2025 NATIONAL MEETING OF THE NOC SAINT GERMAIN-EN-LAYE
- Friday, February 14th – Sunday, February 16th
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
- LCM (50m)
- Results
The 2025 National Meeting of the NOC Saint-Germain-en-Laye took place this weekend, with junior athletes from across Europe contesting events to kick off their 2025 year of racing.
Tunisia’s promising young swimmer Rami Rahmouni did damage across several events, boosting his accolades even further from what he established last year.
The 16-year-old topped the podiums in the boys’ 400m, 800m and 1500m free races at the competition, separating himself apart from the fields decisively in each.
In the 400m free, Rahmouni stopped the clock at a time of 3:54.73 to grab the gold. That was a solid in-season swim from the teen who owns a lifetime best of 3:51.30 in the race from last December.
Rahmouni also got it done for gold in the 800m free, posting a result of 8:05.06 to reap the top spot. His effort checked in as the 2nd-best time of his young career, sitting only behind his PB of 8:01.60 notched in May of last year.
Finally, Rahmouni completed his campaign with a feisty time of 15:10.51 to become meet champion in the 1500m free.
Rahmouni’s outing hacked nearly 10 seconds off his previous PB of 15:20.08 put up in France last July. Additionally, his performance rendered the teen as Tunisia’s 4th-swiftest performer in history.
Tunisia’s Top 5 Men’s LCM 1500 Freestyle Performers All-Time
- Ahmed Hafnaoui – 14:31.54, 2023
- Oussama Mellouli – 14.37.28, 2009
- Ahmed Jaouadi – 14:43.35, 2024
- Rami Rahmouni – 15:10.51, 2025
- Mohamed Lagili – 15:26.15, 2019
The teen now ranks #4 in the world on the season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 1500 Free
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14:50.18
| 2 | Florian Wellbrock | GER | 14:51.91 | 12/10 |
| 3 | Zhang Zhanshuo | CHN | 14:54.06 | 03/18 |
| 4 | Oliver Klemet | GER | 14:56.93 | 12/10 |
| 5 | Bobby FINKE | USA | 14:58.68 | 01/17 |
These performances just add to the already-stellar resume of the young star who nabbed short course meters times of 3:43 in the 400m free, 7:41 in the 800 free and 14:51 in the 1500 free last year.
Rahmouni is carrying on the great Tunisian distance freestyle tradition established first by Ous Mellouli, continued by Ahmed Hafnaoui and also carried on by Ahmed Jaouadi, our Swammy Award winner for 2024 African Male Swimmer of the Year.
This is great – hoping to see the Tunisians swimming fast over the next few years
Only the beginning of the Rahmouni Lucas Legacy Partnership
Is there something in the water in Tunisia?!
Also, 8:05.0 in the 800 but out 8:04.9 to the feet in the 1500, wow
I think you mean… is there something in the water in Martigues, France. You see, young Rahmouni would not have achieved this massive success without the guidance of the greatest coach in history, Philippe Lucas, and his assistant, Bertrand Bompieyre. Old head Robert Finke stands no chance when Ayoub Hafnaoui is unbanned since he has been under our guidance here at Team Lucas. Unless… he is out of the top two Tunisians as Jaouadi and Rahmouni pave their way to sub 14:30 performances in the next year. Never doubt Lucas. More IS in fact MORE! Old school training never fails
Could not have said it better myself, my friend. Martigues is the hotbed of distance swimming, and I have no doubts that our stellar athletes will deliver this summer. We train to win, and now to win is to undercut the 14:30 barrier. The World Record will soon belong to Rami and Team Lucas!
#greatest #ironsharpensiron
Swimswam, thank you for commentating on this shooting star! He will turn many heads this year, and this is just the start! #moreismore
Same coach? Different coaches?