2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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Day four finals of the 2025 European Short Course Championships saw double LC World Junior Champion and five-time LC European Junior Champion Filip Nowacki lower his day-old European Junior Record in the 200m breaststroke.
After firing off the new standard of 2:03.75 yesterday during the heats, the British ace dropped it down to a blistering 2:02.96 to ultimately place 4th overall in tonight’s final.
As we reported, until yesterday, no junior hit the 2:03.76 benchmark in this event since European Aquatics established the targets in 2016. It was the last vacant individual mark in short course.
Comparing Nowacki’s two best performances, the 18-year-old was out quicker tonight and also saved some gas for the final 50m where he was .32 swifter than his former mark.
| Nowacki’s New EJR – 2:02.96 | Nowacki’s Old EJR – 2:03.75 |
| 27.94 | 28.19 |
| 31.08 | 31.15 |
| 31.61 | 31.88 |
| 32.21 | 32.53 |
Tonight’s gold medalist was Carles Coll Marti of Spain who clinched the victory in 2:00.86, a new national record. Reigning world record holder in this event, Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands, settled for silver in 2:01.27 while Austrian swimmer Luka Mladenovic earned bronze in 2:02.48.
Michael Jamieson remains the British record holder at 2:01.43 from the 2013 iteration of this meet; however, Nowacki is now the 4th-best swimmer ever from his nation in this race all-time.
Top 5 British Men’s SCM 200 Breast Performers All-Time
- Michael Jamieson – 2:01.43, 2013
- Andrew Willis – 2:02.71, 2016
- Adam Peaty – 2:02.89, 2020
- Filip Nowacki – 2:02.96, 2025
- Ross Murdoch – 2:03.43, 2018
Nowacki, Marchand, Ohashi, Qin, ZSC and Casper. We could be in for a golden era of men’s 200br over the next few years.