2025 World Junior Swimming Championships
- August 19-24, 2025
- Otopeni, Romania
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The U.S. cemented their spot on top of the World Junior Championships medal table, adding two more golds to their collection on the final day of racing.
Team USA also picked up two silvers and two bronzes during the last finals session, bringing their total medal count up to 22, with 10 of them being gold.
Turning in critical performances for the U.S. was Rylee Erisman, who won the girls’ 50 free by just .02, narrowly out-touching Great Britain’s Theodora Taylor. Erisman also brought home a silver medal in the girls’ 200 free later in the night before picking up yet another gold as part of the winning girls’ 4×100 medley relay. She was joined by teammates Charlotte Crush, Rachel McAlpin and Audrey Derivaux.
Derivaux brought home the other silver for Team USA, taking 2nd in the girls’ 100 fly. She has been a significant performer for the U.S. throughout the week, with the 100 fly marking her fourth individual medal of the meet.
The girls proved to be massive contributors for the U.S., as nine out of the 10 gold medals won by Americans came from the girls’ side.
The Neutral Athletes ‘B’ team managed to hold on to their #2 spot on the final medal table. After kicking off the meet strong with three golds in the first two days of racing, NAB finished out the meet with five gold, five silver and five bronze medals. The squad picked up just one medal on day 6, thanks to a bronze-medal-winning performance from Milana Stepanova, Viktoriia Tarannikova, Serafima Fokina and Kira Manokhina in the girls’ 4×100 medley relay.
China enjoyed a series of top performances on the final night of competition, bringing home three more medals to bring their total tally to 11 and close out the meet ranked third on the medal table. Bringing home the nation’s fifth and final gold of the meet was Yang Peiqi, who won the girls’ 200 free. Her performance marked her fourth individual victory of the meet.
The Chinese swimmers also claimed two bronze medals, with Gong Zhenqi taking 3rd in the girls’ 100 fly and the team of Li Jiawei, Wang Yijing, Zhenqi and Peiqi placing 3rd in the girls’ 4×100 medley relay.
Final World Juniors Medal Table
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 10 | 6 | 6 | 22 |
| 2 | NAB | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| 3 | China | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | Japan | 4 | 8 | 6 | 18 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 3 | 7 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 7 | Turkey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Lithuania | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Ireland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Korea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Nigeria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Czechia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
GPT-5 seems to handle the omega resultsbook pretty well. With the focus on the medal table, consider (below) where the 2023 *bronze medal* time would have placed in this year’s edition of the meet. ChatGPT has triple-checked the analysis, but I haven’t manually reviewed every swim.
Most notable swimflation the boys’ 100br, where 2023 *gold* 1:00.7 would have been 8th in 2025.
2023 Bronze Medal Time 2025 Rank:… Read more »
MEN (Individual):
Men 50 Backstroke // 3
Men 100 Backstroke // 4
Men 200 Backstroke // 7
Men 50 Breaststroke // 7
Men 100 Breaststroke // 9
Men 200 Breaststroke // 9
Men 50 Butterfly // 7
Men 100 Butterfly // 7
Australia is showing very little depth coming through. The weakest world juniors we’ve had for a while??
By far the weakest worlds juniors Australia. *ever* had.
2011 Lima, you had Cam McEvoy, Bronte Campbell, Brianna Throshell, Taylor McKeown
2013 Dubai, you had Luke Percy (what happened to him???), Mac Horton, Regan Leong (what happened to him??), Remy Fairweather (what happened to her??), Shayna Jack
2015 Singapore, you had Kyle Chalmers, Matthew Wilson, Jack Cartwright, Clyde Lewis, Tamsin Cook, Minna Atherton, Shayna Jack
2017 Indianapolis, you had Elijah Winnington, ZSC
2019 Budapest, you had Thomas Neill, Thomas Hauck (what happened to him?), MOC, Meg Harris, Lani Pallister, Jenna Forrester
2022 Lima, Australia didn’t participate
2023 Netanya, you had Flynn Southam, Edward “fly and die” Sommerfield, Olivia Wunsch, Milla Jensen, Jamie Perkins, Iona Anderson, Jaclyn Barclay, Bella Grant, Hannah… Read more »
In each edition, Australia collected multiple gold, multiple silver, and multiple bronze.
With only 1 gold and nothing else, 2025 edition is absolutely Australia’s worst.
They need to quickly evaluate and made changes. 2032 Brisbane is coming up soon
I pretty much say the same thing and got told it was purely down to bad luck and a couple of teenagers swimming poorly apparently .. they don’t wanna take accountability for the performance overall
Because what you’re saying is illogical. 2017 was our worst junior worlds ever and then the next two Olympics were two of our best ever. Don’t get mad that people aren’t crying and panicking that a meet 7 years from now is somehow already decided because some teenagers weren’t great this year lol
This is just straight up fiction. In 2017 Australia won zero gold, a single silver and 4 bronze. The silver was in a mixed relay featuring Winnington, Jordan Brunt, Jemima Horwood, Zachary Attard and Eliza King. How many of them went on the be relevant in Senior?
At the very next Olympics it was our second best in history. At that same juniors, Canada won 7 gold and then went on to win only a single gold at the next Olympics.
World juniors do not predict Olympic results. You sound like relay names guy talking about Meehan lol
Luke Percy – there’s a blast from the past. He beat Dressel at the 2013 WJs in the 50, came home to Australia from University of Tennessee and then never progressed. It shows there is no guarantee of great juniors becoming great at open level.
Good result for Romania, let’s now see if these Juniors medalists manage to transition well into seniors as the ones who medaled in 2022 Worlds Juniors besides Popovici already look to have flamed out by now.
Dinu has continued improving since starting at Princeton, and I think Diaconescu has kept her level as well. Not sure what happened to Stancu – he seems to have lost focus, hope he’s OK.
An idéa for a relay world cup
Why don’t organized a world cup of relay by group
🇺🇸-🇪🇺-🇬🇧🇦🇺commonwealth-China-other asia 🇯🇵🇰🇷-mercosur-Russia world-rest of world Africa
In this run and in LMC after april
4*100nl 4*200 nl-4*400 nl 4* 100 4n-4 * 200 4n- 4* (200 4n) 4*(400 4n)
And 3 teams by grou max for me’-women and mixt
And why not 10 *100 nl 🤔
From 🇫🇷🤔🤔
Or in scm end of december od january
54*50 nl-4 *100 nl-4 *200 nl
4*50 4n-4* 100 4n-4 *200 4n🤔
4 *(1004n)- 4* (2004n)
And why not 10 *50 nl
By exemple in 4 *200 4 n
KOs-Marchand-Milak-popovici 🇪🇺😉😉🤣🤣
Other exemple
Ceccon-Martinenghi-ponti-D’ambrosio
N Doye-Marchand-Grousset-Popovici
Kos-viberti-Milak-nemeth.
🇪🇺🤔🤔🤔🤔
For th 4 *100 4n
how about include like breaststroke backstroke and fly relays (and maybe 4×200 or 4×400 im) lol
Why not but for the relay backstroke, in French
“il y en a qui ont essayé, ils ont eu des problèmes, lol, 🤣🤣🤡
However, I think, it ‘isn’ t interresting et it was to have 9 run by Journey.
It’s only change à little bit and create a compétition between usa and Europe 🇪🇺🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and commonwealth 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 😉, China…
In oder to smile two minutes, 🇺🇸🤡🤡🤡🤡
It was only see the réaction 😉
Good luck 🇫🇷😉
We can imagine the same meeting in Atletic sport or triathlon
Small, olympic, long, Iron…
It’s only to compare
Usa 350 M d’hab
EUR 430 M d’hab
🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦 150 M d’hab, English spirit 😉
China
Russia world 250 M d’hab
🇯🇵🇰🇷….
From 🇪🇺🇫🇷😉
Sincerely depressed for 🇨🇦. Not a great outlook for LA28. Literally 😤
They have Summer McIntosh they will be fine. At least 3 if not more gold.
I want a team of medalists. Sick of Canada bringing home the odd medal. I want to see someone other than Summer win.
Canada has Summer McIntosh, Josh Liendo, Ilya Kharun.
Y’all be fine.
How about a relay team? Got up there in 2016/2020 with Ben Titley, who left a huge hole in the team.
Swimmers are still not qualifying in certain events for international meets and we’re back to scraping relay teams together.
They really needed to keep Ben.
What women’s relay team without K. Sanchez and M. MacNeil?
If anything, CHN looks even stronger in the W 4 x 200 FR-R going forward than CAN:
Junxuan, Y.
Bingjie, L.
Yaxin, L.
Peiqi, Y.
Ben is now doing stellar work in Spain – Their relays at Euro Juniors were great. Britain lost one of our very best when he got away.
Rylee Erisman motoring on the freestyle leg in the final of the women’s 4 x 100 meter medley relay was a fitting ending to the 2025 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships.
Australia sent a small C team. The B team went to the US last month
I’m Aussie but I don’t think that’s really accurate. I believe Toohey is the only one who qualified for worlds who didn’t accept the spot. The US team was more people who had recently aged out. We just don’t have a strong presence in the 16-18 age group right now who tend to dominate juniors
USA Swimming sent the so-called “B” team to the World University Games.
Mongolia sent their F team.
what about the A team
Canada sent their F team.
Obsessively criticizing 14-17 year old kids in every thread is a weird look for a children’s coach. Hopefully you don’t aspire to return to the profession!
And they all had broken legs and the ones who lost were sick.blah blah blah.
Baloney
Australian A team is not a junior team so no we sent the best junior swimmers available.
The so-called Aussie “B” team was outperformed by the world junior national team of USA Swimming especially on the women’s side in a majority of the events.
The NY Times has all ammunition it needs to write a scathing article on USA Swimming, specifically the domestic male performances at the junior and senior levels in calendar year 2025.
I think the NYT has more important issues to deal with.
NYT does not care about important issues anymore.
At this point in times NY Times is basically irrelevant.