Russia Match European Championships Record In Ladies’s 4×100 Medley Relay

2026 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

GIRLS 4×100 MEDLEY RELAY – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 3:58.38, Canada, 2017
• European Junior Record: 4:00.30, Russia, 2025
• Championship Record: 4:01.83, Russia, 2019
• 2025 European Junior Champion: Italy, 4:04.30

GOLD – Neutral Athletes, 4:01.83 *Championship Record*
SILVER – Italy, 4:02.75
BRONZE – Spain, 4:05.91

The Russian women’ staff, competing as Neutral Athletes, obtained the higher of Italy within the girls’s 4×100 medley relay tonight, successful by almost a second as they matched the Championship Record set by Russia in 2019.

Varvara Filippova led off in 1:01.27, handing over to Sofia Anufrieva within the lead, they usually by no means seemed again as Anufrieva break up 1:08.47 on the breaststroke leg, Serafima Fokina break up 58.83 on fly, and Kira Manokhina roared house in a blistering 53.26.

It was Anufrieva and Manokhina’s splits which made the distinction for the win tonight, with the previous pulling out to a lead of 1.47 seconds and Manokhina going from almost stage with particular person 100 free champion Alessandra Mao on the takeover to the touch 9 tenths of a second forward on the end.

Compared to the earlier file, all the first three legs had been slower than in 2019, however Manokhina’s freestyle break up was almost two seconds sooner than Ekaterina Nikonova‘s 55.20.

Manokhina positioned 2nd within the particular person 100 free in 54.37, so was over a second sooner on the anchor leg tonight. She was out in a scorching 25.63, however confirmed power on the second 50 to come back house in a 27.63.

The world junior file stands at 3:58.38, set in 2017 by a Canadian staff that includes 2016 Olympic silver medalist Penny Oleksiak and a 52.93 anchor by Taylor Ruck. The European Record was set on the 2019 World Junior Championships by Russia, who clocked 4:00.30.