2026 Acropolis Swim Open: Tasakou Produces New 100 Breast Greek National Record

2026 ACROPOLIS SWIM OPEN

• Friday, May eighth – Sunday, May tenth
• Athens, Greece
• LCM (50m)
• Live Results

The 2026 Acropolis Swim Open kicked off yesterday from Athens, and already we noticed two nationwide information chew the mud as swimmers are vying for the chance to symbolize their nation at this yr’s European Championships and subsequent yr’s World Championships.

We reported how 20-year-old Apostolos Siskos smashed a brand new Greek normal en path to profitable the lads’s 200m backstroke.

Siskos fired off a big-time results of 1:54.12 to reap gold and develop into the #1 swimmer on this planet this season.

You can learn extra about Siskos’ efficiency and watch his race video right here.

On the ladies’s aspect, former University of Delaware athlete Andromachi Tasakou topped the 100m breaststroke podium, establishing a brand new nationwide benchmark within the course of.

Tasakou touched the wall in a time of 1:08.16, a brand new lifetime finest by effectively over a second and a half.

Entering this competitors, Tasakou’s PB rested on the 1:09.92 registered on the 2024 Greek Championships.

Last night time, nonetheless, splitting 32.70/35.46, Tasakou obliterated that earlier outcome as she downed the previous Greek file of 1:08.39. That earlier NR was set by Angeliki Exarchou throughout the supersuited 2009 World Championships.

Additional Notes

• Dimitrios Markos was too fast to catch within the males’s 100m free, main a trio of sub-50-second performers. Markos stopped the clock at 49.33 to get the sting over Filippos Andriadakis, who settled for silver simply .09 behind in 49.42. Panagiotis Bolanos rounded out the rostrum in 49.54.
• Germany’s Nicole Maier stole the present within the girls’s version of the 100m free, producing a profitable results of 54.87. Maier opened in 26.49 and closed in 28.38 to place up the 2nd-best time of her profession. The German’s lifetime finest stays on the 54.47 logged simply final month. Signe Nowak Gudmundsson was the silver medalist final night time in 55.29, whereas Nefeli Bilanakou represented the speediest host nation swimmer in 55.86 for the bronze.
• The males’s 400m IM noticed winner Apostolos Papastamos clock a time worthy of reserving his ticket to the European Championships. The 25-year-old could have an opportunity to defend his 2024 title, hitting 4:17.83 for the gold within the sole time of the sphere underneath 4:21.
• Stergios-Marios Bilas cracked a time of 23.21 to high the lads’s 50m fly podium. That represented a brand new meet file and the Seventh-fastest efficiency of the 24-year-old’s profession. He managed to carry off France’s Nikita Baez, who turned in a time of 23.43, and Turkish athlete Arda Akkoyun who delivered 23.82 because the bronze medalist. Bilas is the Greek nationwide file on this occasion, courtesy of the 23.00 PB he established on the 2025 World Championships. He can also be the reigning European champion on this occasion. Bilas now sits simply outdoors the listing of high 25 performers on this planet on the season.
• Of observe, Ioannis Diamantis hit a mark of 24.00 within the B-Final of the lads’s 50m fly to supply a brand new Greek Junior Record.
• National file holder Anna Ntountounaki logged a profitable effort of 26.18 to qualify for the European Championships within the girls’s 50m fly. Behind her was Georgia Damasioti, the 16-year-old who clocked a time of 26.44 to determine a brand new Junior National Record. Lithuanian Barbora Mileisyte rounded out the rostrum in 26.59.