By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
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 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3DAY 4 FINALS HEAT SHEET
Good [Insert Time of Day Here] and welcome to the Live Recap of the 4th Finals session of the 2025 World Junior Swimming Championships. We have had a fast and furious three final sessions already this week, but don’t worry as we are just at the halfway point and still have three more to go (including this one). We have seen championship records fall left and right and World Junior record as well and more could go tonight, in a session that is tailor fit for fans of sprinting as half of the ten events on the schedule are just one length of the pool.
DAY 4 FINALS SCHEDULE:
Girls’ 50 Backstroke Semis Boys’ 200 Breaststroke Final Girls’ 50 Butterfly Final Boys’ 50 Backstroke Final Girls’ 100 Breaststroke Final Boys’ 50 Butterfly Semis Girls’ 400 Freestyle Final Boys’ 50 Free Final Girls’ 200 IM Final Boys’ 4×200 Freestyle Relay FinalDespite the schedule being dominated by 50s this evening, the Girls’ 200 IM, the last individual event of the evening will be highly anticipated as it pits two of the rising stars for their respective nations against each other, again.
Top seeded American Audrey Derivaux will be seeking her 3rd gold medal in four days as she will look to climb to the top of the podium again, having done so in the 200 Fly and 200 Back. Standing in her way however is Argentina’s Agostina Hein. The 4th seed from this morning’s prelims, Hein has already defeated Derivaux once already this meet, doing so in the 400 IM. However, she has more than just the American and the Japanese pair of Misuzu Nagaoka and Shuna Sasaki standing in her way as the Argentine will have a quick turnaround, swimming the 400 Free just one event prior.
Hein will be aided by two medal ceremonies in addition to the intervening Boys’ 50 Free but will only have around 21 minutes or so between the conclusion of the 400 free and the start of the 200 IM. In the 400, Hein is seeded 2nd behind the USA’ Kennedi Dobson, who was the only swimmer this morning to post a sub-4:10 time, but don’t count out China’s Yang Peiqi, who sits 4th with a 4:11.12, but entered the meet with the top seeded time of 4:02.53.
The session kicks off with the Girls’ 50 backstroke semis, just one of two semi-final events on the schedule, where South Korea’s Kim Seungwon will look to fend off the USA’s Julie Mishler and the NAB swimmer Milana Stepanova in the first semi, while Australia’s Ainsley Trotter will look to do the same against South Africa’s Jessica Thompson and Poland’s Varvara Hlushchenko.
The first final of the session is the boys’ 200 breaststroke. World Junior record holder Shin Ohashi was 2:11.32 this morning to rank 3rd fastest and occupy lane 3 tonight. Next to him in lane 4 is Great Britain’s Filip Nowacki, who blasted a 2:09.76, the only sub 2:11.00 time this morning, to earn the middle lane.
Jessica Thompson returns to the pool very quickly for the finals of the Girls 50 fly where she is seeded 3rd behind top seeds Zoe Pedersen of New Zealand and Mizuki Hirai of Japan. The Kiwi had a great semis last night to nab the top seed but Hirai owns a PB of 25.63 from her 9th place finish at Worlds. There, unsurprisingly, is no overlap between the 200 breaststroke and 50 back for the boys as NAB swimmer Georgii Iakovlev leads the field by nearly half a second with his 24.58 semifinal time. Behind him however there is a tight battled as just .06 separate 2nd from 4th.
The only 100 on tap for the evening is the girls’ 100 breaststroke. Looking to follow in her countrywomen’s footsteps is Lithuania’s Smilte Plytnykaite who was quickest in the semifinals but will be hard pressed by Germany’s Lena Ludwig, who, too, will be looking to emulate her compatriot, Anna Elendt, who won the event at Worlds.
The 2nd and last semi-final of the evening is the men’s 50 butterfly. Great Britain’s Dean Fearn is the top seed with his 23.47 and will occupy lane 4 in the second semifinal while Nigeria’s Abdul Adama will take the lane in the preceding heat. Adama’s 23.61 from this morning was a new national record for Nigeria.
In between the 400 free and 200 IM is the shortest event on the books, the boys’ 50 free. Nikita Sheremet last night tied the World Junior Record of Michael Andrew, but he will look to improve upon that 21.75 and move into sole possession of it. The only swimmer under 22.00, it looks like it may be the Ukrainian’s race to lose, but don’t count out Great Britain’s Jacob Mills and Italy’s Carlos D’Ambrosio, who each split under 48 on last night’s mixed 400 Free Relay.
Speaking of relays, the session ends with the boy’s 800 Free Relay. The USA team DQ’ed this morning, but that by no means makes this final any less exciting as the NAB team occupies the top spot with their time of 7:15.53. Japan, China and Canada join them under 7:20, but don’t count out the Italians who were 5th this morning at 7:20.80 and likely will bring in D’Ambrosio, who alone could drop five seconds off that time.
GIRLS’ 50 BACKSTROKE – Semifinals
World Record: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2023) World Junior Record: 27.49 – Minna Atherton, AUS (2016) Championship Record: 27.81 – Gabrielle Fa’Amausili, NZL (2015)Top 8
BOYS’ 200 BREASTSTROKE – Finals
World Record: 2:05.48 – Qin Haiyang, CHN (2023) World Junior Record: 2:06.91 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025) Championship Record: 2:09.40 – Josh Matheny, USA (2019)Top 8
GIRLS’ 50 BUTTERFLY – Finals
World Record: 24.43 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2014) World Junior Record: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017) Championship Record: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee, JPN (2017)Top 8
BOYS’ 50 BACKSTROKE – FINALS
World Record: 23.55 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2023) World Junior Record: 24.00 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2018) Championship Record: 24.44 – Ksawery Masiuk, POL (2022)Top 8
GIRLS’ 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINALS
World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017) World Junior Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013) Championship Record: 1:06.23 – Eneli Jefimova, EST (2023)Top 8
BOYS’ 50 BUTTERFLY – Semi-Finals
World Record: 22.27 – Andrii Govorov, UKR (2018) World Junior Record: 22.96 – Diogo Ribeiro, POR (2022) Championship Record: 22.96 – Diogo Ribeiro, POR (2022)Top 8
GIRLS’ 400 FREESTYLE – Finals
World Record: 3:54.18 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025) World Junior Record: 3:56.08 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2023) Championship Record: 4:05.42 – Lani Pallister, AUS (2019)Top 8
BOYS’ 50 FREESTYLE – FINALS
World Record: 20.91 – Cesar Cielo, BRA (2009) World Junior Record: 21.75 – Michael Andrew, USA (2017) / Nikita Sheremet, UKR (2025) Championship Record: 21.75 – Michael Andrew, USA (2017) / Nikita Sheremet, UKR (2025)Top 8
GIRLS’ 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Finals
World Record: 2:05.70 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025) World Junior Record: 2:06.56 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024) Championship Record: 2:10.24 – Leah Hayes, USA (2023)Top 8
BOYS’ 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – Finals
World Record: 6:58.55 – USA (2009) World Junior Record: 7:08.37 – USA (2019) Championship Record: 7:08.37 – USA (2019)Top 8
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