European Aquatics Athlete of the 12 months Awards 2025: ladies’s open water swimming nominees

European Aquatics has introduced the nominees for the ladies’s open water swimming athlete of the 12 months, with a five-strong checklist of the continent’s best representatives all incomes their place on the shortlist, together with your votes deciding who will take the award.

The shortlist brings collectively medallists from the World Aquatics Championships, continental champions and general cup collection winners, reflecting the breadth of accomplishment required to face out in trendy open water swimming.

Italy’s Ginevra Taddeucci options prominently after an distinctive 12 months marked by sustained excellence throughout the entire aforementioned occasions. At the World Aquatics Championships, she collected a rare 4 silver medals, ending runner-up within the 3km knockout dash, 5km, 10km and staff occasion.

Her kind continued on the European stage, the place she claimed the continental 5km title and added staff and 10km silver, earlier than rounding off the season by securing the general ladies’s crown within the World Aquatics Open Water Cup collection.

Hungary’s Bettina Fabian is nominated following a breakthrough season that showcased her power in each particular person and relay occasions. She earned joint bronze within the 3km knockout dash on the World Aquatics Championships and added one other bronze as a part of the Hungarian staff.

On the European stage, Fabian reached the highest step of the rostrum twice, in the identical occasions. Although she has but to interrupt by means of within the longer distances, the current additions of these new codecs has given her an avenue for achievement in open water swimming, and she or he has grabbed it with each palms in 2025.

Lisa Pou of Monaco loved a landmark 12 months that mixed championship success with sustained collection performances. She secured a memorable bronze medal within the 10km on the World Aquatics Championships, delivering one of many standout outcomes of her profession.

That achievement was complemented by her general victory within the European Aquatics Open Water Swimming Cup collection, as she was one of many busiest swimmers this 12 months – being a constant characteristic all through.

Another Hungarian nominee, Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas, impressed throughout each world and European competitions. She claimed bronze within the staff occasion on the World Aquatics Championships earlier than having fun with a extremely profitable continental marketing campaign, profitable European titles within the 10km and staff occasion and including silver within the 5km.

Her outcomes replicate a season constructed on power over longer distances and reliability in staff competitors, as she burst onto the worldwide scene in 2025.

Completing the shortlist is Poland’s Klaudia Tarasiewicz, whose 12 months was outlined by dominance on the Open Water Cup circuit. She received three legs of the European Aquatics Open Water Swimming Cup and concluded the season in emphatic fashion by taking victory on the ultimate leg of the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming Cup, marking her out as some of the constant performers throughout the collection.

Click right here to see the nominees for all classes and to vote in your winner.

Stephen Stanley for European Aquatics