EA Artistic Swimming Support Program launched to spice up crew entries on highway to Paris 2026

European Aquatics has launched an initiative to encourage wider participation in inventive swimming crew competitors, with three nationwide federations receiving monetary help to compete on this summer season’s EA Championships in Paris.

The EA’s AS Support Program 2026 is offering Portugal, Turkiye and Bulgaria with 10,000 euros every to arrange groups who can be in motion on the Olympic Aquatic Centre Greater Paris Metropolisthis summer season.

All three international locations have already held their preliminary crew coaching camps and EA can be marking their progress in direction of the inventive swimming competitors which runs within the French capital from July 31 to August 5.

This initiative was prompted by the truth that, whereas many federations had athletes concerned in solo or duet competitors, the variety of international locations participating within the crew free, crew technical and crew acrobatic occasions was comparatively restricted.

The intention is to encourage the institution of groups involving athletes who will be capable of keep their involvement, thus creating a brand new aggressive legacy and inspiring new generations of expertise to observe them.

A spokesperson for EA emphasises the long-term imaginative and prescient concerned on this innovation:“ The idea is to create teams that will be almost like families who will be able to teach younger swimmers about the sport.”

Following an preliminary evaluation, a lot of National Federations have been recognized as potential candidates for inclusion within the mission.

The choice course of aimed to make sure that the chosen federations demonstrated each engagement and aggressive potential throughout the sport.

Criteria for choice included completion of an Artistic Swimming questionnaire, participation with a crew on the European Athletics Junior Championships in Athens 2025, and/or the general variety of junior and elite athletes inside every federation.

Together, these components have been meant to offer a balanced measure of organisational dedication, worldwide involvement and athlete growth capability.

Meanwhile European Aquatics is making ready to supply technical help in AS growth to a lot of different international locations.

Look out for normal updates on the progress of the Portugal, Turkiye and Bulgaria groups as they head in direction of Paris…

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics