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2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
December 2-7, 2025
Prelims at 10am native (4am ET)/Finals at 7pm native (1pm ET)
Lublin, Poland
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We’re about to see the day one prelims of the 2025 European Brief Course Championships transpire from Lublin, Poland.
This morning will see the likes of German Isabel Gose, Italian Simona Quadarella and British Olympian Freya Colbert lock horns within the girls’s 400m free.
The boys’s 400m free subject contains prime weapons to the tune of British Olympic champion Duncan Scott, meet file holder Danas Rapsys of Lithuania and German Olympic gold medalist Lukas Märtens.
We’ll additionally see the 50m fly heats, 100m breast heats and 200m again heats together with the prelims of the ladies’s and males’s 4x50m free relay.
Meaning French fly ace Beryl Gastaldello can be battling rising Dutch star Tessa Giele and the lads’s 50m fly will characteristic world file holder Noe Ponti going towards his French World Championships foe Maxime Grousset.
A home duel between Caspar Corbeau and Arno Kamminga is ready to come up within the 100m breast for the lads and British dynamo Angharad Evans can be in search of her first particular person medal within the girls’s race.
WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – HEATS
WR: 3:50.25 – Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2024
WJR: 3:50.25 – Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2024
ER: 3:54.52 – Mireia Belmonte (ESP), 2013
EJR: 3:58.91 – Isabel Gose (GER), 2019
CR: 3:54.85 – Camille Muffat (FRA), 2012
High 8:
Isabel Gose (GER) – 3:56.90
Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 4:00.25
Freya Colbert (GBR) – 4:01.78
Maya Werner (GER) – 4:02.04
Minna Abraham (HUN) – 4:02.85
Anna Chiara Mascolo (ITA) – 4:02.87
Nikolett Padar (HUN) – 4:03.39
Imani De Jong (NED) – 4:03.97
One needed to dip beneath the 4:04 threshold to be able to make tonight’s girls’s 400m freestyle last, with Germany’s Isabel Gose simply setting herself other than the pack.
The 23-year-old Paris bronze medalist established herself as the lady to beat, placing up a super-solid morning swim of three:56.90.
That effort already overtook the three:59.50 Italy’s Simona Quadarella logged for gold on this occasion on the 2023 version of the European Brief Course Championships. It additionally falls solely .04 shy of Gose’s best-ever efficiency of three:56.80, the nationwide file she produced for sixth place eventually 12 months’s Brief Course World Championships.
Fellow Olympic medalist Quadarella will flank Gose in the primary occasion, hitting 4:00.25 because the 2nd seed. Nice Britain’s Freya Colbert can be on the opposite aspect, courtesy of her AM effort of 4:01.78.
Colbert has been as quick as 3:58.46 in her profession, a time she registered simply this previous October on the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup cease in Toronto.
Gose’s teammate Maya Werner can also be within the hunt, reaching the 4th seed in 4:02.04, a brand new private finest by nicely over a second.
Of word, the 2023 silver medalist Anastasia Kirpichnikova of France was not amongst this morning’s subject and the bronze medalist, Sarah Dumont of Belgium, missed the ultimate. Dumont positioned twelfth in 4:05.18 within the heats.
MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – HEATS
WR: 3:32.25 – Yannick Agnel (FRA), 2012
WJR: 3:37.92 – Matt Sates (RSA), 2021
ER: 3:32.25 – Yannick Agnel (FRA), 2012
EJR: 3:36.57 – Grigorii Vekovishchev (RUS), 2025
CR: 3:33.20 – Danas Rapsys (LTU), 2019
High 8:
Daniel Wiffen (IRL) – 3:37.04
Jack McMillan (GBR) – 3:37.57
Victor Johansson (SWE) – 3:37.73
Zalan Sarkany (HUN) – 3;38.07
Krzysztof Chmielewski (POL) – 3:38.27
Johannes Liebmann (GER) – 3:38.29
Lukas Märtens (GER) – 3:38.38
Duncan Scott (GBR) – 3:38.43
A number of huge names missed out on making the highest 8 of the lads’s 400m free, together with the silver and bronze medalists from the 2023 European Brief Course Championships – Danas Rapsys of Lithuania and Lucas Henveaux of Belgium.
Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen of Eire leads the pack after a swift morning swim of three:37.04, a time that may have garnered him the silver 2 years in the past. Wiffen is the defending gold medalist on this occasion, having notched a nationwide file of three:35.47 in Romania.
British ace Jack McMillan, a member of GBR’s gold medal-winning 4x200m free relay in Paris, was simply over half a second behind in 3:37.57. That’s a big-time private finest for the 25-year-old, heftily erasing his former PB of three:41.86 from final 12 months. He’s now the 4th-fastest British performer of all time.
Sweden’s Victor Johansson established a brand new nationwide file en path to capturing the third seed. His effort of three:37.73 dropped his former customary down from the three:39.35 notched in 2017.
Zalan Sarkany of Hungary may be very a lot within the combine, as is Krzysztof Chmielewski of Poland.
The reigning Olympic champion within the lengthy course version of this 400 free, Lukas Märtens squeaked into the ultimate within the Seventh place and Duncan Scott of Nice Britain eked out eighth place.
Forward of them, nevertheless, is an up-and-comer in Germany’s Johannes Liebmann. The 18-year-old obliterated his former fastest-ever time of three:46.03 from a 12 months in the past, delivering a speedy 3:38.29.
He made it to the ultimate, whereas his teammate, Oliver Klemet, was nicely again in twenty third place.
WOMEN’S 50 FLY – HEATS
WR: 23.72 – Gretchen Walsh (USA), 2025
WJR: 24.55 – Claire Curzan (USA), 2021
ER: 24.38 – Therese Alshammar (SWE), 2009
EJR: 25.21 – Martine Damborg (DEN), 2024
CR: 24.50 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2021
High 16:
Louise Hansson (SWE) – 25.17
Martine Damborg (DEN) – 25.20 *European Junior File & Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 25.20
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Silvia Di Pietro (ITA) – 25.23
Naza Klancar (SLO) – 25.29
Sara Curtis (ITA) – 25.39
Maaike de Waard (NED) – 25.40
Sara Köhler (GER) – 25.42
Beryl Gataldello (FRA) – 25.44
Anna Ntountounaki (GRE) – 25.54
Laura Lahtinen (FIN) – 25.55
Julie Kepp Jensen (DEN) – 25.66 & Eva Okaro (GBR) – 25.66
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Tamara Potocka (SVK) – 25.68
Tessa Giele (NED) – 25.69 & Kornelia Fiedkiewicz (POL) – 25.69
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The heats of the ladies’s 50m fly weren’t quick on tenacity as we noticed the European Junior file and three nationwide information chew the mud this morning.
Sweden’s Louise Hansson scored the highest spot with a feisty 25.17 to tie her career-swiftest efficiency from 3 years in the past.
That provides her a slight benefit over 18-year-old Martine Damborg of Denmark and Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium who touched concurrently to share 2nd seed honors in 25.20.
As for Damborg, her outcome shaved .01 off her personal EJR of 25.21 placed on the books in 2024. Vanotterdijk’s outing overtook her earlier PB and Belgian nationwide file of 25.32 put up on the 2024 Danish Championships.
Slovenian Naza Klancar reaped the Fifth seed in 25.29, dropping important time from her former nationwide benchmark of 25.54, whereas Tamara Potocka claimed the 14th seed in the identical Slovak customary of 25.68 she established final 12 months.
Extra finalists embody Italians Silvia Di Pietro and Sara Curtis, Dutch racer Maaike de Waard and 2024 100m fly world champion Angelina Köhler of Germany.
MEN’S 50 FLY – HEATS
WR: 21.32 – Noe Ponti (SUI), 2024
WJR: 22.28 – Ilya Kharun (CAN), 2022
ER: 21.32 – Noe Ponti (SUI), 2024
EJR: 22.34 – Andrei Minakov (RUS), 2020
CR: 21.75 – Szebasztian Szabo (HUN), 2021
High 16:
Noe Ponti (SUI) – 21.86
Denis-Laurean Popescu (ROU) – 22.19
Szebasztian Szabo (HUN) – 22.25
Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 22.32
Simone Stefani (ITA) – 22.38
Daniel Zaitsev (EST) – 22.41
Simon Bucher (AUT) – 22.53
Michele Busa (ITA) – 22.55
Sean Niewold (NED) – 22.69 & Lukas Edl (AUT) – 22.69
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Rasmus Nickelsen (DEN) – 22.74
Daniel Gracik (CZE) – 22.80
Meiker Rosengren (SWE) – 22.82
Maurice Grabowski (GER) – 22.83
Marcin Cieslak (POL)/Meiron Cheruti (ISR)/Nikola Miljenic (CRO)/Ondrej Slavik (CZE) – 22.84
The standard suspects floated to the highest of the lads’s 50m fly heap, led by world file holder Noe Ponti.
Olympic medalist Ponti of Switzerland crushed a morning time of 21.86 to characterize the only real efficiency of the pack beneath the 22-second barrier. He earned gold at each the 2023 version of this competitors and final 12 months’s Brief Course World Championships.
Reigning lengthy course world champion, 26-year-old Maxime Grousset of France settled for the 4th seed in 22.32 behind Denis-Laurean Popescu of Romania and former world file holder Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary. The previous clocked 22.19 for an enormous new nationwide file by over half a second, whereas the latter earned the third seed in 22.25.
Of word, Italy’s Francesco Lazzari positioned ninth in 22.65; nevertheless, solely two swimmers per nation are allowed to advance to the following spherical.
Moreover, we remarkably noticed a 4-way tie amongst Marcin Cieslak of Poland, Meiron Cheruti of Israel, Nicola Miljenic of Croatia and Ondrej Slavik of the Czech Republic. We’ll see what occurs within the swim-off to assert the final two slots for tonight’s semi-finals.
WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – HEATS
WR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013 & Alia Atkinson (JAM), 2014/2016
WJR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
ER: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
EJR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
CR: 1:02.92 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
High 16:
Eneli Jefimova (EST) – 1:03.44
Anna Elendt (GER) – 1:04.22
Florine Gaspard (BEL) – 1:04.70
Dominika Sztandera (POL) – 1:04.74
Angharad Evans (GBR) – 1:04.75
Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) – 1:04.98
Sophie Hansson (SWE) – 1:05.13
Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR) – 1:05.24
Irene Burato (ITA) – 1:05.54 & Ellie McCartney (IRL) – 1:05.54
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Barbara Mazurkiewicz (POL) – 1:05.58
Henrietta Fanli (HUN) – 1:05.60
Clara Rybak-Andersen (DEN) – 1:05.81
Smilte Plytnykaite (LTU) – 1:05.85
Olivia Klint Ipsa (SWE) – 1:05.93
Veer Kivirinta (FIN) – 1:05.96
18-year-old Eneli Jefimova led a slew of nationwide file holders who surged to the entrance of the ladies’s 100m breaststroke heats.
Jefimova scorched a time of 1:03.44 to fall simply shy of her best-ever 1:03.21 from profitable this occasion two years in the past in Poland.
She’ll be chased by Germany’s Anna Elendt, whose morning effort of 1:04.22 was inside hanging distance of the 1:03.83 nationwide customary she established simply final month.
Belgium’s Florine Gaspard was additionally lower than half a second off her lifetime finest and nationwide file en path to capturing the third seed. She’s been as fast as 1:04.30 and put up 1:04.70 this morning.
Lurking because the Fifth-seeded swimmer is Nice Britain’s Angharad Evans, the Seventh-place finisher on this occasion eventually 12 months’s Brief Course World Championships. She owns a lifetime better of 1:03.45 so search for her to maintain reducing her outcomes as the following two rounds unfold.
MEN’S 100 BREAST – HEATS
WR: 55.28 – Ilya Shymanovich (BLR), 2021
WJR: 56.66 – Simone Cerasuolo (ITA), 2021
ER: 55.28 – Ilya Shymanovich (BLR), 2021
EJR: 56.66 – Simone Cerasuolo (ITA), 2021
CR: 55.45 – Ilya Shymanovich (BLR), 2021
High 16:
WOMEN’S 200 BACK – HEATS
WR: 1:57.33 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2025
WJR: 1:59,96 – Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2024
ER: 1:59.23 – Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
EJR: 2:02.25 – Benchmark
CR – 1:59.84 – Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2015
High 16:
MEN’S 200 BACK – HEATS
WR: 1:45.12 – Hubert Kos (HUN), 2025
WJR: 1:48.02 – Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
ER: 1:45.12 – Hubert Kos (HUN), 2025
EJR: 1:48.02 – Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
CR: 1:48.02 – Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
High 16:
WOMEN’S 4×50 FREE RELAY – HEATS
WR: 1:32.50 – Netherlands (NED), 2020
ER: 1:32.50 – Netherlands (NED), 2020
EJR: 1:41.14 – Russia (RUS), 2021
CR: 1:33.25 – Netherlands (NED), 2009
High 8:
MEN’S 4×50 FREE RELAY – HEATS
WR: 1:21.80 – United States (USA), 2018
ER: 1:20.77 – France (FRA), 2008 *Unratified
EJR: 1:27.92 -Benchmark
CR: 1:20.77 – France (FRA), 2008 * Unratified
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