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We are formally greater than midway by way of the 2026 European Championships, and now we have made it to the 4th finals session of the meet.
On the schedule tonight, now we have 5 finals occasions and 4 semifinals occasions. The meet will open with the boys’s 100 butterfly ultimate the place Noe Ponti, Kristof Milak, and Maxime Grousset might be battling for the gold medal with Hubert Kos simply outdoors the favorites, however as a possible medalist.
Directly following that would be the girls’s 50 backstroke, the place yesterday we noticed the one world file of the meet to this point. Sara Curtis blasted a 26.63 to earn the highest spot in yesterday’s semifinal and might be seeking to decrease that point tonight en path to a gold medal. Waiting simply within the wings, although, is Alina Gaifutdinova, who swam 26.91 to complete 2nd yesterday.
The males’s 200 free semifinals have quite a few high swimmers, together with David Popovici, James Guy, and Christian Giefing. The high seed, Giefing, set a brand new private greatest and Austrian file en path to the highest seed out of prelims.
Roos Vanotterdijk is the highest seed within the 100 fly semifinal after she completed 2nd within the 50 yesterday to Sarah Sjostrom. She and Angelina Koehler completed only one hundredth aside within the prelims and might be ‘racing’ for the center lane in tomorrow’s occasion ultimate from separate heats.
The NAB delegation from Russia leads the boys’s 50 backstroke semifinal with Kliment Kolesnikov and Pavel Samusenko incomes the highest seeds out of prelims.
The girls’s 100 breaststroke gold and silver medalists, Angharad Evans and Mona McSharry, set the highest two instances within the girls’s 200 breaststroke prelims. Evans might be immediately subsequent to world file holder Evgeniia Chikunova within the 2nd semifinal in a preview of tomorrow’s occasion ultimate.
The males’s 200 breaststroke is one other one of many finals occasions. Filip Nowacki, Luka Mladenovic, and Caspar Corbeau had been all shut in yesterday’s semifinal, although Nowacki leads the sphere in 2:08.60.
Barbora Seemanova might be making an attempt to carry off Freya Colbert and Marrit Steenbergen within the girls’s 200 freestyle ultimate. Seemanova was the one swimmer beneath 1:56 within the semifinal and is the reigning European Champion within the occasion.
Finally, the session will finish with the boys’s 4×100 freestyle relay the place the NAB crew swam the highest time in prelims, six tenths forward of Great Britain. Croatia is seeded third after that they had a robust prelims efficiency.
Top 8 Finishers
Hungary’s Kristof Milak got here out on high of the boys’s 100 fly ultimate, simply narrowly lacking the world file within the occasion, stopping the clock in 49.48 to set a brand new European file and the 2nd quickest swim in historical past.
Milak was out in 2nd, splitting 23.19 on the opening 50 to sit down a bit greater than two tenths behind former European file holder Maxime Grousset, who swam 22.97 on the opening 50.
Milak got here house extremely sturdy, splitting 26.29, to only miss Caeleb Dressel’s world file swim of 49.45. He did take down Grousset’s European file time of 49.62 from final summer season’s world championships.
Switzerland’s Noe Ponti completed third in 49.93. He was out in 4th on the 50, delivering 23.34 to sit down a couple of tenth behind Hubert Kos, who cut up 23.20. Ponti was 26.59 on the again finish, shifting into the bronze medal place and ending only a tenth off his lifetime greatest 49.83 from the 2025 World Championships.
Kos stopped the clock in 50.25 after splitting 27.05 on the ultimate 50. This was a 3 tenth drop from the 50.55 mark he set again in April of 2025.
Top 8 Finishers
After setting her first world file yesterday, Italy’s Sara Curtis swam sooner within the 50 backstroke ultimate tonight, stopping the clock in 26.56 to set a brand new world file and decide up the European title.
Curtis got here into the meet with a lifetime better of 27.07, which she set on the Sette Colli Trophy in June, and he or she dropped half-a-second over the three rounds. Tonight, she took seven hundredths off her former world file time of 26.63 to place much more distance between herself and former file holder Kaylee McKeown.
Mary-Ambre Moluh completed 2nd in 27.06, taking down her personal French file time of 27.20, which she set on the French National Championships in June.
Great Britain’s Lauren Cox grabbed the bronze medal in 27.15, only one hundredth forward of Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands. Cox tied her personal British file time from May of 2025.
Top 8 Qualifiers
David Popovici, Lukas Martens, and James Guy, and Carlos D’Ambrosio all swam within the first semifinal, and certified 1st, 2nd, third, and 4th for tomorrow’s occasion ultimate.
Popovici led the race from start-to-finish, getting out in 24.12 to guide D’Ambrosio’s 24.17 by 5 hundredths. Guy was third in 24.26, and Martens was 4th in 24.28.
At the 100, Popovici’s lead had shrunk to only one hundredth after he cut up 26.50 to show in 50.62. Guy had moved into 2nd, splitting 26.37 to show in 50.63. Martens was third in 26.74 (51.02), and D’Ambrosio was 4th (26.95 (51.11).
Popovici prolonged his lead on the 150, splittin 26.78 to sit down two tenths forward of Guy (26.97). Martens was almost seven tenths again in third (27.05), and D’Ambrosio was eight tenths again in 4th (27.12).
The ultimate 50 noticed Popovici swim 27.16 to lock up the win in 1:44.56, a bit greater than a second-and-a-half off his lifetime better of 1:42.97 from August of 2022.
Martens had an enormous 26.72 cut up to maneuver into 2nd place, stopping the clock in 1:44.79, six tenths off his better of 1:44.14. Guy cut up 27.54 to complete in 1:45.14 and D’Ambrosio swam 27.15 to complete 4th in 1:45.38.
Christian Giefing gained the 2nd semifinal in 1:45.47 to qualify fifth total after he swam 24.38/26.75/26.96/27.38.
Lucas Henveaux simply squeaked into the ultimate at 1:45.72. This was a brand new Belgian file, taking three tenths off the 1:46.03 he swam within the prelims ultimately yr’s World Championships.
First alternate Saueveur Cristofini swam 1:45.74 to only miss the ultimate, however he picked up a brand new U17 French Record time.
Top 8 Qualifiers
Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk made an absolute assertion within the girls’s 100 fly semifinal, stopping the clock in 55.89 to earn the highest seed for tomorrow’s ultimate by almost a second over the sphere.
She cut up 25.72/30.17 to dominate her warmth, ending greater than a second forward of Anna Ntountounaki from Greece, who swam 56.99 to complete 2nd and qualify third total. She additionally tied Sarah Sjostrom‘s 2016 Championship record in the event. Vanotterdijk’s lifetime greatest stands at 55.84 from final summer season’s World Championships.
Ntountounaki’s swim was a brand new Greek file, taking virtually three tenths off the 57.25 she swam in July of 2021.
Angelina Kohler, from Germany, gained the first semifinal in 56.79, two hundredths slower than her prelims swim of 56.77. She cut up 26.42/30.37 to complete half-a-second forward of Keanna Macinnes, who swam 57.31 to qualify fifth total. Her lifetime bes is 56.19.
NAB’s Daria Klepikova, Maccines, and Slovakia’s Tamara Potocka completed in 57.30, 57.31, and 57.37 respectively and might be very shut in tomorrow’s ultimate.
Top 8 Qualifiers
The Neutral Athlete ‘B’ delegation continued to guide the boys’s 50 backstroke with Pavel Samusenko profitable the first semifinal in 24.03 to qualify 1st total and world file holder Kliment Kolesnikov profitable the 2nd semifinal in 24.14.
The complete semifinal was quick with Miroslav Knedla from Czechia swimming 24.20 to qualify third after ending simply behind Kolesnikov within the 2nd semifinal.
The ultimate 5 swimmer sin the ultimate had been separated by lower than a tenth tonight. Israel’s Tomer Yakov Shuster set a brand new Israeli file time of 24.36 to take 4th, taking three tenths off the 2016 file time of 24.60 set by Jonatan Kopelev.
Thomas Ceccon certified eighth in 24.45, 5 hundredths off his lifetime better of 24.40 from August of 2022.
Ksawery Masiuk, who completed 4th within the occasion on the World Championships in Singapore, stopped the clock in 24.47, which was 4 hundredth sooner than the 24.51 he swam to complete 4th at Worlds, and completed ninth total.
Top 8 Qualifiers
The girls’s 200 breaststroke semifinals had been a bit unbalanced with 5 of the eight finals qualifiers together with the highest three total, coming from the 2nd semifinal. World file holder Evgeniia Chikunova finally earned the highest qualifying time for the ultimate, stopping the clock in 2:20.71
Great Britain’s Angharad Evans bought out quick within the 2nd warmth, splitting 1:07.26 on her opening 100 meters (31.98/35.28) to sit down greater than a second forward of Chikunova’s 1:08.31 in 2nd place. The Netherlands’ Tes Schouten was third in 1:08.45 (32.48/35.97).
Evans started fading on the third 50, splitting 36.44, however she was nonetheless a second forward of Chikunova, who cut up 36.40.
Chikunova had a monster ultimate 50 cut up of 36.00 to maneuver previous Evans, who cut up 37.26 for the win.
Schouten swam 36.70/38.11 on the ultimate two 50s to cease the clock in 2:23.26, qualifying third total, a bit greater than three seconds off her greatest of two:19.81 from 2024.
Mona McSharry gained the first semifinal in 2:23.53, splitting 32.81/35.99/36.79/37.94 to complete seven hundredths forward of Anna Elendt‘s 2:23.60 in 2nd.
Top 8 Finishers
The males’s 200 breaststroke was one other thrilling race on night time 4, and Filip Nowacki finally got here out on high, swimming 2:07.70 to only out contact Caspar Corbeau, from the Netherlands, who swam 2:07.78
After the primary 50, Ireland’s Jack Kelly turned in 1st, splitting 28.48 to sit down simply forward of Kirill Prigoda‘s 28.66 in 2nd and Cobreaus’s 28.68 in third. Nowacki sat again in sixth at 29.10.
Corbeau moved into the lead on the 100 mark, splitting 32.77 on his 2nd 50 to show in 1:01.45. He sat simply two hundredths forward of Prigoda, who turned in 1:01.47 after splitting 32.81.
Corbeau prolonged his lead on the subsequent 50, swimming 32.93 to show virtually half-a-second forward of Nowacki, who moved into 2nd along with his 33.06 cut up.
The ultimate 50 noticed Nowacki blast a 32.86, about half-a-second sooner than Corbeau’s 33.40 to earn the occasion win within the final 15 meters of the race. His ultimate time of two:07.70 was about 4 tenths off his lifetime greatest of two:07.32 from August of 2025.
Corbeau completed 2nd in 2:07.78, simply 5 hundredths off his lifetime greatest of two:07.73 from August of 2025.
Luka Mladenovic picked up the bronze medal in 2:08.91 after he swam 28.82/32.84/33.33/33.92. This was six hundredths off his Austrian file time of two:08.85 from the semifinals.
Top 9 Finishers
In one other extremely thrilling race, Barbora Seemanova took the lead within the ultimate 50 to win the ladies’s 200 freestyle European title, stopping the clock in a brand new Championship file time of 1:54.38.
Marrit Steenbergen grabbed a really early lead, swimming 26.53 on the primary 50 to guide Lithuania’s Ieva Jurkunaite‘s 26.96 in 2nd. Seemanova was third in 27.06, about half-a-second behind Steenbergen.
On the 2nd 50, Steenbergen dropped to 29.28 to retain the lead, however she gave up most of her floor to Seemanova’s 28.81 cut up. Steenbergen turned in 55.81, simply six hundredths forward of Seemanova’s 55.87.
Steenbergen prolonged her lead barely on the third 50, splitting 26.56 to show fourteen hundredths forward of Seemanova’s 29.64 going into the ultimate 50.
On the final 50 of the race, Seemanova sawm the one sub-29 cut up within the discipline, touching in 28.87 to earn the win in a brand new lifetime greatest and nationwide file. She took almost a second off the 1;55.12 mark she set again in May of 2024, which was additionally the Czech file.
Steenbergen swam 29.28 on the ultimate 50 to cease the clock in her personal private greatest and nationwide file time of 1:54.65. She takes three hundredths off Femke Heemskerk’s 2015 dutch file of 1:54.68 and virtually a full second off her former better of 1:55.51, which she set in July of 2023.
The bronze medal went to Great Britain’s Freya Colbert in 1:55.81 after she cut up 27.28/28.90/29.81/29.92. Her lifetime greatest stands at 1:54.34 from the British Championships in April
Top 8 Teams
Speaking of thrilling races, the boys’s 4×100 freestyle relay got here all the way down to the contact with two of the quickest relay splits in historical past on the anchor leg.
The center of the pool was very shut by way of the primary 300 meters of the race. Croatia, Spain, Great Britain, and the NAB crew all held the lead at numerous factors over the primary 300, and going into the ultimate 100, there have been solely 0.24 seconds separating the fifth place crew, Croatia, from the first place crew, Great Britain.
Great Britain had Matt Richards (57.89), Duncan Scott (47.65), and Gabriel Shepherd (48.19) on the primary three legs of the race, and dove in for the ultimate leg with a one hundredth lead over Hungary.
The first three legs of the Hungarian relay consisted of Hubert Kos (48.18), Szebasztian Szabo (48.29), and Nandor Nemeth (47.27). They had been the one crew within the high 5 to not lead the relay at any level through the first 350 meters.
The Neutral Athlete ‘B’ crew sat in third total, seven hundredths behind Great Britain, after Ivan Girev (48.14), Vasilii Kukushkin (47.77), and Aleksandr Shchegolev (47.89) swam their first three legs.
Spain was in 4th, eight hundredths again of Great Britain, with their crew of Luca Hoek le Guenedal (47.47), Cesar Castro Valle (48.22), and Miguel Perez Godoy Brageli (48.12).
Finally, Croatia sat in fifth, 0.24 seconds again of the leaders, after their first three legs of Jere Hribar (47.77), Vlaho Nenadic (47.96), and Vili Sivec (48.24).
Very early within the opening 50 of the ultimate leg, the Neutral Athlete ‘B’ crew and Hungary separated themselves because the clear leaders. NAB anchor Egor Kornev, the silver medalist within the 100 freestyle, cut up 21.55 on the opening 50 to carry a 15-one-hundredth lead over Hungary’s Kristof Milak, the bronze medalist within the 100 freestyle.
Milak, who had reportedly stated he wouldn’t be swimming relays this week, introduced his 100 house in 24.53 to earn the Hungarian crew the gold medal, simply forward of Kornev’s 2nd 50 cut up of 24.77 on the NAB relay.
Milak’s ultimate 100 cut up of 46.29 is the seventh quickest 100 freestyle cut up in historical past, bringing him simply behind Alain Bernard‘s 46.26 from the 2009 World Championships.
Kornev cut up 46.32, which is the eighth quickest 100 freestyle cut up in historical past, simply behind Milak’s. He beforehand held the seventh quickest cut up with the 46.50 he set ultimately yr’s Worlds.
Hungary’s ultimate time of three:10.03 took virtually 4 tenths off Russia’s 2021 file time of three:10.41. They beat the NAB crew’s ultimate time of three:10.12 by simply 9 hundredths.
Croatia took third in 3:11.08 after Toni Dragoja cut up 47.11 on the anchor leg. Spain completed 4th in 3:11.91 with Sergio de Celis Montalban swimming 48.10 to the touch only one hundredth forward of Great Britain.
The British crew stopped the clock in 3:11.92 after Tom Dean swam 48.19 on the anchor leg to complete fifth total.
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