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2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
December 2-7, 2025 Lublin, Poland SCM (25 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets Live Results Live Recaps: Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2Dutch swimmer Marrit Steenbergen was once the next big thing in Dutch swimming (if not world swimming). But after losing most of the middle part of her career to injuries, she has been on a tear over the last few years, creating an unusual and otherworldly career arc.
The latest feat: she broke a freestyle record previously held by Sarah Sjostrom and an IM record previously held by Katinka Hosszu not only in the same year, not only in the same meet, but in the same session.
At 7:00 PM local, Steenbergen breaks the European Record in the 100 IM final. At 8:20 PM local, Steenbergen breaks the European Record in the 200 free final.It would be premature to suggest that Steenbergen yet exists in the same tier as Sjostrom and Hosszu, two standard-bearers of their generation and probably two of the greatest female swimmers in history.
But without fact-checking this, she must be the only swimmer to have broken records held by those two in the same session (unless Katinka herself did so, which seems plausible). And still, those European Records are peak records from their peak disciplines.
Steenbergen, 25, has been an endless evolution. By age 15, she was already going 53 in the 100 free and 1:58 in the 200 free in long course. She kept makin incremental improvements, including in the 200 free, until age 17, in 2017, but then almost disappeared from international swimming.
In 2018, she has no official results in the 200 free and only limited times in the 100 (a best of 57.00) as she battled a shoulder injury and worked to finish her schooling. 2019, 2020, and 2021 saw more results, but she remained a distant gap from where she had been.
But then in 2022, she returned and rebuilt a trajectory that was almost as if those missing years never happened. She swam 1:56.36 in the 200 free and 53.24 in the 100 free, marching those times down to 1:55.51 and 52.26 by the end of 2024.
She also added a 200 IM to her repertoire: an event that she was always good at, but her 2:08.86 in 2024 was on another level.
After a disappointing showing at the Paris Olympics, where she came home without a medal in spite of entering as the world #1 in the 100 free, Steenbergen evolved again. She took an extended break until November, limiting herself to three swims and three 90-minute gym sessions a week.
“I think if I went straight back to training after Paris, I wouldn’t have been that strong mentally,” Steenbergen said after winning the 100 free at the 2025 World Championships. “It would have been a challenge to finish this season so I think it made me stronger.”
She dropped the 200 free and 200 IM from her lineup in long course and picked up an entry in the 100 back.
And she changed her mentality, trying to drop the pressure on herself.
“The goal is to make a final but that has always been the goal,” Steenbergen said before the meet. “We try to see it round by round so try to make semis. I think I have to make that and then try to make a final and when I’m in the final, I want to see what I can do there. That has always been my mindset.
“So now I’m trying to get back again to, okay, a final first, have fun. Mostly just try to have fun and take it easy and be in the moment. It’s fun to be there and my teammates are my friends.”
And now, after three years without a best time, she’s finding new form even in the 100 IM, an event that she hadn’t really focused much on over the last two years, but that logically she should be (and is) very good at. She has dropped a second-and-a-half in that event this year alone.
With a generation of female swimmers learning how to swim deeper-and-deeper into their 20s, and even early 30s, it’s hard to count Steenbergen out in much ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. Every season, she seems to learn a little more about herself, and apply it to take her game to new heights.
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