Paris 2026: Steenbergen advances on two fronts as Ponti and Curtis get pleasure from day 3 swimming heats

Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands, winner of the earlier night time’s 100m freestyle gold, certified comfortably from the 200m freestyle and 50m backstroke heats within the day three morning session as she pursues her manifold ambitions on the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026.

Elsewhere there was a perky efficiency within the males’s 100m butterfly heats from Switzerland’s world silver medallist Noe Ponti, who had completed final within the males’s 50m butterfly closing, and one other spectacular efficiency from Italy’s 19-year-old Sara Curtis, who topped the ladies’s 50m backstroke qualifying.

Maxime Grousset, for whom these Championships had been the primary competitors he was ready to participate in after breaking a bone in his foot in early June, has already had some heady experiences within the Olympic Aquatic Centre.

After being narrowly crushed to 50m butterfly gold by NAB’s Egor Kornev on day one he helped France earn its first gold on day 2 within the combined 4×100 medley.

This morning the 50m and 100m butterfly world champion was engaged in heats for the latter occasion and gave the packed dwelling crowd an early focus for further noise as he received his warmth in 51.03.

Ponti, dissatisfied the earlier night, managed a formidable re-set as he received his warmth in 50.47, the quickest time of the morning, with Hungary’s Olympic champion Kristof Milak second quickest on 50.81.

Also progressing, on 51.49, was Hungary’s world and Olympic 200m backstroke champion Hubert Kos, who will search to win a primary European title in that self-discipline tonight.

Steenbergen, who already has girls’s 100m freestyle gold and combined 4x100m medley silver at these Championships, began within the third of her 5 scheduled occasions, the ladies’s 200m freestyle and certified fourth quickest for tonight’s semi-finals in 1:58.00.

The discipline was headed by Czechia’s defending champion Barbora Seemanova, who clocked 1:57.10.

Steenbergen subsequent turned to the ladies’s 50m backstroke, the place she moved on from the heats as equal third quickest in 27.61, a time shared by France’s Analia Pigree and Alina Gaifutdinova of NAB.

Curtis, who had received her first European medal the earlier night time by ending third within the 100m freestyle, topped the qualifiers on 27.31 from France’s Mary-Ambre Moluh on 27.39.

NAB’s Kirill Prigoda, fourth within the males’s 200m breaststroke ultimately yr’s World Aquatics Championships, topped qualifying for tonight’s semi-finals in 2:09.33, from Great Britain’s 18-year-old Filip Nowacki on 2:09.47 and world bronze medallist Caspar Corbeau of The Netherlands on 2: 09.66.

Poland’s Justina Kozan topped qualifiers for tonight’s girls’s 400m particular person medley closing in 4:40.47 from Great Britain’s 16-year-old European junior champion Amalie Smith on 4:40.56 and Hungary’s 17-year-old Vivien Jackl, the 2024 silver medallist, on 4:40.71.

Defending champion Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel certified in seventh place on 4:42.23.

The session ended on a excessive for dwelling followers as Beryl Gastaldello anchored their girls’s 4x100m freestyle group to victory within the second warmth in 3:37.05, third quickest behind the NAB’s 3:36.61 and The Netherlands on 3:36.84.

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Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics