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 3 | Day 4Men’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 (Kos, Szabo, Nemeth, Milak) — 3:10.03 **New Championship Record Neutral Athletes B (Girev, Kukushkin, Shchegolev, Kornev) — 3:10.12 Croatia (Hribar, Nenadic, Sivec, ) — 3:11.08 Spain — 3:11.91 Great Britain — 3:11.92 Germany — 3:13.20 Norway — 3:14.45 Netherlands — 3:15.98What. A. Finish. We saw two titanic anchor legs, from Kristof Milak and Egor Kornev, as two teams came in under the five-year-old Championship record of 3:10.41.
Croatia demolished their national record to win bronze, as did Spain to place 4th. Great Britain, who were 4th at the World Championships last summer, couldn’t match that finish here in what was the fastest European Championships final ever and one comparable to some recent World Championships.
Leadoff Splits
Luca Hoek Le Guenedal, who reset the Spanish record with a 47.26 in the 100 free semi-finals two days ago, was two tenths of a second off that time with a 47.47 leadoff. He led the field by three tenths of a second, pulling clear during the third 25, to record his third-fastest swim ever.
Jere Hribar went one better with his second-fastest swim, clocking 47.77 for Croatia to miss his national record of 47.42 from the 100 free final by 0.35 seconds. Matt Richards was the final man under 48 seconds in 47.89, a second faster than the 48.88 he swam in the individual semi-finals two days ago. Richards also scratched the 200 free heats this morning, having been the #3 seed.
Ivan Girev faded a little down the stretch to touch in 48.14, half a second off his best, with Hubert Kos lowering his PB by seven tenths of a second in his third swim of the night, having already swum the 100 fly (50.25) and 50 back (24.73).
Josh Salchow was eight tenths off his lifetime best and German record of 47.80, with Sander Sorensen four tenths off his Norwegian record of 48.65. Brandon van den Berg was just off the 49.19 he clocked in the heats two days ago with a 49.25 for the Netherlands.
Rank Swimmer Nation Split 1 Luca HOEK le GUENEDAL ESP 47.47 2 Jere HRIBAR CRO 47.77 3 Matthew RICHARDS GBR 47.89 4 Ivan GIREV NAB 48.14 5 Hubert KOS HUN 48.18 6 Joshua SALCHOW GER 48.62 7 Sander K. SORENSEN NOR 49.07 8 Brandon van den BERG NED 49.25Rolling Splits
There were two colossal splits on the final leg of this race, as Kristof Milak (46.29) and Egor Kornev (46.32) clocked top-ten splits all-time. Milak jumped in with a lead of 0.06 seconds, and despite Kornev going out in a blistering 21.55 to the Hungarian’s 21.76, rallied in the closing meters to both outplit the individual silver medalist and take the win.
Milak was just under six tenths of a second faster than the 46.87 he swam to win individual bronze, which was already a new lifetime best by 0.60 seconds. He beat his previous best split of 46.89 by the same margin.
Kornev was 0.08 seconds slower than his previous best split but four tenths of a second faster than the 46.74 he swam in the individual final to move to #3 all-time. He now has two splits in the top ten in history, owning #8 from today and #9 from his 46.40 on the men’s medley relay at the World Championships last year.
Hungary’s other splits were a 48.29 from Szebasztian Szabo, 0.15 seconds off the 48.14 he swam this morning, and a 47.27 from 100 free finalist Nandor Nemeth, with his second-fastest split ever after a 47.17 from the 2018 European Championships. He was 0.17 seconds under the 47.44 lifetime best he clocked in the individual semi-finals
Vasilii Kukushkin went out in a blazing 22.01, but faded hard down the second 50 to split 47.77, half a second off the 47.22 he clocked this morning. Aleksandr Shchegolev was a solid 47.89 on the second leg for NAB, however that was a quarter of a second slower than he was on this relay five years ago.
Croatia had four swimmers finish in the top 30 individually, and those four delivered on that promise in spades tonight. Vlaho Nenadic dipped under 48 seconds here, half a second faster than his lifetime best of 48.46, and Vili Sivec was six tenths of a second under his newly-minted PB of 48.85, set two days ago.
Their biggest split came from anchor Toni Dragoja, who swam in the NCAA with Alabama. Swimming in between Kornev and Milak, he hung onto their wave and split a stunning 47.11, nearly a second and a half faster than the personal best of 48.58 he clocked individually, and 1.16 seconds faster than he swam in the heats this morning.
Spain had three splits between 48.22 and 48.10 as consistency saw them break their previous national record of 3:13.19 by over a second and place 4th here. Cesar Castro Valle was a little off his personal best of 47.98 with a 48.22 split, but significantly faster than the 49.14 he swam individually and under the 48.41 he anchored in this morning.
Migeul Perez-Godoy was a quarter of a second faster than his flat start best of 48.38, while Sergio de Celis Montalben was slightly under his PB of 48.24.
Great Britain led through the middle portion of this race, Duncan Scott using a strong second 50 of 24.84 to split 47.65 and overhaul NAB’s Kukushkin, before Gabriel Shepherd and Tom Dean swam matching splits of 48.19. That was slower than either one as at the Commonwealth Games, where Shepherd clocked 47.73 and Dean was 47.99, and a hundredth slower than Alex Cohoon was this morning.
Germany had three NCAA swimmers on their rolling splits in NC State’s Kaii Winkler (47.88), Tennessee’s Julian Koch (47.98) and Michigan’s Ole Mats Eidam (48.72). Winkler was slightly off his 47.52 split from last summer but under the 48.56 he swam individually, while Koch was six tenths under his flat start best of 48.57.
Norway’s Elias Refstie was a mile under his lifetime best of 49.60, clocked in the heats on day 2, with a 48.11. He had been 48.38 this morning, and was joined under 49 seconds by Jakob Harlem, who at 48.31 was nearly a second under his best of 49.25 from the European Junior Championships last month, and Bjorner Laskerud.
The Dutch got a 48.44 second leg from Merlin Belmon, half a second under his best of 48.90, but Floris Tanis‘ 49.32 had then a second and a half behind Norway in 7th when they handed over to anchor leg Sean Niewold. He cruised home in 48.97, well off the 48.05 he swam individually and even further away from his 47.80 lifetime best.
Rank Swimmer Nation Split 1 Kristof MILAK HUN 46.29 2 Egor KORNEV NAB 46.32 3 Toni DRAGOJA CRO 47.11 4 Nandor NEMETH HUN 47.27 5 Duncan SCOTT GBR 47.65 6 Vasilii KUKUSHKIN NAB 47.77 7 Kaii Liam WINKLER GER 47.88 8 Aleksandr SHCHEGOLEV NAB 47.89 9 Vlaho NENADIC CRO 47.96 10 Julian KOCH GER 47.98 11 Sergio de CELIS MONTALBAN ESP 48.1 12 Elias Nordeng REFSTIE NOR 48.11 13 Miguel PEREZ GODOY BRAGELI ESP 48.12 14 Gabriel SHEPHERD GBR 48.19 15 Thomas DEAN GBR 48.19 16 Cesar CASTRO VALLE ESP 48.22 17 Vili SIVEC CRO 48.24 18 Szebasztian SZABO HUN 48.29 19 Jakob Austevoll HARLEM NOR 48.31 20 Merlin BELMON NED 48.44 21 Ole Mats EIDAM GER 48.72 22 Bjoernar Grytnes LASKERUD NOR 48.96 23 Sean NIEWOLD NED 48.97 24 Floris TANIS NED 49.32
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