{"id":244293,"date":"2025-07-07T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244293\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:45:17","slug":"filip-nowacki-wins-double-gold-as-great-britain-tops-medal-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/244293\/","title":{"rendered":"Filip Nowacki Wins Double Gold As Great Britain Tops Medal Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\tFilip Nowacki Wins Double Gold As Great Britain Tops Medal Table At European Juniors<\/p>\n

Four titles in a rain-interrupted final session at the European Junior Championships<\/strong> confirmed Great Britain\u2019s position at the top of medals table, with Filip Nowacki<\/strong> bringing his personal total of golds to four.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Italy earned its fifth medal, and second gold, in relays with victory in the women\u2019s 4x100m medley.<\/p>\n

There were successful defences by Romania\u2019s Daria-Mariuca Silisteanu<\/strong> in the women\u2019s 100m backstroke and Lithuania\u2019s Smilte Plytnykaite<\/strong> in the women\u2019s 100m breaststroke.<\/p>\n

And Ireland\u2019s John Shortt<\/strong>, a disappointed bronze medallist in his defence of the men\u2019s 200m backstroke, was an exuberant winner of the men\u2019s 100m backstroke title.<\/p>\n

Britain finished with a total of 19 medals, including nine golds, with Italy and Spain second and third respectively with totals of 14 each.<\/p>\n

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Great Britain 4\u00d71 medley relay: Photo Courtesy: Istvan Derencsenyi\/European Aquatics<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Nowacki earned the men\u2019s 200m breaststroke gold in a Championship and European junior record of 2:08.32 shortly before helping Britain win gold in the mixed 4x100m medley.<\/p>\n

On Sunday the 17-year-old Millfield School pupil began by securing the men\u2019s 100m breaststroke title in a personal best of 59.59 \u2013 which comfortably bettered the British junior record of 58.92 set in 2013 by the Briton who currently holds the world record of 56.88, multiple world and Olympic champion Adam Peaty<\/strong>. It was his second journey inside the minute mark following his 59.96 prelim. Nowacki becomes fifth all-time performer in Britain.<\/p>\n

Greece\u2019s defending champion Evangelos Ntoumas<\/strong> was second in 1:00.18 with bronze in 1:00.24 going to Turkiye\u2019s Nusrat Allahverdi<\/strong>, who beat Nowacki to 50m breaststroke gold.<\/p>\n

Nowacki then played a key part in helping Britain win the final race of the Championships, the men\u2019s 4x100m medley, in 3:38.09 from Greece in 3:38.96 and Spain in 3:39.18.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in great shape coming into these Championships and I\u2019m tremendously happy about what I\u2019ve been able to achieve here,\u201d Nowacki told European Aquatics. \u201cAdam is a massive name in the sport of swimming, so to beat one of his records feels amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also contributing to that relay victory was Dean Fearn<\/strong> who also won 50 fly gold\u00a0in a Championship record of 23.29, with silver going to Jan Foltyn<\/strong> of the Czech Republic and Serbia\u2019s Nemanja Mksic<\/strong> earning bronze in 23.78.<\/p>\n

Smith Completes IM Double<\/p>\n

Fifteen-year-old Amalie Smith<\/strong>, winner of the women\u2019s 400m individual medley on day one, completed the double with victory in the women\u2019s 200m medley in 2:12.62, from Germany\u2019s Noelle Benkler<\/strong> on 2:12.76, with bronze going to Ireland\u2019s Grace Davison<\/strong> in 2:14.05.<\/p>\n

Shortt won 100m backstroke gold in 54.09 from neutral athlete Georgii Iakovlev<\/strong> on 54.47 and France\u2019s Nathan Muratory<\/strong> on 54.75.<\/p>\n

Silisteanu retained her women\u2019s 100m backstroke title in 1:00.40, with silver going to France\u2019s Jeanne Lechevalier<\/strong> in 1:00.52 and Britain\u2019s 50m backstroke champion Blythe Kinsman<\/strong> taking bronze in 1:00.70.<\/p>\n

Plytnykaite held onto the women\u2019s 100m breaststroke title in dominant fashion as she clocked 1:07.21 to finish comfortably clear of Germany\u2019s 200m breaststroke champion Lena Ludwig<\/strong> on 1:08.10 and Britain\u2019s Theodora Taylor<\/strong> on 1:08.47.<\/p>\n

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John Shortt: Photo Courtesy: \u00a9INPHO\/Dan Sheridan<\/p>\n

The Lithuanian\u2019s success came directly after her 16-year-old team-mate Tajus Juska<\/strong>, double gold medallist on Friday night, had narrowly failed to retain his men\u2019s 100m freestyle title after finishing in 48.57 behind Spain\u2019s Luca Hoek de Guenedal<\/strong> on 48.25, with bronze going to Serbia\u2019s Justin Cvetkov<\/strong> on 49.03.<\/p>\n

Poland\u2019s first gold of these Championships was delivered by Flawia Kamzol<\/strong> in the 50 fly, who clocked 26.17 to finish ahead of the Danish double gold medallist who was joint winner of this title in 2024, Martine Damborg<\/strong>, with the latter taking silver in 26.25 ahead of neutral athlete Mariia Osetrova<\/strong> on 26.44.<\/p>\n

Osetrova\u2019s fellow neutral athletes Sofia Diakova<\/strong> and Gregorii Vekovishchev<\/strong> took gold in the respective women\u2019s and men\u2019s 400m freestyle.<\/p>\n

Diakova, the women\u2019s 800m champion, did the double in 4:07.06 ahead of another neutral athlete, Kseniia Misharina<\/strong>, who clocked 4:07.52, and Italy\u2019s Emma Giannelli,<\/strong> who recorded 4:09.05.<\/p>\n

Vekovishchev won in 3:48.71 from Germany\u2019s Johannes Liebmann<\/strong> on 3:49.07 and Turkiye\u2019s Kuzey Tuncelli<\/strong>, wh added bronze to his 800 and 1500 title in 3:49.50.<\/p>\n

Italy won the women\u2019s 4x100m medley gold in 4:04.30 from Germany on 4:04.34 and Lithuania on 4:05.22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filip Nowacki Wins Double Gold As Great Britain Tops Medal Table At European Juniors Four titles in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[94830,94831,748,393,94832,94833,4884,94834,94835,1144,712,94836,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-244293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-adam-peaty","11":"tag-amalie-smith","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-european-junior-championships","15":"tag-filip-nowacki","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-john-shortt","18":"tag-kuzey-tuncelli","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-tajus-juska","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114809898746053925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}