Nordic Duo Crack 200 Free National Records In Lublin

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 200 FREESTYLE – Semifinal

• WR: 1:49.36 – Mollie O’Callaghan, AUS (2025)
• WJR: 1:51.62 – Claire Weinstein, USA (2024)
• ER: 1:50.43 – Sarah Sjoestroem, SWE (2017)
• EJR: 1:52.81 – Nikoletta Padar, HUN (2024)
• CR: 1:51.17 – Federica Pellegrini, ITA (2009)

Top 8

1. Freya Colbert (GBR) – 1:51.94
2. Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 1:53.35
3. Minna Abraham (HUN) – 1:53.50
4. Freya Anderson (GBR) – 1:53.69
5. S.S. Jorunnardottir (ISL) – 1:53.78
6. Nikolett Padar (HUN) – 1:53.81
7. Maria Daza Garcia (ESP) – 1:54.41
8. Justina Kozan (POL) – 1:54.52

Icelandic Swimmer Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir broke into 1:53-point territory in the 200 free for the first time tonight, as she qualified 5th into tomorrow’s final with a swim of 1:53.78.

She very nearly took the win in the first semi-final, touching just 0.09 seconds behind Great Britain’s Freya Anderson. Jorunnardottir did have the fastest second 100 of any swimmer in the semi-finals tonight, closing in 57.67 as one of only two swimmers to break 58 seconds, the other being top seed Freya Colbert.

Jorunnardottir now ranks as the 10th-fastest woman in the world this season.

Jorunnardottir was part of the Icelandic team which set a national record of 3:34.65 in the mixed 4×100 free at the Singapore World Championships this summer, splitting 55.19. The women’s 4×50 free relay also set a record in the heats yesterday morning, where Jorunnardottir set a new 50 free national record of 24.68 leading off.

She owns five Icelandic relay records, in addition to six individual records, giving her a total to 11. She holds the second-most records of any Icelandic woman, after Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir‘s mark of 17.

MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE – Semifinal

• WR: 1:38.61 – Luke Hobson, USA (2024)
• WJR: 1:40.65 – Matt Sates, RSA (2021)
• ER: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
• EJR: 1:40.79 – David Popovici, ROU (2022)
• CR: 1:39.81 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)

Top 8

1. Duncan Scott (GBR) / Lucas Henveaux (BEL) – 1:41.56
3. Jack McMillan (GBR) – 1:41.69
4. Kamil Sieradzki (POL) – 1:41.90
5. Robin Hanson (SWE) – 1:41.99
6. Tomas Lukminas (LTU) – 1:42.00
7. Evan Bailey (IRL) – 1:42.01
8. Danas Rapsys (LTU) – 1:42.10
9. Sander Sorensen (NOR) – 1:42.22
10. Lukas Maertens (GER) – 1:42.28
11. Roman Fuchs (FRA) – 1:42.30
12. Oliver Sogaard-Andersen (DEN) – 1:42.34

Oliver Sogaard-Andersen, a sophomore at USC, set his second Danish Record of the day in the semi-finals of the men’s 200 free tonight as he came within a quarter of a second of a berth in the final.

He was entered this morning with his previous best of 1:44.20, before clocking 1:43.44 to make the semi-finals as the final swimmer in. He was a benficiary of the ‘2 per nation’ rule which saw Tajus Juska, Kristupas Trepocka and 2023 champion Matt Richards miss out. Richards was initially the 3rd-fastest out of the heats, but both swimmers ahead of him were also from Great Britain.

That swim took quarter of a second off the previous Danish Standard, and he knocked another second off this evening to go 1:42.34.

Sogaard-Andersen was not the only Nordic swimmer in the men’s 200 free to make some noise. Sweden’s Robert Hanson was just 0.01 seconds off his nati0nal record as he qualified 5th into the final in 1:41.99, while Sander Sorensen was 1:42.22 for 9th after clocking a Norwegian Record of 1:41.87 in the heats.