2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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The first finals event of the 2025 European SC Championships saw a new European Record in the form of Isabel Gose’s 3:54.33.
WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – FINAL
- WR: 3:50.25 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2024
- WJR: 3:50.25 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2024
ER: 3:54.52 – Mireia Belmonte (ESP), 2013- EJR: 3:58.91 – Isabel Gose (GER), 2019
CR: 3:54.85 – Camille Muffat (FRA), 2012
Top 8 Finishers:
- Isabel Gose (GER) – 3:54.33 *ER, CR*
- Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 3:56.70
- Freya Colbert (GBR) – 3:56.71
- Maya Werner (GER) – 4:01.46
- Lilla Minna Abraham (HUN) – 4:01.69
- Imani de Jong (NED) – 4:03.04
- Anna Chiara Mascolo (ITA) – 4:04.13
- Nikolett Padar (HUN) – 4:08.62
Gose came in more than two seconds ahead of the field, cutting just under two tenths off Spanish legend Mireia Belmonte Garcia‘s 12-year-old record of 3:54.52 from August of 2013. Belmonte Garcia’s swim was the World Record in the event at the time.
Gose was out fast, turning more than half-a-second under record pace at the 150 meter mark. She held onto that pace, splitting 29 mids throughout to come in just two tenths under the pace set by Belmonte, who had a massive final 50 split of 28.71.
Split Comparison
| Old Record: Mireia Belmonte Garcia — 3:54.52 (2013) |
New Record: Isabel Gose — 3:54.33 (2025)
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| 50 | 27.82 | 27.72 |
| 100 | 29.52 | 29.27 |
| 150 | 29.81 | 29.45 |
| 200 | 29.91 | 29.70 |
| 250 | 29.63 | 29.62 |
| 300 | 29.77 | 29.60 |
| 350 | 29.35 | 29.83 |
| 400 | 28.71 | 29.14 |
Gose takes more than two seconds off her former German Record time of 3:56.84 from the 2024 SC World Championships, and she will move up to become the 7th fastest performer in history in the event.
Top 10 Performers All Time:
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 3:50.25
- Li Bingjie (CHN) — 3:51.30
- Lani Pallister (AUS) — 3:51.87
- Katie Ledecky (USA) — 3:52.88
- Ariarne Titmus (AUS)- 3:53.92
- Wang Jianjiahe (CHN) — 3:53.97
- Isabel Gose (GER) — 3:54.33
- Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP) — 3:54.52
- Camille Muffat (FRA) — 3:54.85
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN) — 3:54.88
Simona Quadarella Breaks Pellegrini’s Italian Record
Simona Quadarella won the silver medal in the women’s 400 free in Italian Record fashion, touching in 3:56.70 to take nearly a second off Federica Pellegrini’s 2011 time of 3:57.59.
She takes almost three seconds off her previous best time of 3:59.50 from the 2023 European SC Championships.
Quadarella sat in 3rd for most of the race, turning at the 375 mark more than half a second behind Great Britain’s Freya Colbert, but she had a massive final 25, splitting 14.09 to earn the silver medal by just one hundredth of a second.
Her time will move her up to 18th all-time in the event.
Quadarella recently announced she would be spending the first two months of 2026 in Australia, training with Dean Boxall’s group there.
