By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2025 SPANISH SPRING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 5th – Sunday, March 9th
- Sabadell, Spain
- LCM (50m)
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The 2025 Spanish Spring Championships wrapped up over the weekend but not before 16-year-old Luca Hoek Le Guenedal put up another impressive freestyle performance.
After already clocking a big-time personal best of 1:48.35 to win the men’s 200m freestyle C-final on the penultimate night of racing, Hoek Le Guenedal tried the 100m freestyle on for size.
The teen stopped the clock at a massive 48.53 to take the men’s open final, holding off a pair of seasoned racers in Miguel Perez-Godoy Brageli and Sergio Montalban.
Brageli touched in a time of 48.73 for runner-up while Montalban bagged the bronze in 49.11.
Hoek Le Guenedal opened in 22.85 and closed in 25.68 to produce his first-ever performance under the 49-second barrier.
Entering this competition, his best outing stood at the 49.36 he logged in June 2024. He already lowered that lightly to a new PB of 49.34 as lead-off on his squad’s men’s 4x100m free relay earlier in the meet before he entered entirely new territory with his monster 48.53.
Hoek Le Guenedal’s time fell just .19 outside the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 48.34 needed to qualify for this summer’s World Championships. However, he’ll have more time to make the grade, with the Spanish Trials on the June agenda.
His performances of 22.30 in the 50m free, 48.53 in the 100m free and 1:48.35 in the 200m free now render the Spaniard ranked #1 among all 18 & U European boys this year.
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