2025 European Junior Championships
- Tuesday, July 1 – Sunday, July
- X-bionic® sphere Pool, Šamorín, Slovakia
- LCM (50m)
- Start Times – Local: Prelims – 9:30 am / Finals – 6:00 pm
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- Recaps:
The last prelims session of the 2025 European Junior Championships is now in the books. As it’s the last day of the meet, this morning’s heats session was a short one, featuring only the men’s and women’s 400 free and the men’s and women’s 4×100 medley relays.
The session kicked off with the women’s 400 free, where Emma Giannelli posted the top time of the morning with a 4:13.83. She was locked in a tough battle with neutral athlete Kseniia Misharina (4:13.86). Misharina was holding a slight lead at the 100m turn, then Giannelli took the lead over and never relinquished it for the rest of the race. Giannelli’s lead grew to its largest at the 300m turn, after which Misharina found a second wind and closed the gap, which was a little over a second, down to just 0.03 seconds at the finish.
In the men’s 400 free, Germany’s Johannes Liebmann led the way, swimming a 3:51.41 in the penultimate heat. Liebmann put up a very strong performance this morning, keeping all his 50 splits well under 30 seconds. He was out in 55.67 on the opening 100, then split all 29-points the rest of the way on his remaining 50s, with the slowest of which coming in at 29.53. Of note, Turkey’s Kuzey Tuncelli was 6th this morning with a 3:53.65. We must note that because we know Tuncelli can go much faster than that. Tuncelli broke the Championship Record in the 800 free last night at finals, during which he was out in 3:51.01 on the opening 400m.
Moving into the relays, Spain led the women’s 4×100 medley relay this morning with a 4:07.99. Estella Tonrath (1:01.56), Nayara Pineda (1:09.51), Claudia Becerra (1:01.77), and Maria Daza (55.15) teamed up to get the job done, earning the middle lane for tonight’s final. Italy was the next fastest this morning with a 4:08.37, thanks in large part to a 1:09.26 breast split from Lucrezia Mancini and a 1:00.88 fly split from Giulia Diodati.
The men’s 4×100 medley relay saw Israel earn the top seed for tonight’s final. Aukan Goldin (55.16), Mark Teler (1:01.04), Lev Steinberg (54.74), and Erez Dror (49.87) combined for a 3:40.81.
