2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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Germany’s Nina Holt made her presence felt on the third day of action at the 2025 European Short Course Championships, establishing herself as a podium contender in the women’s 100 back final tomorrow night.
Holt, 22, started off the day with a bang, clocking 57.29 in the 100 back prelims to crack the 16-year-old super-suited German Record of 57.34, set by the late Daniela Samulski back in November 2009.
The swim also improved on Holt’s previous best of 57.62, set this past October at the International Neukoelln Trophy in Berlin.
Then, in tonight’s session, Holt blasted a time of 56.60 to slash nearly seven-tenths off her hours-old German Record and win the first semi-final heat, comfortably qualifying for tomorrow’s final in 2nd overall.
The swim also ranks Holt 21st all-time among Europeans.
Split Comparison
| Holt, October 2025 | Holt, Euro SC Prelims | Holt, Euro SC Semis |
| 27.99 | 27.69 | 27.04 |
| 57.62 (29.63) | 57.29 (29.67) | 56.60 (29.56) |
Holt heads into the final trailing Great Britain’s Lauren Cox (56.52), with Sweden’s Hanna Rosvall (56.87) the only other swimmer in the field sub-57.
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – Semifinal
Finals Qualifiers:
- Lauren Cox (GBR) – 56.52
- Nina Holt (GER) – 56.60
- Hanna Rosvall (SWE) – 56.87
- Pauline Mahieu (FRA) – 57.10
- Carmen Weiler Sastre (ESP) – 57.25
- Maaike de Waard (NED) – 57.26
- Camila Rodrigues Rebelo (POR)/Victoria Bierre (DEN) – 57.80
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On Wednesday, Holt swam the 200 free, setting back-to-back best times in the prelims (1:55.04) and semis (1:54.66) to finish 9th overall, shattering her best time coming into the meet (1:57.57) and coming just over a second shy of the German Record of 1:53.48, set by Annika Bruhn in 2019.
Holt was an Olympian last summer in Paris, serving as a relay-only swimmer on the German women’s and mixed 4×100 medley relays that both finished 9th.
She raced the 100 free at the 2024 Short Course World Championships, placing 12th, and then this past summer, raced at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore, placing 14th in the 100 free while swimming on four of Germany’s relays.
