Tamás Kenderesi

Tamás Kenderesi is a Hungarian competitive swimmer who specialises in the butterfly stroke. He was born on 13 December 1996 in Bonyhád, in Tolna county, and learned to swim in Pécs under the coach Imre Tari, later representing the Pécsi Sport Nonprofit club while studying coaching at the University of Pécs. As a junior he won the 200-metre butterfly at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. At senior level he took the bronze medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and has also won bronze medals at the European Aquatics Championships, with a silver in the same event in 2018. He finished fourth in the 200-metre butterfly at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He has said he wants to become a swimming coach when his racing career ends.