South Africa’s Christian Sadie keeps collecting medals at the Para World Swimming Championships with his third podium finish in Singapore.
Singapore (26 September 2025) – Calls for celebration as South Africa’s Christian Sadie just keeps making waves at the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore! The 27-year-old made his way to yet another podium finish. This is bagging bronze in the S7 50m butterfly with a time of 30.11 seconds. His opponent, Ukraine’s Andrii Trusov, claimed gold in 28.95, while Colombia’s Carlos Daniel Serrano Zarate touched the wall for silver at 29.46 seconds.
This latest medal brings Christian’s tally to three for the championships so far. First was a silver in the SM7 200m individual medley. Incredible achievement as it was with an African record to boot. The second time around was a bronze in the S7 100m backstroke. Now, another bronze has been added to the collection!
And the South African is loving every minute of it.
“I’ve been quite ecstatic. It’s been really good morning swims and I’ve been able to up it every evening and go faster. I’ve been super-happy with seeing all the progress. You’re happy at a gala when you get even one of these results, so I’m just happy that nearly every race has been really good.”
Christian is not done adding more medals with two more events still to come (S7 50m and 100m freestyle)
Christian’s coach, Keith Jansen, admits that he expected this spectacular performance and believes he will do even better in the remaining events.
“He’s got a really good chance of swimming a good time in the freestyle. His freestyle has been looking very good and I’m excited to see what he does.”
If this form continues, Christian could be on the podium again in the remaining days of the championship.
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