32-Yr-Previous Andreas Vazaios Quietly Breaks Greek 100 Freestyle Report

2026 GREEK CHAMPIONSHIPS

• May fifteenth – May 18th
• Athens, Greece
• LCM (50m)
• Results

Shortly earlier than the controversial Enhanced Games came about, the place Greek Olympian Kristian Gkolomeev cleared the non-enhanced world document within the 50m free, his countryman Andreas Vazaios made some noise on their house soil.

Racing eventually week’s Greek Championships, 32-year-old Vazaios quietly broke the nationwide document within the males’s 100m freestyle.

Leading off his squad’s males’s 4x100m free relay, Vazaios, previously of NC State, ripped a lifetime better of 48.31 to assist his group take the gold in a remaining results of 3:18.56.

Vazaios opened in 22.85 and closed in 25.46 to determine the brand new mark, slicing .08 off the previous Greek customary Olympic medalist Apostolos Christou placed on the books on the 2021 European Championships.

Christou’s former document was additionally set as lead-off on the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay, with splits together with 23.12/25.27.

Entering these Greek Championships, Vazaios’ lifetime finest within the 100m free rested on the 48.65 he notched as lead-off on the identical relay on the 2020 Olympic Games. That marked his 2nd time below the 49-second barrier, as he hit 48.93 on the 2021 Swim Open Stockholm. He was additionally below the barrier in 48.98 on the 2022 version of that Swedish affair.

When it got here to the person 100m free at these Greek Championships, Vazaios fell wanting his newly minted 48.31 document, as a substitute posting 49.23 to put 2nd behind winner Stergios Marios-Bilas, who grabbed the gold in 49.17.

Vazaios is a three-time European Long Course Championships medalist, together with 200m IM champion on the 2016 version.

After his NC State years, he raced for each Loughborough University in England whereas working in direction of a level there and likewise competed for the London Roar throughout season two of the International Swimming League (ISL).

Vazaios’ 48.31 effort represents the sixth Greek nationwide document to chew the mud to this point in 2026. At the Giant Open in March, Artemis Vasilaki hit new marks within the ladies’s 400m free (4:10.57) and 800m free (8:32.29). Then, on the Acropolis Swim Open earlier this month, Apostolos Siskos established new requirements within the 200m again (1:54.12) and 200m fly (1:56.13) and Andromachi Tasakou logged a brand new document of 1:08.16 within the ladies’s 100m breast.