2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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- Live Recaps:
WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – SEMIFINALS
- WR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013 & Alia Atkinson (JAM), 2014/2016
- WJR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- ER: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- EJR: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- CR: 1:02.92 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
Top 8 Finishers:
- Eneli Jefimova (EST) – 1:03.28
- Florine Gaspard (BEL) – 1:03.61
- Angahrad Evans (GBR) – 1:03.97
- Anna Elendt (GER) – 1:04.06
- Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR) – 1:04.10
- Dominika Sztandera (POL) – 1:04.19
- Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) – 1:04.73
- Ellie McCartney (IRL) – 1:04.75
In the semifinals of the women’s 100 breast on the first night of finals at the European Short Course Championships, Belgium’s Florine Gaspard and Anastasia Gorbenko each lowered their respective nations’ record times in the event.
Gaspard finished 2nd in the semifinals to Estonia’s Eneli Jefimova (1:03.28), touching in 1:03.61.
The swim lowered her own Belgian standard that she set less than a month ago at the 2025 Open Belgian Short Course Champs in 1:04.30, destroying her record time by nearly seven tenths of a second.
Gaspard is the owner of four Belgian short course records and three long course marks.
Gaspard’s Short Course Belgian Records:
- 50 Free: 23.80 (2025, Belgian Championships)
- 100 Free: 52.57 (2025, Belgian Championships)
- 50 Breast: 29.33 (2025, Belgian Championships)
- 100 Breast: 1:03.61 (2025 European SC Championships)
Gaspard’s Long Course Belgian Records:
- 50 Free: 24.42 (2025, Swim Open Stockholm)
- 50 Breast: 30.53 (2023, Belgian Championships)
- 100 Breast: 1:06.89 (2025, World Championships)
100 Breast Splits Comparison (Open Belgian SC Championships v. 2025 European SC Championships):
| Previous Record | New Record | |
| 1st 50 | 29.96 | 29.92 |
| 2nd 50 | 34.34 | 33.69 |
| Final Time | 1:04.30 | 1:03.61 |
For Gorbenko, her time of 1:04.10 lowered her own Israeli record that she set in October of 2021 at the World Cup in Berlin at 1:04.44, marking her first time drop in the event in over four years.
Her time places her 5th for tomorrow’s final, just behind Germany’s Anna Elendt who is seeded 4th in 1:04.06.
Similar to Gaspard, Gorbenko is also a multi-event national record holder for Israel, boasting 10 short course 10 long course top Israeli performances, cementing herself as one of the most accomplished Israeli swimmers in history.
Gorbenko’s Short Course Israeli Records:
- 50 Free: 24.46 (2022, Israeli Winter Championships)
- 50 back: 26.63 (2021, World Cup)
- 100 Back: 57.49 (2022, ISL)
- 200 Back: 2:04.40 (2022, Israeli Winter Championships)
- 50 Breast: 29.34 (2021, World Championships)
- 100 Breast: 1:04.10 (2025, European SC Championships)
- 200 Breast: 2:19.22 (2021, ISL)
- 100 IM: 57.80 (2021, World Championships)
- 200 IM: 2:05.04 (2021, ISL)
- 400 IM: 4:32.67 (2020, ISL)
Gorbenko’s Long Course Israeli Records:
- 50 Free: 25.03 (2021, Israeli Summer Championships)
- 200 Free: 1:56.74 (2024, Paris Olympics)
- 50 Back: 27.55 (2025, Mare Nostrum)
- 100 Back: 59.25 (2025, Mare Nostrum)
- 200 Back: 2:08.54 (2025, Mare Nostrum)
- 50 Breast: 30.30 (2025, World Championships)
- 100 Breast: 1:06.15 (2024 European Championships)
- 200 Breast: 2:25.20 (2021, Israeli Summer Championships)
- 200 IM: 2:08.55 (2024, Mare Nostrum)
- 400 IM: 4:34.79 (2024, Mare Nostrum)
100 Breast Splits Comparison (2021 World Cup v. 2025 European SC Championships):
| Previous Record | New Record | |
| 1st 50 | 30.54 | 30.31 |
| 2nd 50 | 33.9 | 33.79 |
| Final Time | 1:04.44 | 1:04.10 |
