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2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The men’s 400m IM contest was among the final events this evening at the 2025 European Short Course Championships and the grueling race didn’t disappoint.

When the dust settled, it was Italian Olympian Alberto Razzetti who got to the wall first, posting 3:58.79 as the sole competitor of the field to delve under the 4:00 barrier.

British Olympic finalist Max Litchfield secured silver in 4:03.25 while Germany’s Cedric Büssing rounded out the podium in 4:03.51.

Finishing in 4th place, however, was 25-year-old Lucas Henveaux, clocking a speedy outing of 4:03.89 for a new national record.

Henveaux of Belgium destroyed his previous PB and national standard of 4:05.04 notched in the heats of this event here in Lublin, Poland.

Prior to that outing, his career-swiftest rested at the 4:08.56 produced this last October at the Westmont stop of the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.

That means in a matter of weeks, Henveaux hacked over 5 seconds off his PB to become Belgium’s fastest male ever by a mile.

Henveaux already nailed a new Belgian national record in the men’s 800m free, registering 7:28.03 for silver.

MEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

Top 8 Finishers:

Alberto Razzetti led wire-to-wire in this race, rebounding from his 6th place finish in the 200 fly to take a dominant win in the 400 IM and defend his European short course title. He touched in 3:58.79, the only swimmer under 4:00 and nearly five seconds clear of the silver medalist.

Max Litchfield was that swimmer, moving up from 6th after the fly to be 2nd at halfway, and never gave up that position. Cedric Buessing, Diego Albaladejo, Thomas Jansen and Lucas Henveaux were locked in a battle for 3rd place behind him, after the Spanish swimmer fell back to the field on the breaststroke leg after touching in 1:57.04 to be 3rd at halfway.

Henveaux had the fastest closing split of those swimmers in 55.69, but it was not enough for him to get onto the podium. He did crack his Belgian record from prelims by more than a second, marking his 3rd record in the event in the last two months. He has taken the record doewn by over six seconds this fall from 4:10.28 to 4:03.89.

Litchfield held on for bronze in 4:03.25, just off his season best of 4:02.87, with Buessing winning a second medal for Germany in three events after Maya Werner’s women’s 1500 free silver. He touched in 4:03.51 for a new best time.

Top seed Jakub Bursa was a second off his best from prelims, touching in 4:05.75, which was his second-fastest swim ever. The 800 free champ Zalan Sarkany was 8th in 4:06.30, 0.68 seconds faster than his swim this morning.

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