Dutch Euros Qualifiers Through Day One Of Eindhoven

2026 DUTCH EUROPEAN SWIMMING TRIALS

Day one of many 2026 Dutch European Swimming Trials introduced the warmth, with a trio of nationwide data biting the mud to kick off the four-day home affair.

Swimmers are vying for slots on the Dutch roster for this 12 months’s European Championships, with swimmers having to clear the minimal time requirements outlined by the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB) within the choice procedures included inside our preview linked above.

The three data got here by the hands of two males and one girl, with Sean Niewold placing up a brand new NR within the 50m fly, Koen de Groot getting it finished within the males’s 50m breast and newly-minted 100m freestyle World Record holder Marrit Steenbergen establishing a brand new nationwide mark within the 100m backstroke.

Niewold, de Groot and Steenbergen all certified of their respective occasions for this 12 months’s European Championships, however there have been others who additionally made the grade value noting.

Tessa Giele made the reduce within the ladies’s 50m butterfly, attending to the wall first in a time of 25.93.

She wasn’t alone, nevertheless, as Kim Busch touched concurrently in 25.93, with each ladies clearing the 26.23 QT wanted for Paris.

Bronze medalist within the race, Jinth Engelse, additionally certified, along with her mark of 26.36 dipping below the QT for under-23-year-olds of 26.62.

After Steenbergen, Maaike de Waard clinched a European Championshps bid within the ladies’s 100m again, capturing silver in 59.40.

Dutch European Championships Qualifiers Through Day 1 Of Qualifying Meet