2025 European SC Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap ...Middle East

By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam

2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Day 1 Finals Heat Sheet

Event Schedule

The women’s 400 free looks like it is Isabel Gose‘s to lose after she dominated the heats by over three seconds this morning, but the men’s side looks like a bloodbath. It took 3:38.43 to make the final for tonight, with 2023 champion Dan Wiffen taking lane 4 in 3:37.04.

He will need to be aware of the outside lanes, with long course World Record holder Lukas Maertens in lane 1 and #6 swimmer all-time Duncan Scott in lane 8, but the medals could truly come from anywhere in this race.

The 50 fly will see Noe Ponti and Louise Hansson be the swimmers to beat. Hansson leads a tightly packed women’s field ahead of newly minted European Junior Record hodler Martine Damborg, with the top 5 seeds separated by just 0.12 seconds.

Ponti has a little more breathing too, 0.33 seconds ahead of #2 seed Denis-Laurean Popescu, who Romanian record in the heats this morning. Our first match up between Ponti and Maxime Grousset will have to wait, as they are in opposite semi-finals tonight.

Ilya Shymanovich‘s Championship Record is under serious threat from Caspar Corbeau after he blasted a new Dutch Record of 55.54 in the men’s 100 breast this morning. He is now just 0.26 seconds from the Belarussian’s World Record and 0.09 seconds from the Championship standard set in 2021.

Eneli Jefimova neared her Estonian Record in the women’s event, and will be aiming to crack 1:03 and secure lane 4 for tomorrow evening’s final. Angharad Evans and long course World Champ Anna Elendt will challenge the NC State swimmer for that berth.

Wwe saw just 18 swimmers in the pool this morning in the women’s 200 back with most swimmers keeping their powder dry. Watch for Katie Shanahan, silver medalist two years ago in Otopeni, to drop something quick from the second semi-final.

Mewen Tomac, Luke Greenbank, and Lorenzo Mora were involved in a breathtaking battle in the 200 back two years ago, with only 0.12 seconds splitting all three in the final, and are all inaction tonight. French double-silver medalist Yohann Ndoye-Brouard is the #3 seed, and aiming to translate his huge summer in long course into some hardware in Lublin.

We end day 1 with the fastest of our relays, as both the men and women will contest the 4x50m free. Croatia and the Netherlands are the favourites, respectively, after dominating the heats this morning.

WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – FINAL

Top 8 Finishers:

Freya Colbert and USC’s Lilla Minna Abraham were out quick, leading out top seed Isabel Gose at the 50m mark.

Abraham fell back over the next 75 meters, leaving Colbert and Gose as the clear top two by the 150 mark, ahead of Simona Quadarella and Germany’s Maya Werner.

By halfway Gose had taken the lead, flipping in 1:56.14 to lead Colbert by just under two tenths of a second. She stretched that lead out to half a second over the next 50, as the trio of Gose, Colbert and Quadarella separated themselves from the field, more than three seconds clear of the rest of the field.

The Magedeburg-trained swimmer Gose pulled away to lead by a bodylength with 50 to go, with Colbert just edging Quadarella for 2nd behind her.

Gose absolutely scorched home to go 3:54.33, slicing two tenths off Mireia Belmonte’s European Record in the process and hacking 2.51 seconds off her own German Record. This marks Germany’s first ever gold medal in this event.

Quadarella outsplit Colbert by half a second on the final length to take 2nd by a single hundredth, 3:56.70 to 3:56.71, with Maya Werner making it a German 1-4 with a new best of 4:01.46. Quadarella’s swim marked a new Italian record, taking 0.89 seconds off Federica Pellegrini’s mark from 2011.

MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – FINAL

Top 8 Finishers:

Lukas Maertens went out like a shot from lane 1, flipping in 51.60 at the 100m mark. Dragged out with him was Polish 200 fly specialist Krzyzstof Chmielewski, who was just quarter of a second behind.

Less than a second separated all eight swimmers after 150m, and that gap barely changed at the halfway point.

Dan Wiffen moved through, flipping first in 1:47.02. He scorched away on the fifth 50, but was pegged back by Jack McMillan who was just 0.01 seconds behind with 100 to go.

Maertens stuck in 3rd, less than a tenth behind Wiffen with 50 to go before blasting past the Irishman with a 26.65 final 50. He nearly ran dpwn McMillan just ahead, but the British swimmer held on to take the win in a new best of 3:36.33 to become the #2 swimmer in British history. This was Britains first ever medal in the event in Euro SC history.

His fellow Ulsterman Wiffen hung on for 3rd in 3:37.02, holding off a fast charging Johannes Liebmann who touched in 3:37.39 for a new World Junior Record. The 6th-place finisher from the World Junior Championships this summer, Liebmann looks like the next big thing out of the distance factory that is SchwimmClub Magdeburg.

Victor Johansson neared his Swedish record in 5th in 3:37.92, with 800 free World short course champs Zalan Sarkany (3:38.03), Duncan Scott (3:38.14) and Krzyzstof Chmielewski (3:38.58) just behind.

WOMEN’S 50 FLY – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

The women’s 50 fly did not dissapoint after a competitive heats session this morning, with 1st through 8th separated by just a quarter of a second. Beryl Gastaldello, the 4th-fastest swimmer in history, took top spot in 25.00, just ahead of a trio of record breakers.

Martine Damborg sliced another tenth off her European Junior Record from this morning, and was matched by Angelina Koehler and Roos Vanooterdijk. Koehler reset her mark of 25.31 from earlier this fall, while Vanotterdijk set he second Belgian record of the day after going 25.20 this morning.

Maike de Waard and Silvia di Pietro, two veterans of this event, made it through in 5th and 6th, while top seed Louise Hansson was a hundredth faster than this morning but dropped six places.

There will be a swim-off for 8th, with Neza Klancar and Anna Ntountounaki placing 8th in 25.25. Tessa Giele, the #2 seed coming into the meet and the 7th-fastest European in history, missed out in 10th.

MEN’S 50 FLY – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

Noe Ponti showcased his credentials with a scorching time of 21.51 to win the second semi-final, smashing Szebastian Szabo’s Championship Record in the process. Maxime Grousset will be next to him in tomorrow’s final after setting a new French record of 21.95 to crack 22 seconds for the first time.

Daniel Zaitsev sliced two-tenths from his three-year-old Estonian record to take the #3 seed, while Szabo took 4th overall in 22.21. Denis-Laurean Popescu of Romania, who set a national record this morning, was less than a tenth off that mark to place 5th in 22.26.

Daniel Gracik made it seven national record-holders in the top eight as he sliced 0.12 off his own Czech mark. The two Italians snuck into the final in 7th and 8th, with national record holder Michele Busa the last man through in 22.56.

WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

The top three seeds for tomorrow night will come from the second semi-final, after Eneli Jefimova, Florine Gaspard, and Angharad Evans broke away from the field to touch under 1:04. Jefimova and Gaspard both went out under 30 seconds at halfway, and held on to take the top two seeds.

Gaspard smashed her Belgian Record by seven-tenths of a second, while Jefimova was just 0.07 seconds off her own mark. Evans was jsut ahead of long course world champion Anna Elendt, who won the first semi-final, with Anastasia Gorbenko also in record breaking for as she placed 5th in 1:04.10. That took 0.34 seconds off her own Israeli standard.

Ellie McCartney was the last woman in, setting a new best of 1:04.75 to beat out 2022 World short course medalist Sophie Hansson by a tenth of a second.

MEN’S 100 BREAST – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

Caspar Corbeau couldn’t quite match his Dutch record from this morning, but was the class of the field in tonight’s semi-finals. He was out in a rapid 26.11 before coming home in 29.66, the only man under 30 seconds, as he touched in 55.77.

Emre Sakci and Simone Cerasuolo had served up a fantastic battle in the first semi-final, with Sakci getting the touch by 0.01 seconds thanks to a strong final ten meters. They will flank Corbeau tomorrow night, with Carles Coll Marti, the 2024 200 breast short course world champion, just off his Spanish record from this morning in 56.44.

Michigan’s Luka Mladenovic cracked Bernhard Reitshammer’s Austrian Record in 5th, going 56.65, with Lucas Matzerath and Florida’s Koen de Groot getting on the right side of the cutline in a pair of 56.8s.

Missing out by a single hundredth was Denmark’s Jonas Gaur in 56.84. A European Junior Champion in the event back in 2023, he cracked Tobias Bjerg’s national record with his swim tonight.

WOMEN’S 200 BACK – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

Pauline Mahieu was out fastest in the first semi-final, leading Spain’s Carmen Weiler Sastre by nearly a second at the halfway mark. She maintained that lead up until the final length, where Sastre halved the deficit to touch just half a second behind, 2:03.67 to 2:04.15. Fellow Iberian Camila Rodrigues Rebelo was just behinf in 2:04.72.

Katie Shanahan had clear water in the second semi-final, winning by nearly a second and a half over Germany’s Lisa Seidel. She was also out fast in 1:00.48, before closing in 1:03.25 to finish in 2:03.73 and claim the #2 seed for tomorrow’s final.

With only 18 swimmers this morning, we saw a faster set of results tonight, with Hanna Rosvall the last woman in as she touched in 2:06.33.

MEN’S 200 BACK – SEMIFINALS

Top 8 Finishers:

Jon Shorrt hacked another second-or-so from his newly-minted Irish record to take the top seed for tonight, keeping all four 50s under 28 seconds as he touched in 1:48.84. He beat out Luke Greenbank, the silver medalist from two years ago, with Mewen Tomac splitting the two as he won the second semi-final.

Tomac was out like a rocket, but fell back to field hard on the final 50 and was outsplit by Shortt and Greenbank by over a second. He will be in lane 5 tomorrow after finishing in 1:49.11, with Czech Jan Cejka setting a new national record to take 4th in 1:49.77. That sliced 0.16 seconds from his 2021 mark, and follows on from a breakout summer where he was a finalist at the Singapore World Championships, finishing 6th.

Lorenzo Mora was 5th, and has work to do if he aims to retain his title from Otopeni. Apostolos Siskos, Benedek Kovacs and Ivan Martinez Sota were separated by just 0.16 second from 6th to 8th, with Jack Skerry almost matching his time from this morning in 1:51.59 as he missed out in 9th.

2024 World Champion Hugo Gonzalez also missed out after touching in 1:51.78 to place 11th

WOMEN’S 4×50 FREE RELAY – FINAL

Top 8 Finishers:

The Netherlands, the premier nation in this event in European history with nine titles, edged out Italy for gold on the final leg here, taking the win by just over half a second.

Silvia di Pietro set a new Italian Record of 23.39 on the leadoff to give them the best possible start, and was followed by a rapid 22.90 from Sara Curtiss. Marrit Steenbergen kept the Dutch in touching distance with a 22.89 leg after Milou van Wijk’s 24.08 leadoff.

Tessa Giele and Agata Ambler, who was at the World University Games this summer and has now progressed to the full senior team, were essentially on was on the third leg, before Valerie van Roon stormed home in 23.05 to blast past Costanza Cocconcelli.

Poland took 3rd by a single hundredth, with Kasia Wasick’s 23.57 leadoff a key leg for them. Nina holt broke 24 seconds with a 23.99 leadoff of her own, and Angeline Koehler split 23.50 after she reset her German 50 fly record earlier in the session. That was a national record for the Polish team, as they won bronze in front of a home crowd.

France and Hungary were just a tenth apart in 5th and 6th, while defending champions Sweden could only manage 8th. Lillian Slusna set a new Slovak record on the leadoff as they just missed their national record from this morning.

MEN’S 4×50 FREE RELAY – FINAL

Top 8 Finishers:

Italy were the only team to get all four swimmers under 21 seconds, as they took the win here by more than three-quarters of a second as they matched their National Record from 2018 – one which featured current U.S. National teamer Santo Condorelli. Leonardo Deplano led off in 20.88, before Lorenzo Zazzeri (20.56), Giovanni Guatti (20.67) and Thomas Ceccon (20.79) led them home.

This was a fantastic swim for Guatti, who won silver at the World University Games in the 50 free with a time of 22.01. He is the next Italian sprinter to join what is becoming a deep squad, with Alessandro Miressi, Carlos D’Ambrosio, Paolo Conte Bonin, and Manuel Frigo also options.

Poland took silver in a new National record, making it two medals in front of their home crowd tonight. Ksawery Masiuk (20.62) and Kamil Sieradzki (20.71) had a pair of huge splits on the middle legs, as they held off a charging Croatia. They were led off in a new Croat record for Jere Hriber, matching Duje Draganjir’s 2009 mark of 20.70, before Luka Cvetko led them home in 20.79 to rise from 5th to 3rd.

Ukraine had a national record on the leadoff from Nikita Sheremet in 20.84, as the Lousville swimmer continued his fantastic form since breaking the World Junior Record in the summer. He also broke the short course World Junior Record here, gicing him ownership of both marsk. Vladyslav Bukhov was 20.75 on the 3rd leg for them as they missed the podium by just 0.13 seconds but set a new Ukrainian Record.

Spain also set a national record on both the leadoff and overall, with luka Hoek de Guendal taking 0.17 seconds off to go 21.09. Carless Coll Marti, the 200 breaststroke short course world champion, was 20.77 as they finished in 1:23.94.

Caspar Corbeau, the 200 breast world record holder, was 21.04 for the 6th-placed Dutch, with Estonia getting a 20.77 second leg from Daniel Zaitsev as they missed the relay record they set this morning by just 0.06 seconds.

WOMEN’S 50 FLY – SWIM-OFF

Defending Champion Anna Ntountounaki missed out on tomorrow’s final thanks to a long finish, as Neza Klancar stole in to set a new Slovenian record of 25.01 and take the win. The two were split by just 0.05 seconds at the 25m mark, but Klancar came home 0.08 seconds faster.

Ntountounaki also broke her national record, taking 0.05 seconds of the mark of 25.09 she set in 2021. If she had swum that time in the semi-finals earlier, she would be the #2 seed for the final tomorrow, and this is faster than the time she went to take gold two years ago.

Neither of the defending gold medalists (Ntountounaki and Tessa Giele tied in 25.10) will be in the final, as GIele placed 10th in the semis in 25.29.

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