2025 OPEN BELGIAN SC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, November 7th – Sunday, November 9th
- Ghent, Belgium
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
- Recap #1
- Live Results
Additional national records went down as days two and three unfolded at the 2025 Open Belgian Short Course Championships.
A day after 20-year-old Roos Vanotterdijk notched a new national standard in the 200m breaststroke, her countrywoman Florine Gaspard established a new benchmark in the 100m breast.
Gaspard stopped the clock at a swift 1:04.30 to grab the gold, beating the field by over 4 seconds in the process.
Siel Verstrepen snagged the silver well behind in 1:08.82 while Marie Sageder bagged the bronze in 1:09.07.
Gaspard opened in 29.96 and closed in 34.34 to overtake the former national record of 1:04.69 retired Olympian Fanny Lecluyse put on the books at the 2015 edition of this competition.
Gaspard’s former personal best rested at the 1:05.27 notched at the Toronto stop of this year’s World Aquatics Swimming World Cup. That means in a matter of weeks, the Belgian managed to hack nearly a second off her best-ever en route to now rank 5th in the world on the season.
2025-2026 SCM Women 100 BREAST
Jefimova
1:02.82
| 2 | Kate Douglass | USA | 1:02.90 | 10/11 |
| 3 | Anna Elendt | GER | 1:03.83 | 10/11 |
| 4 | Mona McSharry | IRL | 1:03.84 | 10/24 |
| 5 | Florine GASPARD | BEL | 1:03.61 | 12/02 |
Noah Verreth was responsible for the other two national records that went down, with the Belgian firing off times of 23.42 and 51.04 in the men’s 50m and 100m backstroke events, respectively.
Verreth held the former 50m backstroke Belgian record at 23.71, a time he produced at last month’s Dutch Qualifiers.
In the 100m back, it was Alexandre Marcourt who owned the previous benchmark at 51.76, so Verreth hacked well over half a second off that result to check in as the now-fastest Belgian ever.
