2026 Mare Nostrum Tour — Canet-en-Roussillon: Psych Sheets and Prize Money

2026 Mare Nostrum Tour — Canet

• Wednesday May 27 — Thursday May 28, 2026
• Canet-en-Roussillon, France
• Prelims at 9 am native (3 a.m. ET)/Finals 5:30 p.m. native (11:30 a.m. ET)
• LCM (50 Meters)
• Psych Sheets
• Meet Central
• Results

The 2nd cease of the Mare Nostrum Tour begins tomorrow in Canet-en-Roussillon, France. The first cease in Monaco noticed quite a few quick swims, and this cease is gearing as much as be simply as thrilling.

Notable Entries

Here are a couple of notable swimmers to observe this week, in addition to key occasions for the Canet cease. There are quite a few World Championships finalists competing together with different huge names, however now we have narrowed it down to a couple athletes for every gender.

Women’s Key Swimmers

• Siobhan Haughey (HGK) — Siobhan Haughey is constant to make her return after an harm pressured her to withdraw from the 2025 World Championships. She has swum quite a few meets in 2025. Last week, she broke a Mare Nostrum meet file within the girls’s 200 freestyle, and this week she is entered within the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle occasions.
• Marrit Steenbergen (NED) — Marrit Steenbergen has had a monster efficiency the previous couple of months. At the 2025 SC European Championships, she broke 5 European Records, and she or he will likely be trying to carry that success via this lengthy course season. She additionally swam the final cease and she or he set a brand new Mare Nostrum file within the 100 free with a private finest 52.13. She additionally received the 50 free. This week, she is entered within the 100 free, 50 again, and 200 IM.
• Simona Quadarella (ITA) — Distance freestyler Quadarella was one other athlete who broke European Records in 2025. Last week’s cease in Monaco was extra of a dash centered meet, so whereas Quadarella picked up two bronze medals within the 400 IM and 400 freestyle occasions, she was not capable of swim her bread-and-butter races. This cease, the ladies have the 800 freestyle, the place Quadarella is the highest seed by 14 seconds. She can be entered within the 200 free and 400 free.
• Agostina Hein (ARG) — Hein began making headlines final August when she had a stand out meet on the Junior Pan American Games, setting quite a few data. In Monaco, she received the 400 IM and completed 2nd within the 400 freestyle behind Mare Nostrum file setter Erika Fairweather. In Canet, she is entered within the 400 free, 800 free, 200 IM and 400 IM.
• Vivien Jackl (HUN) — Another younger famous person, Vivien Jackl had a couple of very robust meets in 2024. Last 12 months, she switched coaches to swim under Shane Tusup, who famously coached Hungarian legend Katinka Hosszu. After a disappointing efficiency over the summer season, she cut up from him and returned to her former coach Marta Kocsis. Last month, she set private finest instances within the 800 free and 200 fly, however she didn’t swim in Monaco. At this cease, she is entered within the 200 free, 400 free, 200 again, and 200 fly occasions.

Men’s Key Swimmers

• Kristof Milak (HUN) — Milak’s coaching struggles have been reported broadly since he first withdrew from the World Championships in 2023 saying he had “hit rock bottom”. He has not raced a World Championships meet since then, however he has already raced three meets in 2026, and is entered in his 4th in Canet. In Monaco, he set a brand new tour file within the 100 fly and received the 100 free. In Canet, he’s entered within the 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly, and 100 fly.
• Ilya Kharun (USA*) — Another broadly reported athlete, Ilya Kharun is listed with USA as his nation code on the psych sheets, however he’s nonetheless not totally eligible to symbolize the U.S. internationally after he modified his worldwide illustration final 12 months from Canada. He is entered within the 50 free, 50 fly, 100 fly, and 200 fly.
• Pavel Samusenko (RUS) — Russian backstroker Pavel Samusenko is the highest seed within the males’s 50 backstroke and the 2nd seed within the 100 backstroke to teammate Miron Lifintsev. Samusenko is coming off a world silver medal within the males’s 50 backstroke final 12 months.
• Men’s Breaststrokers: While that is extra of an “event to watch” fairly than “swimmers to watch” there are a variety of very robust males’s breaststrokers on the meet in Canet this week and all of them will likely be battling for prime spots heading into the European Championships this summer season. Italy’s Ludovico Viberti, Russia’s Kirill Prigoda and Ivan Kozhakin, Belarusian Ilya Shymanovich, and Germany’s Melvin Imoudu are just some of the highest tier breaststrokers racing.

Races to Watch

On prime of all the lads’s breaststroke races, there are some swims within the subsequent few days which might be certain to be thrilling.

• Women’s Sprint Freestyle: Some of the highest girls’s sprinters on this planet are in Canet, and the 50 and 100 free specifically may produce some prime instances. Ducth athlete Milou Van Wijk is the highest seed within the girls’s 50 freestyle along with her time of 24.23. She is three tenths forward of France’s Melanie Henique and Canada’s Taylor Ruck, who’re seeded in an actual tie of 24.53 for 2nd. After them, there are 5 different athletes seeded inside three tenths of them together with Siobhan Haughey. The 100 freestyle will characteristic Steenbergen and Haughey assembly once more as the highest two seeds with Van Wijk simply behind them seeded third.
• Women’s Breaststroke: While the lads’s breaststroke races are more likely to be thrilling, the ladies’s races characteristic the 50 and 100 breaststroke world champions and the 200 breaststroke World Record holder. Benedetta Pilato is racing the 50 breaststroke as the one swimmer below 30 seconds within the occasion, although McKenzie Siroky, from the United States, and Anna Elendt will likely be severe challengers. Elendt is the highest seed within the 100 breast, and has a snug cushion over Evgenia Chikunova, from Russia. In the 200 breast, Chikunova has the highest seed by rather less than 4 seconds over Elendt, and she or he will likely be trying to decide up the highest time on this planet this 12 months.
• Men’s Butterfly: Just like in Monaco, the lads’s butterfly occasions are stacked with expertise. Ilya Kharun will likely be racing and will likely be an enormous challenger for the gold within the 50 and 100. Milak is coming off the gold medal and meet file within the 100 fly, however he would be the 2nd seed behind Kharun’s 50.07 from the World Championships. In the 200 fly, Kharun is the highest seed by two seconds over Gabriel Jett.

How to Watch

A cross to observe the remaining two stops of the sequence could be bought for €6.99 ($8.13 USD), or you should buy a person meet cross for €2.99 ($3.48 USD). The stream will likely be obtainable stay and on demand worldwide, except Brazil, Japan, South Africa, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Macedonia, the place native broadcasters maintain the rights:

• Brazil: Globo
• Bosnia: SportKlub
• Croatia: SportKlub
• Japan: News solely (no stay broadcast obtainable)
• Macedonia: SportKlub
• Montenegro: SportKlub
• Serbia: SportKlub
• Slovenia: SportKlub
• South Africa: SuperSport”

Prize Money

Each cease has their very own individaul prize cash format. All the stops supply the identical fundamental prize cash per occasion. The winner earns €350, adopted by €200 for second, and €100 for third, and a Mare Nostrum Record earns a further €750.

In Canet, the highest 20 athletes total (mixed males’s and girls’s) may even earn prize cash on the conclusion of the meet. The rating will likely be decided primarily based on the World Aquatics level system with solely the ‘A’ finals swim thought of in factors calculations.

The prime prize is €4,000 (≈$4600 USD) and the prizes will go down from there with the Twentieth place athlete incomes €400 (≈$460 USD)