Paris 2026: Latest European Aquatics Championships set new benchmark for success on all fronts
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 swimmers – and 615 volunteers. Diving, artistic swimming and swimming took place in the Paris 2024 legacy venue of the Olympic Aquatic Centre, while open […]
Paris 2026: Records re-written at momentous European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026
As the last ripples flow from an outstanding European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 its legacy in terms of world and continental swimming can be partly expressed by the list of records broken during the seven-day programme at the Olympic Aquatic Centre. A total of 33 records were set and one equalled, with the list being […]
Paris 2026: Marchand makes winning start to individual quest as Sjostrom and Curtis progress on day five at European Aquatics Championships
France’s swimming icon Leon Marchand began his pursuit of individual honours in encouraging fashion at the European Aquatics Championships this morning. Having dropped any breaststroke racing from his programme because of the hip adductor injury he is still carrying, the 24-year-old four-time Paris 2024 champion received predictably massive support in the Olympic Aquatic Arena as […]
Paris 2026: “Superwoman” Curtis strikes again with second world record as super-fast Milak reclaims golden standing
“Superwoman” Sara Curtis, Italy’s 19-year-old swimming sensation, struck again at a packed Olympic Aquatic Centre, following up her previous night’s women’s 50m backstroke world record with another – 26.56 – as she earned her first senior European gold. Shortly beforehand home swimmer Maxime Grousset was beaten to men’s 100m butterfly gold over the last few […]
Paris 2026: World record for “Superwoman” Curtis on winning night for Sjostrom, Liebmann and – just – Popovici
Nineteen-year-old Sara Curtis of Italy, always likely to earn high honours at these European Aquatics Championships, peaked earlier than expected in the evening session of day three as she set a world record of 26.63 in the women’s 50m backstroke semi-finals. Curtis had hopes of a first European gold here having set a European record […]
Paris 2026: Steenbergen advances on two fronts as Ponti and Curtis enjoy day 3 swimming heats
Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands, winner of the previous night’s 100m freestyle gold, qualified comfortably from the 200m freestyle and 50m backstroke heats in the day three morning session as she pursues her manifold ambitions at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026. Elsewhere there was a perky performance in the men’s 100m butterfly heats from […]
Paris 2026: Seven swimming storylines to watch out for at the European Aquatics Championships
Will Marchand march on after injury? Leon Marchand is the central poster boy for the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026. A French sporting icon after winning four golds at the Paris 2024 Olympics. But he pulled out of the French Championships at the end of June after straining his right adductor during the 200m breaststroke […]
Return to Paris: Italy’s teenager Curtis in record form as she heads for EA Championships in French capital
By the time she competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics, where she reached the women’s 50m freestyle semi-finals, Italy’s Sara Curtis had won four world junior medals and nine European junior medals. She finished 2024 by earning her first senior international medal – a 4x50m mixed freestyle gold at the World Aquatics Championships (25m) in […]
Marchand handed extra events as France, Italy, Greece and Netherlands name swimming teams for European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026
Leon Marchand may have left the French Elite Championships with just one qualified event to his name, but the world record holder is on course to arrive at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 with a considerably busier schedule. Marchand won the 400m individual medley on day one of the French Championships in Saint-Etienne in […]
Steenbergen beats Sjostrom’s women’s 100m freestyle world record with 51.68 clocking in Rome – as Marchand swims season’s world best in St Etienne
Marrit Steenbergen set a women’s 100m freestyle world record of 51.68 tonight at the Sette Colli International in Rome. The 26-year-old Dutch athlete was out in 24.98 and home in 26.70 to better the record of 51.71 set by Sweden’s Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom at the 2017 World Championships. Meanwhile France’s quadruple Paris 2024 champion […]
