By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- April 13–17, 2025
- Riccione, Italy – Swimming Stadium Pool
- Prelims at 10am local (4am ET)/Senior Finals at 6pm local (12pm ET)
- World Championships Qualification
- SwimSwam Italia Event Page
- Entries
- Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Day 1 Finals Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap | Day 4 Finals Recap
- Live Results
- Livestream
Rising star Sara Curtis re-broke her National Record in the women’s 50 freestyle for the second time in as many sessions at the 2025 Italian Championships on Wednesday, continuing her ascent to the world’s sprinting elite.
Curtis produced a time of 24.43 in the final, knocking nine one-hundredths off the Italian Record of 24.52 she set in the prelims earlier in the day.
Prior to the meet, Curtis held the National Record at 24.56, set at the 2024 Italian Championships last March.
With her swim tonight, the 18-year-old rises from #5 in the 2024-25 world rankings into 2nd, only trailing Belgian Florine Gaspard, who went .01 faster, 24.42, two days earlier at the Swim Open Stockholm.
2024-2025 LCM Women 50 Free
GASPARD
24.42
| 2 | Sara CURTIS | ITA | 24.43 | 04/16 |
| 3 | Wu Qingfeng | CHN | 24.44 | 03/20 |
| 4 | Cheng Yujie | CHN | 24.47 | 03/20 |
| 5 | Milou van Wijk | NED | 24.48 | 03/14 |
Curtis also officially adds the 50 free to her individual program for the 2025 World Championships in Singapore, having already booked her ticket in the 100 free after setting a new Italian Record of 53.01 on Day 3.
She also won the 50 back on Day 2 in 27.90.
Despite being four months away from turning 19, Curtis has already broken 25 seconds in the long course 50 free 15 times in her young career, including doing so twice at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, where she placed 14th in the semi-finals as a 17-year-old.
Curtis has a decorated junior international resume, winning six European Junior titles in her career (five in 2024) and four medals at the 2022 World Junior Championships to go along with winning a gold medal on the Italian mixed 4×50 free relay at the 2024 Short Course World Championships in Budapest.
After making her Olympic and SC World Championship debuts in 2024, Singapore will mark her first LC World Championships.
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