Tomblin and Pellacani crowned stars of Paris 2026 as European Aquatics Congress honours a record-breaking summer
European Aquatics Congress 2026, which took place last weekend in Baku, honoured Great Britain’s Ranjuo Tomblin and Italy’s Chiara Pellacani as the most successful athletes of the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026, with world record breakers Sara Curtis of Italy and Johannes Liebmann of Germany also receiving awards for their achievements in the competition. Tomblin […]
Paris 2026: Italy’s Pellacani and Sereda of Ukraine get trophies as women’s and men’s divers of 2025
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani, who has already secured four gold medals at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026, received yet another accolade tonight as she was presented with her trophy for being voted EA women’s diver of the year for 2025. Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda also received a trophy as best men’s diver in the 2025 European […]
Paris 2026: Pellacani has European night of nights with golds in mixed 3m synchro and women’s 1m
Italian fans celebrated hugely after witnessing a peerless exhibition of diving from Chiara Pellacani, who ended day 3 at the European Aquatics Championships with two golds – the first partnering Matteo Santoro in the mixed 3m synchro, the second in retaining her women’s 1m springboard title. The chant of “Chiara, Chiara, Chiara!!” rang out at […]
Paris 2026: Italy earn first gold of EA Championships as Sereda inspires Ukraine to unlikely bronze
Italy earned the first gold of the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 in dramatic fashion at the Olympic Aquatic Centre today as they overtook the Neutral Athletes B quartet to win the mixed team diving event. There was drama too in the contest for bronze as the defending champions Ukraine came from a long way […]
Paris 2026: Olympic Aquatic Centre set for “another historic moment” with start of European Aquatics Championships
Two years after the Olympic Aquatic Centre hosted Paris 2024 competition the vice-president of the French Swimming Federation, Lazreg Benelhadj, is anticipating another “historic moment” when the European Aquatics Championships start at the same venue tomorrow. Speaking at a press conference within the Centre attended by world and Olympic medallists and leading officials including the […]
Paris 2026: Women’s diving preview
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani will compete at Paris 2026 seeking – with amply justified confidence – to add to her total of 19 European diving medals. Still only 23, Pellacani was voted European Aquatics’ female diver of 2025 after her blaze of glory at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, where she earned 1m and 3m […]
Paris 2026: Six European Aquatics Championships storylines to watch for in diving and high diving
Pellacani pushing for more gold Chiara Pellacani became the first person to win five diving medals at a single European Aquatics Championships, doing so on in her home city of Rome in 2022. That total of European medals has since grown to 19, including eight golds. And as she heads towards Paris 2026 in search […]
Return to Paris: Pellacani planning golden moments in the French capital
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani, named best women’s diver in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards, is heading towards Paris 2026 boosted by historic recent achievement in individual and mixed competition. At last year’s World Aquatics Championships in Singapore the 23-year-old from Rome combined with Matteo Santoro in the 3m synchro to earn Italy’s […]
2026 in prospect: diving
This summer’s European Aquatics Championships in Paris provide the main focus of the season for athletes within the continent – not least for the respective EA male and female divers of 2025, Oleksii Sereda of Ukraine and Italy’s Chiara Pellacani. Both excelled at last year’s World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, where Sereda, then 19, earned […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: Chiara Pellacani voted best women’s diver
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani has been named best women’s diver in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards. Pellacani, who turned 23 on September 12, claimed 41.56% of he vote after a season of historic achievement in individual and mixed competition. At the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore she combined with Matteo Santoro in […]
