2026 European Aquatics creative swimming clinic: up to date bulletin now out there

European Aquatics has printed an up to date bulletin for the 2026 creative swimming clinic, confirming key modifications forward of the occasion on the X-Bionic Sphere in Samorin, Slovakia, from 6–8 November 2026.

Following the primary bulletin printed in July, the second bulletin confirms that the registration deadline has been prolonged to twenty September 2026, giving members further time to register via the two-step course of through the clinic kind and the European Aquatics Academy platform.

The clinic stays a central element of the organisation’s training pathway and displays the priorities set out within the European Aquatics Strategic Plan 2024–2030, reinforcing the dedication to steady studying throughout the creative swimming neighborhood.

The up to date bulletin additionally introduces two new lodging choices on the official venue: triple and quadruple rooms, priced at €350 and €330 per individual respectively, alongside the present single (€490) and double (€390) room packages. Participants who’ve already registered and want to change to one of many new room sorts are requested to contact European Aquatics straight, topic to availability. Those not requiring official lodging could attend in individual for €195, masking clinic periods and occasional breaks.

The three-day programme will deliver collectively coaches, officers, athletes, managers and different members of the creative swimming neighborhood from throughout Europe and past. Sessions will cowl new TREs teaching and judging, new figures teaching and judging, new acro and pair acro judging, new TC guidelines and strategy, and creative impression for male solo, alongside a sensible pool session. The programme options contributions from Andrea Fuentes, present head coach of Team Spain and Chair of the Coaches Committee at World Aquatics; Ana Montero and Iva Gricar, each World Aquatics and European Aquatics TASC members; Marie Kavaklioglu, European Aquatics TASC Secretary; and Ulla Lucenius, European Aquatics TASC chair since 2012.

A referee take a look at will once more be held on the ultimate day of the clinic, Sunday 8 November. Officials should sit this take a look at a minimum of as soon as each 4 years to stay on the European Aquatics referee listing, and participation within the 2026 clinic is necessary for officers wishing to be eligible for appointment at European Aquatics Championships in 2027. The clinic may also depend towards the academic coaching required of officers wishing to officiate at European competitions in 2026.

Officials unable to attend in individual however wishing to officiate in 2027 should contact the European Aquatics workplace and the EA Academy, full an exercise report for 2026, and submit it by 1 December 2026, with European Aquatics to find out individually whether or not further coaching necessities might be fulfilled.

European Aquatics can even facilitate transportation between X-Bionic Sphere and the principle arrival factors in Vienna, Bratislava and Samorin, with charges various by automobile kind and payable along with the lodging bundle.

European Aquatics reminds members of the creative swimming neighborhood to finish their registration forward of the brand new deadline of 20 September 2026.

For extra particulars, please discover the beneath bulletin.

Stephen Stanley for European Aquatics