Lublin, Poland, To Host 2025 European Short-Course Championships
Lublin, Poland, will host the 23rd edition of the European Short-Course Championships from 2-7 December 2025, European Aquatics has announced.
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in the Central European country and located around 150km southeast of the capital Warsaw and the championships will be followed by the Masters Short Course Championships from December 10 to 16.
It’s the second time Poland has hosted the event with Szczecin staging the 15th edition in December 2011 which featured the likes of Paul Biedermann and Britta Steffen who won four individual titles between them as Germany finished top of the table with seven golds among 10 medals.
The last European Short-Course Swimming Championships were held in 2023 at Otopeni in Romania, with Great Britain topping the medals table after collecting nine golds, ahead of Italy and France, both of whom boasted seven golds.
Daniel Wiffen crushed the 800 free short-course world record in 7:20.46 to slice 2.96secs off Grant Hackett’s 2008 mark in Otopeni. The Australian’s 7:23.42 was the longest-standing WR dating back to July 2008, but Wiffen led from the front and completely left it behind in a masterclass of distance swimming as the Irish swimmer swept the 400/800/1500 treble.
Noè Ponti set a European 100 fly record of 48.47 as he claimed a sweep of the fly event. A year later the Swiss would go on to lower the 50 and 100 fly WRs to 21.32 and 47.71 respectively at the short-course worlds in Budapest. Ben Proud of Great Britain also set a European record when he went 20.18 in the 50 free, 0.02 off what was then Caeleb Dressel’s WR of 20.16, a global standard that was lowered to 19.90 by Jordan Crooks in Budapest last December.
Kira Toussaint made it three straight 50 back titles following gold at Kazan 2021 and Glasgow 2019.