Martine Damborg Rips 24.61 50 Fly European Junior & Danish Records, Now #11 All-Time

2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

• December 2-7, 2025
• Lublin, Poland
• SCM (25 meters)
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Live Recaps:
  • Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2

WOMEN’S 50 BUTTERFLY – Final

• WR: 23.72 – Gretchen Walsh (USA), 2025
• WJR: 24.55 – Claire Curzan (USA), 2021
• ER: 24.38 – Therese Alshammar (SWE), 2009
• EJR: 25.06 – Martine Damborg (DEN), 2025
• CR: 24.50 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2021

Top 8

1. Martine Damborg (DEN) – 24.61
2. Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 24.84
3. Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) – 24.93
4. Maaike de Waard (NED) – 24.97
5. Louise Hansson (SWE) – 25.13
6. Angelina Köhler (GER) – 25.14
7. Neza Klancar (SLO) – 25.16
8. Silvia Di Pietro (ITA) – 25.36

18-year-old Martine Damborg dominated the women’s 50 butterfly final at the 2025 European Short Course Championships, winning gold with a new European Junior and Denmark National Record time of 24.61. She defeated Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (24.84) and France’s Beryl Gastaldello to win her first-ever senior international medal.

The time eclipsed Jeanette Ottesen‘s long-standing 24.71 National Record from the 2014 Short Course World Championships and undercut the 25.06 European Junior Record Damborg set during yesterday’s semifinals, which itself improved the 25.20 she produced to break her previous record by 0.01 in the heats.

Damborg now ranks #3 worldwide for the 2025-26 season, sitting behind World Record holder Gretchen Walsh (23.72) and Oceanian Record holder Alexandria Perkins (24.60):

She now ranks as the 11th-fastest performer in history:

1. Gretchen Walsh (USA) – 23.72
2. Therese Alshammar (SWE) – 24.38
3. Kate Douglass (USA) – 24.42
4. Beryl Gastadello (FRA) – 24.43
5. Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) – 24.44
6. Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 24.50
7. Claire Curzan (USA) – 24.55
8. Melanie Henique (FRA) – 24.56
9. Inge Dekker (NED) – 24.59
10. Alexandria Perkins (AUS) – 24.60
11. Martine Damborg (DEN) – 24.61

The 18-year-old holds two additional Danish national records: the SCM 200 free (1:54.82) and 100 IM (58.17).

Damborg broke onto the international scene last summer at the European Junior Championships in Slovakia, racking up 4 individual medals, including gold in the 50m freestyle and 100m fly as well as silvers in the 50m back and 50m fly.

At the World Junior Championships in September, she earned bronze in the 50 fly and finished sixth in the 50 free and eighth in the 100 fly 10th 100 free.

Later this week, she’s slated to swim the 50 back (8th seed), 100 fly (11th seed), 50 free (16th seed), 100 free (19th seed), and 100 IM (25th seed).