European SC Championships: All National Records Broken At The Halfway Point

By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam

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
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

With the sheer volume of fast swims we have seen through the first three days in Lublin, it can be easy to miss some of the key indications of a country’s growth on the global stage – breaking their national records. We have seen a stunning 152 National Records broken so far, with 39 of the 45 countries in attendance breaking at least one.

The most records broken by a single athlete is five by Irishman Jon Shortt, who has four individual and one relay record to his name. Roos Vanotterdijk and Miroslav Knedla match his four individual records, but have not swum a relay here. Both Shortt and Vanotterdijk broke national records in all three rounds of an event, Shortt in the 200 back and Vanotterdijk in the 50 fly.

Denmark lead the way as a nation with 11 records broken so far, headlined by Martine Damborg‘s European Junior Record in the 50 fly.  Four of their records have come on relays, although Poland are the only nation to have broken their national record in all four of the relays contested so far.

The Czech Republic are just behind with 10, closely followed by Ireland (nine), Spain (eight), and the trio of Greece, Romania and hosts Poland tied on seven.

Scroll to the bottom for a ranking of records broken down per nation.

National Records Broken – By Event

Women’s 400 Free

• Bosnia & Herzegovina – Iman Avdic, 4:10.74 (h)
• Germany – Isabel Gose, 3:54.33 (f)  ER, CR
• Italy – Simona Quadarella – 3:56.70 (f)

Women’s 200 Free – 400 Free split

• Georgia – Anna Kalandadze, 2:02.97 (h) 

Men’s 400 Free

• Sweden – Victor Johansson, 3:37.73 (h)

Women’s 50 Fly

• Belgium – Roos Vanotterdijk
  • 25.20 (h), 25.06 (sf), 24.84 (f)
• Croatia – Jana Pavalic, 25.83 (h)
• Cyprus – Kalia Antoniou, 25.70 (h)
• Denmark – Martine Damborg, 24.61 EJ (f)
• Finland – Laura Lahtinen, 25.45 (sf)
• Germany – Angelina Koehler, 25.06 (sf)
• Greece – Anna Ntountounaki, 25.04 (so)
• =Slovakia – Tamara Potocka, 25.68 (h)
• Slovenia – Neza Klancar
  • 25.29 (h), 25.25 (sf), 25.01 (so)

Men’s 50 Fly

• Czech Republic – Daniel Gracik, 22.38 (sf)
• =Denmark – Rasmus Nickelsen, 22.69 (h)
• Estonia – Daniel Zaitsev, 22.06 (sf)
• France – Maxime Grousset, 21.95 (sf)
• Israel – Meiron Cheruti, 22.59 (so)
• Montenegro – Milos Milenkovic, 23.60 (h)
• Romania – Denis Popescu, 22.19 (h)

Women’s 100 Breast

• Belgium – Florine Gaspard, 1:03.61 (sf)
• Estonia – Eneli Jefimova, 1:02.82 (f)
• Israel – Anastasia Gorbenko
  • 1:04.10 (sf), 1:03.90 (f)
• Poland – Dominika Sztandera, 1:03.97 (f)
• Portugal – Ana Rodrigues, 1:06.70 (h)
• Romania – Daria Asaftei, 1:06.44 (h)

Men’s 100 Breast

• Austria – Luka Mladenovic
  • 56.65 (sf), 56.27 (f)
• Czech Republic – Matej Zabojnik, 57.38 (sf)
• Denmark – Jonas Gaur, 56.84 (sf)
• Latvia – Kristaps Mikelsons, 58.91 (h)
• Netherlands – Caspar Corbeau, 55.54 (h)
• Romania – Danis Volontir, 57.92 (h)
• San Marino – Giacomo Casadei, 59.65 (h)
• Spain – Carles Coll Marti, 56.28 (h)

Men’s 50 Breast – 100 Breast split

• San Marino – Giacomo Casadei, 28.27 (h)
• Spain – Carles Coll Marti, 26.26 (h)

Women’s 200 Back

• Portugal – Camila Rodrigues Rebelo, 2:03.51 (f)
• Spain – Carmen Weiler Sastre, 2:01.66 (f)

Men’s 200 Back

• Czech Republic – Jan Cejka
  • 1:49.77 (sf), 1:49.43 (f)
• Greece – Apostolos Siskos, 1:50.26 (f)
• Ireland – Jon Shortt
  • 1:50.65 (h), 1:48.84 WJ, EJ (sf), 1:47.89 WJ, EJ (f)

Women’s 4×50 Free

• Albania – 1:50.11 (h)
• Germany – 1:35.69 (h)
• Hungary – 1:36.49 (f)
• Italy – 1:34.30 (f)
• Poland – 1:35.75 (f)

Women’s 50 Free – leadoffs

• Iceland  – Snaefriou Jorunnardottir, 24.68 (h)
• Italy – Silvia di Pietro – 23.39 (f)
• Slovakia 
  • Tamara Potocka, 24.26 (h)
  • Lillian Slusna, 24.24 (f)

Men’s 4×50 Free

• Austria – 1:25.30 (h)
• Denmark – 1:25.37 (h)
• Estonia – 1:25.03 (h)
• =Italy – 1:22.90 (f)
• Norway – 1:25.36 (h)
• Poland – 1:23.63 (f)
• Spain
  • 1:24.65 (h), 1:23.94 (f)
• Ukraine
  • 1:24.71 (h), 1:23.92 (f)

Men’s 50 Free

• Austria – Heiko Gigler, 21.05 (h)
• Azerbaijan – Abdurrahman Rustamov, 23.01 (h)
• =Croatia – Jere Hribar, 20.70 (f)
• Estonia – Ralf Tribuntsov, 20.77 (h)
• Spain – Luka Hoek le Guenedal, 21.09 (f)
• Ukraine – Nikita Sheremet, 20.84 EJ, WJ (f)

Women’s 100 IM

• Belgium – Roos Vanotterdijk, 56.80 (f)
• Czech Republic – Barbara Janickova, 57.97 (sf)
• Greece – Nikoletta Pavlopoulou,
  • 1:00.01 (h), 1:00.00 (sf)
• Ireland – Ellen Walshe, 58.19 (sf)
• Israel – Anastasia Gorbenko, 57.17 (f)
• Netherlands – Marritt Steenbergen, 56.26 ER (f)
• Slovakia – Tamara Potocka, 58.85 (sf)

Men’s 100 IM

• Czech Republic – Miroslav Knedla
  • 51.72 (sf), 51.71 (f)
• Denmark – Robert Pedersen
  • 51.91 (sf), 51.73 (f)

Women’s 200 Free

• Iceland  – Snaefriou Jorunnardottir, 1:53.78 (sf)
• Netherlands – Marritt Steenbergen, 1:50.33 ER (f)
• Poland – Justina Kozan, 1:54.26 (f)

Men’s 200 Free

• Andorra – Biel Cuen Sabila – 1:49.37 (h)
• Azerbaijan – Suleyman Ismayilzade, 1:51.89 (h)
• Denmark – Oliver Sogaard-Andersen
  • 1:43.44 (h), 1:42.34 (sf)
• Greece – Dimitrios Markos, 1:43.82 (h)
• Ireland – Evan Bailey
  • 1:42.68 (h), 1:42.01 (sf), 1:41.48 (f)
• Norway – Sander Sorensen, 1:41.87 (h)
• Poland – Kamil Sieradzki, 1:41.48 (f)
• Slovakia – Samuel Kostal, 1:44.76 (h)
• Sweden – Robin Hanson, 1:41.81 (sf)
• Ukraine – Illia Linnyk, 1:44.43 (h)

Mixed 4×50 Medley

• Albania – 1:50.09 (h)
• Denmark – 1:37.53 (h)
• Estonia
  • 1:38.92 (h), 1:38.79 (f)
• Hungary – 1:38.27 (f)
• Ireland – 1:40.54 (h)
• Lithuania
  • 1:39.32 (h), 1:38.71 (f)
• =Netherlands – 1:36.18 (f)
• Poland – 1:36.98 (f)
• Switzerland – 1:41.68 (h)

Men’s 1500 Free

• Hungary – Zalan Sarkany, 14:15.51 (f)
• Sweden – Victor Johansson, 14:23.98 (h)

Men’s 800 free – 1500 split 

• Romania – Andrei-Theodor Proca, 7:43.57 (h)

Women’s 100 Fly

• Finland – Laura Lahtinen, 55.39 (h)
• Greece – Anna Ntountounaki, 55.66 (sf)

Men’s 100 Fly

• Luxembourg – Florian Frippiat, 52.47 (h)
• Montenegro – Milos Milenkovic, 52.37 (h)
• Ukraine – Ihor Troianovskyi, 50.66 (sf)

Women’s 200 Breast

• Romania – Daria Asaftei
  • 2:21.50 (h), 2:20.14 (sf)

Men’s 200 Breast

• Austria – Luka Mladenovic, 2:03.42 (sf)
• Croatia – Filip Mujan, 2:07.98 (h)
• Latvia – Kristaps Mikelsons, 2:07.91 (h)
• Romania – Darius Coman, 2:03.85 (sf)

Women’s 100 Back

• Germany – Nina Holt
  • 57.29 (h), 56.60 (sf)
• Portugal – Camila Rodrigues Rebelo, 57.79 (h)

Men’s 100 Back

• Czech Republic
  • Jan Cejka, 50.37 (h)
  • Miroslav Knedla, 49.99 (h), 49.80 (sf)
• Great Britain – Ollie Morgan, 49.55 (h)
• Ireland – Jon Shortt, 50.16 (sf)

Women’s 800 Free

• Georgia – Anna Kalandadze, 8:31.50, (h)
• Greece – Artemis Vasilaki, 8:20.02 (h)
• Norway – Bea Hovda, 8:24.30 (h)

Mixed 4×50 Free

• Albania – 1:44.23 (h)
• Croatia
  • 1:30.88 (h), 1:30.70 (f)
• Denmark
  • 1:30.25 (h), 1:29.45 (f)
• Iceland – 1:33.36 (h)
• Italy – 1:27.26 WR, ER (f)
• Moldova – 1:39.31 (h)
• Poland – 1:28.55 (f)
• Portugal – 1:34.61 (h)
• Spain
  • 1:30.59 (h), 1:30.52 (f)

Records By Nation

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