The accolades keep coming for Iris Tio Casas. The Spanish artistic swimming star has added another honour to her growing list after being named the 2025 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming Female Athlete of the Year, following a series of dominant performances at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025. Now, European Aquatics fans have voted the Barcelona-born 23-year-old as the Women’s Artistic Swimmer of the Year at the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards.
Tio Casas secured 41.29% of the total vote, finishing well clear of Italy’s Enrica Piccoli, who placed second with 22.48%, in a season defined by individual excellence and decisive contributions to Spain’s team success on the world stage.
She enjoyed a standout performance at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, collecting three gold medals and three bronze medals. The campaign was highlighted by a landmark first individual world title in the solo free, alongside bronze medals in the solo technical and team free events, plus further podium finishes in team competitions.
That form continued at the European Aquatics Championships in Funchal, where Tio Casas claimed three golds, two silvers and a bronze. She also secured major titles in the duet free with 18-year-old Lilou Lluis Valette and in the mixed duet free alongside Dennis Gonzalez.
Runner-up Piccoli earned 22.48% of the vote following a breakthrough season that included her first international gold at the European Championships in Funchal. Partnering with Lucrezia Ruggiero, she captured the duet free title — Italy’s first-ever European gold in the event.
Piccoli also claimed solo free silver in Funchal and earlier won solo free gold at the World Aquatics World Cup in Somabay, Egypt. At the World Championships in Singapore, she added another duet free silver with Ruggiero, completing a season of consistent top-level podium finishes.
Third place went to Germany’s Klara Bleyer, who received 14.72% of the vote. The 21-year-old Berliner opened her season with multiple World Cup medals, including solo free gold in Paris, solo technical gold in Somabay and solo free silver at the Artistic Swimming World Cup Super Final in Xi’an, before making history at the European Championships as the first German athlete to win a solo gold.
Lucrezia Ruggiero finished fourth with 11.78% of the vote. Alongside Italy’s historic duet free gold with Piccoli, she won mixed duet technical bronze at the European Championships with Filippo Pelati, with the pair also claiming world bronze in the same event.
Completing the shortlist was Lilou Lluis Valette on 9.66% of the vote. In addition to partnering with Tio Casas to duet free gold at the World Aquatics Championships, she contributed to multiple Spanish team medals, including bronzes in the team acrobatic and technical routines, underlining her emergence as one of the sport’s most promising young athletes.