Nina Jazy

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. 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. 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. 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.

2022 European Junior Championships

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

International championships (50 m)

Personal best times Long course metres (50 m pool) Event Time Meet Location Date Age Ref 50 m freestyle

2022 European Junior Swimming Championships Otopeni, Romania 7 July 2022