2026 European Junior Championships: Day Three Finals Live Recap ...Middle East

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2026 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

We’re about to enter day three’s final session of the 2026 European Junior Swimming Championships taking place in Munich, Germany.

In addition to several semi-finals serving as the second round from this morning’s heats, we’ll be treated to the final of the girls’ 1500m freestyle, boys’ 200m IM, girls’ 100m butterfly, boys’ 1500m freestyle and girls’ 4x200m free relay.

On key race on which to especially keep an eye will be the boys’ 200m IM, with Neutral Athlete Mikhail Shcherbakov of Russia already well ahead of his gold medal-winning performance in the event from 2025.

Shcherbakov ripped a new Championships Record of 1:57.07 last night to claim the top seed, becoming the 6th-fastest 18&U male in history. We’ll see if he has more in the tank for tonight’s main event as he enters the pool nearly three seconds ahead of his peers.

Kicking us off, however, will be the girls’ 1500m freestyle, where Hungary’s ace Vivien Jackl will try to upgrade her bronze medal from last year to gold as one of the top-tier athletes headed to the medal-contesting race.

GIRLS 1500 FREESTYLE – FINAL

GOLD –  Kseniia Misharina (NA), 16:05.46 SILVER – Vivien Jackl (HUN), 16:11.59 BRONZE – Anna Arshavskaia (NA), 16:25.25

The women’s 1500m freestyle saw 17-year-old Kseniia Misharina get it done for gold, hitting a near-personal best of 16:05.46 to top the podium.

The Russian, competing as a neutral athlete here, beat the field by over 6 seconds, with last year’s bronze medalist Vivien Jackl of Hungary upgrading her hardware to silver this time around in 16:11.59.

Fellow Russian Anna Arshavskaia wrapped up the podium in 16:25.25.

World Junior Championships multi-medalist Misharina’s career-swiftest mark rests at the 16:03.42 put up earlier this year. Jackl was also outside of her PB tonight, with her best-ever performance remaining at the 16:06.37 which garnered her the European Championships gold medalist last year in Serbia.

Although Arshavskaia’s time was also outside her PB, it blew away the 16:48.32 performance she nabbed last year to place well off the podium in 7th overall.

GIRLS 200 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

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The girls’ 200m backstroke semi-finals saw Dutch swimmer Eva Rottink soar to the top of the rankings, with the Indiana University commit stopping the clock at a solid result of 2:11.98 as the sole swimmer of the field under the 2:12 barrier.

That’s a huge lifetime best for the future Hoosier, laying waste to the 2:13.96 notched at the Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year.

Teammate Roos Rottink also made the top 8, claiming the 4th seed in 2:12.30, just .08 outside her best-ever 2:12.22 from the 2025 edition of the aforementioned competition.

Hungarian Fanni Viktoria Kokas claimed the top seed out of the morning heats in 2:12.13 and is very much still in the mix. She posted 2:12.08 tonight, with both efforts clearing her former PB of 2:13.18 notched at the Barcelona stop of the Mare Nostrum Tour this year.

The 2025 European Junior Championships bronze medalist Aissia-Claudia Prisecariu will also be in the hunt, capturing the 3rd seed in 2:12.18, already beating the 2:13.10 she logged last yer to land on the podium.

BOYS 200 IM – FINAL

GOLD – Mikhail Shcherbakov (NA), 1:58.12 SILVER – Emre Onus (TUR), 2:00.18 BRONZE – Simon Laviolette (BEL), 2:00.37

After his powerful performance of 1:57.07 last night which represented a new Championships Record, Russia’s Mikhail Shcherbakov was over a second slow, but still wound up with the gold when medals were on the line.

Shcherbakov still defeated the field handily, with his winning effort of 1:58.12 scoring the sole outing of the pack under the 2:00 barrier. His 1:57.07 record-setting performance last night rendered the teen the 6th-fastest 18&U male in history.

Turkey got on the board in this event, courtesy of Emre Onus who touched in 2:00.18, followed closely by Simon Laviolette of Belgium who rounded out the podium in 2:00.37.

GIRLS 50 FREE – FINAL

GOLD – Theodora Taylor (GBR), 24.82 SILVER – Irene Ciercoles (ESP), 24.91 BRONZE – Kira Manokhina (NA), 25.02

It was a thrilling girls’ 50m freestyle final which saw the top 3 seeds from last night’s semi’s all land on the podium, albeit in a rearranged order.

After hitting 24.86 yesterday for the 2nd seed, 17-year-old British ace Theodora Taylor mustered a little more speed to ultimately stop the clock at 24.82 to reap gold tonight.

That outing is off the 24.59 PB she established at this year’s Aquatics GB Championships to put a new British Age Group Record on the books.

Spain’s Irene Ciercoles logged 24.82 to lead the semi’s but added slightly to post 24.91, still good enough for the silver and the only other result under 25 seconds.

Kira Manokhina of Russia bagged the bronze, touching in 25.02, to narrowly miss the 24.98 PB which gave her a 5th place finish at last year’s World Junior Championships.

As for Taylor, the British teen is building up quite the resume when it comes to this event. Taylor has earned multiple silvers in the race, including at last year’s World Junior Championships and the European Junior Championships. Prior to that, she set the ground work with a gold at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival and also at that year’s Commonwealth Youth Games.

BOYS 50 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS

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GIRLS 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

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BOYS 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

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BOYS 200 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

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GIRLS 100 BUTTERFLY – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

BOYS 100 BUTTERFLY – SEMI-FINALS

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BOYS 1500 FREESTYLE – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

GIRLS 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

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