2025 AP RACE INTERNATIONAL
- Saturday, May 24th – Monday, May 26th
- London Aquatics Centre
- LCM (50m)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Entries/Results
The 2025 AP Race International concluded last night from London, with the three-day affair organized by Olympic champion and world record holder Adam Peaty of Great Britain.
The competition attracted talent spanning the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia and beyond with the meet taking place just a couple of months ahead of this summer’s World Championships.
We saw an Estonian national record bite the dust on the women’s side, courtesy of 18-year-old Eneli Jefimova‘s performance of 1:05.81 in the women’s 100m breaststroke.
On the men’s side, 26-year-old Dutch Olympian Nyls Korstanje made it happen in the 50m fly, registering a new national standard of 22.72 en route to gold.
Korstanje, who competed for the NC State Wolfpack in the NCAA, scored the sole time of the AP Race International field under the 23-second barrier. Ralf Tribuntsov of Estonia was next to the wall in 23.41 followed by British swimmer Jacob Peters who rounded out the podium in 23.45.
As for Korstanje, his 22.72 gold medal-worthy outing shaved .16 off his own previous Dutch record of 22.88 first put on the books during the 2022 European Championships before being matched at last December’s Rotterdam Qualification Meet.
Korstanje’s effort dethroned Swiss Olympic medalist Noe Ponti to now rank as the #1 men’s 50m butterfly performer on the planet right now as well as the 10th-swiftest man in history.
2024-2025 LCM Men 50 Fly
Korstanje
22.72
| 2 | Noe PONTI | SUI | 22.77 | 04/03 |
| 3 | Abdelrahman Sameh Elaraby | EGY | 22.80 | 05/18 |
| 4 | Oleg Kostin | RUS | 22.85 | 05/18 |
| 5 | Kyle CHALMERS | AUS | 22.89 | 04/12 |
The men’s 50 fly at World Champs could be more open than what I’ve thought.
Very underrated and I think could win the gold
Any possibility that Jack McMilian bumps Tom Dean in the 4×2?
I expect they’ll both swim the heats relay then the slowest one gets dropped for the finals
Agree, but if Dean gets the flat start and is within ~0.7s (even if slower) than McMillan, then he’ll probably still get the nod like Kibler in Tokyo
It looked an impressive event, with some very fast swimming!