Hubert Kós won European Championship gold in the 200m backstroke on Wednesday night, comfortably beating the field in Paris a day after coming within 0.38 seconds of breaking one of swimming’s longest-standing world records. The Hungarian Olympic and world champion led throughout the final and touched in 1:53.08, 0.73 seconds ahead of Greece’s Apostolos Siskos, with Italy’s Thomas Ceccon third in 1:53.96. It was Kós’s first European title in the…