Paris 2026: Marchand marches on into stacked 400m freestyle final as Quadarella closes on triple triple
Leon Marchand, seeking further success at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 after winning his first title in the previous night’s men’s 200m butterfly, qualified fourth fastest for what promises to be an epic 400m freestyle final in tonight’s closing swimming session. In what is for him a relatively new event, the 24-year-old quadruple Paris […]
Paris 2026: Popovici and Quadarella complete European Aquatics Championship doubles as Marchand reaches new level
On a night when French icon Leon Marchand raised home hopes sky high by qualifying fastest into tomorrow night’s men’s 200m butterfly final, Romania’s 21-year-old David Popovici secured his third consecutive European 100m/200m freestyle double as he dominated the longer distance final in which he holds Olympic and world titles. Popovici was not the only […]
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 […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: Marrit Steenbergen voted best women’s swimmer
Marrit Steenbergen has been named best women’s swimmer in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards after an extraordinary season of success spanning long course and short course competition. The 25-year-old Dutch athlete, who earned 36.29% of the total vote, began her year in Singapore by retaining the 100m freestyle title she had […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: women’s swimming nominees
Simona Quadarella of Italy defended her world 800m and 1500m freestyle titles in Singapore, finishing fourth at the shorter distance in a European record of 8:12.81 and earning 1500m silver behind Paris 2024 champion Katy Ledecky of the United States in an European record of 15:31.79. Quadarella earned further honours at the European Aquatics Short […]
Switzerland’s Ponti targeting more short course medals at Lublin 2025 as Italian selection shows big ambitions
Noe Ponti will seek to add to his formidable collection of medals at the European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships which start in Lublin, Poland on Tuesday week (December 2). The 24-year-old Swiss athlete ended 2024 on a high as he set five short course world records and earned three golds at December’s World Aquatics […]
Budapest 2024: Europe’s female Olympic and world medallists ready to make their mark at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m)
Three of Europe’s Paris 2024 women’s medallists will return to global competition this week at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) which start in Budapest tomorrow. France’s Anastasiya Kirpichnikova, the Olympic 1500m freestyle silver medallist, Isabel Marie Gose of Germany, who took bronze behind her, and Dutch swimmer Tes Schouten, who finished third in the […]
