World Champion Hugo Gonzalez Qualifies For European Championships On Day One Of Spanish Trials

2026 SPANISH OPEN TRIALS

• Thursday, June twenty fifth – Sunday, June twenty eighth
• Son Hugo-IME Palma Municipal Swimming Pools, Mallorca, Spain
• LCM (50m)
• Meet Central
• Live Results

The 2026 Spanish Open Trials kicked off right now from Mallorca, with the four-day competitors representing the first qualification alternative for the nation’s swimmers so as to add their names to the roster for this yr’s European Championships.

Three swimmers already made the grade on day one, together with Irene Ciercoles within the girls’s 100m backstroke.

Just 16 years of age, Ciercoles stopped the clock at a time of 1:00.10 to seize the gold, clearing the Spanish Swimming Federation’s qualification customary of 1:00.38 within the course of.

She held off Estella Tonrath, who settled for silver simply over half a second behind in 1:00.64, with Sara Costa additionally clearing the 1:01 threshold in a bronze medal-worthy effort of 1:00.95.

As for Ciercoles, the teenager’s time tonight shaved .09 off her former private better of 1:00.19 logged in Hungary this previous April.

The different lady who earned a European Championships-qualifying mark was World Junior champion Alba Vazquez.

Racing within the remaining of the 200m IM, 24-year-old Vazquez produced a profitable results of 2:11.39.

That dipped beneath the two:11.85 QT wanted to safe her roster slot, representing the one competitor of the sphere to take action.

Emma Carrasco was subsequent to the wall in 2:12.03, with Laura Cabanes incomes the bronze in 2:12.79.

Vazquez has a trio of elite junior worldwide medals to her credit score however continues to be searching for a breakthrough European Championships podium spot.

Hugo Gonzalez, the 2024 world champion within the 200m backstroke, was the one male who put up a qualification customary tonight.

Gonzalez led the 200m IM remaining in a time of 1:58.95, clearing the 1:59.30 choice time on his technique to gold.

Nil Cadevall and Alberto Hernandez had been the one different swimmers to beat the two:00 barrier, with the previous logging 1:59.55 for silver and the latter amassing bronze in 1:59.69.

Although certified for the European Championships, Gonzalez continues to be searching for the kind of 200m IM efficiency that established his reigning nationwide file – a mark of 1:56.31 placed on the books in 2021.

Additional Notes

• Ivan Martinez obtained it accomplished for gold within the males’s 100m backstroke, hitting 53.26 to etch his identify onto Spain’s European Junior Championships roster.
• The males’s 400m free noticed nationwide recordholder Carlos Garach rating a profitable time of three:49.01 as the only swimmer of the pack to dip beneath the three:50 barrier.
• Maria De Valdes proved too fast to catch within the girls’s 400m free, attending to the wall first in 4:11.67.
• Sergio De Celis pulled off the upset towards Luca Hoek within the males’s 50m free. The former posted 22.15, simply .13 exterior the 22.02 QT, touching forward of Hoek who settled for silver in 22.26. Hoek nabbed the Spanish customary at 21.93 earlier this years.
• Maria Daza received the ladies’s 50m free, together with her time of 25.18 ok for the gold medal.