2025 World Championships: Day 2 Swims You Might Have Missed ...Middle East

By Mark Wild on SwimSwam

2025 World Championships

This morning’s and evening’s sessions were chock full of new records, ranging from Gretchen Walsh‘s new Championship record to Belgium seeing two different national records fall in the same session, with Lucas Henveaux chopping time in the 200 free just minutes after Florine Gaspard won the first of the circle seeded heats in the 100 breaststroke, a day that also saw Roos Vanoterdijk set a national record en route to winning the silver medal in the 100 fly.

There were a few swims that might have slipped past your (and our) attention when they occured, but have no worries, that’s what we are here for, as we pull out just a few of the many noteworthy performances from today’s sessions.

This morning in the prelims of men’s 100 backstroke, France’s Yohann Ndoye-Brouard set a new personal best of 52.30 to secure the top seed in the evening session’s semifinals. The time not only slices .20 off his previous best from the 2022 World Championships, where he went 52.50, but the swim jumps him up the all-time list of performers in the event from 22nd to 2oth. The Frenchman was a little slower in the semifinals (52.47), but managed to earn a spot in the final tomorrow, where he will have another shot at Camille Lacourt‘s National record of 52.11, which hails from 2010.

Lanihei Connolly of the Cook Islands entered this morning’s 100 breaststroke prelims as the 39th fastest entrant, with a seed time of 1:08.99, but concluded the day with a massive new national record and personal best of 1:07.40. Swimming out of lane 0 in the 3rd heat, Connolly, who earned a World Aquatics Scholarship to Bond University in Australia and was her nation’s flag bearer at the 2024 Olympics, was out quick, opening in 31.41 (also a national record). She closed in 31.41 to finish in 26th place, less than half a second out of the top 16.

A lot of eyes will be on the big guns in the 200 free final, which saw Olympic silver medalist Matt Richards fail to advance, but the semifinals had four strong swims from a quartet of 18-year-olds. Carlos D’Ambrosio, who was the last entrant into the semifinal, had a massive drop to place 5th into the final with a new PB and Italian National record of 1:45.23. Just one spot behind him, at 1:45.39 was Japan’s Tatsuya Murasa. Also 18, Murasa led of Japan’s 800 free relay in Paris with a time of 1:47.30. He was 1:45.67 at the Japan Open, but his performance this evening draws him within a second of the national record of 1:44.65 set by Katsuhiro Matsumoto in 2011.

The other two 18-year-olds were Sander Sorensen of Norway and Zhang Zhanshuo of China. The pair both barely missed out on making the final as they finished 9th and 11th overall with times of 1:45.78 and 1:45.84, just .18 and .24 off of the 8th placed time. Sorensen had set the national record three months ago at the Bergen Swim Festival, when he broke 1:47.00 for the first time, but blew by it in the semifinals, becoming the first Norwegian under 1:46.

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