Nina Sandrine Jazy (born 25 November 2005) is a German competitive swimmer. She won the gold medal in the 50-metre freestyle and a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships.

Nina Jazy
Personal information
Full nameNina Sandrine Jazy
National teamGermany Germany
Born (2005-11-25) 25 November 2005 (age 18)[2]
Recklinghausen, Germany
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubSG Essen[1]
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Germany
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Junior Championships 1 0 1
Total 1 0 1
European Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2024 Belgrade 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Belgrade 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Otopeni 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Otopeni 4×100 m freestyle

Background

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Jazy was born 25 November 2005 in Recklinghausen, Germany, and competes as part of the SG Essen swim club.[2][1][3] She formerly competed for SG Dortmund.[4]

Career

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2021–2022

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At the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Rome, Italy, Jazy competed in four events, placing eighth in the 50-metre freestyle, 24th in the 100-metre freestyle, sixth in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, and sixth in the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay.[5] In September, she won three medals at the 2021 German Short Course National Championships in Wuppertal when she was 15 years old, including a silver medal in the 50-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 24.84 seconds.[2][4] In April the following year, she was named to Team Germany for the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Otopeni, Romania.[1] Two months later, she won the gold medal and national title in the 50-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 25.23 seconds at the German Championships.[6][7] Two days earlier, she achieved a personal best time of 55.62 seconds for the 100-metre freestyle, swimming the time on the lead-off leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay.[8]

2022 European Junior Championships

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2022 European Junior Championships
  50 m freestyle 25.22
  4×100 m freestyle 3:45.63

As a 16-year-old at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, Jazy won her first medal on the first day of competition, anchoring the 4×100-metre freestyle relay to a bronze medal-win in 3:45.63 with a split time of 54.65 seconds.[9][10][11] The second medal she won was a gold medal in the 50-metre freestyle, where she finished first with a personal best time of 25.22 seconds.[10][11][3] Her time was less than two-tenths of a second faster than silver medallist Bianca Costea of Romania and bronze medallist Sara Curtis of Italy.[12] In her other events, she placed sixth in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, leading off the finals relay with a 2:08.20, and placed thirteenth in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 56.76 seconds.[9]

In the autumn following the Championships, Jazy competed at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in October in Berlin, placing seventeenth in the 100-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 54.44 seconds, which was 0.97 seconds faster than her former personal best time of 55.41 seconds.[13] The following month, and before her seventeenth birthday on the twenty-fifth, she set a German junior record in the 50-metre freestyle at the 2022 German Short Course Championships, winning the silver medal with her time of 24.53 seconds.[14] She also lowered her personal best time in the 100-metre freestyle by 0.60 seconds with a time of 53.84 seconds for the silver medal.[15]

2023

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In early February 2023, at the German Team Championships conducted in short course metres in Essen, 17-year-old Jazy lowered her German junior record in the 50-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 24.50 seconds.[16][17] In early March, World Aquatics increased its age cut-off for female junior swimmers from 17 to 18 years of age at the end of the year, making her age-eligible for world junior records through the end of the 2023 year and the 2023 World Junior Swimming Championships.[18]

International championships (50 m)

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Meet 50 free 100 free 4×100 free 4×200 free 4×100 mixed free
EJC 2021 8th 24th 6th 6th
EJC 2022   13th   6th

Personal best times

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Long course metres (50 m pool)

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Event Time Meet Location Date Age Ref
50 m freestyle 25.22 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships Otopeni, Romania 7 July 2022 16 [9]
100 m freestyle 55.62 r 2022 German Championships Berlin 23 June 2022 16 [8]

Legend: r – relay 1st leg

Short course metres (25 m pool)

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Event Time Meet Location Date Age Ref
50 m freestyle 24.50 2022 German Team Championships Essen 4 February 2023 17 [16][17]
100 m freestyle 53.84 2022 German Short Course Championships Wuppertal 17 November 2022 16 [15]

Awards and honours

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  • Sparkasse Essen, Essen Newcomer of the Year: 2022[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "DSV Beruft Die Ersten 19 Schwimmer*Innen Ins JEM-Team" (in German). German Swimming Federation. 28 April 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Nina Jazy". FINA. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b Steyski, Michael (8 July 2022). "Recklinghäuserin Nina Sandrine Jazy legt bei Junioren-EM grandiosen Auftritt hin" (in German). recklinghaeuser-zeitung.de. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Börger, Jochen (28 September 2021). "Jazy fischt bei der Kurzbahn-DM gleich drei Medaillen ab" (in German). recklinghaeuser-zeitung.de. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ^ LEN (12 July 2021). "LEN European Junior Swimming Championships Rome - Italy: Complete Results". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Nina Sandrine Jazy schwimmt über 50 Meter Freistil zum DM-Sieg" (in German). WDR. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  7. ^ Hantel, Rolf (26 June 2022). "Nina Jazy von der SG Essen sorgt bei DM für Überraschung" (in German). Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Result details JAZY, Nina Sandrine: German Championships 100m Freestyle". swimrankings.net. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  9. ^ a b c LEN (10 July 2022). "Romania 2022: LEN European Junior Swimming Championships: Complete Results Book". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Gold Bei Der JEM: Nina Sandrina Jazy Ist Schnellste Europäerin Über 50m Freistil" (in German). German Swimming Federation. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  11. ^ a b "JEM Titel für Jazy" (in German). SG Essen. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  12. ^ Vasile, Mirabela (7 July 2022). "Noi medalii obținute de România la CE de la Otopeni. Vlad Stancu, aur la 1.500 m liber, Bianca Costea, argint în proba de 50 m liber" (in Romanian). Euronews. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  13. ^ FINA (23 October 2022). "FINA Swimming World Cup 2022 Berlin (GER): Women's 100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  14. ^ Race, Retta (21 November 2022). "Le Clos Snags Two Additional Golds To Close Out German SC Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  15. ^ a b "Result details JAZY, Nina Sandrine: Deutsche Kurzbahnmeisterschaften 100m Freestyle". swimrankings.net. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  16. ^ a b Race, Retta (6 February 2023). "Chad Le Clos, Coleman Stewart Race At German Team Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  17. ^ a b Hantel, Rolf (10 February 2023). "SG Essen: Einzelne Glanzlichter, aber Sieger ist das Team" (in German). Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  18. ^ "World Aquatics: Competition Regulations". World Aquatics. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  19. ^ "Sparkasse Essen: Nina Jazz wird zur Newcomerin des Jahres gewählt" (in German). SG Essen. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
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