Paris 2026: Popovici and Evans energy on in day 4 swimming heats

Romania’s David Popovici, already 100m freestyle champion right here, moved via to tonight’s males’s 200m freestyle semi-finals with the convenience of a basking shark as he strains up his third consecutive European double.

On day 4 of the European Aquatics Championships swimming programme on the Olympic Aquatic Centre the 21-year-old world and Olympic champion certified fourth quickest in 1:46.06.

Austria’s 18-year-old Christian Giefing, the European junior 400m freestyle bronze medallist, completed quickest in 1:44.96, with Great Britain’s James Guy – who already has a gold right here from the opening evening’s males’s 4x200m freestyle – subsequent on 1:45.40.

To voluble dwelling appreciation France’s 16-year-old dwelling swimmer Sauveur Cristofini, who earned silver in that epic males’s 4x200m freestyle, certified third quickest in 1:45.93.

Another of Great Britain’s relay winners, Jack McMillan, certified eighth in 1:46.36.

That meant no development into the final 16 for Tokyo 2020 males’s 200m freestyle gold medallist Tom Dean, a member of the relay staff which gained on the final two Olympics, who positioned 12^th in 1:46.48 by purpose of the rule limiting every nation to 2 qualifiers.

Great Britain’s Angharad Evans, winner of the earlier evening’s ladies’s 100m breaststroke title with a 3rd consecutive Championship file, topped qualifying within the ladies’s 200m breaststroke, clocking 2:22.66, with Ireland’s Mona McSharry, silver medallist within the 100m, ending alongside her as second quickest in 2:23.37.

Belgium’s 21-year-old Roos Vanotterdijk topped heats qualifying within the ladies’s 50m butterfly – by which she gained world silver final 12 months – as she clocked 56.76, with Germany’s 2024 world champion Angelina Kohler simply 0.01 slower.

Czechia’s Barbora Seemanova, who will defend her ladies’s 200m freestyle title tonight, was subsequent quickest on 57.43.

There was a lot appreciation for dwelling swimmer Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Paris 2024 males’s 4x100m medley bronze medallist and world 100m backstroke bronze medallist, who had did not progress from the boys’s 200m backstroke heats due to the 2 nations rule regardless of ending fifth quickest.

He made it via to tonight’s semi-finals in 11^th place on 24.65 in a listing topped by NAB’s Kliment Kolesnikov and Pavel Samusenko on 24.12 and 24.13 respectively

Neutral Athletes B additionally prospered within the males’s 4x100m freestyle heats, producing the quickest time of three:12.21 forward of tonight’s closing, with Great Britain second quickest in 3:12.80 and Croatia subsequent on 3:13.06.

Italy’s Simona Quadarella, already ladies’s 800m freestyle champion, will problem for the double tomorrow evening after heading the ladies’s 1500m heats with a time of 16.05.28.

NAB’s Kseniia Misharina was second quickest in 16:08.71, adopted by Germany’s Isabel Gose, 800m silver medallist and double gold medallist in open water swimming right here, who clocked 16:10.51.

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Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics