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Welcome to the primary finals session of the ultimate cease of the Mare Nostrum Tour in Barcelona!
There are simply two days left of the Tour, and swimming followers are in for a deal with at present if the final two stops are something to go by.
Today’s session options some of the anticipated occasions of this cease, the ladies’s 100 freestyle. Marrit Steenbergen has been on fireplace, and has been steadily dropping time over the stops. In Monaco, she swam 52.13, and in Canet, she stopped the clock in 51.86 to turn into the #2 performer all-time.
Today, she shall be searching the tour sweep and the World Record. It at present stands at 51.71, set by Sarah Sjostrom again in 2017.
There are quite a lot of different occasions tonight. The males’s 800 freestyle closing warmth, which can see Sweden’s Victor Johansson as the highest seed, however Romania’s Andrei Theodor Proca had a really robust 1500 in Canet and could possibly be in search of a serious drop right here.
There are three 50s straight after the ultimate warmth of the lads’s 800. American Leah Shackley is the highest seed within the girls’s 50 again. Russia’s Ivan Kozhakin is the highest seed within the males’s 50 breast, and Canada’s Taylor Ruck is the highest seed within the girls’s 50 fly.
Hungary’s Gabor Zombori will lead the lads’s 400 IM closing because the final occasion earlier than Marrit Steenbergen‘s 100 freestyle final. The women’s 100 free closing can even characteristic fellow Dutch athlete Milou van Wijk because the 2nd seed and Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey because the third seed.
Miron Lifintsev, from Russia, is the highest seed within the males’s 100 backstroke, simply forward of two swimmers from Czechia, Jan Cejka and Miroslav Knedla.
The girls’s 100 breaststroke sees a stacked area with Alexanne Lepage from Canada as the highest seed, simply forward of seven different athletes who may all realistically stroll dwelling with the highest time together with World Champion Anna Elendt.
In the lads’s 50 freestyle, Serbia’s Andrej Barna and American Quintin McCarty have been the one swimmers below 22 seconds within the prelims.
The closing occasion of the session would be the girls’s 200 backstroke, the place Canadian teenager Madison Kryger is the highest seed.
Top 8 Finishers
Sweden’s Victor Johansson swam the highest time within the males’s 800 freestyle of seven:49.43, coming in 5 seconds forward of 2nd place finisher Andrew Proca from Romania.
Proca obtained out to the lead early, delivering 56.89 on the 100 to be about three tenths forward of Victor Johansson‘s 57.14 in 2nd. From there, Johansson took over the top spot, turning just one hundredth behind at the 150 mark (1:26.79 to 1:26.78). By the 200, Johansson flipped in 1:56.48 to sit a tenth ahead of Proca’s 1:56.53 in 2nd.
Johansson turned in 3:54.85 on the 400, a bit of greater than a second forward of Proca’s 3:56.18 in 2nd. By the top, that lead had prolonged as Johansson added rather less than 5 seconds from his lifetime finest of seven:44.81, which he swam final summer season in Singapore.
Proca dropped two seconds from his earlier finest of seven:56.67 to cease the clock in 7:54.84. He is now solely 5 seconds off the Romanian report time of seven:49.68 from July of 2023.
Top 3 Finishers
Canada’s Ingrid Wilm was the one girls’s swimmer below 28 seconds within the girls’s 50 backstroke, swimming 27.58 to select up the highest time by greater than half-a-second.
Wilm has been 27.37, which she swam in May of 2023. American Leah Shackley completed 2nd in 28.04, about 4 tenths forward of third place finisher Lilla Minna Abraham’s 28.49.
Shackley’s finest is 27.31 from final July’s World University Games and Abraham’s swim was a brand new private finest, dropping from the 28.54 mark she swam in Monaco.
Top 3 Finishers
The males’s 50 breaststroke went to South Africa’s Michael Houlie in 26.77. He touched only one tenth forward of Belarusian swimmer Ivan Kozhakin‘s 26.88 in 2nd place. They have been the one two athletes below 27 seconds.
Houlie has been 26.72 this season on the U.S. Open in December, whereas Kozhakin’s finest is 26.46 from final April’s Russian Nationals.
Ilya Shymanovich completed third in 27.06, a few second off the 26.28 he swam in April of 2023.
Top 3 Finishers
Roos Vanotterdijk swam 25.88 to win the ladies’s 50 butterfly by a tenth over Canada’s Taylor Ruck. Vanotterdijk’s finest is 25.32 from the World Championships final summer season.
Ruck touched in 25.98, a bit of greater than two tenths slower than the 25.72 she swam, additionally on the World Championships final summer season.
Anastasiya Kuliashova from Belarus took third in 26.24, half-a-second off her better of 25.66 type July of 2024.
Top 3 Finishers
Hungary’s Gabor Zombori received the lads’s 400 IM in 4:17.14, dominating the remainder of the sphere to win by 4 seconds.
Zombori led from wire-to-wire, splitting 57.95 on the primary 100 to show nearly a second forward of 2nd place. He prolonged his lead from there, splitting 1:06.89 on the backstroke, 1:13.16 on the breaststroke and 59.24 on the freestyle to the touch a bit of greater than 5 seconds off his better of 4:11.70 from June of 2024.
Matei-Cristian State, from Romania completed 2nd in 4:21.01, a brand new private finest by six seconds. He dropped from the 4:27.06 he swam in August of 2025 on the World Junior Championships.
StateS greatest power was his breaststroke leg, the place he was 1:12.48 to maneuver into a really shut third behind Diego Mira Albaladejo. State got here dwelling in 1:00.39 to take 2nd by simply three tenths.
Mira Albaladejo swam 4:21.38 for third, a six second advert from the 4:14.91 he swam in march.
Top 3 Finishers
Marrit Steenbergen won’t have damaged the World Record, however she is placing the world of swimming on discover. She stopped the clock in 51.97 to turn into the primary girl ever to interrupt 52 seconds greater than as soon as.
After breaking 52 seconds for the primary time final week, she break up 25.09/26.88 to do it once more, profitable the occasion by greater than half-a-second. She additionally broke Sarah Sjostrom 2017 Barcelona report of 52.28.
Siobhan Haughey took 2nd in 52.53, splitting 25.31/27.22 to return in additional than a second forward of third place. Her lifetime finest is 52.02 from October of 2023
Milou van Wijk swam 53.85 (25.83/28.02) to complete third. This was a few seocnd off her better of 52.91 from Singapore.
Top 3 Finishers
Russia’s Miron Lifintsev got here out victorious within the males’s 100 backstroke, stopping the clock in 53.72 after splitting 25.85/27.87. His official finest is 52.08 from July of 2024, however he swam an enormous 51.78 on the leadoff leg of the combined medley relay final summer season.
Miroslav Knedla took 2nd in 54.02. He break up 25.97/28.05 so as to add a second from his finest 53.15, which he swam in Singapore.
Ulises Saravia took third in 54.60 together with his splits of 26.39/28.21. His better of 53.26 from final June.
Top 3 Finishers
American breaststroker McKenzie Siroky is simply persevering with to enhance. Last week in Canet, she swam 1:06.31 to maneuver as much as #8 on this planet this season. Today, she swam 1:06.20, leaping as much as #5 on this planet this 12 months forward of Japan’s Kakomi Kato, sho swam 1:06.25 on the 2026 Japan Swim in March. (Angharad Evans is on our checklist twice).
| 2 | Tang Qianting | CHN | 1:05.36 | 11/12 |
| 3 | Angharad Evans | GBR | 1:05.46 | 03/20 |
| 4 | Satomi Suzuki | JPN | 1:05.53 | 09/14 |
| 5 | Yang Chang | CHN | 1:06.06 | 11/12 |
| 6 | Mckenzie SIROKY | USA | 1:06.20 | 05/30 |
| 7 | Kakomi Kato | JPN | 1:06.25 | 03/20 |
| 8 | Mona McSharry | IRL | 1:06.27 | 04/11 |
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Coming into the season, Siroky’s finest was 1:07.05 from May of 2025. She has taken nearly a second off that point, and there are nonetheless just a few months left within the lengthy course seaosn.
Canada’s Alexanne Lepage took 2nd in 1:06.78, about two tenths off her lifetime better of 1:06.58, which she swam in September of 2023.
Belarus’s Alina Zmushka completed third in 1:06.84, a few second off her better of 1:05.93, which she swam on the Paris Olympics.
Top 3 Finishers
American Quintin McCarty and Serbian Andrej Barna had a really shut race within the males’s 50 freestyle, however finally, McCarty got here out victorious, swimming 21.70 to Barna’s 21.78.
McCarty’s swim was a bit of off the 21.43 he swam in Monaco, however was quicker than his pre-tour better of 21.79 from final summer season’s Nationals, whereas Barna’s finest is 21.44 from the World Championships final summer season.
Hong Kong’s Ian Ho took third in 22.01, a bit of greater than a tenth slower than his finest 21.82 from the World Championships.
Top 3 Finishers
Canada’s Madison Kryger received the ladies’s 200 backstroke, stopping the clock in 2:09.53 to take three tenths off her lifetime finest time of two:09.88, which she swam final June at Canadian Trials.
Kryger was out in 30.77, turning about two tenths behind 2nd place finisher Leah Shackley, who opened in 30.54.
She rapidly took over the lead from Shackley, flipping in 1:03.02 on the 100 after splitting 32.25 on the 2nd 50. Shackley break up 33.34 to flip in 1:03.88.
Kryger was 32.88/33.63 on her closing two 50s to only maintain off Shackley’s 33.17/32.69 on the again half.
Shackley touched in 2:09.74, 4 seconds off her finest of two:05.99 from July.
Spain’s Estella Llun Tonrath Nollgen took third in 2:10.99, nearly a 3 second add from the two:08.03 she swam in June.
Top 3 Finishers
Dutch World Record holder Caspar Corbeau received the lads’s 200 breaststroke in a time of two:08.50.
He was greater than a second forward of 2nd place finisher Kirill Prigoda, who swam 2:09.56 for 2nd, and he added a few second from his finest time of two:07.73, which he swam on the World Championships final summer season.
Corbeau turned in 29.12 on the 50 mark, sititng simply seven hundredths forward of Prigoda’s 29.19. On the 2nd 50, Corbeau break up 32.92 to Prigoda’s 33.16. He turned in 1:02.04 ,which was three tenths forward of Prigoda’s 1:02.35.
The third 50 noticed Prigoda briefly take over the lead after he swam 33.48 to Corbeau’s 33.86. This noticed the Russian swimmer flip in 1:35.83, seven hundredths forward of Corbeau’s 1:35.90.
Corbeau dropped a hammer on the ultimate 50, although, splitting an enormous 32.60 to make up greater than a second on Prigoda, who break up 33.73. This moved Corbeau again into the lead and gave him the occasion victory in 2:08.50.
Prigoda took 2nd in 2:09.56, two seconds of his finest of two:07.25 from July of 2022.
Frenchman Antoine Marc completed third in 2:11.77 splitting 30.30/33.65/33.98/33.84.
Top 3 Finishers
Laura Cabanes Garzas, from Spain, swam 2:08.38 to select up the win within the girls’s 200 butterfly, ending greater than two seconds forward of the remainder of the sphere.
Cabanes Garzas led the entire race, getting out in 1:00.85 to show greater than a second forward of Ciara Schlosshan’s 1:02.14 in 2nd.
Garzas got here dwelling in 1:07.53 to complete in 2:0.38. This was about two tenths off her lifetime finest of two:08.11 from the AP Race final weeken.
Schlosshan was 1:08.39 on the 2nd 100 to the touch in 1:20.53. This was a two second add from her finest of two:08.60, which she swam in February.
Julia Pujadas Rusinol took third in 2:11.06, a second add from her finest of two:10.40, which she set in June of 2024.
Top 3 Finishers
Ilya Kharun swam 51.50 within the males’s 100 fly to earn the occasion win by greater than half-a-second over South Africa’s Chad le Clos.
The swim was a bit of off the 50.79 he set on the Canet cease just a few days in the past when he was racing Milak.
Kharun was really out in 2nd, delivering 24.18 to sit down 5 hundredths behind Romania’s Vlad-Stefan Mihlache, who swam 24.13 on the opening 50.
Kharun had a monster closing break up, although, touching in 27.32 to earn a dominant victory. He didn’t have the quickest closing 50 within the area, nevertheless. That honor went to Le Clos, who was 27.30 after he break up 24.97 on the opening 50.
Le Clos touched in 52.27, a tenth off his season finest mark of 52.18 from the South AFrican Nationals final month.
Spain’s Isak Fernandez Rodrigo completed third in 52.40, a tenth off the 52.29 he swam on the AP Race final week.
Top 3 Finishers
The girls’s 200 IM went to Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey in 2:09.45. She was the one girl below 2:10 within the occasion, ending greater than two seconds forward of 2nd place finisher Rebecca Meder’s 2:11.92.
Harvey began the race in third, splitting 28.50 on the butterfly leg to sit down behind Meder’s 28.44 and Barbara Lesniewksa, from Poland, who was 28.47.
Harvey had the quickest breaststroke leg within the area of 32.53 to maneuver into the lead at 1:01.03 for the 100 break up. She was additionally the quickest on the breaststroke (37.66) and freestyle (30.76) splits.
She was a bit of off her lifetime finest of two:08.78, which she swam in June on the Canadian Trials.
Meder break up 28.44/33.66/38.57/31.25 to complete 2nd in 2:11.92, barely greater than a second add from her 2:10.39, which she swam in April of 2025.
Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko tok third in 2:12.03, 4 seconds off her lifetime finest of two:08.55 from May of 2024.
Top 3 Finishers
Top 3 Finishers
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