2025 OPEN BELGIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2025 Open Belgian Swimming Championships acquired underway this weekend with swimmers vying for potential spots on the nation’s roster for this summer time’s World Championships.
24-year-old Lucas Henveaux, the Cal Bear who was named the 2025 Atlantic Coast Convention’s (ACC) Male Swimmer of the 12 months, made his mark on two occasions to date in Antwerp.
First within the males’s 400m free, Henveaux stopped the clock at a time of three:46.76 to seize the gold.
He registered the only real time of the sector below the 4:01 barrier, simply beating the World Aquatics ‘A’ reduce of three:48.15 wanted for Singapore.
Henveaux is the reigning Belgian nationwide report holder on this occasion, courtesy of the three:44.61 lifetime finest he put up for fifth place on the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
His effort at this competitors rendered him simply outdoors the checklist of prime 10 performers on the earth on the season.
Henveaux additionally led off his medley relay squad with a swift mark of 54.26 within the 100m backstroke.
That obliterated his earlier private better of 56.30 from final yr and established a brand new Belgian Document.
The earlier Belgian commonplace stood on the 55.01 Stan Franckx placed on the books on the 2023 Flanders Swim Cup. As such, Henveaux is now Belgium’s first-ever man below the 55-second barrier within the occasion.
Be aware: Splits weren’t accessible on the time of publishing.
Extra Notes
Sarah Dumont logged a time of 4:10.47 to win the ladies’s 400m free, coming painstakingly shy of the 4:10.23 World Aquatics ‘A’ commonplace wanted for this summer time’s World Championships. Dumont was additionally the ladies’s 400m IM victor in 4:48.37 in addition to the gold medalist within the 200m free in 1:59.50, the only real sub-2:00 results of the sector.
Nationwide report holder Roos Vanotterdijk acquired the job accomplished within the ladies’s 50m again, scoring 28.19 to clear the ‘A’ reduce of 28.22. She additionally topped the ladies’s 100m again podium in 1:00.00 to dip below the ‘A’ commonplace of 1:00.46.
Florine Gaspard, the reigning Belgian nationwide report holder within the 50m free, punched an effort of 24.46 to return inside .04 of hr nationwide report notched simply final month in Stockholm. Vanotterdijk was inside putting distance, settling for silver in 24.83 to additionally clear the ‘A’ reduce of 24.86 wanted for Singapore.
