OPEN WATER NEWS
The European Aquatics Masters Championships 2026 continued in Samorin and Graz over the past three days, with the open water swimming programme beginning and the diving programme continuing at the...
Leonie Beck has retired from competitive swimming after a 10-year top class career in which she took part at three Olympics and won world and European open water titles. The 29-year-old German...
Paris 2026 was a major success for European Aquatics and a new benchmark for the organisation of our flagship Championships, which involved 1,268 athletes – including, for the first time, para...
Germany’s Florian Wellbrock and Hungary’s Bettina Fabian, who between them collected five medals across the open water swimming programme at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026...
The four-day open water swimming programme at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 came to a close on the River Seine on Saturday, with Italy claiming the overall team trophy for the most...
Alghero, Italy will host the 2027 European Aquatics Open Water Swimming Championships, European Aquatics confirmed today, with the Sardinian city set to welcome the continent’s top open water...
The third day of open water swimming action at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 played host to the relatively new 3km knockout sprint format, and it was Germany’s Isabel Gose and...
European Aquatics has just been informed that, despite recent water quality tests confirming that the River Seine meets the required standards for competition, a small amount of oil/fuel has...
Florian Wellbrock and Ginevra Taddeucci followed up their 10km victories with further gold in the 5km events on day two of open water competition at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026...