developed innovative ways to build tougher, swifter swimmers.  Kiss’ swimmers won medals at every Olympics, since 1988.  “In the process, Kiss is establishing himself as perhaps the most imaginative coach in the history of the sport,” says Time magazine.  Kiss’ first successes came in the 1980’s with Krisztina Egerszegi, who ultimately won seven Olympic medals –five of them gold—from 1988 to 1996.  In 1991 Egerszegi set a 200 meter backstroke world record that was not broken until this year.  Kiss’ other champions include Agnes Kovacs and Karoly Guttler and he is hoping for more medals in Beijing this summer.

To read the article, click on http://www.time.com/magazine/article/0,9171,1724396,00.html

Zoltan Bagdy

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