Swims You Might Have Missed On The Final Day Of The 2025 World Junior Championships

2025 World Junior Swimming Championships

• August 19-24, 2025
• Otopeni, Romania
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Central
• Meet Packet
• Team Leaders’ Guide
• SwimSwam Event Page
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• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Live Recaps
  • Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6

The sixth and final night at the 2025 World Junior Championships encapsulated the meet as a whole, with medals separated by hundredths of a second, nail-biting relays, and championship records going down. However, SwimSwam wants to highlight a few performances that may have gone under the radar and weren’t discussed in significant detail in its own article or during the live recap:

• Kaidy Stout of the USA hit a huge personal best to clinch the bronze medal in the 200 breast. After turning in 5th at the first 50, she blasted a 36.80 on the second 50 to hit the 100 mark in 3rd and never relinquish that spot. Stout entered the meet with a personal best of 2:28.63, set at NC Senior Championships in July, and has knocked nearly 2 full seconds off that time this meet.
• David Melnychuk took home the sole medal for the Team USA men tonight, swimming a 1:58.13 for bronze. To do so, the UNC commit shaved 1.40 seconds off his previous best of 1:59.53.
• After posting a huge PB in the 800 free earlier this meet, William Mulgrew continued to roll as he posted a time of 15:05.97 in the 1500 to place 5th overall. The Harvard commit shaved 5+ seconds off his former best of 15:11.52, which came from USA Nationals earlier this summer.
• Carlos D’Ambrosio made his final swim worth it, as he posted the quickest freestyle split in the field in the boys’ 4×100 medley relay. He brought the Italians up from 5th to bronze with a blistering fast time of 47.27, splitting 22.75/24.52 despite the slowest flying reaction time of .37.
• Theodora Taylor, the silver medalist in the 50 free, flashed her versatility by posting an incredible 1:07.30 split in the 100 breast. Although the Brits were unable to maintain the lead, her efforts rocketed Great Britain up from 7th to 1st in the girls’ 4×100 medley relay after her leg.