2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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The semi-finals of the men’s 200m breaststroke brought the speed on day three of the 2025 European Short Course Championships, with two of the top eight performers cracking national records.
While Spain’s Carles Coll Marti, the Netherlands’ Caspar Corbeau and Germany’s Jeremias Pock led the pack, the next two finishers fired off new benchmarks to put their hats into the ring for potential medals for tomorrow night’s final.
Earning the 4th seed tonight was 22-year-old Luka Mladenovic of Austria, already the bronze medalist here in the 100m breaststroke.
Mladenovic, the 2022 World Junior Championships gold medalist in the 100m breast and runner-up in this longer distance, produced a lifetime best of 2:03.42 to add his name to contention.
Mladenovic split 12.70/15.18/15.63/15.82/15.78/15.98/16.06/16.27 to erase the former Austrian standard of 2:04.34 Christopher Rothbauer established during the 2021 International Swimming League (ISL) season. That means Mladenovic is the first-ever man from his nation to clear the 2:04 barrier in this event.
Claiming the 5th seed was Darius-Stefan Coman of Romania, who also posted a new national record.
Coman stopped the clock at 2:03.85 to clear the 2:04 barrier, absolutely destroying his own previous PB and Romanian standard of 2:06.19 logged at last year’s Short Course World Championships.
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – Semifinal
- WR: 1:59.52 – Caspar Corbeau, NED (2025)
- WJR: 2:02.03 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025)
- ER: 1:59.52 – Caspar Corbeau, NED (2025)
- EJR: 2:03.75 — Filip Nowacki, GBR (2025)
- CR: 2:00.53 – Marco Koch, GER (2015)
Top 8 Qualifiers
- Carles Coll Marti (ESP) – 2:01.91
- Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 2:01.93
- Jeremias Pock (GER) – 2:03.06
- Luka Mladenovic (AUT) – 2:03.42
- Darius-Stefan Coman (ROU) – 2:03.85
- Filip Nowacki (GBR) – 2:04.07
- Gabriele Mancini (ITA) – 2:04.30
- Arno Kamminga (NED) – 2:04.32
