2025 World Junior Swimming Championships
- August 19-24, 2025
- Otopeni, Romania
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BOYS’ 50 BUTTERFLY – Final
- World Record: 22.27 – Andrii Govorov, Ukraine (2018)
- World Junior Record: 22.96 – Diogo Ribeiro, Portugal (2022)
- Championship Record: 22.96 – Diogo Ribeiro, Portugal (2022)
Final:
- Dean Fearn (Great Britain) — 23.54
- Abdul Jabar Adama (Nigeria) — 23.64
- Jan Foltyn (Czechia) — 23.65
- Lucio Flavio de Paula Filho (Brazil) — 23.71
- Evgenii Shilovskii (NAB) — 23.72
- Rishat Zhumagulov (Kazakhstan) — 23.89
- Maxim Skazobtsov (Kazakhstan) — 23.99
- Szymon Mroz (Poland) — 24.06
Nigeria’s Abdul Jabar Adama made history on the penultimate night of the World Junior Championships, becoming the first swimmer from his nation, male or female, to win a medal at a World Aquatics meet.
Adama hit the wall in 23.64, exactly one tenth behind gold medalist Dean Fearn of Team Great Britain, with Czechia’s Jan Foltyn securing the bronze one one-hundredth behind Adama in 23.65.
Adama broke his national record in this event twice earlier in the competition. He lowered his mark to 23.61 in the preliminaries on Friday morning before clocking 23.48 to rank second after the semifinals. Prior to the competition, Adama’s national record stood at 23.81, set at the British Swimming Championships in March.
A product of Mount Kelly Swimming in the United Kingdom, Adama has been a steadily rising threat for his country. With this race set to debut at the Olympics following World Aquatics’ approval in April, three more years of development could put him in contention for a spot in the final.
The country of Nigeria has only ever won 27 medals across all disciplines at the Olympic Games and has never had a swimmer win a medal at the Olympics.
Though a World Junior Championships medal for Adama might not necessarily signify that he’s a threat on the senior level yet, he only just turned 17 years old. This sets him up for a strong Olympic quad. His semifinal time of 23.48 would’ve been only .2 off of qualifying for the semifinals at Worlds and falls just a tenth shy of the World Aquatics “A” cut of 23.36.
Exciting to see. That final has no USA, AUS, CHN, JPN, FRA, ITA, CAN. Quite a thing.
Congratulations to him!
Hopefully this reaches Nigeria.
I saw few an otherwise very nice looking facility with a 10 lane 50m competition pool and a 25m diving well in Port Harcourt (including the metro area it’s got roughly 7 million people) last year, but the blocks didn’t even have wedges.
WA should sponsor some better equipment for emerging swim nations like Nigeria. Nigeria is a big country and among the wealthiest in Africa. There is probably a lot of untapped athletic talent there that should get some help in being developed.
Love seeing new countries win medals at global meet!
wow I used to swim against him, I would of course finish laughably far behind him
Huge effort! Great to see new countries getting medals.