2025 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 2-7, 2025
- Prelims at 10am local (4am ET)/Finals at 7pm local (1pm ET)
- Lublin, Poland
- SCM (25 meters)
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The Polish swimmers finished off the opening day of the 2025 European Short Course Championships in style, winning the host country’s first two medals of the competition in the women’s and men’s 4×50 freestyle relays in record fashion.
Both Polish relays set new National Records, with the women claiming bronze and then the men following up with a silver.
In the women’s relay, the quartet of Kasia Wasick (23.57), Kornelia Fiedkiewicz (23.70), Julia Maik (24.04) and Barbara Lesniewska (24.44) combined for a time of 1:35.75, taking out the previous Polish Record of 1:35.94, set at the 2021 SC Euros where the team also featured Wasick and Fiedkiewicz on the first two legs and won bronze.
Split Comparison
| 2021 SC Euros | 2025 SC Euros |
| Kasia Wasick – 23.40 | Kasia Wasick – 23.57 |
| Kornelia Fiedkiewicz – 24.20 | Kornelia Fiedkiewicz – 23.70 |
| Dominika Sztandera – 24.87 | Julia Maik – 24.04 |
| Alicja Tchorz – 23.47 | Barbara Lesniewska – 24.44 |
| 1:35.94 | 1:35.75 |
Poland also narrowly edged out Germany by just one one-hundredth for the bronze medal, with the Dutch winning gold and Italy taking silver. The Italians and Hungarians both set new National Records in the final, while two other finalists, Germany and Slovakia, set new marks in the prelims.
Women’s 200 Free Relay – Final Results
- Netherlands – 1:33.85
- Italy – 1:34.08
- Poland – 1:35.75
- Germany – 1:35.76
- France – 1:36.35
- Hungary – 1:36.49
- Slovakia – 1:37.14
- Sweden – 1:37.75
In the men’s race, Poland came from behind to win the silver thanks to two blistering splits over the middle 100.
The team sat back in 7th after Piotr Ludwiczak‘s opening leg of 21.30, and then moved up one spot to 6th after Ksawery Masiuk‘s 20.62 split, though they were just 17 one-hundredths back of 2nd place at the halfway mark.
Kamil Sieradzki then dropped a 20.71 split swimming third, moving the team into the bronze medal position, and then Mateusz Chowaniec anchored in 21.00, running down Ukraine to snare silver in a time of 1:23.63.
The performance improved on the previous Polish Record of 1:23.74, set at the 2019 SC Euros, where they also won the silver medal.
Split Comparison
| 2019 SC Euros | 2025 SC Euros |
| Pawel Juraszek – 21.19 | Piotr Ludwiczak – 21.30 |
| Marcin Cieslak – 20.98 | Ksawery Masiuk – 20.62 |
| Karol Ostrowski – 20.79 | Kamil Sieradzki – 20.71 |
| Jakub Kraska – 20.78 | Mateusz Chowaniec – 21.00 |
| 1:23.74 | 1:23.63 |
Masiuk’s 20.62 split stood up as the second-fastest in the field, only trailing Lorenzo Zazzeri‘s 20.56 for Italy.
The Italians won gold and tied their National Record in 1:22.90, with Poland taking silver and Croatia moving up into 3rd. The Ukrainians fell out of the medals in 4th but also set a new National Record, while Spain set a new mark of thier own in 5th, and Estonia placed 8th after setting a National Record in the heats.
Men’s 200 Free Relay – Final Results
- Italy – 1:22.90
- Poland – 1:23.63
- Croatia – 1:23.79
- Ukraine – 1:23.92
- Spain – 1:23.94
- Netherlands – 1:24.30
- Sweden – 1:24.84
- Estonia – 1:25.09
The silver is also the first relay medal for the Polish men at SC Euros since they finished in the same position in the 4×50 free relay in 2019.
Masiuk is no 200 backstroker
If he goes to Texas (do we have any sort of confirmation that he’s joining at some point?) this split confirms him landing as the freestyler on both medleys.
What do you think this projects in a yards format? I was thinking 18.5/18.6, am I off?
He still has the instagram post where it says he signed pinned and a week ago I think he was putting up the hook em emoji on someone’s comment section, might have been Tuncelli’s commitment.
I would say 18.4. The number of guys splitting 20.8 to 21.0 makes me think that’s about 18.6-18.8.
Gotcha. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s faster than 18.4. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he’s a faster freestyler than Gould. I wanna see what Gould can do in a 50 fly with a flying start but with Hubert rejoining the varsity team in the spring, Gould might be completely off the medley relays for this year.
I doubt he will end up in Texas. He supposed to be there this fall, and he isn’t -with no explanation. 👎🏻