By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 World Junior Swimming Championships
August 19-24, 2025 Otopeni, Romania LCM (50 meters) Meet Central Meet Packet Team Leaders’ Guide SwimSwam Event Page SwimSwam Preview Psych Sheets Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2DAY 3 FINALS HEAT SHEET
The third night of finals from the 2025 World Junior Swimming Championships in Otopeni is set to get underway tonight with medals on the line in five events, plus four sets of semi-finals on the docket.
DAY 3 FINALS SCHEDULE:
Girls’ 50 Butterfly Semi-Finals Boys’ 50 Freestyle Semi-Finals Girls’ 200 Backstroke Final Boys’ 100 Butterfly Final Girls 100 Breaststroke Semi-Finals Boys 50 Backstroke Semi-Finals Girls’ 100 Freestyle Final Boys 800 Freestyle (Fastest Heat) Mixed 4×100 Freestyle Relay FinalThe first final of the night will be the girls’ 200 backstroke, where Americans Charlotte Crush and Audrey Derivaux are the two massive favorites for a 1-2 finish after they threw down a pair of 2:08s in this morning’s prelims, a full four seconds clear of the rest of the field.
Crush, who has already won gold in the 100 back and will be swimming the 50 fly semis prior to this final, owns a lifetime best of 2:07.05, while Derivaux, who claimed the World Junior title in the 200 fly, has been as fast as 2:06.68.
Next up will be the boys’ 100 fly, which figures to be wide open as the top six qualifiers for the final are separated by just under six-tenths of a second, with Brazilian Lucio Flavio Filho leading the pack at 52.31 coming off his gold medal-winning performance at Junior Pan Ams last week in 51.78.
All eyes will be on the final of the girls’ 100 free, as Rylee Erisman aims to officially punch her ticket to the U.S. roster for the 2026 Pan Pacs after breaking the World Junior Championship Record in both prelims (53.17) and the semis (53.09).
If she goes under 53.16 in tonight’s final, she’ll be a Priority 1 qualifier for the Pan Pac roster next year, and as long as she’s under 53.51, she’ll be in position to be named to the team under Priority 3.
Great Britain’s Theodora Taylor (54.52) and American Lily King (54.68) qualified 2nd and 3rd into the final, well back of Erisman.
Erisman and King will swim the third and fourth legs for the U.S. mixed 4×100 free relay at the end of the session, while Taylor will be the anchor for Great Britain.
The final individual event of the night will be the timed final of the boys’ 800 free, where Turkey’s Kuzey Tuncelli comes in as the defending champion and top seed at 7:46.01, though he was slightly quicker at last month’s World Championships (7:45.13), where he finished 6th.
The lone 2008-born swimmer in the fastest heat will be Japan’s Kazushi Imafuku, who is the #2 seed with his lifetime best of 7:50.01 from the Japanese Nationals in March.
The night will close with the final of the mixed 4×100 free relay, where the Americans (3:28.50) and Brits (3:28.64) hold the top two seeds coming out of the prelims.
Relay Lineups:
Lane 1 – Japan (JPN)
Raito Numata (M) Kazusa Kuroda (M) Yui Fukuoka (F) Mizuki Hirai(F)Lane 2 – Neutral Athletes B (NAB)
Mikhail Scherbakov(M) Roman Zhidkov (M) Mariia Poleshchuk (F) Kira Manokhina (F)Lane 3 – Italy (ITA)
Gabriele Valente (M) Carlos D’Ambrosio (M) Ludovica di Maria (F) Alessandra Mao (F)Lane 4 – United States (USA)
Michael Rice (M) Rowan Cox (M) Rylee Erisman (F) Lily King(F)Lane 5 – Great Britain (GBR)
Gabriel Shepherd (M) Jacob Mills (M) Skye Carter (F) Theodora Taylor (F)Lane 6 – China (CHN)
Xie Yichen (M) Xu Haibo (M) Luo Mingyu (F) Chen Yizhou (F)Lane 7 – Canada (CAN)
Laon Kim (M) Francis Brennan (M) Leah Tigert (F) Madison Kryger (F)Lane 8 – Australia (AUS)
Ben Cotroneo (M) Campbell Wilson-Moran (M) Ainsley Trotter (F) Heli Childs (F)In the semi-final events, Japan’s Mizuki Hirai (26.09) leads the girls’ 50 fly, Ukraine’s Nikita Sheremet (21.82) sits atop the boys’ 50 free, Germany’s Lena Ludwig (1:08.22) qualified 1st in a tightly-bunched girls’ 100 breast field, and American Gavin Keogh paced the boys’ 50 back (25.18) this morning with all 16 qualifiers separated by less than eight-tenths of a second.
GIRLS’ 50 BUTTERFLY – SEMI-FINALS
World Record: 24.43 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2014) World Junior Record: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017) Championship Record: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017)BOYS’ 50 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS
World Record: 20.91 – Cesar Cielo, BRA (2009) World Junior Record: 21.75 – Michael Andrew, USA (2017) Championship Record: 21.75 – Michael Andrew, USA (2017)GIRLS’ 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
World Record: 2:03.14 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2023) World Junior Record: 2:03.35 – Regan Smith, USA (2019) Championship Record: 2:07.45 – Regan Smith, USA (2017)BOYS’ 100 BUTTERFLY – FINAL
World Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021) World Junior Record: 50.62 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2017) Championship Record: 51.08 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2017)GIRLS’ 100 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS
World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017) World Junior Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013) Championship Record: 1:06.23 – Eneli Jefimova, EST (2023)BOYS’ 50 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS
World Record: 23.55 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2023) World Junior Record: 24.00 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2018) Championship Record: 24.44 – Ksawery Masiuk, POL (2022)GIRLS’ 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL
World Record: 51.71 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2017) World Junior Record: 52.70 – Penny Oleksiak, CAN (2016) Championship Record: 53.09 – Rylee Erisman, USA (2025)BOYS’ 800 FREESTYLE – TIMED FINAL
World Record: 7:32.12 – Zhang Lin, CHN (2009) World Junior Record: 7:43.37 – Lorenzo Galossi, ITA (2022) Championship Record: 7:55.92 – Evan Pinion, USA (2011)MIXED 4X100 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL
World Record: 3:18.48 – USA (2025) World Junior Record: 3:24.29 – AUS (2023) Championship Record: 3:24.29 – AUS (2023)Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 World Junior Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap
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