Nina Jazy
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Full name | Nina Sandrine Jazy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (2005-11-25) 25 November 2005 (age 18)[2] Recklinghausen, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SG Essen[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
Background
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
2021–2022
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
2022 European Junior Championships | ||
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![]() | 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
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)
Meet | 50 free | 100 free | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×100 mixed free |
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EJC 2021 | 8th | 24th | 6th | 6th | |
EJC 2022 | ![]() | 13th | ![]() | 6th |
Personal best times
Long course metres (50 m pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Ref | |
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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)
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Ref |
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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
- Sparkasse Essen, Essen Newcomer of the Year: 2022[19]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Nina Jazy". FINA. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ LEN (12 July 2021). "LEN European Junior Swimming Championships Rome - Italy: Complete Results". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Nina Sandrine Jazy schwimmt über 50 Meter Freistil zum DM-Sieg" (in German). WDR. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Result details JAZY, Nina Sandrine: German Championships 100m Freestyle". swimrankings.net. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ a b c LEN (10 July 2022). "Romania 2022: LEN European Junior Swimming Championships: Complete Results Book". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "JEM Titel für Jazy" (in German). SG Essen. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ FINA (23 October 2022). "FINA Swimming World Cup 2022 Berlin (GER): Women's 100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Race, Retta (21 November 2022). "Le Clos Snags Two Additional Golds To Close Out German SC Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Result details JAZY, Nina Sandrine: Deutsche Kurzbahnmeisterschaften 100m Freestyle". swimrankings.net. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ a b Race, Retta (6 February 2023). "Chad Le Clos, Coleman Stewart Race At German Team Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "World Aquatics: Competition Regulations". World Aquatics. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ "Sparkasse Essen: Nina Jazz wird zur Newcomerin des Jahres gewählt" (in German). SG Essen. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
External links
- Nina Jazy at World Aquatics