2025 in review: women’s artistic swimming
Lilou Lluis Valette and Iris Tio Casas contributed gold in the women’s duet free routine to Spain’s total of nine medals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Credit: Hiroyuki Nakamura/World Aquatics Spain’s total of nine medals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore – more than any other nation – was significantly aided by […]
Slovakia and Austria offer historic first joint-hosting of European Aquatics Masters Championships 2026 – information bulletin available
The European Aquatics Masters Championships 2026 will take the historic form of a cross-border celebration jointly hosted by Slovakia and Austria. The announcement of this innovative new format was made today at a press conference in Vienna attended by European Aquatics President Antonio Silva; Arno Pajek, President of the Austrian Swimming Federation (OSV), Richard Ungerhofer, […]
Singapore 2025: Austria’s Alexandri sisters back to gold standard as Italy’s Pelati earns first senior world medal
Austria’s triplet sisters Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina Alexandri returned to the top step of the podium at the World Aquatics Championships as they secured the women’s duet technical title in Singapore. The 27-year-olds, who won world duet free gold at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, produced a masterly version of the Swan Lake theme – […]
Funchal 2025: Austria, Great Britain and Italy win gold on day 4 as Spain secures overall crown
Austria, Great Britain and Italy won titles on the final day of the European Aquatics Artistic Swimming Championships Funchal 2025 as Spain claimed the overall Championships Trophy by winning medals in all 11 events, including five golds. The day’s opening women’s and men’s solo technical finals were won in outstanding fashion by Austria’s Vasiliki Alexandri […]
Funchal 2025: Austria and Spain make golden start to the European Aquatics Artistic Swimming Championships
The opening day of the European Aquatics Artistic Swimming Championships Funchal 2025 saw one title regained, as Austria’s Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina Alexandri repeated their 2023 win in the duet technical, and one retained, as Spain’s Dennis Gonzalez Boneu and Mireia Hernandez Luna made a successful defence in the mixed duet technical. This first stand-alone edition […]
More Spanish gold in prospect at European Artistic Swimming Championships Funchal 2025
Will Spain manage to maintain its recent pre-eminence at the European Aquatics Artistic Swimming Championships Funchal 2025, which will take place from June 2 to 5? Three years ago at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome the Spanish team took third place in the medals table, with a total of four, behind runaway winners Ukraine, […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Vasiliki Alexandri voted best female artistic swimmer
Austria’s 27-year-old Vasiliki Alexandri has been named best female artistic swimmer in the 2024 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards – a year after her triplet sisters Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina won the same honour. In a season when her sisters combined to finish one place off the Olympic podium in the duet event, Alexandri […]
