U.S. Bounces Back to Top the World Junior Champs Medal Table Following Day 3

By Charlotte Wells on SwimSwam

2025 World Junior Swimming Championships

August 19-24, 2025
Otopeni, Romania
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Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

Midway via the meet, and Group USA has made a robust comeback from how they kicked off the World Junior Championships; they’ve gone from zero golds on day 1 to having six occasion victories beneath their belt and topping the medal desk after day 3.

All 5 of the U.S.’s particular person occasion wins thus far have come from the ladies’ facet. Tonight’s finals session noticed Audrey Derivaux decide up her second particular person gold of the meet, as she prevailed within the 200 again whereas teammate Charlotte Crush claimed silver. Bringing dwelling the subsequent gold for the People was Rylee Erisman, who turned in a jaw-dropping efficiency within the 100 free as she broke the Championship File for the third time this meet.

The U.S. picked up its first relay win of the meet within the combined 4×100 relay, with the workforce of Mike Rice, Rowan Cox, Erisman and Lily King narrowly out-touching Nice Britain for the gold by simply .14.

Group USA at present sits solidly atop the medal desk, with six golds and 12 whole medals.

The one different workforce with a medal depend within the double digits, the Impartial Athletes ‘B’ workforce sits simply behind them with three golds and 10 whole medals. They added two bronzes to their {hardware} assortment on day 3, with Milana Stepanova taking third within the women’ 200 again and Grigorii Vekovishchev inserting third within the boys’ 800 free.

Turkey and Lithuania each gained their first gold medals of the meet, as Kuzey Tuncelli of Turkey prevailed within the boys’ 800 free whereas Tajus Juska of Lithuania secured the victory within the boys’ 100 fly.