Otopeni 2025: Day one at World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships produces world document, silver for GB’s Smith and two relay medals for Italy

Great Britain’s 15-year-old Amalie Smith, a double gold medallist on her debut on the European Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships final month, added additional lustre to her profession by taking girls’s 400m medley silver on day one of many World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships.

Smith, who gained the European 200m and 400m IM titles in Samorin, clocked 4:35.49 in Otopeni as she completed behind Argentina’s 17-year-old Agostina Hein, who set a Championship document of 4:34.34.

Hungary’s 16-year-old Vivien Jackl was seventh in 4:44.42.

The opening relay of the Championships – the lads’s 4x100m freestyle – produced a world junior document of three:15.38 for the impartial athletes workforce, with European junior champions Italy – comprising Francisco Ceolin, Daniel D’Agostino, Daniele Del Signore and Carlos D’Ambrosio – taking silver in 3:16.03.

Great Britain, bronze medallists within the European juniors, completed fifth in 3:17.25, represented by 4 17-year-olds in Jacob Mills, Rio Daodu, Harry Milne and Gabriel Shepherd. France had been eighth in 3:19.31.

Italy claimed a second medal within the fourth and final ultimate of the night time as their workforce of Bianca Nannucci, Lucrezia Domina, Chiara Sama and 14-year-old Allesandra Mao gained 4x200m freestyle bronze in 7:56.86.

China took gold in 7:51.59, with silver going to the United States in 7:52.82.

In the lads’s 400m freestyle, Germany’s European junior silver medallist of final month, Johannes Liebmann, completed seventh in 3:49.27 in a race by the impartial athlete who completed one place forward of him in Samorin, Grigorii Vekovishchev, who clocked 3:46.64 to safe the primary gold of the Championships.

Turkiye’s 17-year-old Kuzey Tuncelli, who will defend his 800m and 1500m titles this week, additionally made the ultimate, ending one place behind Liebmann on 3:50.80.

Tomorrow’s males’s 100m breaststroke ultimate appears like a doubtlessly epic contest given the semi-final outcomes this night, during which Great Britain’s four-times European junior gold medallist Filip Nowacki certified quickest in 59.24 forward of Japan’s world junior document holder Shin Ohashi, who clocked 599.72.

Greece’s Evangelos Ntoumas was in third place in 59.77.

Ireland’s European junior champion John Shortt was second quickest qualifier into tomorrow’s 100m backstroke ultimate with 53.80, behind the 53.52 set by Gavin Keogh of the United States, with impartial athlete Georgii Iakovlev, European junior silver medallist, third quickest qualifier.

Lithuania’s European junior girls’s 50m breaststroke champion Smilte Plytnykaite was certainly one of 4 European qualifiers for tomorrow’s ultimate, the others being Germany’s European 200m breaststroke champion Lena Ludwig, Theodora Taylor of Great Britain and Irene Burato of Italy.

In the ladies’s 100m backstroke, house swimmer Daria Silisteanu was second quickest qualifier in 1:00.31.

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics