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 | Day 5 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4DAY 5 FINALS START LIST
Day 5 Finals Schedule
Women’s 100 Butterfly Final Men’s 200 Freestyle Final Women’s 200 Breaststroke Final Women’s 100 Backstroke Semi-Finals Men’s 50 Breaststroke Semi-Finals Women’s 50 Freestyle Semi-Finals Men’s 200 Butterfly Semi-Finals Women’s 200 IM Semi-Finals Men’s 50 Backstroke Final Women’s 1500 Freestyle Final Mixed 4×100 Freestyle Relay FinalTo kick off tonight’s finals session we have the women’s 100 fly final. Roos Vanotterdijk is the top seed by nearly a second and it looks like it will take something special to stop her in the final. She matched the Championship record last night in 55.89, with Angelina Kohler (56.79) and Anna Ntountounaki (56.99) the only other swimmers under 57 seconds.
The men’s 200 free final will see David Popovici (1:44.56) aim to defend the European title he won in 2022 and 2024. He has not lost this race since the 2023 World Championships, but Lukas Martens (1:44.79) has targeted the event this year and will be hoping to take the race to the Romanian.
Angharad Evans (2:20.96) and Evgeniia Chikunova (2:20.71) had a fantastic battle in the second semi-final of the women’s 100 breast last night and will go again in lanes 4 and 5 in the final. The men’s 50 back should see a similar battle in the middle of the pool between world record holder Kliment Kolesnikov (24.14), Pavel Samusenko (24.03), and Miroslav Knedla (24.20), although all eight finalists are separated by just 0.42 seconds.
Mary-Ambre Moluh (59.66), who broke 58 seconds for the first time with a 57.99 leading off the mixed medley relay, is the top seed and one of only two women under 1:00. Marrit Steenbergen (59.66) matched her exactly, and this will be the first of three swims for her tonight alongside the 50 free and mixed 4×100 free relay.
Katie Shanahan (1:00.62), who won the 200 back, is the #8 seed, with Moluh’s teammate Pauline Mahieu 3rd in 1:00.25. Expect the semi-finals to be much faster than the heats were this morning.
Alberto Razzetti (1:54.64) led the men’s 200 fly heats this morning, but Leon Marchand (1:55.90) in the first semi-final could be the man to beat. He was nearly five seconds off the 1:51.21 he swam to move to #2 all-time at the Paris Olympics, but set a huge lifetime best in the 200 free on day 2 and will have the home crowd behind him.
Krzysztof Chmieleski (1:55.77) and Michal Chmielewski (1:56.11) will swim next to each other in the second semi-final, while 200 back champ Hubert Kos (1:57.41) is also in the field.
The women’s 200 IM is led by defending champion Anastasia Gorbenko (2:11.87), but the 400 IM champion, Ireland’s Ellen Walshe (2:12.12), is the #2 seed. Amalie Smith (2:12.45) and Abbie Wood (2:12.23) will hope to make it two Brits in the final.
Milou van Wijk (24.13) is the top seed in the women’s 50 free ahead of Sarah Sjostrom (24.21), Sara Curtis (24.33) and MarritSteenbergen (24.34), after slicing a tenth of a second off her best this morning. Defending champion Kasia Wasick (24.39) and European junior champion Theodora Taylor (24.93) could help make this a very fast pair of semi-finals.
Simone Cerasuolo (26.20) set a new Italian record in the 50 breast this morning and looks to be the man to beat, with his teammate Nicolo Martinenghi (26.65) second-fastest. Defending champion Melvin Imoudu (26.84) won his heat this morning and has already set a new German record of 26.57 this year.
Simona Quadarella (16:05.28) and Isabel Gose (16:10.51) will lock horns again in the women’s 1500 free, having taken gold and silver in the 800 free three days ago, but will need to watch out for European junior champion Kseniia Misharina (16:08.71), who is in lane 5 next to Quadarella.
Wrapping up the evening is the mixed 4×100 free relay. Czechia are the surprise top seed after pulling away from the competition on the second half of the race this morning, but with most nations bringing in their big guns this should be a fantastic battle which could see the European record go down.
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