2026 European Swimming Championships
Italy go for a near-full strength team this morning, resting only Thomas Ceccon. Nicolo Martinenghi features on breaststroke after winning the individual 50 and 100, with world junior champion Carlos D’Ambrosio on fresstyle. Michele Busa is a 51-mid swimmer on fly but could make way for Alberto Razzetti, who finished 9th individually in the 100 fly, tonight depending on his performance this morning.
Great Britain go with a couple of lineup options that presage tonight’s final relay, with national record holder Ollie Morgan swimming backstroke despite failing to make the individual semi-finals yesterday. Jack Skerry is in tonight’s final while Matt Ward beat Morgan in the heats as well, so he could be swimming for a finals spot here.
Filip Nowacki is on the breaststroke leg, which means we are likely to see Adam Ramsay-Peaty tonight unless the 18-year-old throws down something special. He split 58.85 for Jersey at the Commonwealth Games and lowered his 100 breast lifetime best to 59.03 this week, as well as winning the 200 breast.
Neutral Athletes B go with Pavel Samusenko on the leadoff, so it may well be Georgey Iakovlev swimming the final tonight after he was their top swimmer in the 100 back semi-finals last night. Kliment Kolesnikov led off the mixed medley relay on day 2, but failed to make the individual semi-finals.
Kirill Prigoda, who swam on the finals relay at the World Championships as NAB won gold last year, also swims this morning. That sets up individual silver medalist Ivan Kozhakin to come in tonight, while Roman Shevliakov is on fly instead of Andrei Minakov.
France lead off with Mewen Tomac, who has been 52.9 twice now at this meet, and have a rookie back half in Amaury Albar and Cedric Gabali, although both have looked solid so far this week. Spain put national record holder Luca Hoek Le Guenedal on the anchor and lead off with individual 50 back finalist Ivan Martinez Sota.
There is no David Popovici for Romania, but Germany put out a relatively strong team with probably their top option on each leg. Cornelius Jahn leads off, Melvin Imoudu swims breaststroke, and national record holders Kaii Winkler and Joshua Salchow bring them home.
Ireland have a dangerous front half, with world junior champion Jon Shortt and individual finalist Jack Kelly, who swam an Irish 100 breast record of 58.90 in the individual semi-finals. Greece use 200 back silver medalist Apostolos Siskos on fly after he won bronze in the 200 fly last night, and Apostolos Christou is rested with Evangelos Makrygiannis on backstroke.
Heat 1
Lane 3 – Switzerland
Lane 4 – Neutral Athletes A
Lane 5 – Italy
Heat 2
Lane 0 – Ukraine
Lane 1 – Lithuania
Lane 2 – Denmark
Lane 3 – Poland
Lane 4 – Sweden
Lane 5 – Germany
Lane 6 – Romania
Lane 7 – Austria
Lane 8 – Iceland
Heat 3
Lane 0 – Spain
Lane 1 – France
Lane 2 – Croatia
Lane 3 – Great Britain
Lane 4 – Latvia
- Arons RODERTS
- Emils KRAMPE
- Dmitrijs TOLSTIHS
- Janis Deivs DZIRKALIS
Lane 5 – Neutral Athletes B
Lane 6 – Greece
Lane 7 – Israel
Lane 8 – Ireland
