{"id":652520,"date":"2026-08-25T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=652520"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:31:54","slug":"apostolos-christou-adds-mediterranean-games-title-to-his-european-100-back-gold-in-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/apostolos-christou-adds-mediterranean-games-title-to-his-european-100-back-gold-in-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostolos Christou Blazes to 100 Back CR &#038; Adds Mediterranean Games Title to European Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/taranto2026.microplustimingservices.com\/#\/athletic-sports-schedule\/SWM\/2026-08-22?lang=en\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/benedetta-pilato-adds-100-breaststroke-gold-to-european-bronze-in-cr-at-mediterranean-games\/\">Day 1 report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/luca-de-tullio-dominates-800-free-at-mediterranean-games-world-champion-ahmed-jaouadi-finishes-third\/\">Day 2 report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lisa-angiolini-makes-it-a-golden-double-at-the-mediterranean-games\/\">Day 3 report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Apostolos Christou<\/strong> blazed to a 100m backstroke championship record as he added the Mediterranean Games title to his European gold in Taranto.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek swimmer was out in 25.34 and back in 26.91 to post 52.34, 0.07 off the time in which he won gold in Paris. It was 0.25 outside his national record of 52.09 from the 2022 World Championships in Budapest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_588418\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588418\" data-attachment-id=\"588418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/european-championships-day-2-camila-rebelo-gets-portugals-first-gold\/ka1_5826-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KA1_5826-1-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Aniko Kovacs&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1718735573&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Aniko Kovacs&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KA1_5826 (1)\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Camila Rebelo Portugal&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: European Aquatics&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KA1_5826-1-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KA1_5826-1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-588418\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KA1_5826-1-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"181\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-588418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camila Rebelo: Photo Courtesy: European Aquatics<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Francesco Lazzari<\/strong> was almost two seconds adrift in 54.28 with <strong>Evangelos<\/strong> <strong>Makrygiannis <\/strong>making it a Greek 1-3 in 54.54.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alberto Razzetti<\/strong> also delivered a new CR of 1:55.29 to clinch the 200 fly title. <strong>Andrea Camozzi<\/strong> ensured an Italian 1-2 in 1:57.29 with <strong>Polat Uzer Turnali<\/strong> third in 1:57.54.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simone Spediacci<\/strong> set a championship record in the men\u2019s 200IM to take gold in 1:57.70. <strong>Berke Saka<\/strong> (1:58.66) was second with <strong>Jacopo Barbotti<\/strong> \u00a0making it an Italian 1-3 in 1:59.28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Camila Rebelo<\/strong> went 1:00.37 for a 100 back CR to add to her 200 back title. <strong>Federica Toma<\/strong> went 1:00.74 for silver with Italian teammate <strong>Martina Biasoli<\/strong> joining her on the podium in 1:01.12.<\/p>\n<h3>Jaoudi Comes In Sixth In 15:30<\/h3>\n<p>While several swimmers were setting CRs throughout the four-day meet, <strong>Ahmed Jaouadi<\/strong> was well short of the form that secured two world titles last year in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisian won bronze in the 800 free and returned for the 1500 where he was sixth in 15:30.99, a little over 12 months after going 14:34.41 for global gold. Matteo Diodati headed the race in 15:06.27.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_619156\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619156\" data-attachment-id=\"619156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/apostolos-christou-adds-mediterranean-games-title-to-his-european-100-back-gold-in-cr\/2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;emily cameron&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1753920800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;emily cameron&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;8\/3\/25&lt;br \/&gt;\nAhmed JAOUADI reacting after winning gold in the 800 Freestyle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Emily Cameron&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-619156\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-world-champs-singapore-weds-pm4-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"ahmed jaouadi\" width=\"252\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-619156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Jaouadi: Photo Courtesy: Emily Cameron<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sara Franceschi<\/strong> came from second at the final turn to move past Italian teammate <strong>Chiara Della Corte<\/strong> to win the women\u2019s 200IM in 2:11.22 to 2:11.65.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giovanni Guatti<\/strong> was the sole man to break 22secs as he posted 21.96 to win the 50 free. <strong>Lorenzo Ballarati<\/strong> was 0.04 behind in 22.00 for an Italian 1-2 with <strong>Luka Cvetko<\/strong> of Croatia third in 22.16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kalia Antoniou<\/strong> completed the 50\/100 free double with a 24.92 dash win. The Cypriot was the only woman to break 25secs with <strong>Elena Capretta<\/strong> (25.02) and <strong>Agata Maria Ambler<\/strong> (25.12) making it two Italians on the podium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paola Borrelli<\/strong> led throughout to take the women\u2019s 200 fly in 2:08.47 with <strong>Georgia Damasioti<\/strong> of Greece second in 2:09.73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Day 3 report Apostolos Christou blazed to a 100m backstroke championship record as he added the Mediterranean Games title to his European gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":652529,"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":[3,122074,10],"tags":[134034,75757,137148,40585,138244,138037,131086,122876],"class_list":["post-652520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","category-world","tag-ahmed-jaouadi","tag-alberto-razzetti","tag-andrea-camozzi","tag-apostolos-christou","tag-camila-rebelo","tag-camile-rebelo","tag-federica-toma","tag-mediterranean-games"],"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>Apostolos Christou Blazes To 100 Back CR &amp; 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