Lifesaving at the 2025 World Games

The lifesaving competition at the 2025 World Games is scheduled to take place from 8 to 9 August 2025, in Chengdu in China, at the Natatorium within the Chengdu Sport University Sancha Lake Campus.^[1][2] The discipline will have sixteen events, eight for men and eight for women. The obstacle swim events were replaced with rescue medley ones.

Lifesaving at the 2025 World Games
Venue	Chengdu Sport University Sancha Lake Campus Natatorium
Dates	8-9 August 2025
No. of events	16
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Qualification

A total of eight athletes qualified for each event, based on a qualifying time:^[3]

Qualifying times for the individual events

Event	Men	Women
500m Manikin Carry	30.68	36.78
100m Rescue Medley	1:04.87	1:15.25
100m Manikin Carry with Fins	49.55	55.46
100m Manikin Tow with Fins	55.15	1:02.33
200m Super Lifesaver	2:18.35	2:33.08

Qualifying times for the team events

Event	Men	Women
4x50m Pool Lifesaver Relay	2:02.08	2:02.08
4x25m Manikin Relay	1:13.65	1:28.42
4x50m Medley Relay	1:39.12	1:50.25

Participating nations

•  Australia
•  Belgium
•  France
•  Germany
•  Hungary
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  New Zealand
•  Poland
•  Spain

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	6	6	5	17
2	Germany	5	6	2	13
3	France	2	2	3	7
4	New Zealand	2	0	2	4
5	Poland	1	2	0	3
6	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Spain	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50m Manikin Carry details	Fergus Eadie  New Zealand	Kacper Majchrzak  Poland	Francesco Ippolito  Italy
100m Manikin Carry with Fins details	Tom Durager  France	Davide Cremonini  Italy	Fergus Eadie  New Zealand
100m Manikin Tow with Fins details	Davide Cremonini  Italy	Mathieu Perillon  France	Fabio Pezzotti  Italy
100m Rescue Medley details	Kacper Majchrzak  Poland	Simone Locchi  Italy	Francesco Ippolito  Italy
200m Super Lifesaver details	Francesco Ippolito  Italy	Fabio Pezzotti  Italy	Felix Hofmann  Germany
4x25m Manikin Relay details	Italy Davide Cremonini Francesco Ippolito Fabio Pezzotti Simone Locchi	Poland Wojciech Kotowski Adam Dubiel Mateusz Grabski Kacper Majchrzak	Australia Callum Brennan Jake Smith Harrison Hynes Riley Brennan
4x50m Medley Relay details	France Goroco Koindredi Tom Durager Kevin Lasserre Arnaud Cordoba	Italy Gabriele Brembillaschi Simone Locchi Francesco Ippolito Davide Cremonini	Germany Sebastien Pierre Louis Jan Malkowski Danny Wieck David Laukfotter
4x50m Pool Life Saver Relay details	Italy Gabriele Brambillaschi Davide Cremonini Simone Locchi Fabio Pezzotti	Germany Sebastien Pierre Louis Jan Malkowski Danny Wieck Tim Brang	France Goroco Koindredi Tom Durager Elouan Deffin Arnaud Cordoba

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50m Manikin Carry details	Nina Holt  Germany	Lena Oppermann  Germany	Magali Rousseau  France
100m Manikin Carry with Fins details	Lucrezia Fabretti  Italy	Lena Oppermann  Germany	Antia Garcia  Spain
100m Manikin Tow with Fins details	Zoe Crawford  New Zealand	Undine Lauerwald  Germany	Madison Kidd  New Zealand
100m Rescue Medley details	Nina Holt  Germany	Lena Oppermann  Germany	Helena Giovanelli  Italy
200m Super Lifesaver details	Lucrezia Fabretti  Italy	Alica Gebhardt  Germany	Camille Julien  France
4x25m Manikin Relay details	Germany Nina Holt Undine Lauerwald Alica Gebhardt Lena Oppermann	France Romane Boudes Magali Rousseau Camille Bouteloup Camille Julien	Italy Francesca Pasquino Valentina Pasquino Lucrezia Fabretti Helene Giovanelli
4x50m Medley Relay details	Germany Nina Holt Lena Oppermann Alica Gebhardt Undine Lauerwald	Italy Helene Giovanelli Valentina Pasquino Francesca Pasquino Federica Volpini	Spain Antía García Silva Núria Payola Anglada Yael Mantecón Ruiz María Rodríguez Sierra
4x50m Pool Life Saver Relay details	Germany Nina Holt Julia Hennig Lena Oppermann Undine Lauerwald	Italy Francesca Pasquino Valentina Pasquino Helene Giovanelli Federica Volpini	Australia Piper Asquith Rachel Eddy Mariah Jones Cyra Bender