By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
December 2-7, 2025 Lublin, Poland SCM (25 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets Live ResultsThe entry lists for the 2025 European Short Course Swimming Championships have been released, with a loaded group of swimmers set to compete in Lublin, Poland, next week.
However, perhaps the biggest takeaway from the release of the psych sheets is that no Russian or Belarusian swimmers will be racing. European Aquatics was reportedly working with the local organizing committee in Lublin to make a determination on the status of Russian and Belarusian swimmers earlier this month.
Although World Aquatics has allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at its recent major championships as neutrals, including the 2024 World Short Course Championships and the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, European Aquatics has maintained its restrictions on barring Russians and Belarusians from competing in senior events, up until the news reported earlier this month that European Aquatics would follow the new World Aquatics guidelines that allow Russians to compete in team events.
Without Russian swimmers racing, reigning 2024 SC world champions Miron Lifintsev (men’s 50/100 back) and Ilia Borodin (men’s 400 IM) will be two of the biggest names missing. Borodin, Kliment Kolesnikov, Evgeniia Chikunova, Svetlana Chimrova and Belarusian Ilya Shymanovich also won individual gold the last time Russians competed at the European SC Championships in 2021.
The list of swimmers who will be competing next week in Lublin is a strong one, with 19 individual medalists from the 2024 Short Course World Championships and 19 defending champions from the 2023 European SC Championships in the field.
KEY WOMEN’S ENTRIES
Headlining the women’s field are reigning short course world champions Ruta Meilutyte and Isabel Gose, along with French speedster Beryl Gastaldello and Polish sprinter Kasia Wasick.
Meilutyte has been virtually unbeatable in the 50 breast since her return to the highest level of the sport in 2022, but she hasn’t competed at the European SC Championships since 2017, when she won double gold in the women’s 50 and 100 breast.
The Lithuanian star, who has also won four straight LC world titles in the 50 breast in addition to winning the last two gold medals at SC Worlds, is the top seed in the 50 and also comes in seeded 5th in the 100 breast.
Her biggest challengers in the sprint breaststroke events will be Estonian Eneli Jefimova, the defending champion in the 100 breast who is coming off her first few months of NCAA competition at NC State in the U.S., and German Anna Elendt, the reigning world champion in the LC 100 breast from this past summer.
Gose is the reigning short course world champion in the 1500 free, but the German won’t race that event in Lublin, instead opting for the 200, 400 and 800 free. She holds the top seed in both the 400 and 800, having won silver in the latter at the 2024 SC Worlds, with Great Britain’s Freya Colbert and Italian Simona Quadarella seeded 2nd in each respective event. Quadarella is the defending champion in the 400 free and the reigning SC World silver medalist in the 1500 free.
Gastaldello has been a short course powerhouse throughout her career, and is coming off winning silver in the 100 free, 50 fly and 100 IM at the 2024 SC Worlds. Those will be the three events she races in Lublin, and in the 100 free, she’ll be defending the Euro SC title she won in 2023.
As for Wasick, the Polish veteran and sprint specialist, she holds the top seed in the 50 free after winning bronze in the event at the 2024 SC Worlds. At the recent World Cup series in North America, she won the Triple Crown bonus in the 50 free after sweeping the event at all three stops.
The other individual 2024 SC World Championship medalist in the field is the Netherlands’ Tessa Giele, who won silver in the 100 fly last December in Budapest and tied with Greece’s Anna Ntountounaki (who will also be in the field) for gold in the 50 fly at the 2023 SC Euros.
Other defending champions we’ve yet to mention will be Great Britain’s Freya Anderson in the 200 free, Sweden’s Louise Hansson in the 100 fly and Germany’s Angelina Köhler in the 200 fly.
In addition to Jefimova, there will be several other current NCAA swimmers racing on the women’s side, including Italian Sara Curtis (Virginia), Great Britain’s Eva Okaro (Texas), Hungarians Minna Abraham (USC) and Nikoletta Padar (Texas), and Spain’s Carmen Weiler Sastre (Virginia Tech).
Some other key names worth mentioning include two-time individual world champion Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands, Belgian all-arounder Roos Vanotterdijk, British breaststroker Angharad Evans, and Irish fly/medley specialist Ellen Walshe.
KEY MEN’S ENTRIES
Swiss star Noe Ponti towers over the men’s psych sheets as the lone multi-individual 2024 SC world champion entered to compete in Lublin, as the 24-year-old comes in owning the top seed in the 50 fly, 100 fly and 100 IM, and the #2 seed in the 200 fly.
At the 2024 SC Worlds, Ponti won gold and set new world records in the men’s 50 and 100 fly, and he also claimed gold in the 100 IM. After winning individual silvers in the 50 and 100 fly at the 2025 LC World Championships, he won the 100 fly twice during the 2025 World Cup circuit, though at the final stop in Toronto, he saw Canadian Josh Liendo steal his world record by three one-hundredths in a time of 47.68, so look for Ponti to target that time during the meet.
Ponti is also the defending European SC champion in the 50, 100 and 200 fly.
Ponti’s biggest challenger in the 50 and 100 fly will likely be Frenchman Maxime Grousset, who won silver behind Ponti in the 100 fly at the 2024 SC Worlds, along with Austrian Simon Bucher, who was 5th in that final. In the 100 IM, Ponti will have to watch out for another Austrian, Bernard Reitshammer, who is the defending European champion and won silver last December at SC Worlds behind Ponti.
Grousset is also the defending Euro champion in the 100 free.
In the 200 fly, Italian Alberto Razzetti will go head-to-head with Ponti, with Razzetti having broken the European Record (1:48.64) en route to winning silver at SC Worlds last year. Poland’s Krzysztof Chmielewski won bronze in Budapest and will also be a major threat.
Razzetti will also be among the favorites in the 200 and 400 IM, having won medals in both at the 2024 SC Worlds, along with coming in as the defending champion in the 400.
The other reigning SC world champion in the mix on the men’s side is Spaniard Carles Coll Marti, who won the 200 breast last December, but will have his work cut out for him in the form of Dutchman Caspar Corbeau, the defending European champion who just last month became the first man under the 2:00 barrier in the event (1:59.52).
Corbeau will also be the favorite in the 50 and 100 breast, having won seven of the nine breaststroke events during the 2025 World Cup circuit (losing the 50 and 100 one time apiece).
However, reigning Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi might have something to say about that, as the defending champion in the 50 breast and 2021 gold medalist in the 100 breast comes in lurking down on the psych sheets with entry times well shy of the lifetime bests (25.37/55.63) he set at the 2021 edition.
Dutchman Arno Kamminga, the defending champion in the 100 breast, will also be in the field coming off a solid showing at the Dutch Qualifiers in October. Turkey’s Emre Sakci, the current world record holder in the 50 breast, will also be a threat after winning silver in the event last year at Worlds.
Other 2024 SC World Championship medalists in the field will be Germany’s Florian Wellbrock, who won silver in the 800 and 1500 free in Budapest, Turkey’s Kuzey Tuncelli, who was the bronze medalist in the 1500 last year, and Italian Lorenzo Mora and Frenchman Mewen Tomac, who went 2-3 in the 200 back in 2024.
Mora is the defending Euro champion in the 200 back, while Tomac won the 50 and 100 two years ago in Otopeni.
The reigning world champion in the 200 back, Hubert Kos, is one glaring name missing from the entry lists, having already committed to racing at the U.S. Open instead.
The two defending champions we’ve yet to mention are British stars Duncan Scott and Matt Richards, who head up a 17-member GB squad in Lublin. Scott is the defending champ in the 200 IM, Richards won gold in 2023 in the 200 free, and they’ll be joined by Olympic gold medalist Tom Dean, backstroke stud Oliver Morgan and rising breaststroker Filip Nowacki at the meet.
See the full entry lists here.
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