| Nina Jazy | |
| Full Name: | Nina Sandrine Jazy |
| National Team: | Germany |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 2005 |
| Birth Place: | Recklinghausen, Germany |
| Strokes: | Freestyle |
| Club: | SG Essen |
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.
Jazy was born 25 November 2005 in Recklinghausen, Germany, and competes as part of the SG Essen swim club.[1] She formerly competed for SG Dortmund.[2]
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.[3] 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.[1] [2] In April the following year, she was named to Team Germany for the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Otopeni, Romania.[4] 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.[5] [6] 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.[7]
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.[8] [9] [10] 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.[9] [10] [11] 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.[8]
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]
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]
| Meet | 50 free | 100 free | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×100 mixed free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th | 24th | 6th | 6th | |||
| 13th | 6th |
| Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m freestyle | 25.22 | 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships | Otopeni, Romania | 7 July 2022 | 16 | |||
| 100 m freestyle | 55.62 | r | 2022 German Championships | Berlin | 23 June 2022 | 16 |
| Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m freestyle | 24.50 | 2022 German Team Championships | Essen | 4 February 2023 | 17 | ||
| 100 m freestyle | 53.84 | 2022 German Short Course Championships | Wuppertal | 17 November 2022 | 16 |