2026 Mare Nostrum – Monaco: Preliminary Entry List Includes Siobhan Haughey, Noe Ponti and More

2026 Mare Nostrum Tour – Monaco

• May 23-24, 2026
• Prince Albert II Nautical Center
• LCM (50 meters)
• Mare Nostrum Tour Central
• Preliminary Entry List – Monaco

The 2026 edition of the Mare Nostrum Tour is on the horizon, with the first stop in Monaco set to run from May 23-24. The meet will feature a loaded lineup of athletes including Olympians and world record holders as the Tour released the preliminary list of athletes committed to race in Monaco.

2026 Mare Nostrum Tour Dates

• May 23-24, 2026 – International Swimming Meeting of Monte-Carlo, Monaco
• May 27-28, 2026 – Meeting Arena, Canet-en-Roussillon, France
• May 30-31, 2026 – Gran Premi Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Mare Nostrum regular Siobhan Haughey will be on deck in Monaco and is preliminarily entered in her bread-and-butter events, the 100 and 200 freestyle. Last season, Haughey competed at all three stops of the Mare Nostrum Tour, looking to use the Tour as an early season test for the 2025 World Championships. However, the Tour would be her last international competition of the 2025 long-course season as she withdrew from the Singapore championships with an injury.

Haughey returned to long-course competition in 2026 at the Dubai Open Championships and has had a busy start to the year, also racing at the China Open, the Malmsten Open, and the Bergen Swim Festival.

The preliminary entry lists also forecast several excellent head-to-head races. Sprint specialists Noe Ponti and Maxime Grousset are no strangers to racing each other and the Olympic medalists are set to face off again in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events in Monaco. The entry list shows the two will face challenges from the likes of Nandor Nemeth and Nyls Korstanje in the freestyle events and Ilya Kharun, now representing the USA, in the butterfly events. Jack Alexy, the American record holder in the 100m freestyle, does not appear on the first edition of the entry list but will appear at all three stops according to the Mare Nostrum website and will also be a major contender in the sprints.

The men’s and women’s breaststroke races in Monaco will be ones to watch as well, with Anna Elendt and Benedetta Pilato set to race, along with Alina Zmushka and Tes Schouten. On the men’s side, Schouten’s teammates Caspar Corbeau and Arno Kamminga form a powerful duo in the breaststroke races. Corbeau is coming off a world-record breaking short-course meters season. The Dutch pair will have their hands full with Ilya Shymanovich, and Kirill Prigoda. Shymanovich swept the breaststroke events at the Monaco stop last year.

Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk is entered in Monaco as well and aims to build off a breakout 2025 season while Argentina’s Agostina Hein looks to continue her ongoing breakout campaign.

Below is the full list of preliminary entries. The original document includes events for swimmers. Since that document’s publication, more swimmers have been “confirmed” on the Mare Nostrum Tour website. These athletes, including Alexy, Louise Hansson, and Ksawery Masiuk, do not have events included on their entries for the Tour. Athletes and their event lists are not yet finalized.

Monaco Full Preliminary Entry List By Country

Argentina

• Agostina Hein — 100/200/400 freestyle, 50/100/200 backstroke, 50/100/200 butterfly, 200/400 IM

Belgium

• Roos Vanotterdijk — 100/200 butterfly

Belarus

• Ilya Shymanovich — 50/100 breaststroke
• Anastasiya Shkurdai — 100/200 backstroke, 50/100 butterfly
• Alina Zmushka — 50/100/200 breaststroke

Canada

• Ingrid Wilm — 50/100/200 backstroke
• Alexandra Lepage – 50/100/200 backstroke

Czechia

• Barbora Seemanova – 100/200/400 freestyle, 200 IM

Egypt

• Abdelrahman Sameh – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100 butterfly

France

• Clement Secchi – 100 freestyle, 100/200 butterfly
• Melanie Henique – 50 freestyle, 50 butterfly
• Maxime Grousset – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100 butterfly
• Beryl Gastaldello – 50 freestyle
• Analia Pigree
• Pauline Mahieu

Germany

• Anna Elendt – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100/200 breaststroke
• Melvin Imoudu – 50/100/200 breaststroke

Greece

• Stergios Marios Bilas – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100 butterfly
• Evangelos Makrygiannis – 50/100 backstroke

Hong Kong

• Siobhan Haughey – 100/200 freestyle

Hungary

• Lilla Minna Abraham – 100/200 freestyle
• Balazs Hollo – 200/400 freestyle, 200/400 IM
• Adam Jaszo 50/100 freestyle, 50/100 backstroke, 50/100 butterfly
• Benedek Kovacs – 100/200 backstroke
• Richard Marton – 100/200 freestyle, 100/200 butterfly
• Dora Molnar – 100/200 freestyle, 100/200 backstroke
• Nandor Nemeth – 100/200 freestyle
• Petra Senanszky – 50/100 freestyle
• Gabor Zombori – 200/400 freestyle, 200/400 IM
• Vivien Jackl

Italy

• Benedetta Pilato – 50/100 breaststroke
• Marco De Tullio – 400/800 freestyle
• Silvia Di Pietro – 50 butterfly
• Simona Quadarella – 50/400/800/1500 freestyle
• Lisa Angiolini – 100/200 breaststroke

Netherlands

• Tes Schouten – 50/100 breaststroke
• Caspar Corbeau – 50/100/200 breaststroke
• Marrit Steenbergen – 50/100/200 freestyle, 200 IM
• Milou Van Wijk – 50/100 freestyle
• Nyls Korstanje – 50/100 freestyle
• Arno Kamminga – 50/100/200 breaststroke
• Koen De Groot – 50 breaststroke

Poland

• Kamil Sieradzki
• Ksawery Masiuk

Russia

• Evgeniia Chikunova – 50/100/200 breaststroke
• Oleg Kostin – 50 butterfly
• Ivan Kozhakin – 50/100 breaststroke, 50 butterfly
• Andrei Minakov – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100 butterfly
• Miron Lifintsev – 50/100 backstroke
• Kirill Prigoda – 50/200 breaststroke
• Pavel Samusenko – 50/100 backstroke
• Roman Shevliakov – 50/100 butterfly
• Aleksandr Zhigalov

Serbia

• Andrej Barna – 50/100/200 freestyle

South Africa

• Lara Van Niekerk – 50/100 breaststroke
• Michael Houlie – 50/100 breaststroke

Sweden

• Louise Hansson
• Victor Johansson

Switzerland

• Roman Mityukov – 100/200 backstroke
• Noe Ponti – 50/100 freestyle, 50/100/200 butterfly

USA

• Quintin McCarty – 50/100 backstroke
• Leah Shackley – 50/100/200 backstroke, 50/100/200 butterfly
• McKenzie Siroky – 50/100 breaststroke
• Ilya Kharun – 50/100/200 butterfly
• Patrick Sammon – 50/100/200 freestyle
• Jack Alexy