2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Recaps:
Double LC World Junior Champion and five-time LC European Junior Champion Filip Nowacki is now picking up major accolades in the short pool.
The 18-year-old, who represents Great Britain, threw down a 2:03.75 to notch European Aquatics’ establishment record. Until today, no junior hit the 2:03.76 benchmark in this event since the federation established the targets in 2016. It was the last vacant individual mark in short course.
Since there is no old record, here is a split comparison between his 2nd place prelim swim this morning and his old best time of 2:05.89. The Jersey island native swam this previous best at the Island Games this summer, notching gold at the meet.
| Filip Nowacki, SC Euros Prelims | Filip Nowacki, Island Games | |
| 50 | 28.19 | 29.26 |
| 100 | 59.34 (31.15) | 1:01.31 (32.05) |
| 150 | 1:31.22 (31.88) | 1:33.57 (32.26) |
| 200 | 2:03.75 (32.53) | 2:05.89 (32.32) |
Nowack showed drastic improvements in his front-end speed since this summer, going out a full two seconds faster at the 100.
Tonight, the breakout star will no doubt be looking to hang with the big boys – Casper Corbeau, Arno Kamminga, and Carles Coll – for a medal. He’ll also be eyeing Shin Ohashi’s new 2:02.03 world junior record. This summer, Nowacki beat Ohashi in a head-to-head match-up in the long course 200 breaststroke at Junior Worlds.
Michael Jamieson remains the British record holder at 2:01.43 from the 2013 iteration of this meet.
