By Sophie Kaufman 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 | Day 6 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Day 6 Finals Heat Sheet
Welcome back for the penultimate finals session of the 2026 European Championships!
It’s been an electric week of racing so far and that looks set to continue this evening with another 14 races including nine medal rounds. The action gets underway immediately with four finals–men’s 200 butterfly, women’s 50 freestyle, men’s 50 breaststroke, and women’s 200 IM–as the first four events of the session.
Arguably, all four of these finals also have a clear favorite. Olympic champion Leon Marchand is the man to beat in the men’s 200 butterfly, particularly with world record holder Kristof Milak focused on sprints this season. This is Marchand’s first individual medal opportunity of the week as he’s only swimming this and the 400 freestyle individually due to injury. Worlds silver medalist Krysztof Chmielewski swims out of lane one, so watch for silver and bronze to come from anywhere in the pool.
Then, Sarah Sjostrom will be on deck for the women’s 50 freestyle final with history on the line. She’s searching for her 19th European title, which would also make her the winningest female swimmer in the championships’ history. She’s the only woman who cleared the 24-second barrier during the semifinals, putting her in a familiar spot and underlining her status as the favorite.
The men’s 50 breaststroke looked like anyone’s race coming into the meet. And of course, anything can happen in such a short race but Italy’s Simone Cerasuolo did a convincing job asserting that it’s his race during the earlier rounds. He fired off an Italian record 26.20 in the heats, tying Qin Haiyang as the second-fastest performer all-time. Then, he backed that up with a 26.23 in the semifinals. Italy is looking for a 1-2 finish in the event as Nicolo Martinenghi swims next to Cerasuolo in lane five after qualifiying with a 26.62.
The women’s 200 IM rounds out the evening’s first set of finals. Abbie Wood has set herself up as the favorite here. She swam a 2:09.99 in the semifinals, touching about a second ahead of Alba Vazquez Ruiz (2:10.87), the second-fastest qualifier. Wood is hunting for her first individual European title after being part of three title winning relays and earning 200 IM silver in 2020.
Oliver Klemet (14:48.51) and Johannes Liebmann (14:50.83) qualified first and second overall for the men’s 1500 freestyle final, setting up for the German distance crew to continue a strong week. Olympic 800 freestyle champion Daniel Wiffen (14:52.29) aims to spoil that party, as does Hungary’s own distance duo of Zalan Sarkany (14:51.94) and David Betlehem (14:57.96).
The women’s 100 backstroke final is another opportunity for a country to earn a 1-2 sweep. France’s Mary-Ambre Moluh and Pauline Mahieu have locked up the middle lanes for the final. They did so convincingly, swimming 58.21 and 58.93, respectively, in the semifinals, when no other woman broke 59 seconds. Marrit Steenbergen has been on fire this week though and Alina Gaifutdinova also has the French duo in her sights.
Before the mixed 4×200 freestyle relay, there are two para events that round out the individual finals this session: the women’s 50 freestyle and the men’s 100 freestyle. The finals will use a points based system so swimmers from different sporting classifications can face off against each other. The women’s 50 freestyle features a solid contingent of sprinters, including Defne Kurt, who earned five gold medals at her first World Para Swimming Championships last fall. The men’s event meanwhile largely features swimmers racing an off event, making it an intriguing race in a different way.
Men’s 200m Butterfly — Final
World Record: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022) European Record: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022) Championship Record: 1:51.10 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2021) 2025 World Champion: Luca Urlando, United States – 1:51.87 2024 European Champion: Kristof Milak, Hungary – 1:54.43Final:
Leon Marchand (France) — 1:51.72 Richard Marton (Hungary) — 1:54.06 Apostolos Siskos (Greece) — 1:54.13 Alberto Razzetti (Italy) — 1:54.23 Krysztof Chmielewski (Poland) — 1:54.74 Hubert Kos (Hungary) — 1:54.89 Arbidel Gonzalez Alvarez (Spain) — 1:54.97 Michal Chmielewski (Poland) — 1:55.42The French crowd had to wait a long time these championships to cheer on Marchand, their Olympic hero, in an individual event. There was a lot of pent up energy in the roar of the crowd as Marchand emerged on deck and dove into the water.
The crowd was engaged from the start of the race. It was Marchand’s Texas training partner, Hubert Kos, that took the race out. He charged out to the lead, turning at the 50-meter mark in 24.35. Kos still had the lead at the halfway mark (53.32) with Marchand .18 seconds behind.
Marchand made his move on the third 50. He fired off a field-best 28.95 split; no one else in the field was faster than 29.51 on that same leg. That put him into the lead by more than a half-second with Kos hanging onto second. Marchand continued to power away from the field on the final 50 meters. He put together another field-best split with a 29.27, stopping the clock at 1:51.72.
This marks Marchand’s first individual European title.
Kos paid for his early speed, fading away on the final 50 meters with a 31.77 split. However, Hungary still put a swimmer on the podium. Richard Marton moved from 4th to 2nd on the final 50 meters with a 29.82 split, earning silver in 1:54.06. Greece’s Apostolos Siskos moved up even more places. His 29.40 closing split was second only to Marchand and he used it to jump from 6th onto the podium in 3rd. He clocked 1:54.13, edging out Alberto Razzetti by a tenth. Both Siskos and Razzetti swam national records.
Women’s 50m Freestyle — Final
World Record: 23.55 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2026) European Record: 23.61– Sarah Sjostrom Sweden (2023) Championship Record: 23.74– Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2018) 2025 World Champion: Meg Harris (AUS), 24.02 2024 European Champion: Petra Senanszky (HUN), 24.56Final:
Kasia Wasick (Poland) — 23.84 Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) — 23.86 Sara Curtis (Italy) — 23.99 Milou Van Wijk (Netherlands) — 24.09 Marrit Steenbergen (Netherlands) — 24.18 Neza Klancar (Slovenia) — 24.56 Arina Surkova (NAB) — 24.59 Beryl Gastaldello (France) — 24.73Kasia Wasick‘s face at the finish said it all.
Wasick earned her first long-course European title in stunning fashion, upsetting Sarah Sjostrom, one of the greatest sprinters in the sport’s history. Sjostrom has more than half of the sub-24 second swims in event history and had added another one in the semifinals. Meanwhile, no other woman had gotten under that barrier during the semifinals.
But anything can happen in the splash and dash. In the final, Wasick got her head down and was able to hit the wall in 23.84, two-hundredths ahead of the Olympic champion and former world record holder. Wasick’s time is a new Polish record to boot, breaking her former mark of 23.95 from the 2024 World Championships.
The entire podium broke the 24-second mark–which we did not see the last time a major meet was in Paris at the 2024 Olympics. Curtis continued her excellent meet by breaking her Italian record in the 50 freestyle, cracking the 24-second mark for the first time in her career with a 23.99. Her former mark was a 24.09 from Sette Colli.
Men’s 50m Breaststroke — Final
World Record: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2017) European Record: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2017) Championship Record: 26.21 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2021) 2025 World Champion: Simone Cerasuolo (ITA), 26.51 2024 European Champion: Emre Sakci (TUR), 26.92Final:
Nicolo Martinenghi (Italy) — 26.57 Simone Cerasuolo (Italy)/Koen de Groot (Netherlands) — 26.62 (tie) Stepan Babenko (Ukraine) — 26.72 Volodymyr Lisovets (Ukraine) — 26.78 Melvin Imoudu (Germany) — 26.87 Ilya Shymanovich (NAA) — 26.93 Ivan Kozhakon (NAB) — 27.01Nicolo Martinenghi pulled off the 50/100 breaststroke double at these European Championships by timing his finish exactly correct. After 26.2s led the way through the heats and the semifinals, it took a 26.57 for Martingenhi to win again in Paris. He also pulled off the 50/100 breaststroke double gold at the 2022 European Championships in Rome.
Italy will still stand on the first and second steps on the podium. Simone Cerasuolo will share the second step of the podium with Koen de Groot after both hit the wall in 26.62, five-hundredths behind Martinenghi. De Groot’s time marks a Dutch record.
Ukraine’s duo of Stepan Babenko and Volodymyr Lisovets touched 4th and 5th, with Babenko setting a Ukrainian record. His 26.72 betters the 26.84 Lisovets swam in the previous round at these championships.
Women’s 200m Individual Medley — Final
World Record: 2:05.70 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2025) European Record: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2015) Championship Record: 2:07.30 – Katinka Hosszu,Hungary (2016) 2025 World Champion: Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2:06.69 2024 European Champion: Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR), 2:09.75Final:
Ellen Walshe (Ireland) — 2:09.81 Anita Gastaldi (Italy) — 2:10.07 Roos Vanotterdijk (Belgium) — 2:10.10 Abbie Wood (Great Britain) — 2:10.17 Justina Kozan (Poland) — 2:10.55 Amalie Smith (Great Britain) — 2:10.56 Anastasia Gorbenko (Israel) — 2:10.70 Alba Vazquez Ruiz (Spain) — 2:10.99When was the last time that the podium was made up of swimmers from lane 1, lane 7, and lane 8?
The women’s 200 IM final was chaotic. Belgium’s versatile star Roos Vanotterdijk was out quickly. She’s the newly crowned 100 butterfly European champion, so it was no surprise to see her in front after the butterfly, courtesy of a 26.81 split. She maintained her lead after the backstroke leg (32.66) and had a lead of over a half-second ahead of Anita Gastaldi.
Abbie Wood took over the lead after the breaststroke leg with a field-best 37.74. She made the turn for home about three-tenths ahead of Vanotterdijk. Everything was up for grabs on the freestyle leg. Ellen Walshe had been steadily working her way through the field. She was 7th after butterfly, 6th after backstroke, then 5th after breaststroke. She split a 30.33 freestyle leg, which powered her from 5th to gold in an Irish record 2:09.81.
It’s her second gold of the meet after she won the women’s 400 IM earlier.
Gastaldi made the jump from 4th to 2nd on the freestyle leg (30.98). She pulled even with Vanotterdijk and was just able to out-touch the Belgian, 2:10.07 to 2:10.10. That left Wood in 4th, .07 seconds behind Vanotterdijk.
Walshe’s 50 freestyle split turned heads but it was not actually the fastest in the field. It was Justina Kozan who owned that honor, splitting 29.90 to close out her race and touching 5th (2:10.55).
Men’s 50m Freestyle — Semifinals
World Record: 20.88 – Cam McEvoy, Australia (2026) European Record: 20.94 – Fred Bousquet, France (2009) Championship Record: 21.11 – Ben Proud, Great Britain (2018) 2025 World Champion: Cam McEvoy (AUS), 21.14 2024 European Champion: Kristian Gkolomeev (GRE), 21.72Top 8 Qualifiers:
Nikita Sheremet (Ukraine) — 21.38 Egor Kornev (NAB) — 21.44 Vladyslav Bukhov (Ukraine) — 21.51 Andrej Barna (Serbia) — 21.52 Kristof Milak (Hungary) — 21.58 Tom Fannon (Ireland) — 21.65 Giovanni Guatti (Italy)/Diogo Matos Ribeiro (Portugal) — 21.72 (tie)Vladyslav Bukhov won the first semifinal in a 21.51 ahead of Giovanni Guatti (21.72) and Maxime Grousset (21.76). The second semifinal turned out to be much quicker, as only Bukhov and Guatti moved on to the final from the first semifinal.
Ukraine swept the men’s 50 freestyle semifinals as Nikita Sheremet got the win in heat two. Sheremet tied Bukhov’s Ukrainian record with his 21.38 and will have lane four for tomorrow’s final.
Egor Kornev has been on fire in the sprints this season and brought that form to Paris this week. So, there was much anticipation as he stepped onto the blocks as to whether he would make a push for Cam McEvoy‘s world record. He may make that charge in the final but today, he did all he needed to do to make the final with a 21.44.
Kristof Milak continued to impress in the sprint events. After his bronze medal effort in the 100 freestyle, he logged a lifetime best 21.58 to move through to the final in 5th place. His former lifetime best was a 21.76.
It took a 21.72 to make the top eight with Guatti and Diogo Matos Ribeiro tying for 7th in that time. That leaves Grousset on the outside looking in.
Women’s 50m Breaststroke — Semifinals
World Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2023 European Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2023 Championships Record: 29.30 – Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 2021 2025 World Champion: 29.55 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) 2022 European Champion: 29.59 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU)Top 8 Qualifiers:
Benedetta Pilato (Italy) — 29.84 Eneli Jefimova (Estonia) — 29.93 Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) — 30.05 Veera Kivirinta (Finland) — 30.26 Anna Elendt (Germany) — 30.34 Florine Gaspard (Belgium) — 30.42 Mona McSharry (Ireland) — 30.43 Maria Ramos Najji (Spain) — 30.47Italy stamped its authority over the 50 breaststroke this session. After Martinenghi won gold and Cerasuolo tied for silver in the men’s final, Benedetta Pilato moved through to tomorrow evening’s women’s final as the top qualifier.
Pilato won the second semifinal in 29.84. She was joined under the 30-second barrier by Estonia’s Eneli Jefimova. Jefimova’s 29.93 is just a tenth off the Estonian record she swam last April. They were the only two women to break through 30 seconds tonight, but world record holder Ruta Meilutyte is right there with a 30.05.
There’s a bit of a gap then between 3rd and 4th with Veera Kivirinta touching in 30.26. Anna Elendt qualified in 30.34 and Mona McSharry continued a strong session for Ireland by qualifying 7th (30.43).
Men’s 1500m Freestyle — Final
World Record: 14:30.67 – Bobby Finke, United States (2024) European Record: 14:32.80 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy (2022) Championship Record: 14:34.04 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy (2016) 2025 World Champion: Ahmed Jaouadi, Tunisia – 14:34.41 2024 European Champion: Kuzey Tuncelli, Turkey – 14:55.64Final:
Johannes Liebmann (Germany) — 14:26.79 *World Record* Zalan Sarkany (Hungary) — 14:39.45 Oliver Klemet (Germany) — 14:40.64 Sacha Velly (France) — 14:45.75 Luca de Tullio (Italy) — 14:54.78 David Betlehem (Hungary) — 14:59.26 Andrei-Theodor Proca (Romania) — 15:02.18 Daniel Wiffen (Ireland) — 15:06.30What have we just witnessed?
Two years ago, Bobby Finke broke the long-standing world record in the men’s 1500 freestyle in the last individual event at the 2024 Olympics. He broke from his traditional race strategy and took the race on from the very start, powering to a 14:30.67.
Today, in the same arena, 19-year-old Johannes Liebmann torched that world record with a 14:26.79, becoming the first man to break 14:30 in event history. Liebmann, like Finke, jumped on the race from the very beginning. He shot ahead of Finke’s world record pace, turning at the 500m mark in 4:46.25. He continued to gain distance on the line; he turned in 7:40.85 at the 800m mark–that time would have been second in the individual 800m freestyle event behind his own winning time (7:37.59).
Liebmann split 27.39 on his final 50 meters, stopping the clock in 14:26.79 for his second gold medal of these championships. Before this season, Liebmann had not broken 14:50 in this event. He broke onto the senior international scene this spring with a European record in the 800 freestyle and clocked a 14:39.67 lifetime best in this event at the same meet.
Behind him, Zalan Sarkany had an excellent swim for 2nd place. He popped a Hungarian reocrd 14:39.45. He is the 18th man to break the 14:40 barrier and the first Hungarian. His former lifetime best was 14:47.89.
Germany went 1-3 in this race, maintaining their place as one of the deepest nations in men’s distance swimming. Oliver Klemet took the bronze in 14:40.64, just off his lifetime best 14:39.03.
Olympic bronze medalist Daniel Wiffen finished 8th (15:06.30).
Women’s 200m Butterfly — Semifinals
World Record: 2:01.65 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2026) European Record: 2:04.27 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2009) Championship Record: 2:04.79 – Mireia Belmonte, Spain (2014) 2025 World Champion: Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2:01.99 2024 European Champion: Helena Rosendahl Bach (DEN), 2:07.88Top 8 Qualifiers:
Emily Richards (Great Britain) — 2:07.10 Helena Rosendahl Bach (Denmark) — 2:07.18 Laura Cabanes Garzas (Spain) — 2:07.53 Keanna Macinnes (Great Britain) — 2:07.61 Ellen Walshe (Ireland) — 2:08.96 Paola Borrelli (Italy) — 2:08.97 Lana Pudar (Bosnia & Herzegovina) — 2:09.65 Sarah Dumont (Belgium) — 2:09.95Emily Richards won the first women’s 200 butterfly semifinal. She clipped her lifetime best of 2:07.33 with a 2:07.10. That held up through the second semifinal as the fastest time of the round and it will be Richards that swims out of lane four in tomorrow night’s final.
Denmark’s Helenda Rosendahl Bach was just off Richards’ time in the second semifinal with a 2:07.18, setting up an excellent race tomorrow. Bach has been as fast as 2:06.65. She’s looking for her third-straight podium finish in this event; she is the reigning champion and earned silver in 2022. Great Britain’s Keanna Macinnes should be in that fight as well. She’s been having a strong meet and has been as fast as 2:06.76 in her career.
Fresh off a European title in the 200 IM, Walshe turned around and qualified for the 200 butterfly final. She qualified 5th in 2:08.96.
Men’s 200m Individual Medley — Semifinals
World Record: 1:52.69 – Leon Marchand, France (2025) European Record: 1:52.69 – Leon Marchand, France (2025) Championship Record: 1:56.66 – Laszlo Cseh, Hungary (2012) 2025 World Champion: 1:53.68 – Leon Marchand, France 2024 European Champion: 1:57.21 – Hubert Kos, HungaryTop 8 Qualifiers:
Hugo Gonzalez (Spain) — 1:56.61 *Championship Record* Hubert Kos (Hungary) — 1:56.73 Mikhail Shcherbakov (NAB) — 1:57.37 Alberto Razzetti (Italy) — 1:57.46 Duncan Scott (Great Britain) — 1:57.49 Max Litchfield (Great Britain) — 1:57.96 Ilia Borodin (NAB) — 1:58.32 Jan Cejka (Czechia) — 1:58.33Hugo Gonzalez erased Laszlo Cseh‘s 14-year-old European Championship record to win the second semifinal. Kos, on his second swim of the day, led for much of that second semifinal, but Gonzalez was able to get the better of him on the freestyle leg and get his hand on the wall first. Gonzalez was about three-tenths off his lifetime best with the swim and undercut Cseh’s record by five-hundredths.
Kos touched in 1:56.73 and the two will swim out of lanes four and five in the final tomorrow night.
Mikhail Shcherbakov won the first semifinal in 1:57.37, which held up as the third-fastest qualifying time. Third through fifth are separated by just .12 seconds after the semifinal round. Behind Shcherbakov, there’s Razzetti (1:57.46) and Duncan Scott (1:57.49). Razzetti also raced the men’s 200 butterfly final earlier this evening.
Jan Cejka swam a Czech record 1:58.33 and grabbed lane eight for the final.
Women’s 100 Backstroke — Final
World Record: 57.13 – Regan Smith (USA), 2024 European Record: 57.99 — Mary-Ambre Moluh (FRA), 2026 Championship Record: 58.08 – Mary-Ambre Moluh (FRA), 2026 2025 World Champion: 57.16 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS) 2022 European Champion: 59.40 – Margherita Panziera (ITA)Final:
Mary-Ambre Moluh (France) — 57.94 *European Record* Marrit Steenbergen (Netherlands) — 58.46 Pauline Mahieu (France) — 58.77 Alina Gaifutdinova (NAB) — 59.53 Irene Ciercoles Galve (Spain) — 59.65 Lauren Cox (Great Britain) — 59.71 Katie Shanahan (Great Britain) — 59.83 Camila Rodrigues Rebelo (Portugal) — 1:00.10There was some controversy over whether the 57.99 100 backstroke Mary-Ambre Moluh swam leading off the mixed 4×100 medley relay counted as the new European record. It was listed on the heat sheet for the session, but Moluh cleared all doubts by breaking it to win the women’s 100 backstroke European title.
Moluh flipped in 27.73, .21 seconds under world record pace. She came back in 30.21 and though the world record line went by her, she got her hand on the wall .05 seconds ahead of her best from earlier these championships.
Steenbergen picked up another medal at these championships with a silver. She was on her second swim of the session and clocked 58.46, just off her 58.33 lifetime best. Behind her, Pauline Mahieu earned bronze in a lifetime best 58.77, giving France a 1-3 finish in front of a home crowd.
Men’s 100m Backstroke — Semifinals
World Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022) European Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022) Championship Record: 52.11 – Camille Lacourt, France (2010) 2025 World Champion: Pieter Coetze (RSA), 51.85 2024 European Champion: Apostolos Christou (GRE), 52.23Top 8 Qualifiers:
Georgii Iakovlev (NAB) — 52.89 Thomas Ceccon (Italy) — 52.93 Apostolos Christou (Greece) — 52.94 Pavel Samusenko (NAB) — 53.12 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (France) — 53.16 Mewen Tomac (France) — 53.17 Jack Skerry (Great Britain) — 53.21 Ksawery Masiuk (Poland) — 53.24The French fans had more to cheer about during the first men’s 100 backstroke semifinal. Olympians Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Mewen Tomac earned a 1-2 finish in the heat. Ndoye-Brouard is the bronze medalist in this event from the 2025 World Championships and out-touced Tomac by .01 seconds to win heat one, 53.16 to 53.17.
Both made it through to the final, though the second semifinal was much faster. The four fastest qualifiers for the final all came from the second semifinal, led by Georgii Iakovlev‘s 52.89. He was closely followed by Thomas Ceccon, the world record holder and Olympic champion (52.93) and Apostolos Christou, a 200 backstroke Olympic medalist (52.94).
Those were the only three men under 53 seconds in the semifinal. Pavel Samusenko swam 53.12, giving the Neutral Athletes – B two swimmers in the final.
Women’s Para 50 Freestyle — Final
Final:
Irene van Drimmlen (Netherlands), S11 — 934 points Dafne Kurt (Turkey), S10 — 903 points Liesette Bruinsma (Netherlands), S11 — 816 points Lisa Kruger (Netherlands), S10 — 758 points Jenna Rajahalme (Finland), S10 — 713 points Susannah Kaul (Estonia), S10 — 707 points Janina Falk (Austria), S14 — 648 points Susana Veiga (Portugal), S9 — 641 pointsWhen Defne Kurt made her debut at a major international para swimming championships last year, she took a run at the 50 freestyle S10 world record with a 27.21. The world record in her sport classification is a 27.10, swum by Yi Chen at the 2024 Paralympics. Kurt got even closer to that record during prelims with a 27.12 European record.
She was just off that mark in tonight’s final with a 27.13. That was good for the silver medal as Irene Van Drimmlen scored 934 points to Kurt’s 903 points. Kurt will get another chance at the world record at next month’s World Para European Championships next month in front of a home crowd.
The Dutch women did very well in this event, finishing 1-3-4. Van Drimmlen took the gold with 934 points and will share the podium with countrymate Liesette Bruinsma. Bruinsma took bronze with 816 points and should be a major factor in tomorrow’s 100 freestyle; she is the the 100 freestyle S11 silver medalist from the 2024 Paralympics. Lisa Kruger made it three Dutchswimmers in the top four with 758 points.
Times will be added when the results file is made available.
Men’s Para 100 Freestyle — Final
Final:
Alexander Hillhouse (Denmark), S14 — 860 points (53.08) Rogier Dorsman (Netherlands), S11 — 834 points (58.41) Marco Meneses (Portugal), S11 — 785 points (S11) Thijs Van Hofweegen (Netherlands), S6 — 761 points (1:07.64) Diogo Cancela (Portugal), S8 — 702 points (1:01.60) Thomas Van Wanrooij (Netherlands), S13 — 695 points (56.06) Andreas Ernhofer (Austria), S4 — 685 points (1:30.59) Andreas Onea (Austria), S8 — 494 points (1:09.26)The rankings for these para swimming events are using a points-based system, which allowed swimmers to race each other across sport classifications. In that system, the person who touches the wall first does not always win gold. But that’s exactly what happened in this race. Denmark’s Alexander Hillhouse clocked a 53.08 and earned 860 points. That secured him first place ahead of Rogier Dorsman‘s 834 points.
Hillhouse is best known as a butterflier and backstroker–he won gold in the 100m butterfly S14 at his first Paralympic Games in Paris. This marks his first freestyle medal at a major international para swimming event. Dorsman has won sprint freestyle medals before, particularly at the World Para Swimming Championships, doing so most recently in 2025.
Portugal’s Marco Meneses rounded out the podium by scoring 785 points, edging out Thijs Van Hofweegen by 24 points.
Mixed 4x200m Freestyle — Final
European Record: 7:22.33 – Benchmark Championship Record: 7:26.67 – Great Britain (2021) 2024 European Champion: Hungary, 7:30.11Final:
Great Britain (McMillan, Richards, Colbert, Anderson) — 7:24.13 *Championship Record* Germany (Märtens, Baschnitt, Roth, Tobehn) — 7:25.43 Neutral Athletes ‘B’ (Vekovishchev, Girev, Klepikova, Misharina) — 7:26.35 Lithuania — 7:28.05 France — 7:30.70 Sweden — 7:32.10 Spain — 7:34.41 Italy — 7:35.70.Great Britain has swept the 4×200 freestyle relays at these European Championships. After winning gold in the men’s and women’s respective races, they earned gold in the mixed relay by breaking their own championship record in 7:24.13.
Sweden’s Robin Hanson and Germany’s Lukas Märtens battled as their country’s lead-off legs. Johannson got the better of Märtens, 1:46.71 to 1:46.73. Great Britain was running 4th after the opening 200m with a 1:47.09 from Jack McMillan.
After skipping the individual 200 freestyle, Matthew Richards put up a 1:45.85 split on the second leg, moving the British team up to second at the halfway mark of the race. Germany had taken over the lead after a 1:45.87 split from Jarno Baschnitt. Freya Colbert went into the water for the Brits on the third leg. She pulled the team ahead, outsplitting Germany’s Linda Roth by almost two seconds with a 1:55.23. Freya Anderson gave the Brits another 1:55 split (1:55.96) and stopped the clock in 7:24.13. None of the other teams had two 1:55 splits from their women.
Germany slid briefly to 3rd place after the third leg but a 1:55.65 split from Maya Tobehn put them back in silver medali position. The team clocked 7:25.43, finishing almost a second ahead of the Neutral Athletes – B quartet. Grigorii Vekovishchev, Ivan Girev, Daria Klepikova, and Kseniia Misharina swam 7:26.35 for bronze.
This gold medal put Great Britain back ahead on the medal table with six golds to Italy’s five.
Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2026 European Championships: Day 6 Finals Live Recap
Hence then, the article about 2026 european championships day 6 finals live recap was published today ( ) and is available on swimswam ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( 2026 European Championships: Day 6 Finals Live Recap )
Also on site :
- The trickle-down effect from Yankees’ punchless offense that could lead to uncomfortable Aaron Boone call
- Happy Game Day! Some Love For Jahdae Walker, Preseason Players to Watch, Tua Gets Meme’d, and Other Bears Bullets
- 50 Back Medalists Kolesnikov, Knedla, British Champion Morgan, All Miss 100 Back Semi-Finals