2026 Mare Nostrum – Barcelona: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

2026 Mare Nostrum Tour – Barcelona

Welcome to the ultimate session of the ultimate cease of the Mare Nostrum Tour!

Tonight’s session encompasses the ladies’s 1500m freestyle, males’s 50m backstroke, ladies’s 50m breaststroke, males’s 50m butterfly, ladies’s 400m IM, males’s 100m freestyle, ladies’s 100m backstroke, males’s 100m breaststroke, ladies’s 50m freestyle, males’s 200m backstroke, ladies’s 200m breaststroke, males’s 200m butterfly, ladies’s 100m butterfly, males’s 200m IM, ladies’s 200m freestyle, and males’s 400m freestyle.

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WOMEN’S 1500M FREESTYLE – TIMED FINAL (Fastest Heat)

• Mare Nostrum Record: 15:51.68 – Delfina Pignatiello, Argentina (2019)
• Barcelona Record: 15:51.68 – Delfina Pignatiello, Argentina (2019)

GOLD – Simona Quadarella (Italy), 15:58.41
SILVER – Hanne Stamnesfet Naess (Norway), 16:34.26
BRONZE – Diana Gabriela Stiger (Romania), 163620

Italian Simona Quadarella was unstoppable within the remaining of the ladies’s 1500m freestyle.

Quadarella, the #2 performer all time, stays ranked fifth on the earth courtesy of her 15:55.89 from final month’s Italian Championships.

MEN’S 50M BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 24.23 – Pavel Samusenko, Russia (2026)
• Barcelona Record: 24.64 – Michael Andrew, USA (2022)

GOLD – Miron Lifintsev (Russia), 24.59
SILVER – Quintin McCarty (USA), 24.84
BRONZE – Miroslav Knedla (CZE), 24.91

Russia’s Miron Lifintsev made it a sweep of the dash backstrokes right here in Barcelona, and he did so in meet report trend.

Lifintsev put his hand on the wall in 24.59 to take down Michael Andrew‘s 2022 record of 24.64, securing the win ahead of Team USA’s Quintin McCarty (24.84) and Czechia’s Miroslav Knedla (24.91), making it three underneath the 25-second mark.

Lifintsev, higher recognized for his 100m again the place he sits because the second-ranked performer in that occasion’s historical past, was simply 0.19 outdoors his lifetime better of 24.40 from the Russian Championships in April 2025.

His time tonight is sweet for fifteenth on the earth to this point this season, and he nonetheless has Russian Trials forward in a couple of weeks to inch that rating upward.

WOMEN’S 50M BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 29.64 – McKenzie Siroky, United States (2026)
• Barcelona Record: 29.89 – Benedetta Pilato, Italy (2024)

GOLD – McKenzie Siroky (USA), 30.40
SILVER – Florine Gaspard (Belgium) & Anastasia Gorbenko (Israel), 30.80
BRONZE – N/A

Just as Lifintsev did within the males’s 50m again, Team USA’s McKenzie Siroky did within the ladies’s 50m breast, finishing a sweep of the dash occasions of their respective strokes.

Siroky sprinted to a successful time of 30.40, incomes the win by precisely 4 tenths over Belgium’s Florine Gaspard and Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko, who posted matching 30.80s to share the silver medal.

MEN’S 50M BUTTERFLY – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 22.53 – Andrii Govorov, Ukraine (2018)
• Barcelona Record: 23.03 – Nicholas Santos, Brazil (2022)

GOLD – Ilya Kharun (USA*), 22.99
SILVER – Oleg Kostin (Russia), 23.12
BRONZE – Nicholas Santos (Brazil), 23.31

Kharun stays the world chief on this race, courtesy of the 22.64 he blasted on the Monaco leg of the sequence.

WOMEN’S 400M IM – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 4:30.75 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2016)
• Barcelona Record: 4:30.75 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2016)

GOLD – Agostina Hein (Argentina), 4:35.62
SILVER – Ella Jansen (Canada), 4:40.40
BRONZE –Julie Brousseau (Canada), 4:46.92

As anticipated, the World Junior Champion dominated the ultimate of the ladies’s 400m IM.

MEN’S 100M FREESTYLE – FINAL

GOLD – Patrick Sammon (USA), 48.19
SILVER – Quintin McCarty (USA), 48.99
BRONZE – Duncan Scott (Great Britain), 49.11

After successful the lads’s 200m free 24 hours in the past, Team USA’s Patrick Sammon doubled up on golds within the males’s 100m free.

Sammon dominated tonight’s remaining, splitting 23.10/25.09 for a wire-to-wire win over American teammate Quintin McCarty (48.99) and Team GB’s Duncan Scott (49.11).

Sammon set a brand new Mare Nostrum Record this morning in 47.88, a time that ranks him thirteenth on the earth to this point this season.

As for McCarty, he got here inside 4 hundredths of his lifetime better of 48.95 from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials.

WOMEN’s 100M BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 58.57 – Kylie Masse, Canada (2022)
• Barcelona Record: 58.77 – Kathleen Baker, USA (2018)

GOLD – Taylor Ruck (Canada), 58.71
SILVER – Leah Shackley (USA), 59.29
BRONZE – Ingrid Wilm (Canada), 59.63

American Leah Shackley was out quickest by way of the primary 50m within the ladies’s 100m backstroke, splitting 28.71 to Canadian Taylor Ruck‘s 28.76, however Ruck had one other gear over the again half.

Ruck blasted residence in the one sub-30 closing cut up of the night, 29.95, to seize the win in 58.71 and break Kathleen Baker‘s longstanding meet report of 58.77 within the course of.

Shackley held on for silver in 59.29, whereas Canada’s Ingrid Wilm edged out the Netherlands’ Marrit Steenbergen for bronze, 59.63 to 59.79.

As for Ruck, her time undercut her season-best 59.07 from the Canadian Open final month and strikes her from sixth to tied for fifth on the earth rankings.

This is Ruck’s quickest time within the 100m again since she registered her present profession better of 58.55 on the 2019 Canadian Trials.

MEN’S 100M BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 58.15 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2019)
• Barcelona Record: 58.15 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2019)

GOLD – Caspar Corbeau (Netherlands), 59.96
SILVER – Ilya Shymanovich (Belarus), 1:00.71
BRONZE – Michael Houlie (South Africa), 1:01.08

South Africa’s Michael Houlie scorched a gap cut up of 27.14 to steer the lads’s 100m breast remaining by seven tenths on the midway level, however in the end ended up with bronze when all was mentioned and finished.

The Netherlands’ Caspar Corbeau, final evening’s 200m breast winner, was the strongest over the closing 50 to win with the one sub-minute time of 59.96, attending to the wall six one-hundredths forward of Russia’s Kirill Prigoda, who was second in 1:00.02, with Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich third in 1:00.71 and Houlie fourth in 1:01.08.

However, Prigoda was in the end disqualified, which means Shymanovich was upgraded to silver and Houlie to bronze.

WOMEN’S 50M FREESTYLE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 23.82 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023)
• Barcelona Record: 23.96 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2017)

GOLD – Milou Van Wijk (Netherlands), 24.33
SILVER – Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong), 24.45
BRONZE – Taylor Ruck (Canada), 24.67

The Netherlands’ Milou Van Wijk picked up her first win of the 2026 Mare Nostrum Series in tonight’s 50m free remaining.

Van Wijk stopped the clock in 24.33 to edge out Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey (24.45) and Canada’s Taylor Ruck (24.67) for the gold medal.

Van Wijk’s time tonight is only a tenth shy of her career-best 24.23 from final July’s European U23 Championships. She  now ranks #7 on the earth to this point this season, bumping Haughey to eighth. Haughey clocked her season-best 24.34 ultimately month’s the Malstem Swim Open.

Ruck simply missed her 24.59 season-best from the Sacramento Pro Swim Series earlier within the month.

We will see Haughey line up behind the blocks as soon as once more in about half-hour’ time for the ultimate of the 200m free, the place she set a brand new Mare Nostrum Record only a few days in the past in Canet.

MEN’S 200M BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 1:54.34 – Ryosuke Irie, Japan (2007)
• Barcelona Record: 1:54.62 – Ryosuke Irie, Japan (2011)

GOLD – Jan Cejka (Czechia), 1:56.65
SILVER – Matteo Venini (Italy), 1:59.63
BRONZE – Dylan Buonaguro (Italy), 2:00.11

Czechia’s Jan Cejka was untouchable within the remaining of the lads’s 200m backstroke.

Cejka led the race from the very first stroke and by no means relinquished it, in the end successful by practically three seconds with a time of 1:56.65. Italians Matteo Venini (1:59.63) and Dylan Buonaguro (2:00.11) rounded out the rostrum.

Cejka was a couple of half second outdoors his season-best 1:56.26 from the Canet leg of the sequence, a time that ranks him twelfth on the earth to this point this season.

WOMEN’S 200M BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 2:19.67 – Rikke Moeller Pedersen, Denmark (2014)
• Barcelona Record: 2:19.83 – Yulia Efimova, Russia (2017)

GOLD – Evgeniia Chikunova (Russia), 2:23.74
SILVER – Alina Zmushka (Belarus), 2:24.58
BRONZE – Tes Schouten (Netherlands), 2:24.90

MEN’S 200M BUTTERFLY – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 1:53.89 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022)
• Barcelona Record: 1:53.89 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022)

GOLD – Ilya Kharun (USA*), 1:56.18
SILVER – Alberto Razzetti (Italy), 1:56.48
BRONZE – Richard Marton (Hungary), 1:57.26

WOMEN’S 100M BUTTERFLY – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 55.76 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2017)
• Barcelona Record: 56.27 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2017)

GOLD – Roos Vanotterdijk (Belgium), 57.73
SILVER – Taylor Ruck (Canada), 58.24
BRONZE – Anita Gastaldi (Italy), 58.67

Taylor Ruck, in her third remaining of the session, grabbed an early lead within the ladies’s 100m fly remaining, showing to hit the 50m flip in round 26-mid (there was a clock malfunction), which was about three quarters of a second forward of Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk, who turned in 27.36.

It was all of the reigning world championship silver medalist over the ultimate 50m although, as Vanotterdijk labored her approach forward of Ruck with a 30.35 closing cut up to seize the win, 57.73 to 58.24.

Italy’s Anita Gastaldi rounded out the rostrum with a time of 58.67.

Vanotterdijk stays ranked fifth on the earth, courtesy of her 56.74 from the Belgium Open earlier within the month.

Ruck at the moment sits twentieth together with her 57.93 PB from Canet.

MEN’S 200M IM – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 1:56.31 – Hugo Gonzalez, Spain (2021)
• Barcelona Record: 1:56.31 – Hugo Gonzalez, Spain (2021)

GOLD – Alberto Razzetti (Italy), 1:59.75
SILVER – Gabor Zombori (Hungary), 2:00.25
BRONZE – Jacopo Barbotti (Italy), 2:00.69

WOMEN’S 200M FREESTYLE – FINAL

GOLD – Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong), 1:55.22
SILVER – Erika Fairweather (New Zealand), 1:55.49
BRONZE – Barbora Seemanova (Czechia), 1:56.64

Siobhan Haughey gained the ladies’s 200m free, holding off a hard-charging Erika Fairweather over the ultimate 50m, 1:55.22 to 1:55.49, with Barbora Seemanova taking a transparent third in 1:56.64.

All three had been a bit outdoors their season bests, all of which rank within the high 12 globally:

Of word, the on-fire Marrit Steenbergen completed fourth in a time of 1:57.72.

MEN’S 400M FREESTYLE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record: 3:41.71 – Ian Thorpe, Australia (2001)
• Barcelona Record: 3:44.81 – Kim Woomin, South Korea (2024)

GOLD – Marco De Tullio (Italy), 3:48.29
SILVER – Victor Johansson (Sweden), 3:49.51
BRONZE – Alessandro Ragaini (Italy), 3:50.55