Florine Gaspard Hits Belgian Record In 50 Free At Edinburgh International

03/14/2025 06:49 PM

By Retta Race on SwimSwam

2025 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET

• Friday, March 14th – Sunday, March 16th
• Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
• LCM (50m)
• Meet Central
• SwimSwam Preview
• Start List
• Results
• Livestream

The 2025 Edinburgh International Swim Meet kicked off today with a host of British swimmers contending with athletes stemming from Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond.

Wasting no time making her presence known already on day one was Florine Gaspard of Belgium who fired off a new national record in the women’s 50m freestyle.

After capturing the 2nd seed out of the heats with a morning swim of 25.01, 23-year-old Gaspard turned things up a notch in the final to post an outing of 24.53.

That garnered the Belgian the silver medal behind Dutch ace Milou van Wijk who touched first in 24.48, a new lifetime best for her by .22.

Bronze went to British 19-year-old Eva Okaro who hit 24.80, a new personal best by .11. Okaro, the World Junior Record holder in the SCM version of this event, now ranks as GBR’s 4th-fastest performer of all time, tying Amy Smith.

As for Gaspard, her national record entering this competition rested at the 24.65 notched in December 2023 so she sliced  .12 off that previous performance to register the new benchmark.

This trio of women has shaken up the world rankings, with van Wijk now taking over the #1 time in the world.

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