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.
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Full name | Nina Sandrine Jazy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (2005-11-25) 25 November 2005 (age 16)[1] Recklinghausen, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SG Essen[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jazy was born 25 November 2005 in Recklinghausen, Germany, and competes as part of the SG Essen swim club.[1][2][3] She formerly competed for SG Dortmund.[4]
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.[1][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.[2] 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]
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.[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][3] Her time was less than two-tenths of a second faster than silver medalist Bianca Costea of Romania and bronze medalist Sara Curtis of Italy.[11] 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 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.[12]
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 |
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 | [8] |
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Ref |
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50 m freestyle | 24.84 | 2021 German Short Course Championships | Wuppertal | 25 September 2021 | 15 | [1] |
100 m freestyle | 54.44 | 2022 Swimming World Cup | Berlin | 23 October 2022 | 16 | [12] |