2025 World Championships: Day 5 Swims You Might Have Missed ...Middle East

By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam

2025 World Championships

We were treated to another night of captivating racing featuring some incredible races, with a more competitive men’s 200 IM than expected and a jaw-dropping men’s 100 free, both of which featured the #2 swim all-time. There were a number of other swims today that may have dipped below the radar – he’s a few we’ve picked out.

The men’s 200 backstroke saw a number of National Records fall, with Jan Cejka‘s Czech Record among them. Cejka was the World Junior Champion in the 50 back back in 2019,  but plateaued slightly after setting the 200 record of 1:56.66 at the 2021 European Championships. He hacked a more than a second off that with his swim of  1:55.46 tonight, which progressed him through to his first world final in 7th place. He would need to drop even more time tomorrow to get among the medals, but this is a huge step for both him and Czech swimming. The 100 backstroke National Record had already fallen this week, broken by Miroslav Knedla on Day 2 as he placed 12th in the 100 backstroke semi-finals.

Greg Butler came into this meet as Great Britain’s primary breaststroker, with this being the first major championship since 2013 where at neither of James Wilby or Adam Peaty have been in attendance. There were not high hopes for the men’s medley relay team, but Butler’s performances so far have been heartening. He made the semi-finals of the 100 breast on Day 1, setting a new best by 0.40 seconds to go 59.53, and then very nearly qualified for the 200 breast final tonight. He was 2:-09.60, his first time under 2:10, and finished just 0.28 seconds behind 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang for 8th place. He now ranks 9th all-time among British men, jumping up one spot.

Lewis Clareburt set a new best time in the 200 fly on Day 3, clocking 1:55.24 in the semi-finals to dip under the 1:55.60 he swam to win Commonwealth gold in 2022, and he repeated the trick in the 200 IM final tonight to set a new New Zealand record. He had been just 0.02 seconds away in the semi-finals, but with his time of 1:57.06 tonight which placed him 5th, he got the job done. He has the 400 IM to go this week, which is his best of the three events, and he could be a medal contender if he’s around his Oceanian Record of 4:08.70.

Florine Gaspard hacked four tenths of an second off her 100 free best this morning, clocking a time of 53.71 to come within 0.09 seconds of Roos Vanotterdijk’s Belgian record. That came just two days after she set the National Record in the 100 breaststroke in the heats, posting a time of 1:06.89 to take eight-hundredths off Fanny Lecluyse’s 2019 mark.

Barbora Janickova was another swimmer to drop a big PB in the women’s 100 free, placing 9th in the semifinals in 53.60. That was more than half a second faster than her entry time of 54.17, and just a tenth of Barbara Seemanova’s Czech Record of 53.50.

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