Polish hosts title highly effective group as last entries declared for European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships Lublin 2025 – European Aquatics Swimming Short Course Championships

Hosts Poland have named a 26-strong group for the European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships that begin in Lublin on Tuesday.

The last record of entries for Championships that can run from December 2 to 7 contains 533 athletes from 45 international locations, with different largest groups belonging to Italy (32), Germany (31), Sweden (29), Spain (25), Finland (24), Hungary (22) and France (20). At the opposite finish of the size Malta, Montenegro and Monaco are every represented by a single swimmer.

The Polish choice contains 33-year-old Katarzyna Wasick, who has thus far accrued six medals from these Championships and who took world brief course and lengthy course bronze within the 50m freestyle final yr.

Twenty-one-year-old Krzysztof Chmielewski, fourth at Paris 2024 and a double world silver medallist within the males’s 200m butterfly, is called together with twin brother Michal, who completed one place behind him when he gained the world junior title in 2022.

Adela Piskorska, winner of a gold and two silvers at this summer season’s EA U23 Championships in Samorin, can be named, as is Dawid Wiekiera, who gained EA U23 50m breaststroke bronze.

Another 21-year-old, Klaudia Tarasiewicz, who gained three legs of the EA Open Water Swimming Cup in her debut season as an out of doors swimmer, returns to aggressive motion within the pool.

Lukas Maertens, the Paris 2024 400m freestyle champion who added world gold this yr in addition to reducing the just about 16-year-old report set by fellow countryman Paul Biedermann, has now declared to compete.

Germany’s group has additionally been supplemented by two open water specialists who preserve extremely aggressive profiles within the pool.

Florian Wellbrock, who gained 4 golds at this summer season’s World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, is on the roster, as is Oliver Klemet, the Paris 2024 10km silver medallist.

Meanwhile Portugal have included 21-year-old Diogo Ribeiro, who gained 50m and 100m butterfly eventually yr’s World Aquatics Championships in Doha and who secured two golds and a silver at this summer season’s EA U23 Championships.

Carles Coll Marti, who earned Spain’s first world brief course title in 10 years when he gained the lads’s 200m breaststroke eventually yr’s World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m), is among the many last entry of   athletes named for the European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships beginning subsequent week.

The 24-year-old, who set a nationwide report of two:01.55 to earn his first senior worldwide medal, reached the 200m breaststroke last at this summer season’s World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, ending seventh.

Bulgaria’s group contains 20-year-old Petar Mitsin, who retained his European U23 400m freestyle title in Samorin this summer season, additionally taking silver within the 100m and 200m freestyle on the Slovakian venue.

Croatia have chosen Jana Pavalic, who gained world junior 50m freestyle bronze after being disqualified for a beginning infringement after coming dwelling first within the girls’s 50m freestyle on the European Juniors.

Finland’s choice contains 20-year-old Laura Lahtinen, bronze medallist within the girls’s 200m butterfly on the EA U23 Championships in Samorin.

The Greek group contains Andreas Vazaios, who already has 10 European brief course medals to his credit score and has come again after a yr out following the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Lithuania’s 10-strong group contains Ruta Meilutyte, who gained a fourth consecutive world lengthy course 50m breaststroke title this summer season who will probably be in search of a sixth European brief course gold.

Final entries for Lublin 2025:

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics