Tiger Swimmers Submit Robust Week at European Championships – LSU

PARIS – LSU swimmers Jere Hribar and Volodymyr Lisovets headlined a robust week for the Tigers on the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in Paris, France.

Hribar, a local of Split, Croatia, helped lead Croatia’s 4×100 freestyle relay squad to a bronze medal, clocking a time of three:13.06. Hribar led off with a 47.77 cut up. The rising senior for the Tigers additionally competed within the 100 freestyle on the meet, ending fifth with a personal-best time of 47.42. He additionally took tenth within the 50 freestyle (21.77) and nineteenth within the 50 butterfly (23.35).

Lisovets discovered nice success of his personal, coming within the 50 breaststroke. In the semifinal warmth, the native of Zhytomyr, Ukraine set the nationwide document with a time of 26.84, sending him by means of to the ultimate. In the ultimate, Lisovets improved his time to 26.78 to take fifth place, however was out-touched by a Ukrainian teammate by six hundredths of a second. He additionally competed within the 100 breaststroke, posting a time of 1:00.77 to complete in thirtieth place.

Rising sophomore Martina Bukvic carried out properly over the week within the breaststroke occasions. Representing her house nation of Serbia, she took thirty sixth within the 50 breaststroke (32.22), twenty fourth within the 100 breaststroke (1:08.91), and nineteenth within the 200 breaststroke (2:30.89). Her Serbian teammate Nikola Simic additionally posted robust occasions, inserting twenty ninth within the 400 freestyle (3:53.51), sixteenth within the 800 freestyle with a private finest time (7:58.27), and sixteenth within the 1500 freestyle, once more with a private finest time (15:15.72). Nina Stanisavljevic, additionally from Serbia, competed within the short-distance occasions for the freestyle, backstroke, and butterfly. She took thirty seventh within the 50 freestyle (25.91), twenty ninth within the 50 backstroke (28.96), forty seventh within the 50 butterfly (27.52), and forty first within the 100 butterfly with a private finest time (1:00.55).

Jovan Lekic and Karlo Percinic, each rising seniors, did properly within the freestyle occasions. Lekic, a local of Banja Luka, Bosnia, positioned forty first within the 200 freestyle (1:48.54) and twenty sixth within the 400 freestyle (3:52.01). Percinic touched the wall 66th within the 200 freestyle (1:51.92) and forty eighth within the 400 freestyle (4:00.73). He additionally helped the Croatian 4×200 freestyle group to a 14th-place end.

Incoming freshman Ieva Visockaite represented her house nation of Lithuania on the meet. She notched fiftieth within the 100 freestyle (57.34), forty second within the 200 freestyle (2:03.99), and twenty fifth within the 400 freestyle (4:23.55). She additionally competed on Lithuania’s 4×100 freestyle and 4×200 freestyle relay groups.

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