Olympic Medalist Mityukov Reaps Gold On Day One Of The 2026 Geneva Challenge

2026 GENEVA INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE

The 2026 Geneva International Challenge kicked off in Switzerland at this time with a number of Olympians within the water vying for meet titles and season-best occasions.

Olympic medalist Roman Mityukov of the host nation dove in for the lads’s 100m freestyle, the place the 25-year-old clocked a profitable effort of 49.83.

That held off Youssef Ramadan, who posted the one different sub-50-second effort of the sector in 49.85. Gianluca Messina of Italy rounded out the rostrum in 50.29.

The ladies’s version of the 100m free noticed Belgian nationwide document holder Florine Gaspard get it performed for gold, hitting 56.39 for the quickest time of the sector.

Portuguese swimmer Ema Conceicao was subsequent to the wall in 56.33, adopted by Emma Wood of Scotland, who additionally landed on the rostrum in 56.73, ok for bronze.

Olympic medalist Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands proved too fast to catch within the males’s 200m breaststroke, with the previous Texas Longhorn handing over a time of two:11.44 to beat the sector by over three seconds.

Noah De Schryver hit 2:14.70 for silver and Andrea Prapugicu bagged the bronze in 2:15.25

Visiting Italian ace Anita Gastaldi took down the meet document within the ladies’s 200m IM, registering a profitable results of 2:12.19. That erased her personal former meet mark of two:12.84 logged on the 2025 version of this competitors.

Tonight, Spanish swimmer Alba Vazquez Ruiz reaped silver in 2:13.11 adopted by Italy’s Lisa Angiolini who posted 2:14.90 for the bronze medal.