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2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
December 2-7, 2025 Prelims at 10am local (4am ET)/Finals at 7pm local (1pm ET) Lublin, Poland SCM (25 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets Day 1 Prelims Recap Live Results LivestreamThe men’s 400m freestyle kicked off the first prelims session of the 2025 European Short Course Championships taking place in Lublin, Poland.
The battle to make the top 8 for tonight’s final was fierce, with a mark of 3:38.43 placing 8th for the main event.
Behind leaders Daniel Wiffen of Ireland (3:37.04) and Jack McMillan of Great Britain (3:37.57) was 27-year-old Victor Johansson of Sweden. Johansson put up an impressive swim of his own en route to capturing the 3rd seed, blasting a lifetime best of 3:37.73 to be right in the mix for a potential medal.
Johansson’s effort this morning checked in as a new Swedish national record, handily erasing his own mark of 3:39.35 established to place 4th at the 2017 edition of this competition. That means the veteran hacked well over a second off that former outing to clock the new standard.
Below are the splits for this morning’s swim versus the one he conducted eight years ago.
Johansson is still seeking his first senior international swimming medal since reaping 1500m freestyle gold at the 2019 World University Games.
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), 2019Top 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) – 3:38.43Several big names missed out on making the top 8 of the men’s 400m free, including the silver and bronze medalists from the 2023 European Short Course Championships – Danas Rapsys of Lithuania and Lucas Henveaux of Belgium.
Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen of Ireland leads the pack after a swift morning swim of 3:37.04, a time that would have garnered him the silver 2 years ago. Wiffen is the defending gold medalist in this event, having notched a national record of 3:35.47 in Romania.
British ace Jack McMillan, a member of GBR’s gold medal-winning 4x200m free relay in Paris, was just over half a second behind in 3:37.57. That’s a big-time personal best for the 25-year-old, heftily erasing his former PB of 3:41.86 from last year. He’s now the 4th-fastest British performer of all time.
Sweden’s Victor Johansson established a new national record en route to capturing the 3rd seed. His effort of 3:37.73 dropped his former standard down from the 3:39.35 notched in 2017.
Zalan Sarkany of Hungary is very much in the mix, as is Krzysztof Chmielewski of Poland.
The reigning Olympic champion in the long course edition of this 400 free, Lukas Märtens squeaked into the final in the 7th position and Duncan Scott of Great Britain eked out 8th place.
Ahead of them, however, is an up-and-comer in Germany’s Johannes Liebmann. The 18-year-old obliterated his former fastest-ever time of 3:46.03 from a year ago, turning in a speedy 3:38.29.
He made it to the final, while his teammate, Oliver Klemet, was well back in 23rd place.
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