National records and championship marks tumbled on the final night of the Spanish Open in Sabadell.
Ivan Martinez erased another shiny-suit record when he took down Aschwin Wildeboer’s national 50 back mark that had stood since December 2009, cutting 0.03 from the previous standard in 23.04. He also rewrote Wildeboer’s championship record of 23.14 from December 2008.
It came a day after Hugo Gonzalez had consigned Wildeboer’s 200 back record to history in what had been the longest-standing Spanish mark on the books.
Irene Ciercoles had set Spanish and championship records in the women’s prelims in 26.42 to take down Mercedes Peris Minguet’s mark that had stood since December 2010. Kylie Masse of Canada surpassed the CR en-route to gold in the final in 26.08.
Miguel Perez Godoy lowered the men’s 200 free mark in 1:42.07, 0.33 inside Luis Dominguez Calonge’s 1:42.40 from December 2024. Luca Hoek – who became the first Spanish man to break 46secs over 100m – was second in 1:42.28 and Gonzalez third in 1:42.68 as all three men went inside the cut for the short-course worlds in Beijing.
Carlos Garach set a Spanish 800 mark of 7:35.35 to take 2.16secs off Marc Sanchez Torrens’ record of 7:37.51 from December 2014. Nathan Wiffen was next home in 7:41.27 ahead of twin Daniel – the Olympic champion – who clocked 7:44.13. Maria De Valdes Alvarez headed the women’s 800 in 8:25.47.
Youssef Ramadan flew to a 22.53 CR in the 50 fly prelims before returning to go 22.07 in the evening, propelling himself into the world top 20 in 2026. The Egyptian stands 0.20 off Roland Schoeman’s African record of 21.87 from the super-suited 2009 World Cup in Berlin.
