By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
2025 Brazil Open
- Flamengo Pool, Rio de Janeiro
- 50 Meters (LCM)
- Meet Central and Results
The first Brazil Open in eight years has wrapped up, leaving Belo Horizonte’s Minas Tênis Clube as the meet and season champions in both the junior and the senior category.
The premiere swim club of Brazil’s biggest closed off a dominant 2025 with the year’s biggest win. Minas Tênis Clube had also previously won the Maria Lenk trophy in April and José Finkel in November. Rio de Janeiro-based Flamengo ended the season in second place. SESI of Rio Grande do Norte rounded out the season’s top three.
Though the Minas Gerais team had the most depth, meet host Flamengo boasted the top male and female performers in Stephan Steverink and Gabrielle Assis.
Steverink, who won six golds at the Junior Pan American games, closed his year out on top. The 21-year-old mid-d powerhouse claimed the 800 free final in 7:55.84. This is Steverink’s second fastest mark ever in the event, trailing only the 7:54.49 he won Junior Pan-Ams with. The Brazilian/Dutch dual national enters 2026 only a hair out of the world’s top ten in the event. He had previously won silver in a trio of 3:47 400 freestyles at the start of the meet.
2025-2026 LCM Men 800 FREE
Zhanshuo
7:46.69
| 2 | Luka Mijatovic |
USA | 7:48.28 | 12/06 |
| 3 | Benjamin Goedemans |
AUS | 7:48.44 | 11/30 |
| 4 | KAZUSHI IMAFUKU |
JPN | 7:49.53 | 11/30 |
| 5 | Fei Liwei |
CHN | 7:51.42 | 11/13 |
| 6 | Ilia Sibirtsev |
UZB | 7:51.85 | 12/06 |
| 7 | Liu Peixin |
CHN | 7:53.00 | 11/13 |
| 8 | Luke Whitlock |
USA | 7:54.66 | 12/06 |
| 9 | Carson Foster |
USA | 7:55.51 | 12/06 |
| 10 | KAITO TABUCHI |
JPN | 7:55.80 | 11/30 |
| 11 | Li Chengyu |
CHN | 7:56.55 | 11/13 |
Steverink stood alongside his Flamengo team mate Assis as the male and female senior high point winners. After her day 1 2:26.76 200 breast victory, the 26-year-old stepped on to the podium twice more with a 32.27 50 breast bronze and 1:09.56 100 breast gold.
Junior high point awards went to Joice Otero (Flamengo), Davi Valim (Minas TC), Mariana Oliveira (Minas TC), and Artur Macedo Teixeiro (Flamengo).
Three new championship records arose from the 2025 iteration of this meet: Steverink’s 800, Asiss’ 200 breast, and Eduardo Moraes’ 3:47.31 400 free.
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