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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 1Day 1 Finals Heat Sheet
Welcome to the 1st finals session of the 2025 World Junior Championships. There was some fast swimming this morning, and we are in for some exciting races tonight.
On the schedule, we have two individual event finals, four event semifinals, and two relays.
As a reminder, the United States is using this meet as an opportunity for Pan Pac selections, and both event finals this evening will give American swimmers an opportunity to make the team.
We will start the meet with the boys 400 freestyle where Egor Babinich, from the Neutral Athletes ‘B’ delegation is the top seed by just two hundredths over American Aiden Hammer. They will be in lanes four and five tonight, and, as they were both off their lifetime best times, they likely have more in the tank. They will also have Japanese swimmer Kazushi Imafuku to contend with, who has a lifetime best of 3:47.77.
The girls 50 breaststroke will swim next, and Neutral Athlete ‘B’ swimmer Ralina Giliazova earned the top spot this morning by more than two tenths, touching in 30.89 to be the only athlete under 31 seconds.
Henry Allan, of Australia, and Gavin Keogh, from the United States, led the boys 100 backstroke prelims and will be the top seeds in tonight’s semifinal. Allan was first in 54.15, and Keogh came in three hundredths back in 54.18. Their lifetime bests are only separated by a tenth of a second, and both will be trying to earn the middle lane tomorrow.
The girls 400 IM will be the other individual event final tonight, and Agostine Hein from Argentina won the prelims by almost two seconds. She was also just three tenths off the Argentine National Record in the event, a mark she will certainly be chasing this evening. Audrey Derivaux, from the United States, was the only other swimmer under 4:40 in prelims.
The boys 100 breaststroke could be one of the most exciting event finals of the meet, and tonight we will see who will earn their spot. Japan’s Shin Ohashi, the World Junior Record holder, earned the top seed by two tenths ahead of Great Britain’s Filip Nowacki. They were almost half-a-second ahead of the rest of the field, and the only swimmers under that 1:00 mark.
American Charlotte Crush earned the top seed in the girls 100 backstroke in 59.82, exactly half-a-second ahead of 2nd seed Kim Seungwon from Korea.
We will end the session with the boys 4×100 freestyle relay, where Great Britain has the top seed by almost a second over the Americans, and the girls 4×200 freestyle relay, which sees the United States as the favorite by more than three seconds.
BOYS 400 FREESTYLE – Finals
World Record: 3:39.96 – Lukas Maertens, GER (2025) World Junior Record: 3:44.31 – Petar Mitsin, BUL (2023) Championship Record: 3:46.06 – Gabor Zambori, HUN (2019)GIRLS 50 BREASTSTROKE – Semifinals
World Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2023) World Junior Record: 29.30 – Benedetta Pilato, ITA (2021) Championship Record: 30.19 – Eneli Jefimova, EST (2023)BOYS 100 BACKSTROKE – Semifinals
World Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022) World Junior Record: 52.08 – Miron Lifintsev, NAB (2024) Championship Record: 52.91 – Ksawery Masiuk, POL (2022)GIRLS 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Finals
World Record: 4:23.65 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025) World Junior Record: 4:24.38 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024) Championship Record: 4:36.84 – Leah Hayes, USA (2023)BOYS 100 BREASTSTROKE – Semifinals
World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019) World Junior Record: 58.94 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025) Championship Record: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)GIRLS 100 BACKSTROKE – Semifinals
World Record: 57.13 – Regan Smith, USA (2024) World Junior Record: 57.57 – Regan Smith, USA (2019) Championship Record: 59.11 – Regan Smith, USA (2017)BOYS 4×100 FREESTYLE RELAY – Finals
World Record: 3:08.24 – USA (2008) World Junior Record: 3:15.49 – USA (2023) Championship Record: 3:15.49 – USA (2023)GIRLS 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – Finals
World Record: 7:37.50 – Australia (2023) World Junior Record: 7:51.47 – Canada (2017) Championship Record: 7:51.47 – Canada (2017)Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 World Junior Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap
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