Steenbergen’s 51.34 Anchor Helps Dutch Crack 4×100 Freestyle Relay Championship Record

2026 European Swimming Championships

Yet one other meet file went down on the 2026 European Swimming Championships, with the Dutch girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay closing out day three motion in type.

The Netherlands stopped the clock at a speedy 3:31.89 to take the occasion by effectively over a second, with Italy and NAB incomes silver and bronze, respectively. The former logged 3:33.19 to the latter’s 3:33.69.

As for the Dutch, Milou van Wijk led off in a strong 53.40 earlier than Imani de Jong stored the velocity getting into 53.47. Yara van Kalmthout produced 53.68 on the third leg earlier than on-fire Marrit Steenbergen, already the 100m freestyle champion right here, crushed a head-turning anchor of 51.34.

The girls mixed to overhaul the previous championship file of three:33.62 the identical nation placed on the books on the 2008 European Championships. The foursome fell simply shy of the Dutch nationwide file and present European Record, a time of three:31.72 notched on the 2009 World Championships.

Steenbergen’s cut up was simply the quickest of the sector this night and is regarded as the Fifth-best of all time. The next-closest time got here by the hands of Italy’s Sara Curtis, who put up 52.29 on her 2nd leg, after already having clocked a brand new World Record within the girls’s 50m backstroke earlier this session.

Steenbergen gained the person 100m free occasion right here in a time of 51.90, additionally a brand new championship file, with relaymate van Wijk snagging the silver behind her in 52.71 and Curtis gathering bronze in 52.72.

It was simply this previous June on the Sette Colli Trophy the place 26-year-old Olympian Steenbergen established the 100m free World Record at 51.68.