2025 EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
- Monday, July 21st – Friday, July 25th
- Skopje, Macedonia
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview
- Results
The 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival taking place in Skopje, Macedonia saw its pool swimming action get underway today, Monday, July 21st, spanning through Friday, July 25th.
The EYOF is a biannual, multi-sport event in which athletes aged 14-18 can participate. Across all of 2025 EYOF, there is a total of nearly 4000 athletes ready to represent 50 European delegations.
Tonight’s session included just two finals, the women’s 400m IM and the men’s 400m free to get the competition started.
In the former, Spain’s Maria Santana Beneyto got the job done for gold, clocking a time of 4:54.32 to eke out the victory narrowly ahead of Great Britain’s Lois Child.
Child settled for silver just over half a second behind in 4:54.91 while Austrian swimmer Nida Omid also landed on the podium in 4:54.93.
As for the men’s 400m free, it was Hungary’s Zeteeny Janos Sarkany who got to the wall first, reaping gold in a time of 4:01.05.
That was a hair ahead of Slovakian Filip Gero who was next in 4:01.10, only .10 ahead of Israeli Shon Osher Fomberg Kozka who earned bronze in 4:01.20.
Additional Notes
- Poland’s Barbara Lesniewska captured the top spot in th ewomen’s 100m free semi-finals, scoring a time of 55.46. She was one of two sub-56-second swimmers, with Italian Alessandro Mao joining her in 55.62.
- The men’s 200m breast saw Belarussian Maksim Malyshka earn the top9 seed in 2:20.44 but he’s only less than half a second outside the next-closest swimmer of Kostiantyn Fediuchuk of Ukraine who hunts with a semi time of 2:20.92.
- Boroka Zsofia Kertesz of Hungary was too quick to catch in the women’s 200m fly semi-finals, holding a nearly 2 second advantage over the pack with a semi swim of 2:13.82.
- Finally, the men’s 100m back saw Italy’s Francesco Cecconi log a time of 57.44 to claim the top seed but holds only a .04 advantage over GBR’s Patryk Przyczyna‘s effort of 57.44.
Please SwimSwam, be on the right side of things and just correct it. It’s North Macedonia not Macedonia. Macedonia or “Μακεδονία” = Makedonia (which is its original and correct name) is the northern part of nowadays Greece. I’m sure you wouldn’t call North Korea simply Korea, isn’t it? Although both of them (with the south) are Korean. On the contrary, people of today’s Skopje region (and state) are not Macedonians, plain and simple. They just call themselves that way. Those (the Macedonians) are a regional Greek group of people. Them (the peaceful folks of the Skopje Region) are mostly ethnic Slavs of Bulgarian background together with a small percentage of ethnic Albanians. After all I’m not the one who points… Read more »
is zeteeny janos sarkany related to zalan sarkany?
Yes, they are brothers.
The results page is pretty rubbish but there was at least one other event today – women’s 200 back (and possibly more but it’s hard to tell!)