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2026 European Swimming Championships
August 10-16, 2026 Paris, France — Olympic Aquatics Centre LCM (50 Meters) Meet Information Meet Central Entries Results Live Results SwimSwam Preview Index Live Stream Live Recaps Prelims Finals: Day 1Men’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
World Record: 6:58.55 – USA, 2009 European Record: 6:58.58 – Great Britain, 2021 European Championship Record: 7:03.48 – Russia, 2021 European Junior Record: 7:09.16 – Neutral Athletes B, 2026 2024 European Champion – Lithuania – 7:08.04 Great Britain (Richards, McMillan, Guy, Scott), 7:01.52 CR France (Marchand, Largeron, Cristofini, Fuchs), 7:02.23 Germany (Märtens, Sorgius, Baschnitt, Jahn), 7:02.28 Italy, 7:02.82 Lithuania, 7:03.53 Neutral Athletes B, 7:03.86 Israel, 7:07.55 Greece, 7:08.15Carlos D’Ambrosio, Dimitrios Markos, and Denis Loktev all set national records on the leadoff leg of the men’s 4×200 free relay tonight. In addition to those records, there were four national records set on the relay itself, coming from France, Germany, Lithuania, and Greece.
D’Ambrosio sliced nearly half a second off the Italian record of 1:45.15 he set at the World Junior Championships last summer as he touched in 1:44.72, the second-fastest leadoff in the field behind Leon Marchand’s 1:43.76.
He was out much faster here in 50.49 at the halfway point, but held on with splits of 27.02/27.21 on the second half of the race. He moves up to #23 all-time, jumping 17 places.
D’Ambrosio had a season best of 1:45.77 coming into today, but did split 1:44.42 on a club relay at the Italian Championships in April. Having finished 6th in his maiden World Championships final last summer, he will be a serious medal contender in the individual 200 free.
Markos hacked over a second off his former record of 1:46.28, blazing a final 50 of 26.67 to touch 3rd out of lane 8. He clocked a time of 1:44.93, which ties him for 30th all-time and makes him just the 33rd man to break 1:45.
He is also the #13 European in history, and will now be one of the favorites to make the final, if not the podium, in the individual 200 free later this week.
Loktev dropped half a second from his previous best of 1:46.17, touching 5th after the opening leg in a time of 1:45.59. He was 7th at the halfway point of the first leg in 51.20, but moved up two spots with a 27.20 third 50 and maintained that position down the final length.
New National Records, Men’s 200 Free
Carlos D’Ambrosio (ITA) – 1:44.72 Dimitrios Markos (GRE) – 1:44.93 Denis Loktev (ISR) – 1:45.59National Relay Standards Tumble
Half of the nations in the final lowered their national record in the men’s 4×200 free relay, including silver medalists France and bronze medalists Germany.
France were indebted to the monumental 1:43.76 leadoff that Leon Marchand threw down, but also had one of the best second halves thanks to 17-year-old Sauveur Cristofini’s 1:45.28 and a 1:45.75 anchor from Roman Fuchs.
Marchand was nearly three seconds faster than Amaury Leveaux had been on the leadoff at the 2012 Olympics, with Cristofini three quarters of a second faster than Clement Lefert. Roman Fuchs was two and a half seconds slower on the anchor, but the lead was already enough that they knocked half a second off the previous record of 7:02.77.
Split Comparison
Previous French Record, 2012 – 7:02.77 New French Record, 2026 – 7:02.23 200 Amaury Leveaux – 1:46.70 Leon Marchand – 1:43.76 400 Gregory Mallet – 1:46.83 Pierre Largeron – 1:47.11 600 Clement Lefert – 1:46.00 Sauveur Cristofini – 1:45.28 800 1:43.24 Roman Fuchs – 1:45.75Germany sliced nearly a second off their super-suited national standard of 7:03.19, which featured a 1:42.81 leadoff from Paul Biedermann that stands as the #2 performance in history.
Lukas Martens was nearly three seconds slower tonight with a 1:45.71 as the first swimmer, but their next two legs were significantly faster. Jarno Baschnitt’s 1:45.10 was a key leg, as he moved up from 4th at the halfway point to hand over to Cornelius Jahn in 2nd place.
Split Comparison
Previous German Record, 2012 – 7:03.19 New German Record, 2026 – 7:02.28 200 Paul Biedermann – 1:42.81 Lukas Martens – 1:45.71 400 Felix Wolf – 1:47.65 Timo Sorgius – 1:45.63 600 Yannick Lebherz – 1:47.31 Jarno Baschnitt – 1:45.10 800 Clemens Rapp – 1:45.42 Cornelius Jahn – 1:45.84Two further set national records, with Greece slicing a second off their former standard of 7:09.10 from 2024 with a 7:08.15 tonight and Lithuania lowering their record by another 2.40 seconds this evening.
They won gold at the European Championships two years ago in 7:08.04, which was a new national record. Lithuania then added 2.44 seconds at the World Championships last summer to place 11th and miss the final, despite setting a huge new national record of 3:12.74 in the 4×100 free relay to qualify 8th into the final in that event.
They had already sliced two seconds off their record in the 4×200 free this morning with a 7:05.93 to place 3rd in the heats, and dropped another two and a half seconds this evening for a total drop for the day of 4.51 seconds.
Three of the four swimmers from the title-winning quartet in 2024 swam again tonight. Danas Rapsys moved from anchor to leadoff, with Tomas Lukminas replaced by Tajus Juska, who took Rapsys’ place on the anchor.
Rapsys was seven tenths slower on the leadoff than he had been on the anchor, roughly equivalent to a relay start, while Tomas Navikonis was two seconds faster on a flying leg than he was on the leadoff two years ago. Kristupas Trepocka was just under a second faster, while Juska was 1:45.30 on the anchor leg, more than two seconds faster than Lukminas had been.
Split Comparison
Previous Lithuanian Record, 2024 – 7:08.04 New Lithuanian Record, 2026 – 7:03.53 200 Tomas Navikonis – 1:47.42 Danas Rapsys – 1:45.62 400 Tomas Lukminas – 1:47.66 Tomas Navikonis – 1:45.45 600 Kristupas Trepocka – 1:48.06 Kristupas Trepocka – 1:47.16 800 Danas Rapsys – 1:44.90 Tajus Juska – 1:45.30New National Records, Men’s 4×200 Free
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