By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
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 Recaps: Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay — Final
World Record: 3:08.24 – USA (2008) European Record: 3:08.32 – France (2008) Championship Record: 3:10.41 – Russia (2021) 2025 World Champion: Australia, 3:08.97 2024 European Champion: Serbia, 3:12.90Top 8 Teams
Hungary — 3:10.03 **New Championship Record Neutral Athletes B — 3:10.12 Croatia — 3:11.08 Spain — 3:11.91 Great Britain — 3:11.91 Germany — 3:13.20 Norway — 3:14.45 Netherlands — 3:15.98Hungary lowered the five-year-old Championship record and hacked a second off their national record in the men’s 4×100 free relay tonight with a time of 3:10.03, as we saw possibly the best final leg battle on this relay since that relay 18 years ago.
Hubert Kos led off in 48.18 for the Magyars, dropping seven tenths of a second off his previous best of 48.87 from April 2024. He was followed by Szebastian Szabo, whose 48.29 was slightly slower than the 48.14 he clocked this morning.
Nandor Nemeth, who held the Hungarian record for 24 hours between the individual semi-final on day 2 and the final last night, split 47.27 on the third leg to move them from 5th to 2nd, just 0.01 seconds behind the leaders, Great Britain.
However, that was just 0.06 seconds ahead of Neutral Athletes B, who had the 3rd-fastest man in history in Egor Kornev on their leg. But Hungary had a top-five swimmer of their own in Kristof Milak – who, let’s not forget, is the world record holder in the 200 fly – and the 26-year-old came out on top with a stunning 46.29 split to hold off Kornev’s 46.32.
Hungary touched in 3:10.03, 0.38 seconds under the previous Championship record set by Russia in 2021, and a second faster than the Hungarian record from the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Milak, Szabo, and Nemeth were on that relay and were joined by Richard Bohus, who split 47.81 on the third leg. Milak, however, was two seconds faster on the anchor than he had been on the leadoff leg.
Split Comparison
Previous Championship Record (Russia), 2021 – 3:10.41
New Championship Record (Hungary), 2026 – 3:10.03
Previous Hungarian Record, 2021 – 3:11.06
100 Andrei Minakov – 48.18 Hubert Kos – 48.18 Kristof Milak – 48.24 200 Aleksandr Shchegolev – 47.64 Szebastian Szabo – 48.29 Szebastian Szabo – 47.44 300 Vladislav Grinev – 47.49 Nandor Nemeth – 47.27 Richard Bohus – 47.81 400 Kliment Kolesnikov – 47.10 Kristof Milak – 46.29 Nandor Nemeth – 47.57The anchor legs from Milak and Kornev rank as the #7 and #8 performances of all time. Kornev now has two splits in the top ten, the only man with more than one now that Kyle Chalmers (previously #8 and #10) has been displaced.
Kornev won individual silver ahead of Milak, 46.74 to 46.87, in the first race in history where it took a sub-47 swim to make the podium. They were out blisteringly fast tonight, Kornev turning in 21.55 ahead of Milak’s 21.76.
Making this split even more impressive for Milak, he was on his second swim of the evening after setting a new European record of 49.48 in the 100 fly. That was just 0.03 seconds off the world record, in a race in which he did not manage to hit the finish on a full stroke (although nor did Dressel in that world record swim).
The time between the two races was 1 hour, 16 minutes, and 44 seconds, and surely ranks among the most impressive two-event doubles in history.
Behind the leading pair, Croatia set a huge national record to win bronze, backing up the one they set this morning to qualify third-fastest into the final. Jere Hribar was 47.77 on the leadoff for his second-fastest swim ever after his 47.42 national record from the individual final, and was followed by Vlaho Nenadic (47.96) and Vili Sivec (48.24).
At the final takeover they were in 5th, but only 0.24 seconds off leaders Great Britain. Anchor Toni Dragoja, who split 48.27 this morning and was in between the wash of Kornev and Milak either side of him, threw down a scintillating 47.11 split.
Overall today, Croatia hacked 2.83 seconds off their previous record, which they swam at the 2024 European Championships to place 4th. Their 3:11.08 makes them the 11th-fastest nation in history, and the oldest member of their quartet is just 22 years old.
Also setting a national record tonight were the Spanish (3:11.91) and Norwegian (3:14.45) teams. Spain sliced more than a second off the 3:13.19 they swam the last time they were in Paris two years ago, with Luca Hoek Le Guenedal‘s 47.37 leadoff being key. Norway dropped another eight tenths of a second from the 3:15.23 they swam this morning, with Sandor Sorensen half a second faster on the leadoff tonight.
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