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2026 DANISH OPEN
Thursday, April 16th – Sunday, April 19th Bellahøj Swimming Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark LCM (50m) European Championships & European Junior Championships Qualification Event SwimSwam Preview Meet Central Day 1 Recap Entries/Live Results LivestreamDay two of the 2026 Danish Open brought the heat, with multiple domestic stars etching their names onto the nation’s roster for this year’s European Championships in Paris.
National record holder Helena Rosendahl Bach was among them, with the 2024 European Championships gold medalist pumping out a swift swim of 2:07.82.
25-year-old Bach split 28.55/32.03 (1:00.58)/33.11/34.13 to handily defeat the field, with the next-closest competitor represented by Kamma Rasmussen who touched nearly ten seconds later in 2:17.53.
As for Bach, her outing here checks in just outside the list of her top ten personal performances, a resume boasting a Danish benchmark of 2:06.65 set during the semi-finals of the event at the 2024 Olympic Games.
There in Paris, Bach settled for a 4th-place finish in a slightly slower result of 2:07.11.
The Dane remains ranked 9th in the world at the moment, courtesy of her season-best 2:07.47 notched earlier this month at the Malmsten Swim Open Stockholm.
Robert E. Falborg Pedersen found success in the men’s 50m backstroke, putting up a European Championships-worthy time of 25.07.
He was the only one to clear the 25.36 selection standard, as Frederick Lentz touched next in 25.55 and Mads Hansen rounded out the podium in 25.76.
Pedersen’s result ties the 4th-best of his career. His PB remains at the 24.89 notched first in 2025 and then again last year.
European junior champion Martine Damborg was oh-so-close to adding the women’s 100m free gold to the 50m fly top prize she scored on day one.
The versatile 18-year-old hit the wall in a time of 54.67, relegated to silver behind winner Iris Berger of Austria who was a fingernail faster in 54.65.
Berger split 26.73/27.92 to Damborg’s 27.01/27.66, with the latter earning a European Championships qualification time.
Elisabeth Ebbesen bagged the bronze behind the pair in 55.23.
For Berger, her time here was just off her lifetime best of 54.41 from last year. Damborg, too, was near her best-ever, with her 54.67 just .05 shy of the 54.62 she turned in for gold at the 2025 edition of this competition.
Finally, Jonas Gaur, who was a World Junior Championships silver medalist, delivered the victory in the men’s 50m breast.
20-year-old Gaur posted 27.35 to comfortably clear the 27.60 European Championships nomination standard.
Elias Elsgaard accomplished the same feat as the silver medalist in 27.53 while the 3rd-place finisher here, Rio Halawi‘s time of 27.86 cleared the standard for under-23-year-old athletes.
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