Otopeni 2025: Juska and Tuncelli are golden on day 3 of the World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships

European swimmers as soon as once more stepped as much as the highest of the rostrum on day three on the World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships as Lithuania’s Tajus Juska and Turkiye’s Kuzey Tuncelli claimed the boys’s 100m butterfly and 800m freestyle titles respectively.

Juska, 16, added world junior gold to the European junior model he gained in Samorin final month as he clocked 51.83 to carry off the problem of Brazil’s Lucio De Paula Filho, who took silver in 52.01.

Britain’s European junior 50m butterfly champion Dean Fern – who additionally took European junior silver behind the Lithuanian on this occasion final month – claimed bronze in 52.33.

Tuncelli, 17, defending champion within the males’s 800 and 1500m occasions, retained the primary of these titles impressively as he completed 01.82 away from Japan’s Kazushi Imafuku in 7:46.52, with impartial athlete Grigorii Vekovishchev taking bronze in 7:50.04.  

Britain’s 16-year-old Theodora Taylor, joint European junior silver medallist within the 50m freestyle, took bronze within the girls’s 100m freestyle, clocking 54.20, with Rylee Erisman of the United States taking gold in a Championship document of 52,79 and silver going to her team-mate Lily G King in 54.19.

Taylor, who had earned bronze within the earlier evening’s combined 4x100m medley, added one other medal to her assortment as Great Britain recorded 3:26.17 to take silver within the combined 4x100m freestyle, the place their different three swimmers had been Gabriel Shepherd, Jacob Mills and Skye Carter.

Gold went to the United States in 3:26.03, with Italy incomes bronze in 3:26.79, one place forward of the impartial athletes workforce.

In the ladies 200m backstroke, impartial athlete Milana Stepanova gained bronze in 2:09.99 in a race the place Audrey Derivaux of the United States set a Championship document of two:06.99 and her team-mate Charlotte Crush took silver in 2:07.83.

European swimmers topped qualifying for tomorrow’s girls’s 100m breaststroke as Lithuania’s European 50m and 100m breaststroke champion Smilte Plytnykaite – silver medallist in final evening’s race over the shorter distance – clocked 1:07.64 and Germany’s Lena Ludwig, European junior 200m butterfly champion, recorded 1:07.75.

Italy’s Daniele Del Signore was second quickest qualifier into tomorrow’s males’s 50m backstroke in 25.02 behind impartial athlete Georgii Iakovlev, in 24.58.

Fellow impartial athlete Mikhail Shcherbakov, winner of the boys’s 200m IM the evening earlier than, was fourth quickest in 25.08 with Ireland’s John Shortt, already champion over 100m backstroke, claiming the eighth and final remaining spot in 25.36.

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics