After announcing that Poland would be the host country of the 2025 European Short Course Championships late last year, European Aquatics has confirmed that the city of Lublin will stage the event this December.
This marks the second time Poland has hosted the biennial event, with the 2011 edition being held in Szczecin.
Lublin has a population of approximately 350,000, making it the ninth largest city in Poland and the largest in eastern Poland.
The event will take place December 2-7, 2025, at the Aqua Lublin pool, with the Masters Short Course Championships to follow at the same venue from December 10-16.
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European Aquatics President Antonio Silva and Polish Swimming Federation President Otylia Jędrzejczak jointly promoted Poland hosting the SC European Championships at the 2024 Short Course World Championships in December.
“It was a long time ago when Poland last hosted a top European Aquatics event,” Silva said. “Fourteen years are a lot, so it was time to return to this beautiful country and I’m grateful for Otylia and the federation to stage this great event.
“Let’s hope we’ll have more records there as well as European swimmers are doing really well this year and I’m sure they will do in 2025 too.
”Looking ahead to the ‘really thrilling’ event,” Jedzrejczak said: “We have a very talented team whose members were very young when we had the last big swimming event back in 2011, the short-course Europeans in Szczecin and now they can show their quality in a home meet.”
The last edition of SC Euros was held in Otopeni, Romania, with Great Britain topping the medal table.
Poland ranks 10th on the all-time medal table for the SC European Championships with 35 gold and 95 total medals. They didn’t send any swimmers to the 2023 event.
This will be the 23rd edition of the event, with the first coming in 1996 in Rostock, Germany.
