Gose glitters at German Championships; Popovici powers on in Romanian trials
Germany’s leading lights shone brightly at the national championships and trials in Berlin – none more so than Paris 2024 bronze medallist Isabel Gose, who finished with four golds. Meanwhile Olympic and double world champion David Popovici was dazzling at the Romanian Championships, where he booked his place for this summer’s European Aquatics Championships Paris […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: Marrit Steenbergen voted best women’s swimmer
Marrit Steenbergen has been named best women’s swimmer in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards after an extraordinary season of success spanning long course and short course competition. The 25-year-old Dutch athlete, who earned 36.29% of the total vote, began her year in Singapore by retaining the 100m freestyle title she had […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: women’s swimming nominees
Simona Quadarella of Italy defended her world 800m and 1500m freestyle titles in Singapore, finishing fourth at the shorter distance in a European record of 8:12.81 and earning 1500m silver behind Paris 2024 champion Katy Ledecky of the United States in an European record of 15:31.79. Quadarella earned further honours at the European Aquatics Short […]
2025 in review: women’s swimming
Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands, Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania and Germany’s Anna Elendt flew the banner for European women with gold medal-winning performances at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Steenbergen, 25, retained the 100m freestyle title she had won in Doha the previous year as she clocked 52.55 to hold off the challenge of […]
Singapore 2025: Popovici wins Men’s 200m freestyle thriller as Elendt takes first world title
Romania’s David Popovici regained the men’s 200m freestyle world title, which he last won in 2022, following an intense final at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 in Singapore, on a night when Germany’s Anna Elendt made history of her own with her first world title. Popovici, 20, was fourth at the halfway stage and looked […]
