European Aquatics Masters Championships 2026 reaches thrilling conclusion
The final days of the European Aquatics Masters Championships delivered a fitting conclusion to almost two weeks of competition, with diving reaching its climax in Graz, open water swimmers completing their programme in Samorín and Masters water polo producing a full slate of finals. Across the three disciplines, athletes from across Europe continued to demonstrate […]
Diving, open water swimming and water polo deliver drama across two venues as Masters Championships enter closing stages
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 respective locations with a series of quality performances and memorable moments. The springboard programme in Graz produced tight finishes throughout the second day as it […]
Return to Paris: Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda battling adversity as he seeks more European gold
Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda was 13 when he became the youngest European champion in diving at the home 2019 Championships in Kyiv. Now 20, Sereda has gone on to win seven more European titles – as well as amassing three silvers and two bronzes at the World Championships. He is looking for further success in the […]
Two years after Olympic dream disappeared, Heimberg set for first Paris visit as defending European champion
Michelle Heimberg once hoped to see Paris for the first time while competing at the Olympics. One bad dive at the Swiss trials ended that ambition, setting her on a path that led away from the sport – and back again. Two years after failing to earn a place at the Paris 2024 Games Heimberg […]
Singapore 2025: Sereda’s silver on diving’s final day puts Ukraine on the world sporting map again
Ukraine’s 19-year-old phenomenon Oleksii Sereda earned men’s 10m platform silver today behind Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau in the final event on the diving programme. Sereda, three-times European champion in this discipline, was satisfied to have taken another step up the world podium after winning bronze in Doha last year. “I feel happy,” he told World Aquatics. […]
Singapore 2025: Italy’s Pellacani signs off with another diving bronze
Chiara Pellacani earned a third medal at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 as she claimed women’s 3m springboard bronze in dramatic fashion on the penultimate day of diving. The 22-year-old moved into a podium position thanks to her final dive in a contest where China’s Olympic champion Yiwen Chen and Jia Chen, winners of the […]
Singapore 2025: Great Britain’s Harper and Mew Jensen earn third successive world diving medal in 3m synchro
Great Britain’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen, women’s 3m synchro bronze medallists at the Paris 2024 Games, moved a step up the global podium today as they took silver at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 behind the Chinese pair of Yiwen Chen and Jia Chen. Yiwen, 26, who won the 2024 world and Olympic […]
Singapore 2025: Italy’s Pellacani earns first world individual medal on opening day of diving
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani became the first European diver to earn a medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore as she finished third in the women’s 1m springboard final. A classy winner of the European 1m springboard title in Antalya last month, the 22-year-old secured her first individual world medal having previously won two silvers […]
Singapore 2025: European divers take the plunge in medal quest at World Aquatics Championships
European divers will seek to make a medal impact at the World Aquatics Championships as their nine-day competition starts tomorrow at the OCBC Aquatics Centre. A total of 13 titles will be on offer, and although China – winners of nine golds at last year’s Championships in Doha and all eight at the Paris 2024 […]
