2025 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – Toronto
- October 23-25, 2025
- Toronto, Canada
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Women’s 200 IM — Final
- World Record: 2:01.63 — Kate Douglass, United States (2024)
- World Junior Record: 2:04.48 — Yu Yiting, China (2021)
- World Cup Record: 2:02.13 — Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2014)
- Triple Crown Contender: Alex Walsh (USA)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Alex Walsh (USA) – 2:04.01
- Ellen Walshe (IRL) – 2:04.75
- Abbie Wood (GBR) – 2:05.33
- Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 2:05.81
- Rebecca Meder (RSA) – 2:05.83
- Ella Ramsay (AUS) – 2:06.38
- Freya Colbert (GBR) – 2:07.08
- Mio Narita (JPN) – 2:07.50
During the final session of the 2025 World Cup in Toronto, Roos Vanotterdijk produced a new Belgian national record in the women’s 200 IM.
The 20-year-old stopped the clock in 2:05.81, shattering the 2:08.42 she had swum just hours earlier in prelims. Prior to her morning swim, the record stood at 2:09.27, set by Kimberly Buys back in 2009, while Vanotterdijk’s personal best rested at 2:14.75. This is the first meet of the season where she has opted to take on the 200 IM.
Vanotterdijk led after the butterfly with a 26.68 split, fell to second after the backstroke, and dropped to fourth on the first lap of breaststroke before holding that position for the remainder of the race.
She split 26.68/31.36/37.17/30.60 in finals compared to her prelims splits of 26.82/31.49/38.61/31.50, improving by 14 hundredths on fly, 13 hundredths on back, 1.44 seconds on breast, and nine tenths on free.
This wasn’t the only time Vanotterdijk hit the pool this evening, as she also claimed bronze in the 100 fly (56.16) for the third-straight stop. Earlier this week, she placed third in the 100 IM and fourth in the 50 fly, replicating her results in those events from the first two legs of the circuit.
Vanotterdijk holds a whopping 13 Belgium records, seven in short course meters and six in long course meters.
Vanooterdijk’s Belgian Records:
| Time | Date | |
| 100 free (SCM) | 52.61 | 11/02/2024 |
| 50 fly (SCM) | 25.32 | 12/14/2024 |
| 100 fly (SCM) | 55.64 | 10/12/2025 |
| 50 back (SCM) | 26.43 | 10/17/2025 |
| 100 back (SCM) | 56.78 | 11/10/2024 |
| 100 IM (SCM) | 57.41 | 10/17/2025 |
| 200 IM (SCM) | 2:08.42 | 10/25/2025 |
| 100 free (LCM) | 53.62 | 04/14/2025 |
| 50 fly (LCM) | 25.32 | 08/01/2025 |
| 100 fly (LCM) | 55.84 | 07/28/2025 |
| 50 back (LCM) | 27.67 | 07/30/2025 |
| 100 back (LCM) | 58.97 | 02/08/2025 |
| 200 IM (LCM) | 2:09.73 | 06/14/2025 |
Vanotterdijk is building on the momentum of a standout 2025 season, which saw her break through with two individual medals at the Long Course World Championships: a silver in the 100 fly (55.84) and a bronze in the 50 fly (25.32). Her 100 fly silver on day two marked Belgium’s first World Championships medal since 1998, seven years before she was born.
This is her second season training with high-profile coach Mark Faber, who took over as the head of the Flemish Swimming Federation last November.
