coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name collegeteam
gyorgy turi -lrb- hun -rrb- kőbánya sc -lrb- hun -rrb- pécs , hungary 90 kg lb 0 on 1.90 0 on 23 may 1987 balázs makány
 freestyle balázs makány texas a & m university -lrb- u.s. -rrb-
balázs makány

balázs makány -lrb- born may 23 , 1987 -rrb- is a hungarian swimmer , who specialized in sprint and relay freestyle events .
makany is a member of kőbánya swimming club , and is coached and trained by gyorgy turi .
he is also a varsity swimmer for the texas a&m aggies , and a graduate of computer science at texas a&m university in college station , texas .
makany made his official debut , as a 17-year-old , at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , where he competed in the men 's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay , along with his teammates balázs gercsák , tamás szűcs , and four-time olympian tamás kerékjártó .
swimming the third leg , gercsak recorded a split of 1:52.75 , and the hungarian team went on to finish heat two in last place , for a total time of 7:31.78 .
at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , makany qualified as an individual swimmer for the men 's 100 m freestyle by clearing a fina b-standard entry time of 49.79 from the national championships in budapest .
he challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat , including czech republic 's martin verner and shaune fraser of the cayman islands .
makany raced to a second-place tie with lithuania 's paulius viktoravičius , posting a personal best of 49.27 seconds .
makany , however , failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminary heats .
