By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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The final of the women’s 100m freestyle transpired tonight in Lublin, Poland, with Dutch maestro Marrit Steenbergen stealing the show en route to gold.
The 25-year-old Olympian threw down a blistering swim of 50.42 to establish a new European Record as she topped the podium for the second time in the session. She earlier won the women’s 200m IM in a European Record of 2:01.83.
Behind Steenbergen tonight in this freestyle race were Beryl Gastaldello of France and Sara Curtis of Italy who each registered their own national record for respective silver and bronze.
As for 30-year-old veteran Gastaldello, the Olympian stopped the clock at 50.60 to score a new national benchmark, overtaking the former standard of 50.63 she produced when earning silver at last year’s World Championships.
Tonight, Gastaldello split 24.55/26.05 for runner-up honors, checking in as the 7th-fastest performer in history.
Bagging the bronze was 19-year-old Curtis of the University of Virginia. Curtis registered 51.26 to take down the 51.29 she logged during the semi-finals here in Poland.
Prior to that, Olympic icon Federica Pellegrini held the Italian mark with the 52.10 put up in 2019.
19-year-old Curtis has already been on fire this week, most notably splitting a 22.71 to anchor Italy’s mixed 4×50 free relay to a World Record as the team touched in a 1:27.26. Only one other woman, Kasia Wasick of Poland who split a 22.95, swam a sub-23 second split.
All-Time Top Performers, Women’s SCM 100 Free
- Kate Douglass, 49.93, (USA) — World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025
- Cate Campbell, 50.25, (AUS) — Hancock Prospecting 2017 (25m)
- Gretchen Walsh, 50.31, (USA) — World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) 2024
- Marrit Steenbergen, 50.42 (NED) – 2025 European SC Championships
- Emma McKeon, 50.58, (AUS) — FINA Swimming World Cup 2021
- Sarah Sjöström, 50.58, (SWE) — FINA Swimming World Cup 2017
- Beryl Gastaldello, 50.60, (FRA) — 2025 European SC Championships
- Siobhán Haughey, 50.79, (HKG) — ISL Final – Match 18
- Mollie O’Callaghan, 50.82, (AUS) — World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo, 50.95, (NED) — European Swimming Championships (25m) 2017
WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – Final
- 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 Finishers
- Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 50.42 ER, CR
- Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) – 50.60
- Sara Curtis (ITA) – 51.26
- Eva Okaro (GBR) – 51.63
- Milou van Wijk (NED) – 51.89
- Nina Jane Holt (GER) – 52.16
- Barbora Janickova (CZE) – 52.26
- Minna Abraham (HUN) – 52.54
Four. For. Four. Every time Marrit Steenbergen swam an event final at the 2025 European SC Championships, she broke a European Record. She won her 2nd event of the evening, the women’s 100 freestyle in 50.42, taking more than a tenth off Sarah Sjostrom’s former record time of 50.38 from 2017.
She also took down countrymate Ranomi Kromowidjojo’s Championship and Dutch Record time of 50.95, which was also from 2017 to win the event by nearly two tenths.
She will become the 4th fastest performer in the event, moving up from where she previously sat in 11th with the 51.10 she swam at the World Cup stop in Toronto.
Updated Top 5 All-Time
- Kate Douglass (USA) — 49.93
- Cate Campbell (AUS) — 50.25
- Gretchen Walsh (USA) — 50.31
- Marrit Steenbergen (NED) — 50.42
- Emma McKeon (AUS) — 50.58
France’s Beryl Gastaldello finished 2nd in 50.60, a new French record time, taking three hundredths off her 50.63 from the 2024 World Championships.
Bronze medalist Sara Curtis completed her final event of the session in an Italian Record, touching in 51.26 to take three hundredths off her 51.29 record from yesterday’s semifinals.
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