{"id":639627,"date":"2026-03-21T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=639627"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:48:37","slug":"marrit-steenbergen-repeats-golden-feat-in-paris-john-shortt-rewrites-irish-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/marrit-steenbergen-repeats-golden-feat-in-paris-john-shortt-rewrites-irish-record-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrit Steenbergen Repeats Golden Feat at Giant Open; John Shortt Rewrites Irish Record Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Marrit Steenbergen Repeats Golden Feat at Giant Open; John Shortt Rewrites Irish Record Books<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveffn.com\/cgi-bin\/resultats.php?competition=92380&amp;langue=fra\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/maxime-grousset-angharad-evans-matches-edinburgh-record-rattling-pace\/\">Day 1 report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Marrit Steenbergen<\/strong> repeated her opening-day golden double as she clinched the freestyle treble at the Giant Open in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Shortt<\/strong> continued his record-breaking form in the 200m backstroke and <strong>Maxime Grousset<\/strong> picked up his third title of the meet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angharad Evans<\/strong> sustained her fine momentum with <strong>Angelina K\u00f6hler <\/strong>and <strong>Jack McMillan<\/strong> also delivering top performances with trials season looming across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Steenbergen won the 50 and 200 free on the opening day in the French capital. She was back in the water for two more races starting with a 27.62 blast for the 50 back title and a new PB ahead of <strong>Analia Pigree<\/strong> (27.80) and <strong>Maaike de Waard<\/strong> (27.87).<\/p>\n<p>She returned for the 100 free, in which she\u2019s the two-time world champion. Out in 25.68 and back in 27.25, Steenbergen posted 52.93 for a 1.19sec victory over fellow Dutchwoman <strong>Milou van Wijk<\/strong> (54.12) with Britain\u2019s <strong>Freya Anderson<\/strong> third (54.39).<\/p>\n<h3>John Shortt Breaks New Ground Once More; Evans On The March<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/john-shortt-talks-european-excellence-pushing-the-boundaries-and-wiffen-momentum\/\">Shortt ended 2025<\/a> with 28 Irish records, three world and European junior titles and a WJR en-route to gold at the European Short Course Championships.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_637695\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637695\" data-attachment-id=\"637695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/john-shortt-talks-european-excellence-pushing-the-boundaries-and-wiffen-momentum\/lub25-jshortt-d2f-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lub25-JShortt-D2F-2-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Simone Castrovillari&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1764785793&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Castrovillari Photo&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;600&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lub25 JShortt D2F (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;John Shortt: Photo Courtesy: Swim Ireland&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lub25-JShortt-D2F-2-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lub25-JShortt-D2F-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-637695\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lub25-JShortt-D2F-2-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-637695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Shortt: Photo Courtesy: Swim Ireland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Make that 29 after the 19-year-old set about the record books once more in Paris in the 200m backstroke when he came through in the second half of the race to post 1:56.07 for the title. It saw him slice 0.12 from his previous national standard of 1:56.19 that propelled him to the world junior title last year in Otopeni, Romania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apostolos Siskos<\/strong> (1:56.79) and Olympic bronze medallist <strong>Apostolos Christou<\/strong> (1:57.08) made it a Greek 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>Evans has enjoyed a sabre-rattling few days. She was 0.09 off her 100 breaststroke British record in 1:05.46 at last weekend\u2019s Edinburgh International, a time she matched on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot returned for the 200 where she posted 2:22.02, the second fastest of her career and 0.16 off her 2:21.86 PB from last year\u2019s British Championships. It\u2019s the seventh-fastest by a British woman with Evans third behind <strong>Molly Renshaw<\/strong> and <strong>Abbie Wood<\/strong>.\u00a0It also elevated her to second in the 2026 rankings, 0.01 off <strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong>\u2019 2:22.01 at the Pro Swim Series in Westmont.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellie McCartney<\/strong> repeated her 100 silver in 2:24.51 with <strong>Zia Dupont<\/strong> third (2:28.56).<\/p>\n<h3>Maxime Grousset Makes It Three<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_577646\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577646\" data-attachment-id=\"577646\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-angelina-kohler-adds-100-fly-gold-to-record-times\/21st-world-aquatics-championships-doha-2024-168\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240211_PER_Z8G1287.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2400,1599\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Giorgio Perottino \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Angelina Kohler of Germany competes in the swimming women&#039;s 100m butterfly preliminary during the 21st World Aquatics Championships at the Aspire Dome in Doha (Qatar), February 11, 2024.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1707636453&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Giorgio Perottino \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;21st World Aquatics Championships, Doha 2024&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"21st World Aquatics Championships, Doha 2024\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Angelina Kohler of Germany competes in the swimming women&#8217;s 100m butterfly preliminary during the 21st World Aquatics Championships at the Aspire Dome in Doha (Qatar), February 11, 2024.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Perottino \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240211_PER_Z8G1287-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240211_PER_Z8G1287-1024x682.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-577646\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240211_PER_Z8G1287-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-577646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelina K\u00f6hler: Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Perottino \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Grousset posted 22.00 to add the 50 free title to his 50 fly and 100 free crowns. Nandor Nemeth (22.14) and Stergios Bilas (22.22) were next home.<\/p>\n<p>K\u00f6hler rattled her German 50 fly record in 25.57, 0.07 off her 25.50 national standard as she came fourth at the 2025 worlds in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Ntountounaki<\/strong> (26.05) and <strong>Marie Wattel<\/strong> (26.31) joined her on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>McMillan came from 0.54 down at the final turn to overhaul <strong>Roman Fuchs<\/strong> for victory in the 200 free. The Briton stopped the clock in 1:47.05 with Fuchs clocking 1:47.37 and 16-year-old <strong>Sauveur Cristofini<\/strong> third in 1:47.56.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melvin Imoudu was the only man to break the minute mark in the men\u2019s 100m breaststroke. The German clocked 59.94. Adam Peaty was fourth in 1:00.79<\/li>\n<li>Keanna Macinnes won the 200 fly in 2:08.92<\/li>\n<li>Dimitrios Markos upgraded 400 silver to 800 free gold in 7:52.45<\/li>\n<li>Artemis Vasilaki clinched the 400\/800 double with a 4:10.57 win in the shorter race<\/li>\n<li>Gabor Zombori won the men\u2019s 400IM in 4:17.29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marrit Steenbergen Repeats Golden Feat at Giant Open; John Shortt Rewrites Irish Record Books Results Day 1 report Marrit Steenbergen repeated her opening-day golden double as she clinched the freestyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":520057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074],"tags":[26806,128783,69540,121151,40585,133868,61180,132277,67307,132334,25010,52048,77661,69489],"class_list":["post-639627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","tag-adam-peaty","tag-analia-pigree","tag-angelina-kohler","tag-angharad-evans","tag-apostolos-christou","tag-apostolos-siskos","tag-freya-anderson","tag-giant-open","tag-jack-mcmillan","tag-john-shortt","tag-kate-douglass","tag-marrit-steenbergen","tag-maxime-grousset","tag-melvin-imoudu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Marrit Steenbergen Repeats Golden Feat At Giant Open<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marrit Steenbergen repeated her opening-day golden double as she clinched the freestyle treble at the Giant Open in Paris.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/marrit-steenbergen-repeats-golden-feat-in-paris-john-shortt-rewrites-irish-record-books\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marrit Steenbergen Repeats Golden Feat at Giant Open; 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