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2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
December 2-7, 2025 Lublin, Poland SCM (25 meters) Meet Central 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
Order of Events
We have made it to day four of the European SC Championships, and today’s session will not feature a relay at the end.
The evening will start with seven event finals in the men’s and women’s 100 back, 200 breast, and 100 fly and the women’s 800 freestyle.
The session will conclude with semifinals in the 200 IM and 100 free.
Newly minted European Record Holder Marrit Steenbergen will be taking to the pool in the final two events this evening. She is the top seed in the women’s 200 IM, coming in at 2:08.20 to sit a tenth ahead of Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko.
In the 100 free, Steenbergen will race in the 1st semifinal as the 4th overall seed. Her prelims time of 52.35 comes in a little more than four tenths behind Eva Okaro‘s top time of 51.90 from prelims.
To start the meet, Lauren Cox is the top seed in the women’s 100 backstroke for Great Britain, but her time of 56.52 comes in just eight hundredths ahead of 2nd seed Nina Holt from Germany.
The men’s race is also shaping up to be close with Great Britain’s Oliver Morgan holding the top seed at 49.62 sitting about a tenth ahead of 2nd seed Miroslav Knedla from Czechia.
Ellie McCartney is the top seed in the women’s 200 breaststroke final, with her semifinals time of 2:18.81 coming in three hundredths faster than Angharad Evans‘ semifinals time of 2:18.84.
World Record holder Caspar Corbeau will take the water as the 2nd seed in the men’s 200 breaststroke, sitting just two hundredths behind top seed Carles Coll Marti. European Junior Record holder Filip Nowacki will also be racing the event from lane 7.
Germany’s Isabel Gose holds the top seed in the women’s 800 free final after she took down the 400 free European Record on day one.
Louise Hansson comes in as the top seed in the women’s 100 fly, sitting three tenths ahad of Greece’s Anna Ntountounaki who is 2nd.
Former World Record holder Noe Ponti comes in as the top seed in the men’s 100 fly as the only person under 49 seconds in semifinals, he sits about two tenths ahead of France’s Maxime Grousset.
Great Britain’s Duncan Scott was the only swimmer under 1:54 in the men’s 200 IM this morning, and will hold the top seed going into tonight’s semifinal.
Finally, Lithuania’s Tomas Lukminas will swim in lane four in the final heat of the evening as the top seed in the men’s 100 freestyle semifinals.
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – Final
WR: 54.02 Regan Smith, USA (2024) WJR: 55.75 – Bella Sims, USA (2022) ER: 55.03 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2014) EJR: 55.99 – Mie Nielsen, DEN (2013) CR: 55.17 – Kira Toussaint, NED (2019)Top 8 Finishers
Lauren Cox (GBR) – 56.51 Maaike de Waard (NED) – 56.62 Nina Jane Holt (GER) – 56.72 Pauline Mahieu (FRA) – 56.92 Carmen Weiler Sastre (ESP) – 57.00 Hanna Rosvall (SWE) – 57.06 Victoria Bierre (DEN) – 57.79 Camila Rodrigues Rebelo (POR) – 58.10Great Britain’s Lauren Cox won the 100 backstroke final in 56.51, which was one-hundredth faster than the 56.52 she swam in the semifinal. Cox’s pre-meet best time was 58.24 from October of this year.
Cox was 5th at the 50 mark, turning in 27.28 to sit more than half-a-second behind Maiike de Waard who led through the first three 25s.
De Waard finished from 2nd from lane 7, swimming 56.62 to drop half-a-second from her semifinals swim of 57.25. Her lifetime best stands at 55.86 from the 2021 SC World Championships.
Nina Holt turned in 2nd at the 50 meter mark, splitting 27.18 to sit just a tenth ahead of Cox. She came home in 29.54 to finish 3rd overall in 56.72.
MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – Final
WR: 48.16 – Hubert Kos, HUN (2025) WJR: 48.76 – Miron Lifintsev, NAB (2024) ER: 48.16 – Hubert Kos, HUN (2025) EJR: 48.76 – Miron Lifintsev, NAB (2024) CR: 48.97 – Arkady Vyatchanin, SRB (2009) | Stanislav Donets, RUS (2009)Top 8 Finishers
Thomas Ceccon (ITA) – 49.29 Mewen Tomac (FRA) – 49.46 Oliver Morgan (GBR) – 49.68 Miroslav Knedla (CZE) – 49.93 Lorenzo Mora (ITA) – 49.95 Denis-Laurean Popescu (ROU) – 49.97 John Shortt (IRL) – 50.10 Jan Cejka (CZE) – 50.34Italy’s Thomas Ceccon took home the win in the men’s 100 backstroke, touching in 49.29 to add about half-a-second from the 48.80 he swam in yesterday’s semifinal.
Ceccon sat in 3rd at the 50, turning in 23.73 to come in behind France’s Mewen Tomac, who was 2nd in 23.62, and Romania’s Denis-Laurean Popescu, who split 23.55 to lead the field.
Ceccon and Tomac tied at the 75 mark, both splitting 36.49, before Ceccon took over the lead to win the event by just under two tenths.
Tomac’s 2nd place swim of 49.46 was a new French Record time, taking down Jeremy Stravious’s 12-year-old record of 49.57 from the 2013 French Championships.
Great Britain’s Oliver Morgan finished 3rd in 49.68.
WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – Final
WR: 2:12.50 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024) WJR: 2:14.70 – Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2022) ER: 2:14.70 – Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2022) EJR: 2:14.70 – Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2021) CR: 2:15.21 – Rikke Pedersen, DEN (2013)Top 8 Finishers
Anna Elendt (GER) – 2:18.16 Angharad Evans (GBR) – 2:18.90 Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) – 2:19.30 Kristyna Horska (CZE) – 2:19.44 Ellie McCartney (IRL) – 2:19.90 Daria Asaftei (ROU) – 2:20.62 Clara Rybak-Andersen (DEN) – 2:20.62 Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 2:21.05Anna Elendt earned the top time in the women’s 200 breast final for Germany, touching more than eight tenths ahead of Great Britain’s Angharad Evans who finished 2nd.
Elendt took over the lead from Evans at the 100 mark, splitting 1:05.80 to turn a tenth ahead of Evans’ 1:05.90.
From there, she continued to build her lead, splitting 1:12.36 to win with her 2:18.16. Evans came home in 1:13.00 to touch in 2:18.90 for 2nd, just a tenth off her lifetime best of 2:18.77 from last year’s SC World Championships.
Lithuania’s Kotryna Teterevkova finished 3rd in 2:19.30, a new personal best time, dropping more than a second to become the first woman in Lithuanian history to break 2:20. She takes down her own national record time of 2:20.48 from 2024 SC Worlds.
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – Final
WR: 1:59.52 – Caspar Corbeau, NED (2025) WJR: 2:02.03 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025) ER: 1:59.52 – Caspar Corbeau, NED (2025) EJR: 2:03.75 — Filip Nowacki, GBR (2025) CR: 2:00.53 – Marco Koch, GER (2015)Top 8 Finishers
Carles Coll Martí (ESP) – 2:00.86 Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 2:01.27 Luka Mladenovic (AUT) – 2:02.48 Filip Nowacki (GBR) – 2:02.96 EJR Darius-Stefan Coman (ROU) – 2:03.17 Jeremias Alexander Pock (GER) – 2:04.52 Gabriele Mancini (ITA) – 2:05.84 Arno Kamminga (NED) – 2:05.93Reigning World Champion Carles Coll Marti took home the win in the men’s 200 breaststroke final, upsetting World Record holder Caspar Corbeau, breaking his own National Record in the process.
Coll Marti trailed at the 50 mark by just two hundredths, turning in 27.03 to Corbeau’s 27.01. By the 75 mark, he held the lead by more than a tenth, and it only grew from there.
At the 100 mark, he turned in 57.72 and he came home in 1:03.14 to touch in 2:00.86 to take down his own national record time of 2:01.55 that he swam to win last year’s SC World Championships.
Corbeau finished 2nd in 2:01.27, almost two seconds off his World Record time of 1:59.52 from the end of October.
Bronze medalist Luka Mladenovic took down his Austrian record time, touching in 2:02.48 to drop a second from the 2:03.42 he swam in the semifinal.
Filip Nowacki broke his own European Junior Record to finish 4th with his 2:02.96 coming in about a second under his prelims record time of 2:03.75.
Finally, Darius-Stefan Coman broke his own semifinals record of 2:03.85 to finish 5th in 2:03.17.
WOMEN’S 800 FREESTYLE – Final
WR: 7:54.00 -Lani Pallister, AUS (2025) WJR: 7:59.44 – Wang Jianjiahe, CHN (2018) ER: 7:59.34 – Mireia Belmonte, ESP (2013) EJR: 8:11.99 CR: 8:04.53 – Alessia Filippi, ITA (2008)Top 8 Finishers
Isabel Gose (GER) – 8:01.90 CR Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 8:03.00 Maya Werner (GER) – 8:14.41 Ajna Kesely (HUN) – 8:15.77 Maria de Valdes Alvarez (ESP) – 8:21.44 Sarah Dumont (BEL) – 8:22.83 Artemis Vasilaki (GRE) – 8:24.53 Angela Martinez Guillen (ESP) — 8:27.00The women’s 800 freestyle was one of the most exciting races of the meet so far. Isabel Gose ultimately came out on top with a new Championship Record time of 8:01.90 which was just over a second faster than Simona Quadarella‘s 2nd place swim of 8:03.00.
Gose and Quadarella were neck-and-neck through a majority of the race. At the 400 meter mark Gose sat in 1st at 4:00.81, just two tenths ahead of Quadarella’s 4:01.08.
Quadarella slowly began building from there, and at the 525 turn, the two women flipped in an exact tie of 5:17.28.
After that, Gose began a descend of her own through her 25 splits to slowly build a more significant lead. At the 600, she flipped in 6:02.74 to sit two tenths ahead of Quadarella 6:02.96.
Gose had a monster final 200 of 1:59.16, which was almost a second faster than Quadarella’s 2:00.04. She took down the 17-year-old record of 8:04.53 set by Alessia Fillippi in December of 2008.
Quadarella’s swim of 8:03.00 was a new Italian record, taking down the same 8:04.53 record from 2008.
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – Final
WR: 52.71 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024) WJR: 55.39 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021) ER: 54.61 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2014) EJR: 55.64 – Anastasiya Shkurdai, BLR (2020) CR: 55.00 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2017)Top 8 Finishers
Martine Damborg (DEN) – 55.52 EJR Tessa Giele (NED) – 55.55 Louise Hansson (SWE) – 55.69 Anna Ntountounaki (GRE) – 55.74 Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 55.79 Angelina Köhler (GER) – 55.83 Laura Lahtinen (FIN) – 55.97 Panna Ugrai (HUN) – 57.28Martine Damborg won the women’s 100 fly final in a new European Junior Record ime of 55.52, taking down Anastasiya Shkurdai’s 55.64 from 2020.
The final was close, and Damborg did not lead for any of the 25s until the last one. After the first 25, she sat in 6th overall at 11.91, three tenths behind Tessa Giele from the Netherlands who led in 11.63.
At the 50 mark, she had moved into 5th, jumping Belgium’s Roos Van Otterdijk to turn in 25.98, still four tenths behind, but now Sweden’s Louise Hansson was leading the field in 25.57.
Damborg moved into 3rd at the 75, now sitting three tenths behind Hansson, turning in 40.52 to Hansson’s 40.21.
Damborg had the fastest final 25 split of 15.00 to move her into the lead over Hansson’s 15.48. She finished in 55.52 to touch just three hundredths ahead of Tessa Giele, who finished in 55.55.
Hansson was 3rd for Sweden in 55.69, less than two tenths back.
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – Final
WR: 47.68 – Josh Liendo, CAN (2025) WJR: 49.03 – Ilya Kharun, CAN (2022) ER: 47.71 – Noe Ponti, SUI (2024) EJR: 50.12 – Andrei Minakov, RUS (2020) CR: 48.47 – Noe Ponti, SUI (2023)Top 8 Finishers
Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 48.10 CR Noe Ponti (SUI) – 48.11 Michele Busa (ITA) – 49.21 Simone Stefani (ITA) – 49.35 Michal Chmielewski (POL) – 49.46 Ksawery Masiuk (POL) – 49.57 Simon Bucher (AUT) – 49.68 Clement Secchi (FRA) – 50.12Tonight has been full of very close races, but none have been as close as the men’s 100 fly final where France’s Maxime Grousset came out on top of the field, touching in 48.10 to beat Switzerland’s Noe Ponti by just one hundredth of a second.
Grousset and Ponti traded off the lead throughout the race. Grousset led for the first 50, turning a tenth ahead of Ponti at 22.32 to 22.42.
On the 3rd 25, Ponti ook over the lead after splitting 12.62 to Grousset’s 12.74 to turn just two hundredths ahead going in to the final 25.
Grousset ultimately prevailed, splitting 13.04 on the final 25, which was exactly what he needed in order to stand alone atop the podium. Ponti swam 13.07 to finish 2nd in 48.11.
Grousset’s swim was a new French Record time, taking down his own standard of 48.57 from last year’s SC World Championships.
Italy finished 3rd and 4th with Michael Busa touching 3rd in 49.21 and Simone Stefani finishing 4th at 49.35
WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Semifinal
WR: 2:01.63 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024) WJR: 2:04.48 – Yu Yiting, CHN (2021) ER: 2:01.86 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2014) EJR: Anastasia Gorbenko, ISR (2020) CR: 2:02.53 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)Top 8 Qualifiers
Freya Colbert (GBR) – 2:06.42 Katie Shanahan (GBR) – 2:06.57 Ellen Walshe (IRL) – 2:06.63 Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 2:06.85 Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR) – 2:07.13 Tamara Potocka (SVK) – 2:07.24 Anita Gastaldi (ITA) – 2:07.72 Emma Carrasco Cadens (ESP) – 2:07.99Great Britain’s Freya Colbert took the top spot in the women’s 200 IM final, touching in 2:06.42 to lock up the win in the 2nd semifinal over Great Britain’s Katie Shannahan, who was in her same heat.
Colbert trailed Shanahan for the first 175 meters, but her final 50 freestyle split of 30.20 was more than half-a-second faster than Shanahan’s 30.73.
Ireland’s Ellen Walshe won the 1st semifinal in 2:06.63, coming in. half-a-second ahead of Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko who qualified 5th in 2:07.12.
Marrit Steenbergen swam her first event of the session, touching in 2:06.85 to finish 3rd in her heat and qualify 4th overall for tomorrow’s final.
MEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Semifinal
WR: 1:48.88 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2024) WJR: 1:51.45 – Matt Sates, RSA (2021) ER: 1:48.88 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2024) EJR: 1:52.75 – Mikhail Shcherbakov, RUS (2025) CR: 1:50.85 – Andreas Vazaios, GRE (2019)Top 8 Qualifiers
Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira (ESP) – 1:52.68 Berke Saka (TUR) – 1:53.16 Duncan Scott (GBR) – 1:53.22 Alberto Razzetti (ITA) – 1:53.48 Mewen Tomac (FRA) – 1:53.83 Max Litchfield (GBR) – 1:54.37 Ronny Brannkarr (FIN) – 1:54.55 Gabor Zombori (HUN) – 1:54.72Swimmers from the 2nd semifinal took the top three spots in the men’s 200 IM. Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira came out on top in 1:52.68.
Turkey’s Berke Saka finished 2nd after barely squeaking into the semifinal, finishing 15th in the prelims. His finals time of 1:53.16 was a new Turkish National Record, taking down his own former record time of 1:53.29 from the 2024 SC World Championships.
Gonzalez de Oliveira and Saka were exactly tied at the 150 mark, both turning in 1:25.22 to come in four tenths ahead of Great Britain’s Duncan Scott in their heat, who was 1:25.64.
Gonzalez de Oliveira came home faster, splitting 27.46 on his freestyle leg to Saka’s 27.94. Great Britain’s Duncan Scott touched 3rd in 1:53.22 after splitting 27.58 on his closing 50.
Italy’s Alberto Razzetti finished 4th, after winning the first semifinal. At the 150 mark, he turned in exactly the same time as Gonzalez de Oliveira and Saka, 1:25.22. He had the slowest closing 50 of the top eight, splitting 28.26 to stop the clock in 1:53.48.
Ronny Brannkarr from Finland finished 7th in 1:54.55, taking down the almost 32-year-old National Record in the event. The former record belonged to Jani Sievinen at 1:54.65, and had stood since January of 1994.
WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – Semifinal
WR: 49.93 – Kate Douglass, USA (2025) WJR: 51.45 – Kayla Sanchez, CAN (2018) ER: 50.58 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2017) EJR: 52.36 – Anastasya Gorbenko, ISR (2020) CR: 50.95 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED (2017)Top 8 Qualifiers
Sara Curtis (ITA) – 51.29 Eva Okaro (GBR) – 51.48 Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 51.56 Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) – 51.57 Minna Abraham (HUN) – 52.08 Barbora Janickova (CZE) – 52.14 Milou van Wijk (NED) – 52.16 Nina Jane Holt (GER) – 52.56Italy’s Sara Curtis had a monster swim in the women’s 100 freestyle, touching in 51.29 to win the event, beating Great Britain’s Eva Okaro by just under two tenths.
The Virginia freshman also took down Italian legend Federica Pellegrini’s national record in the event. She hacked nearly a second off the 52.10 Pelegrini swam in April of 2019 to become the first Italian woman under 52 seconds, and nearly the first Italian woman under 51 seconds.
Okaro, who is a freshman at the University of Texas touched in 51.48, about three tenths off Francesca Halsall’s national record time of 51.19 from 2009.
Marrit Steenbergen finished 3rd in her 2nd event of the day, touching in 51.56 to lock up a middle lane for tomorrow’s final, coming in just a hundredth ahead of France’s Beryl Gastaldello.
The 5th qualifier, Hungary’s Minna Abraham, took down a different swimming titan with her swim of 52.08 breaking Katinka Hosszu’s 2016 Hungarian Record of 52.12 by just four hundredths.
MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – Semifinal
WR: 44.84 – Kyle Chalmers, AUS (2021) WJR: 45.64 – David Popovici, ROU (2022) ER: 44.94 – Amaury Leveaux, FRA (2008) EJR: 45.64 – David Popovici, ROU (2022) CR: 44.94 – Amaury Leveaux, FRA (2008)Top 8 Qualifiers
Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 45.65 Jere Hribar (CRO) – 45.76 Carlos D’Ambrosio (ITA) – 46.01 Luca Hoek Le Guenedal (ESP) – 46.04 Tomas Lukminas (LTU) – 46.12 Sergio De Celis Montalban (ESP) – 46.19 Adam Jaszo (HUN) – 46.20 Nandor Nemeth (HUN) /Matthew Richards (GBR) – 46.23Maxime Grousset picked up his 2nd top time of the session, swimming 45.65 to lock up lane four in tomorrow’s 100 free final. He came in about a tenth ahead of Croatia’s Jere Hribar, who touched in 45.76 for 2nd.
Hribar’s time was a new Croatian National Record, coming in under Duje Dranganja’s 2009 record of 46.08 in the event.
Italy’s Carlos D’Ambrosio finished 3rd in 46.01, just three hundredths ahead of fellow junior swimmer Luca Hoek le Guenedal’s 46.04 for 4th.
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