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: 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 New Wave: Ukraine’s Hrytsenko bouncing into medal contention at EA Championships
Ukraine’s 16-year-old Mark Hrytsenko already has a European gold after partnering Oleksii Sereda to men’s 10m synchro gold in Antalya last summer. But this former European junior trampoline champion has ambitions rising higher and higher as he approaches his third European Championships, where he will compete in the 10m as well as defending the 10m […]
Paris 2026: Men’s diving preview
At last year’s European Aquatics Diving Championships in Antalya Oleksii Sereda earned victory in the 10m platform, mixed team and 10m synchro in partnership with the then 15-year-old Mark Hrytsenko. Sereda, who at 13 became the youngest European diving champion when he won the 10m title at the 2019 home Championships in Kyiv, now has […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Britons bag bronze as China dominates opening Diving World Cup of 2026 in Montreal
Britons made the medal podium at an opening World Aquatics Diving World Cup of the season in Montreal that was dominated by China. Chinese athletes won all nine finals at the venue which hosted competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, but Britain’s Paris 2024 bronze medallists Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher got in on the […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: Oleksii Sereda voted best men’s diver
Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda has been named best men’s diver in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards after a season in which he earned his first individual world medal. The 19-year-old took silver in a dramatic 10m platform contest in Singapore that was won with a final flourish by Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau. Sereda, […]
2025 in review: men’s diving
A year of outstanding performances by European male divers culminated in a significant showing at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda, still only 19, earned the first individual world medal of his developing career as he took silver in a dramatic 10m platform final won with a final flourish by Australia’s Cassiel […]
