On-Fire Corbeau Slices .01 Off 100 Breaststroke Dutch Record – 55.54

2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

• December 2-7, 2025
• Prelims at 10am local (4am ET)/Finals at 7pm local (1pm ET)
• Lublin, Poland
• SCM (25 meters)
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24-year-old Caspar Corbeau roared to the wall first in the men’s 100m breaststroke heats, lowering his own newly minted Dutch national record in the process.

While racing in the opening round of the event at the 2025 European Short Course Championships, former Texas Longhorn Corbeau ripped a monster effort of 55.54 to hold an over half-second advantage on the world-class field.

Corbeau’s result shaved .01 off his former best-ever mark of 55.55, the Dutch standard and World Cup record he put on the books at the Toronto stop of this year’s World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.

That erased the longstanding national record of 55.79 teammate and fellow Olympic medalist Arno Kamminga clocked four years ago.

Corbeau remains the 5th-fastest performer of all time.

Top 10 Men’s SCM 100 Breaststroke Performers All-Time

1. Ilya Shymanovich (BLR) – 55.28, 2021
2. Adam Peaty (GBR) – 55.41, 2020
3. Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 55.47, 2024
4. Kirill Prigoda (RUS) – 55.49, 2024
5. Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 55.54, 2025
6. Nic Fink (USA) – 55.56, 2021
7. Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) – 55.61, 2009
8. Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA) – 55.63, 2021
9. Emre Sakci (TUR) – 55.74, 2020
10. Yuya Hinomoto (JPN) – 55.77, 2021

This caliber of performance, although surprising in just the heats, is par for the swimming course for Corbeau. He broke the Dutch records across the 50m, 100m, and 200m breaststroke events in addition to the 100m IM during the World Cup.

His time of 1:59.52 in the longest race represented a new world record, rendering him the first performer to ever cross the 2:00 barrier in the event.