2025 JOSE FINKEL TROPHY
- Tuesday, October 28th – Saturday, November 1st
- São Paulo, Brazil
- LCM (50m)
- Recap #1/Recap #2
- Meet Central
- Live Results
The 2025 Jose Finkel Trophy continued to unfold from São Paulo, Brazil with 17-year-old Agostina Hein reaping her third and fourth golds of the competition.
After already topping the women’s 200m IM and 400m free podiums, teenager Hein took on the women’s 200m fly where she found success with a time of 2:13.26.
That got the Argentine representing Pinheiros to the wall nearly three seconds ahead of the field, as Mariana Costa collected silver in 2:16.16 and Joice Rocha bagged the bronze in 2:17.06.
Hein’s next victim was the 400m IM, the event in which she took gold at this year’s World Junior Championships.
Hein stopped the clock at 4:41.64 to dominate the field, although her performance was off the 4:34.34 championship and national record she established in Otopeni, Romania.
Agatha Amaral touched in 4:48.23 for silver while Gabrielle Roncatto rounded out the podium in 4:50.89.
A trio of Jose Finkel Trophy meet records bit the dust as well.
Gabrielle Roncatto produced a winning effort of 8:32.42 to put a new benchmark on the books en route to grabbing gold in the women’s 800m free.
Roncatto led an all-Unisanta podium with teammates Maria Fernanda Costa and Beatriz Dizotti capturing the minor medals. The former hit 8:33.49 and the latter registered 8:33.49.
Guilherme Costa clocked a new meet record en route to winning the men’s 1500m free.
The 27-year-old Pan American Games multi-gold medalist put up a mark of 15:11.63 to get the job done.
Thiago Ruffini was next to the wall in 15:23.49 and Leonardo Alcantara posted 15:32.29 as teh bronze medalist.
Costa is the reigning Brazilian national record holder in this event, owning a lifetime best of 14:48.53 from the 2022 World Championships.
Finally, Fernanda Costa established a new meet record in the women’s 200m freestyle, logging 1:58.17 as the sole sub-1:59 performer.
Aline Rodrigues hit 1:59.89 also to clear the 2:00 barrier and Maria Heitmann notched 2:00.93, good enough for bonrze.
Fernanda Costa has been as quick at 1:56.06 in her career, a time she turned in at the 2024 Olympic Games to become the fastest Brazilian woman in history.
