2025 SCOTTISH NATIONAL SC OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, December 12th – Sunday, December 14th
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Livestream
- Live Results
The 2025 Scottish National Short Course Open Championships concluded over the weekend with multiple national records going down on both the men’s and women’s sides.
We reported how Matthew Ward ripped both 50m back and 200m back Scottish records in Edinburgh, but the Bath Performance Centre star also also eliminated the Scottish record in the 100m back on the final day of competition.
20-year-old Ward stopped the clock at a speedy result of 51.08 to get to the wall first, beating the pack by over half a second.
17-year-old Dean Fearn of the University of Stirling was next to the wall in 51.82 followed by Scott Gibson who rounded out the podium.
Ward opened in 24.67 and closed in 26.41 to get the job done, surpassing the previous Scottish record of 51.30 he put on the books at the 2023 edition of these championships.
He is now the 9th-best British performer of all time in this event.
Of note, Fearn’s feat was a huge British Junior Record, crushing his own previous mark of 53.47 logged in 2023.
University of Stirling’s Jamie Robertson broke a Scottish record of his own en route to taking the men’s 100m butterfly title.
25-year-old Robertson produced a gold medal-worthy outing of 51.32 and one of two sub-52 second swimmers in the final.
Joining him under the barrier was Edinburgh’s 20-year-old Brodie Gordon-Gibson who notched 51.90 as the silver medalist. Fearn landed on the podium once again, with the teen posting 52.04 for bronze.
Robertson’s 1fly lifetime best entering this competition rested at the 52.61 he put on the books at the 2023 Scottish National Open SC Championships. He hacked more than half a second off that mark as he erased the previous Scottish benchmark of 51.35 Mark Szaranek established at the 2016 Short Course World Championships.
Fearn broke the British Junior record in this 100m fly event as well, destroying the previous standard of 53.29 Ed Mildred established 7 years ago in 2018.
Finally, 24-year-old Keanna MacInnes of the University of Stirling ripped a new lifetime best and Scottish standard in the women’s 200m butterfly to conclude her campaign.
MacInnes touched in 2:05.62 to beat Ciara Schlosshan in what was essentially a two-woman race.
24-year-old Schlosshan of Edinburgh settled for silver in 2:05.57 as the only other competitor to dip under 2:12.
17-year-old Seren Tallantyre of Morpeth registered 2:12.62 for bronze.
Splits for MacInnes’ podium-topping performance included 28.28/31.53/ (59.81)/32.19/33.26 to erase her former Scottish record of 2:05.51 notched at the 2023 European Short Course Championships.
MacInnes is now GBR’s 6th-swiftest 200m butterfly performer in history.
