2027 European Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships to be hosted in Croatia
Bjelovar in Croatia will host next year’s European Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships, European Aquatics confirmed today. The continent’s most talented swimmers will gather in this central city to compete between June 29 and July 4 at a brand new pool built within the major new Wellovar pool complex at a cost of 51 million euros […]
Paris 2026: Day two of EA Swim Safe Conference highlights key funding challenges and smart breakthroughs
Speaking on day two of the European Swim Safe Conference, Jan Pommer, chief executive officer of the German Swimming Federation (DSV) highlighted a range of challenges that are being addressed in the establishment of his country’s learn-to-swim programme. According to DSV research, 60 per cent of 10-year-olds in Germany cannot swim safely, and 20 per […]
Paris 2026: Marchand speaks about “hard decision” to drop two events but is “excited” about home EA Championships
Leon Marchand today spoke about the “hard decision” not to compete in breaststroke or individual medley events at his home European Aquatics Championships. At a crowded press conference at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, where the seven-day swimming programme starts tomorrow, the 24-year-old four-times Paris 2024 champion explained how he had been dealing with the adductor […]
Paris 2026: Women’s preview – Steenbergen set for five events
Marrit Steenbergen could make the same kind of impact at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 as she did last December at the EA Short Course Championships in Lublin, where she earned five golds and set five European records. The 26-year-old Dutch swimmer, who retained her world 100m freestyle title last year and set a […]
Paris 2026: European Aquatics launches its ongoing Centenary celebrations in the Champs Elysees
European Aquatics launched its Centenary celebrations in the heart of Paris at a Gala dinner held at Pavillon Elysee on the Champs-Elysees. One hundred years after the first European Championships took place in Budapest, EA President Antonio Silva celebrated its latest iteration taking place in the French capital – and offered a preview the formal […]
Paris 2026: Men’s swimming preview – Marchand drops to two events
Leon Marchand, named yesterday for four events in the swimming which starts tomorrow at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026, has reduced his programme to two events. The 24-year-old French sporting icon has withdrawn from the 200m and 400m individual medley, two of the four individual events he won at Paris 2024, but remains on […]
