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 | Day 6 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5| Day 6Mixed 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 — 7:35.70Three teams went under the Championship record in the little-swum mixed 4×200 free relay, with Great Britain coming out on top thanks to their female swimmers, after the opening half of the race proved exceptionally cagey. Lithuania were right in the medal hunt until the final 50 meters, and Italy’s decision to rest national record holder Carlos D’Ambrosio looked to backfire.
Leadoff Splits
The first leg was an incredibly tight affair, as every leadoff looked to be match-racing their way through rather than going out to get a lead. Just 0.43 seconds separated the field at the 150m mark, and the spread was only 0.83 seconds at the end.
Lukas Martens led with 50 to go, but Robin Hanson closed slightly faster to take the lead at the end of the leg, with his 27.26 final 50 the fastest in the field. No one went out under 51.50.
Grigorii Vekovishchev, who was just 0.05 seconds off the lead with 50 to go, split 28.06 on the final length to fall to 7th.
Every swimmer here was slower than their lifetime best. Miguel Perez-Godoy was the closest, half a second off the 1:47.02 he swam at the Spanish Championships. Lukas Martens was furthest off his, missing his PB of 1:44.14 by 2.59 seconds with his slowest swim of the meet.
Rank Swimmer Nation Split 1 Robin HANSON SWE 1:46.71 2 Lukas MARTENS GER 1:46.73 3 Roman FUCHS FRA 1:46.98 4 Jack McMILLAN GBR 1:47.09 5 Filippo MEGLI ITA 1:47.11 6 Danas RAPSYS LTU 1:47.38 7 Grigorii VEKOVISHCHEV NAB 1:47.52 8 Miguel PEREZ GODOY BRAGELI ESP 1:47.54Rolling Splits (Male)
The cautiousness continued into the second leg, with four 1:45-point splits in the middle of the pool. Tomas Navikonis, who won individual silver in a huge lifetime best of 1:44.55, split 1:45.59 here, about on par with his two splits in the men’s 4×200 free prelims and final on day 1.
Ivan Girev was only just slower with a 1:45.65, although again the NAB athlete had the slowest split of the four swimmers at the front. Matt Richards was 1:45.85, a second off his season best of 1:44.77 and four tenths slower than his 1:45.44 leadoff from the men’s 4×200 free on the first day.
Jarno Baschnitt has had a strong meet, lowering his 200 free best by three quarters of a second to 1:45.76 and splitting 1:45.10 on the men’s 4×200 free, and was 1:45.87 here with a 27.03 final 50, fastest in the field, as he handed over to Linda Roth with a lead of three tenths of a second.
Sauveur Cristofini was a solid 1:46.46 off the 1:45.74 he swam in the individual semi-finals but a strong return for a 16-year-old swimming in a bizarrely guarded opening from most swimmers here. Cesar Castro Valle was out fast for Spain in 51.32 at the 100, but, just like in the heats of the men’s 4×200 free, faded hard to split 1:48-flat.
Ludvig Bartolek was 1:48.10, slower than his 1:47.45 leadoff from this morning, while Jacopo Barbotti was very evidently still feeling the effects of the 200 IM semi-finals less than an hour earlier as he split 1:50.84, five seconds slower than his 1:45.89 from the men’s 4×200 free.
Rank Swimmer Nation Split 1 Tomas NAVIKONIS LTU 1:45.59 2 Ivan GIREV NAB 1:45.65 3 Matthew RICHARDS GBR 1:45.85 4 Jarno BASCHNITT GER 1:45.87 5 Sauveur CRISTOFINI FRA 1:46.46 6 Cesar CASTRO VALLE ESP 1:48.05 7 Ludvig BARTOLEK SWE 1:48.10 8 Jacopo BARBOTTI ITA 1:50.84Rolling Splits (Female)
Great Britain had two of the three fastest female splits in the field, with Freya Colbert putting them in the lead by a second with one leg to go thanks to a 1:55.23 split. That is 0.89 seconds slower than her British record of 1:54.34, but faster than the 1:55.81 she posted in the individual final and under the 1:55.65 leadoff she threw down on the women’s 4×200 free relay.
Freya Anderson anchored that relay on day 1 with a 1:56.76, but was eight tenths of a second faster here in 1:55.96. That is a second under her season best of 1:57.00.
Maya Tobehn and Daria Klepikova were the only other swimmers under 1:56, with Klepikova backing up her 1:55.79 split from the women’s 4×200 free with a 1:55.98 here that put NAB into second at the final takeover. Tobehn had her best swim of the meet here on the anchor for Germany, recovering after a poor individual swim and a 1:58.47 leadoff on the women’s relay with a 1:55.65 here to overtake and then pull away from Kseniia Misharina, and win silver for Germany.
Misharina had the sixth-fastest split in the field, but was a tenth slower than her 1:57.10 leadoff from the women’s 4×200 free. Linda Roth was nine tenths of a second slower than the 1:56.33 she split on that relay, and half a second off the 1:56.71 she swam for 4th in the individual final.
Lithuanian record holder Ieva Jurkunaite opened in a blistering 54.64, closing a 2.50 second gap to NAB to just half a second over two lengths and flipping just a tenth of a second behind Tobehn and Germany. However, she paid for her early pace with a 31.70 final 50, fading having looked on for a medal.
She was under her national record of 1:56.90 from the individual semi-finals, and has been fantastic given she came into the meet with a PB of 1:58.62. Jurkunaite’s teammate Sylvia Statkevicius was just off the 1:58.44 she swam this morning in 1:58.68, comparable to her lifetime best of 1:58.51 but over a second faster than the 1:59.99 she swam individually.
Lucile Tessariol was three tenths slower than she was this morning with a 1:58.08 for France, while Sofia Astedt was two and a half seconds faster tonight with a 1:58.25. Elvira Mortstrand (SWE) and Giulia Rossi-Bene (FRA) were also three tenths and four tenths faster, respectively.
Bianca Nannucci and Anna Chiara Mascolo were slower than their season bests of 1:57.82 and 1:58.09, but were well out of the race after Barbotti’s leg, and Spain got a pair of 1:59-point swims from Ainhoa Campabadal Amezcua and Alba Herrero Lazaro, the former two seconds slower than her flat start best and the latter a second under her split on the women’s 4×200 free relay earlier in the week
Rank Swimmer Nation Split 1 Freya COLBERT GBR 1:55.23 2 Maya TOBEHN GER 1:55.65 3 Freya ANDERSON GBR 1:55.96 4 Daria KLEPIKOVA NAB 1:55.98 5 Ieva JURKUNAITE LTU 1:56.40 6 Linda ROTH GER 1:57.18 7 Kseniia MISHARINA NAB 1:57.20 8 Lucile TESSARIOL FRA 1:58.08 9 Sofia ASTEDT SWE 1:58.25 10 Anna Chiara MASCOLO ITA 1:58.66 11 Sylvia STATKEVICIUS LTU 1:58.68 12 Elvira MORTSTRAND SWE 1:59.04 13 Ainhoa CAMPABADAL AMEZCUA ESP 1:59.09 14 Bianca NANNUCCI ITA 1:59.09 15 Giulia ROSSI-BENE FRA 1:59.18 16 Alba HERRERO LAZARO ESP 1:59.73Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2026 European Championships: Day 6 Mixed 4×200 Free Relay Analysis
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