2026 MALMSTEN SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM
- Thursday, April 9th – Sunday, April 12th
- Prelims at 9:30am local (3:30am ET)/Finals at 6pm local (Noon ET)
- Stockholm, Sweden
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Entries
- Live Results
We reported how Olympic champion and new mom Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden is set to make her 2026 racing debut at next month’s Swim Open Stockholm. However, there is a host of international talent set to race over the course of the four-day competition, giving us a taste of how things may shake out at the European Championships later on this year.
The fearsome quartet of German distance freestylers – Lukas Märtens, Oliver Klemet, Florian Wellbrock, Johannes Liebmann – lead the German contingent, while Olympic medalists Arno Kamminga, Caspar Corbeau and Tes Schouten are scheduled to represent the Netherlands.
Olympic multi-medalist Siobhan Haughey will be one of the athletes vying for gold against Sjostrom, with the women’s splash n’ dash checking in as the Swede’s sole event.
Throw in American talent to the tune of Cal-tied swimmers Destin Lasco, Gabriel Jett and Dare Rose and the Swim Open Stockholm is a must-see competition.
- Australia – Moesha Johnson
- Austria – Heiko Gigler
- Belgium – Lucas Henveaux, Florine Gaspard, Roos Vanotterdijk
- Czechia – Jan Cejka
- Denmark – Helena Rosendahl Bach
- Egypt – Abdelrahmann Elaraby
- Estonia – Kregor Zirk
- Finland – Matti Mattson, Jenna Laukkanen
- France – Melanie Henique
- Germany – Lukas Märtens, Oliver Klemet, Florian Wellbrock, Johannes Liebmann, Luca Armbruster, Noelle Benkler, Isabel Gose, Maya Werner, Lisa Seidel
- Hong Kong – Adam Chillingworth, Siobhan Haughey
- Lithuania – Mantas Kauspedas, Kotryna Teterevkova
- The Netherlands – Caspar Corbeau, Arno Kamminga, Tes Schouten, Milou van Wijk
- Norway – Nicholas Lia
- Poland – Dawid Wiekiera, Adela Piskorska, Jakub Majerski
- Portugal – Diogo Reibeiro
- Sweden – Louise Hansson, Robin Hanson, Sarah Sjostrom
- Spain – Carlos Benito, Luca Hoek
- USA – Destin Lasco, Gabriel Jett, Dare Rose
Many events with top entry times at or a little faster than the meet records. I hope we end up seeing a few.
Would be awesome with a new meet record in the men’s 400 Free – https://youtu.be/DpE9dioF0WI?si=DqStXOi5lhsXgIC3&t=281
Sub 24 and sub 25 for the Goat
So excited to see sprint goat back in action 🤩
Meets will need to implement “baby handlers” as well as “basket handlers” at meets soon with the amount of Mum’s and Dad’s continuing their swimming careers lol!!
Geez Wellbrock, Klemet and Johnson have a busy jet setting schedule, after just swimming Openwater World Cup in Egypt this weekend, to Sweden next week and back to Ibiza and Italy a few weeks after for more Openwater World Cups at end of April/start of May 🥵. Tough schedule and the 10k’s in Ibiza and Golfo Aranci surely be a tough way to cap off a busy 6 or 7 weeks. Built different 😈.