Norwegian Short Course Championships
- November 12-16, 2025
- Asker, Norway
- SCM (25 meters)
- Results
A wave of record-breaking performances was produced at the Norwegian Short Course Championships in Asker back in November, with 16 new national records set across the para swimming, junior, and senior divisions.
Jo Kebriel Nor lowered the first Norwegian para-swimming record of the championships in the men’s 200 IM S9, touching in a final time of 2:29.63. Julie-Marie Ohlgren found similar success in the women’s 100 fly S6, clocking 1:41.83 for a new national para-record.
Leander Matheo Kjær picked up a pair of men’s para records on the meet, touching in 59.64 in the 100 free S10 and 2:09.31 in the 200 free S10.
Four national junior records fell in Holmen, including Sandra Maria Balto, who stormed to the wall in the women’s 50 fly, clocking 25.98. Jakob Austevoll Harlem also nabbed a junior record mark of his own, stopping the clock in 48.19 in the men’s 100 free.
Aksel Krüger-Larsen surged to the fastest ever junior national boy’s 200 backstroke time in 1:53.96. Stanford commit Sander Sørensen also added a 100 freestyle national junior mark in 47.99.
Only one senior national record fell at these championships: Bea Hovda lowered the women’s 400 free national standard with her winning time of 4:03.18.
In total, seven relay marks fell in Holmen (four junior marks and three senior relay standards), with Bærumsvømmerne accounting for six of the new records.
Bærumsvømmerne set all four junior relay marks; the team of Lukas Strande, Aksel Holden, Sander Sørensen, and Ewan Pedersen combined for 1:38.65 in the men’s 4 x 50 medley relay.
Strande and Sørensen set another junior relay mark together, this time alongside Gergely Besenyi and Maksim Ciukov in the 4 x 200 free relay, clocking 7:18.38.
Bærumsvømmerne’s men’s 4 x 100 medley relay of Strande, Holden, Ciukov, and Pederson continued the impressive junior relay performances by touching in a winning time of 3:37.98.
The final junior relay to fall was the 4 x 50 mixed medley relay, with Bærumsvømmerne’s quartet of Asker, Sandra Balto, Strande, and Katinka Svenning coming together for the win in 1:44.52.
Bærumsvømmerne continued the relay momentum in the senior division. The team of Elias Refstie, Sørensen, Christian Dyrkorn, and Charlie Macmillan fired off a winning time of 3:10.35 in the men’s 4 x100 free relay.
Macmillan, Dyrkorn, Simon Moe, and Refstie took down the Norwegian record in the men’s 4 x 50 free relay, clocking 1:26.30.
OI Swimming’s women’s 4 x100 medley relay team of Malena Lisken, June Selin, Maya Hetland, and Hedda Øritsland nabbed a national record of their own in 4:01.77.
