Britain’s subsequent era excel at World Junior Swimming Championships | Swimming Information

Having starred on the European juniors earlier in the summer, Filip Nowacki and Dean Fearn upgraded their continental titles to world junior golds in Romania – whereas Theodora Taylor and Jacob Mills each secured a brace of particular person freestyle medals round their roles in anchoring Britain to 3 relay medals on the curtain name occasion of the 2025 lengthy course season.

It was Amelie Smith nonetheless who opened the medal rely with the primary of her two silvers coming within the Women’s 400m Individual Medley of the first night time of finals. Smith – who celebrated her sixteenth birthday whereas in Otopeni – returned to the rostrum once more within the Women’s 200m Individual Medley occasion, with each performances exemplifying her skill to chop up via the sector on the breaststroke leg to arrange a robust end.

Nowacki’s golden moments started with a lifetime finest within the Men’s 100m Breaststroke, the place he was joined on the rostrum by Max Morgan who took bronze, earlier than triumph within the Men’s 200m Breaststroke in a Championship Record time of two:07.32 – which equally lowered his personal European Junior document – in a tough battle with Japan’s Shin Ohashi.

Speaking after his wins, Nowacki mentioned to World Aquatics: “I’m over the moon with that, I’ve come off a successful European Juniors so to back it up again, it’s amazing.

“In the UK, most clubs stop training at the end of July. So going into August, I booked my own lane and my coach Kieran [Piper] has been sending me over my training sessions from the UK. I’ve been having to do them by myself, it’s been a real tough challenge.”

“I had a race plan [for the 200m] and I stuck to as best as I could – I think I executed it pretty well considering it was a world championship final. I’m definitely a back-end swimmer, so I tried to push as hard as I could in that third 50m, I could feel Shin coming up on me on that last length, so I’m very happy to have touched first.”

Fearn in the meantime had already bagged a bronze within the Men’s 100m Butterfly forward of listening to the nationwide anthem ring out for his Men’s 50m Butterly victory – getting his hand to the wall a tenth of a second forward of his rivals within the one size showdown.

“I just can’t process it yet,” mentioned the Aberdeen Dolphins’ swimmer of his gold.

“The race is so quick, it’s over and done in such a short time period. But to come out on top is just unreal. It wasn’t the time I was hoping for, but to get the touch, it’s amazing, it’s really great. And it’s only up from here. It’s my first World Juniors so to get gold individually, it’s honestly amazing.”

Nowacki and Fearn each had equally integral elements to play in Britain’s medley relay successes too, supplying the breaststroke and butterfly legs within the Men’s and Mixed occasion finals.

Silver within the Men’s 4x100m Medley was kicked off by Daniel Ransom, with Jacob Mills doing his finest to rein within the leaders on the anchor leg because the British quartet had been finally simply touched out from victory by two hundredths – whereas Max Morgan and Gabriel Shepherd earnt medals too for his or her invaluable contribution in qualifying.

Britain’s Mixed 4x100m Medley group was led off by Blythe Kinsman – who would additionally go on to attain a person world bronze within the Women’s 50m Backstroke on the penultimate day of the meet – with Nowacki once more coming in for Morgan from heats to remaining. Theodora Taylor’s versatility in the meantime was on full show as she moved to the anchor position after producing butterfly leg in qualifying, with Fearn coming into the finals line-up for Mills as one other bronze was added to the medal haul in a European Junior document mark of three:46.43.

Taylor and Mills each had particular person medal successes of their respective Women’s and Men’s 50m and 100m Freestyle occasions – with Mills’ pair of particular person silvers coming as he made historical past in turning into the primary 17-year-old to have damaged each the 22-second and 48-second barrier over the distances through the course of the championships.

The pair’s freestyle firepower moreover aided Great Britain’s spectacular Mixed 4x100m Freestyle – becoming a member of forces with Shepherd and Skye Carter to push inside 0.14 seconds of the win in securing a silver medal on the world stage in a brand new European Junior document time of three:26.17.

Remarking on the success of the championships Aquatics GB Performance Pathway Lead – Swimming, Euan Dale mentioned:

“I’m incredibly proud of our junior swimmers’ efforts this summer and their investment in our team-first ethos. This is of course just one stepping stone of a much longer journey, but it’s been a great experience for the group to test themselves in the competition arena as they learn and develop towards furthering their own future performance potential.

“The growing depth of success among our junior cohort is a testament to the foundational work of the home nation talent pathways and club coaches, and we will continue to closely support them in creating such environments in which our next generation can thrive.”

World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships medallists

Gold

Filip Nowacki – Men’s 100m Breaststroke and Men’s 200m Breaststroke

Dean Fearn – Men’s 50m Butterfly

Silver

Amalie Smith – Women’s 200m Individual Medley and Women’s 400m Individual Medley

Jacob Mills – Men’s 50m Freestyle and Men’s 100m Freestyle

Theodora Taylor – Women’s 50m Freestyle

Great Britain (Gabriel Shepherd, Jacob Mills, Skye Carter, Theodora Taylor) – Mixed 4x100m Freestyle

Great Britain (Daniel Ransom, Filip Nowacki, Dean Fearn, Jacob Mills, Max Morgan, Gabriel Shepherd) – Men’s 4x100m Medley

Bronze

Max Morgan – Men’s 100m Breaststroke

Dean Fearn – Men’s 100m Butterfly

Blythe Kinsman – Women’s 50m Backstroke

Theodora Taylor – Women’s 100m Freestyle

Great Britain (Blythe Kinsman, Filip Nowacki, Dean Fearn, Theodora Taylor, Max Morgan, Jacob Mills) – Mixed 4x100m Medley

Full outcomes may be discovered on the World Aquatics website, with stay streaming playback obtainable on Eurovision Sport Platforms.