The 8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships was held from 30 August to 4 September 2022 at the Videna Aquatic Center in Lima, Peru. ^[1] It was open to competition for girls ages 14 to 17 years old and boys ages 15 to 18 years old at the end of the 2022 calendar year. ^[2] All events were conducted in a 50-metre ( long course) pool.

Originally the competition was planned for 24–29 August 2021, however the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in its postponement to 24–29 August 2022. ^[3] In April 2022, FINA announced a change of dates as well as a change host from Kazan, Russia to Lima, Peru due to the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine. ^[4] The same month, FINA announced athletes and officials from Belarus and Russia were banned from the Championships. ^[5]

Qualification

Various qualification systems were implemented internationally, one of which used by Swimming New Zealand and Swimming South Africa was the selection of swimmers to compete at the 8th World Junior Swimming Championships from pre-defined national-level competitions based on the swimmers's times and overall national rank of their performances across the defined competitions, only the top two were eligible per individual event. ^{[6] [7]} Another selection procedure, put forward by Swim Ireland before the location and dates of the Championships were changed and retained after the change, was based on swimmers achieving pre-defined consideration times at a national championships or the 2022 European Junior Championships and overall national rank. ^{[8] [9]} Prior to the change of dates and location in 2022, British Swimming also announced a selection procedure, basing selection on swimmer performances at a single selection meet, the 2022 British Swimming Championships. ^[10]

Schedule

A total of 42 events were competed over six days, starting on 30 August and concluding on 4 September. ^[11]

H

Heats

SF

Semifinals

Finals

Men

Date →	Tue 30		Wed 31		Thu 1		Fri 2		Sat 3		Sun 4
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle					H	SF
100 m freestyle									H	SF
200 m freestyle			H
400 m freestyle	H
800 m freestyle					H
1500 m freestyle											H
50 m backstroke					H	SF
100 m backstroke	H	SF
200 m backstroke											H
50 m breaststroke									H	SF
100 m breaststroke	H	SF
200 m breaststroke							H
50 m butterfly							H	SF
100 m butterfly			H	SF
200 m butterfly											H
200 m individual medley			H
400 m individual medley									H
4×100 m freestyle relay	H
4×200 m freestyle relay							H
4×100 m medley relay											H

Women

Date →	Tue 30		Wed 31		Thu 1		Fri 2		Sat 3		Sun 4
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle									H	SF
100 m freestyle			H	SF
200 m freestyle											H
400 m freestyle							H
800 m freestyle			H
1500 m freestyle									H
50 m backstroke							H	SF
100 m backstroke	H	SF
200 m backstroke					H
50 m breaststroke	H	SF
100 m breaststroke					H	SF
200 m breaststroke											H
50 m butterfly					H	SF
100 m butterfly									H	SF
200 m butterfly			H
200 m individual medley							H
400 m individual medley	H
4×100 m freestyle relay									H
4×200 m freestyle relay	H
4×100 m medley relay											H

Mixed

Date →	Tue 30		Wed 31		Thu 1		Fri 2		Sat 3		Sun 4
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
4×100 m freestyle relay					H
4×100 m medley relay			H

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	7	8	4	19
2	Hungary	7	7	0	14
3	Poland	7	1	6	14
4	Romania	4	2	2	8
	Turkey	4	2	2	8
6	Spain	3	1	2	6
7	Portugal	3	0	0	3
8	Italy	2	8	10	20
9	Brazil	1	3	1	5
	South Africa	1	3	1	5
11	Austria	1	1	1	3
	Croatia	1	1	1	3
	Serbia	1	1	1	3
14	Czech Republic	0	2	2	4
15	Cyprus	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
17	Denmark	0	0	2	2
18	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		42	42	42	126

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Diogo Ribeiro   Portugal	21.92	Nikolas Antoniou   Cyprus	22.51 NR	Jere Hribar   Croatia	22.55
100 m freestyle	David Popovici   Romania	47.13	Jere Hribar   Croatia	49.37	Nikolas Antoniou   Cyprus	49.91
200 m freestyle	David Popovici   Romania	1:46.18 CR	Dániel Mészáros   Hungary	1:48.98	Filippo Bertoni   Italy	1:49.05
400 m freestyle	Stephan Steverink   Brazil	3:48.27	Vlad Stancu   Romania	3:48.38	Krzysztof Chmielewski   Poland	3:49.34
800 m freestyle	Carlos Garach   Spain	7:52.73	Batuhan Filiz   Turkey	7:55.61	Vlad Stancu   Romania	7:56.14
1500 m freestyle	Carlos Garach   Spain	15:08.14	László Gálicz   Hungary	15:12.71	Vlad Stancu   Romania	15:17.97
50 m backstroke	Ksawery Masiuk   Poland	24.44 CR, NR	Pieter Coetze   South Africa	24.61	Miroslav Knedla   Czech Republic	25.18
100 m backstroke	Ksawery Masiuk   Poland	52.91 CR	Pieter Coetze   South Africa	52.99	Miroslav Knedla   Czech Republic	55.08
200 m backstroke	Pieter Coetze   South Africa	1:56.05 CR	Hidekazu Takehara   Japan	1:58.22	Ksawery Masiuk   Poland	1:58.55
50 m breaststroke	Uroš Živanović   Serbia	27.70	Alex Sabattani   Italy	28.21	Luka Mladenovic   Austria	28.32
100 m breaststroke	Luka Mladenovic   Austria	1:01.30	Uroš Živanović   Serbia	1:01.64	Filip Urbański   Poland	1:02.80
200 m breaststroke	Asahi Kawashima   Japan	2:12.61	Luka Mladenovic   Austria	2:12.94	Adam Mak   Hong Kong	2:13.90
50 m butterfly	Diogo Ribeiro   Portugal	22.96 WJ, NR	Daniel Gracík   Czech Republic	23.46 NR	Casper Puggaard   Denmark	23.96
100 m butterfly	Diogo Ribeiro   Portugal	52.03	Daniel Gracík   Czech Republic	52.51	Casper Puggaard   Denmark	52.94
200 m butterfly	Krzysztof Chmielewski   Poland	1:55.78	Michał Chmielewski   Poland	1:57.69	Ei Kamikawabata   Japan	1:58.37
200 m individual medley	Sanberk Yiğit Oktar   Turkey	1:59.89 NR	Tomoyuki Matsushita   Japan	2:00.89	Yuta Watanabe   Japan	2:01.39
400 m individual medley	Riku Yamaguchi   Japan	4:14.88	Stephan Steverink   Brazil	4:17.68	Vasileios Sofikitis   Greece	4:19.60
4×100 m freestyle relay	Romania David Popovici (47.07) CR Alexandru Constantinescu (51.17) Ștefan Cozma (51.10) Patrick Dinu (49.50)	3:18.84	France Benjamin Chateigner (50.41) Nans Mazellier (49.48) Cédric Gabali (50.26) Mattéo Robba (50.14)	3:20.29	Lithuania Daniil Pancerevas (49.99) Kiril Stepanov (50.81) Tomas Lukminas (49.96) Rokas Jazdauskas (49.65)	3:20.41
4×200 m freestyle relay	Italy Alessandro Ragaini (1:49.05) Simone Spediacci (1:49.59) Massimo Chiaroni (1:49.90) Filippo Bertoni (1:48.54) Francesco Lazzari [a]	7:17.08	Hungary Zsombor Bujdosó (1:51.44) Benedek Bóna (1:48.74) Attila Kovács (1:49.36) Dániel Mészáros (1:48.01)	7:17.55	Poland Ksawery Masiuk (1:48.93) Krzysztof Matuszewski (1:50.55) Adam Zdybel (1:50.34) Jakub Walter (1:50.11) Michał Pruszyński [a]	7:19.93
4×100 m medley relay	Poland Ksawery Masiuk (53.46) Filip Urbański (1:02.40) Michał Chmielewski (53.87) Krzysztof Matuszewski (50.44) Filip Kosiński [a] Krzysztof Chmielewski [a] Szymon Misiak [a]	3:40.17	South Africa Pieter Coetze (53.66) Kian Keylock (1:04.00) Jarden Eaton (54.88) Luca Holtzhausen (50.41)	3:42.95	France Simon Clusman (55.78) Nans Mazellier (1:04.17) Yohan Airaud (53.31) Mattéo Robba (50.42)	3:43.68

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Bianca Costea   Romania	25.35	Sara Curtis   Italy	25.53	Matilde Biagiotti   Italy	25.60
100 m freestyle	Nikolett Pádár   Hungary	55.11	Matilde Biagiotti   Italy	55.56	Marina Cacciapuoti   Italy	55.92
200 m freestyle	Nikolett Pádár   Hungary	1:58.19	Lilla Minna Ábrahám   Hungary	1:58.23	Giulia Vetrano   Italy	1:59.54
400 m freestyle	Merve Tuncel   Turkey	4:10.29	Ruka Takezawa   Japan	4:11.83	Giulia Vetrano   Italy	4:11.86
800 m freestyle	Merve Tuncel   Turkey	8:30.00	Ruka Takezawa   Japan	8:36.80	Carla Carrón   Spain	8:42.88
1500 m freestyle	Merve Tuncel   Turkey	16:15.95	Ruka Takezawa   Japan	16:24.61	Niko Aoki   Japan	16:30.74
50 m backstroke	Lora Komoróczy   Hungary	28.51	Aimi Nagaoka   Japan	28.70	Sara Curtis   Italy	28.93
100 m backstroke	Dóra Molnár   Hungary	1:01.44	Aimi Nagaoka   Japan	1:01.45	Chiaki Yamamoto   Japan	1:02.10
200 m backstroke	Yuzuki Mizuno   Japan	2:09.79	Dóra Molnár   Hungary	2:09.80	Laura Bernat   Poland	2:11.09
50 m breaststroke	Karolina Piechowicz   Poland	31.55	María Ramos   Spain	31.68	Irene Mati   Italy	31.96
100 m breaststroke	Karolina Piechowicz   Poland	1:08.73	Irene Mati   Italy	1:08.94	Martina Bukvić   Serbia	1:09.27
200 m breaststroke	Emma Carrasco   Spain	2:26.93	Yumeno Kusuda   Japan	2:29.62	Defne Coşkun   Turkey	2:29.85
50 m butterfly	Jana Pavalić   Croatia	26.38 NR	Beatriz Bezerra   Brazil	26.67	Lillian Slušná   Slovakia	27.04
100 m butterfly	Mizuki Hirai   Japan	59.53	Beatriz Bezerra   Brazil	59.69	Yang Ha-jung   South Korea	1:00.10
200 m butterfly	Anna Porcari   Italy	2:12.00	Mehlika Kuzeh Yalçın   Turkey	2:13.23	Paola Borrelli   Italy	2:13.36
200 m individual medley	Mio Narita   Japan	2:11.68	Lilla Minna Ábrahám   Hungary	2:13.45	Emma Carrasco   Spain	2:13.74
400 m individual medley	Mio Narita   Japan	4:37.78 CR	Lilla Minna Ábrahám   Hungary	4:44.19	Giulia Vetrano   Italy	4:44.29
4×100 m freestyle relay	Hungary Lilla Minna Ábrahám (55.59) Nikolett Pádár (54.90) Lili Gyurinovics (56.39) Dóra Molnár (55.06)	3:41.94	Italy Veronica Quaggio (57.08) Marina Cacciapuoti (55.55) Giulia Vetrano (55.92) Matilde Biagiotti (55.23) Irene Mati [b]	3:43.78	Brazil Celine Bispo (57.43) Beatriz Bezerra (56.84) Sophia Coleta (58.35) Rafaela Sumida (57.51) Joice Rocha [b]	3:50.13
4×200 m freestyle relay	Hungary Nikolett Pádár (1:58.37) Dóra Molnár (2:02.40) Lili Gyurinovics (2:01.51) Lilla Minna Ábrahám (2:02.42)	8:04.70	Italy Matilde Biagiotti (2:00.24) Giulia Vetrano (2:01.59) Veronica Quaggio (2:04.61) Anna Porcari (2:02.15)	8:08.59	Turkey Merve Tuncel (2:01.98) Mehlika Kuzeh Yalçın (2:05.52) Defne Tanığ (2:07.19) Belis Şakar (2:06.06) Sevim Eylül Süpürgeci [b]	8:20.75
4×100 m medley relay	Japan Yuzuki Mizuno (1:01.24) Yumeno Kusuda (1:09.88) Mizuki Hirai (59.15) Mio Narita (56.17) Chiaki Yamamoto [b]	4:06.44	Italy Sara Curtis (1:03.14) Irene Mati (1:08.74) Paola Borrelli (59.78) Matilde Biagiotti (55.25) Anna Porcari [b] Marina Cacciapuoti [b]	4:06.91	Poland Laura Bernat (1:02.08) Karolina Piechowicz (1:09.19) Paulina Cierpiałowska (1:00.22) Julia Kulik (56.73)	4:08.22

^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay	Hungary Dániel Mészáros (50.79) Benedek Bóna (49.46) Nikolett Pádár (54.41) Dóra Molnár (55.37) Boldizsár Magda [c] Lili Gyurinovics [c] Lilla Minna Ábrahám [c]	3:30.03	Romania David Popovici (47.23) Patrick Dinu (50.17) Bianca Costea (56.87) Rebecca Diaconescu (56.12)	3:30.39	Italy Francesco Lazzari (50.53) Elia Codardini (50.80) Marina Cacciapuoti (56.21) Matilde Biagiotti (55.00) Massimo Chiarioni [c] Veronica Quaggio [c] Anna Pocari [c]	3:32.54
4×100 m medley relay	Poland Ksawery Masiuk (53.52) Karolina Piechowicz (1:08.95) Krzysztof Chmielewski (53.31) Paulina Cierpiałowska (56.22) Laura Bernat [c] Filip Urbański [c] Michał Chmielewski [c] Julia Kulik [c]	3:52.00	Italy Sara Curtis (1:03.19) Irene Mati (1:08.79) Elia Codardini (54.07) Francesco Lazzari (49.53) Alex Sabattani [c] Paolo Borrelli [c] Veronica Quaggio [c]	3:55.58	South Africa Pieter Coetze (53.31) Kian Keylock (1:04.31) Jessica Thompson (1:02.73) Jessica Carmody (58.23) Hannah Mouton [c]	3:58.58

^c Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Championships records set

The following Championships records were set during the course of competition.

Day	Date	Event record	Event	Stage	Time	Name	Country	Ref
1	30 August	100 m freestyle (men)	4×100 m freestyle relay (men)	Heats	47.37	David Popovici	Romania	[12] [13]
1	30 August	100 m backstroke (men)	Same	Semifinals	52.95 ( AF)	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	[14] [15] [16]
1	30 August	400 m individual medley (women)	Same	Final	4:37.78	Mio Narita	Japan	[15] [17] [18]
1	30 August	100 m freestyle (men)	4×100 m freestyle relay (men)	Final	47.07	David Popovici	Romania	[19] [20]
2	31 August	100 m backstroke (men)	Same	Final	52.91	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	[21] [22]
2	31 August	200 m freestyle (men)	Same	Final	1:46.18	David Popovici	Romania	[23] [24]
3	1 September	50 m backstroke (men)	Same	Semifinals	24.58	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	[25] [26]
4	2 September	50 m butterfly (men)	Same	Heats	23.12	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	[27] [28]
4	2 September	50 m backstroke (men)	Same	Final	24.44 ( NR)	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	[29] [30]
5	3 September	50 m butterfly (men)	Same	Final	22.96 ( WJ, NR)	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	[31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36]
6	4 September	200 m backstroke (men)	Same	Final	1:56.05	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	[16] [37] [38]

Participating countries

Swimmers from the following countries participated at the Championships. ^[39]

Change of dates and location

Postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2021, British Swimming announced that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with other factors, including no publicly revealed dates nor venue for the 8th World Junior Swimming Championships, had changed how they were conducting their selection trials for the 2020 Summer Olympics. ^[40] By the end of the month, Swimming Australia had withdrawn its swimmers for the championships due to concerns about transmission of COVID-19 to its athletes. ^[41] The following month Swimming Canada pulled out of the competition as well, in part due to concerns about the health and safety of its swimmers and in part due to difficulties fairly running qualification events. ^[42] Two months later, in June, FINA postponed the championships to August 2022 in the pursuit of safer travel conditions and less COVID-19 related risks for participating athletes. ^[3] Frustration was vocalized by USA Swimming following the postponement of the championships, and youth who would have competed at the championships had they been held in 2021 instead competed at the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup. ^[43]

Path to cancelation

The 8th World Junior Swimming Championships was originally scheduled to take place at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Russia in 2021, and in June 2021 it was postponed to 24–29 August 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^{[3] [44]} This followed the implementation of a ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport spanning 17 December 2020 to 16 December 2022 not allowing Russians to compete at World Championships with their country name, flag, or anthem, meaning Russian youth competing at this Championships would be required to compete without their country name, flag, and anthem in their own country. ^{[45] [46]}

On 25 February 2022, elevated political tensions between Russia and Ukraine resulted in FINA cancelling water polo, artistic swimming and diving events that had been scheduled to take place in Russia for March and April 2022, in regards to other competitions scheduled to take place in Russia for the 2022 year, FINA stated, "Other FINA events that are scheduled in Russia for later in the year are under close review, with FINA monitoring events in Ukraine very carefully." ^[47]

On 26 February 2022, nine members of various Nordic Swimming Federations published a joint statement announcing their withdrawal from the Championships if it is hosted in Russia as a form of protest in opposition to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. ^[48] The following national swimming federation presidents signed the statement: Danish Swimming Union ( Denmark), Estonian Swimming Federation ( Estonia), Faroe Islands Swimming Association ( Faroe Islands), Finnish Swimming Federation ( Finland), Icelandic Swimming Association ( Iceland), Latvian Swimming Federation ( Latvia), Lithuanian Swimming Federation ( Lithuania), Norwegian Swimming Federation ( Norway), and Swedish Swimming Federation ( Sweden). ^[49]

On 27 February 2022, FINA published an official statement canceling the 8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. ^{[44] [50]} FINA was one of a number of sporting organizations, which also included Formula One and the International Ski Federation, to boycott holding competitions in Russia by canceling an event originally scheduled to be held in the county. ^[51]

Path to reinstatement

On 23 March 2022, FINA announced its intent to reinstate the 8th World Junior Swimming Championships with a change host venue and possibly dates. ^[52] The same day, FINA announced the Russian Swimming Federation had earlier withdrawn its athletes from FINA events for the remainder of the 2022 calendar year, meaning they would not send athletes to the Championships. ^[53]

On 14 April 2022, FINA announced the reinstatement of the Championships with Lima, Peru serving as the new host of the event, Videna Aquatic Center serving as the new venue, and a change of dates to 30 August through 4 September 2022. ^[4]

On 21 April 2022, FINA published a statement instituting a ban on all athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus for the Championships, and all remaining FINA events in 2022. ^[5]

See also

• List of swimming competitions
• FINA World Junior Swimming Championships
• 2022 in sports

References

External links

• Competition website
• Results
• Results book