By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2025 SWISS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
- April 12 & April 13th
- Uster, Switzerland
- SCM (25m)
- Results
While World Championships qualifying meets are taking place around the world, several key Swiss swimmers were doing their thing in short course meters at their nation’s Club Championships.
Among them was world record holder Noe Ponti and teammate and Roman Mityukov, with all wreaking havoc on their domestic podium.
As for Ponti, the 23-year-old captured victories across the 100m free, 50m fly, 100m fly and 100m IM to make his presence known on a big-time scale.
Ponti produced a new Swiss national record en route to grabbing the 100m free gold, firing off a new lifetime best of 46.49.
Ponti opened in 22.46 and closed in 24.03 to take the event by over 2 seconds ahead of his competitors.
The previous Swiss benchmark stood at the 47.30 Mityukov established last year so Ponti put quite a dent in putting the record on the books.
The 50m fly saw Ponti punch a result of 21.65, not terribly far off his world record of 21.32 set en route to winning the event at last year’s Short Course World Championships. It checks in as the 8th-swiftest performance of all time.
His winning effort of 47.98 in the 100m fly was also within range of the world record of 47.71 he notched last year in Budapest, falling just .27 outside it to establish the 3rd-quickest swim ever produced. It also represents just the 3rd swim ever to delve under the 48-second barrier.
Top 5 Men’s SCM 100 Butterfly Performances All-Time
- Noe Ponti (SUI) – 47.71, 2024
- Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 47.78, 2020
- Noe Ponti– 47.98, 2025
- Chad le Clos (RSA) – 48.08, 2016
- Noe Ponti– 48.40, 2024
Finally, the men’s 100m IM fell victim to Ponti with his tie of 50.64, a result only .31 outside his career-best 50.33 from last year.
As for Mityukov, the Olympic bronze medalist lowered his own Swiss record in the men’s 200m backstroke, breaking the 1:51 barrier for his first time ever.
Mityukov stopped the clock at 1:50.95 to slice just over half a second off the former benchmark of 1:51.46 from 2 years ago.
Mityukov split 25.95/28.25/28.56/28.19 to win the event by over 8 seconds in essentially a one-man race.
Both Ponti & Mityukov have been on fire so far this year, having put up some eye-popping times at both the City of Livorno Meet and the Swiss Championships.
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- Ponti Powers Way to 22.91 50 Fly on Day Two of City of Livorno Meet
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