2026 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, July 7 – Sunday, July 12, 2026
- Munich, Germany
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We’re officially at the halfway mark of the 2026 European Junior Swimming Championships with day four’s finals session packed with hardware-producing and potentially record-breaking action.
Among the races to watch in the boys’ 50m freestyle, where national record holders Jan Foltyn of Czechia and Luca Hoek will go head-to-head, seeded just .04 apart from last night’s semi-finals.
Additionally, Doruk Yogurtcuoglu of Turkey is seeking his 3rd consecutive Euros Jrs medal in the boys’ 200m breaststroke. His time of 2:09.89 which garnered him the top seed yesterday is already just .27 off his own Turkish stnadard of 2:09.62 logged earlier this year.
On the girls’ side, although not a medal-contesting affair, the 100m freestyle semi-finals will indeed by high-octane.
The likes of 15-year-old Alessandra Mao of Italy, Neutral Athlete Kira Manokhina, Irene Ciercoles of Spain and Linda Roth of Germany will all be jockeying for position in the tightly-packed field.
BOYS 100 BUTTERFLY – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 50.62, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2018
- European Junior Record: 50.62, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2018
- Championship Record: 51.35, Egor Kuimov (RUS), 2017
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 52.54, Tajus Juska (LTU)
GOLD – Egor Baranov (NA), 52.20
SILVER – Francesco Ceolin (ITA), 52.23
BRONZE – Joaquin Pavon (ESP), 52.55
The boys’ 100m butterfly was a thrilling battle from start to finish as the top two performers wound up being separated by only .03.
Egor Baranov of Russia, competing as a neutral athlete here, touched first, hitting a mark of 52.20 to sneak the gold medal out from under a fast-charging Italian Francesco Ceolin.
Ceolin settled for silver in 52.23, with Spain getting on the board, courtesy of Joaquin Pavon who logged 52.55.
Baranov split 23.99/28.21 to Ceolin’s 23.98/28.25 to get the job done, with the former’s 52.20 just off his lifetime best of 52.18 notched in St. Petersburg earlier this year.
Ceolin’s also approached his lifetime best, a mark of 52.00 put up at this year’s Italian Championships.
As for Pavon, the Spaniard’s semi-final time of 52.72 represented his first-ever foray under the 53-second barrier and he dropped his PB even lower with his bronze medal-worthy result of 52.55.
Baranov bumped himself up from 4th seed to the gold; however, British rising star Dean Fearn moved in the opposite direction. Last year’s silver medalist in this event, Fearn had clocked 52.74 last night for the 3rd seed but dropped to 7th in the final in 52.88.
GIRLS 100 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS
- World Junior Record: 52.49, Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 2022
- European Junior Record: 53.61, Freya Anderson (GBR), 2018
- Championship Record: 53.97, Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 2015
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 54.17, Albane Cachot (FRA)
Top 8:
- Kseniia Sorokina (NA), 54.64
- Alesssandra Mao (ITA), 54.85
- Linda Roth (GER), 54.87
- Kira Manokhina (NA), 54.98
- Hannah Capron (GBR), 55.20 & Irene Ciercoles (ESP), 55.20
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- Emma Wood (GBR), 55.22
- Alessandra Leoni (ITA), 55.27
Impressively, four girls dipped under the 55-second threshold in the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle, with the pack led by Neutral Athlete Kseniia Sorokina.
Already a multi-medalist here on the relay front, including a new World Junior Record in the mixed 4x100m free relay, Sorokina ripped a time of 54.64 to land lane 4 for tomorrow night’s medal-contending race.
Sorokina opened in 26.62 and closed in 28.02 out of the first semi-final to put up the quickest time of the morning, slicing .13 off her former career-swiftest performance of 54.77 from April of this year.
The Russian was followed immediately by Italy’s Alessandra Mao.
Just 15 years of age, Mao improved significantly from the 55.72 prelim swim which rendered her 9th and her time this evening fell just .01 shy of the 54.84 lifetime best she registered for 6th place at last year’s World Junior Championships.
Also in the mix are Linda Roth of Germany and Kira Manokhina of Russia as a Neutral Athlete.
The former posted 54.87 to the latter’s 54.98. Roth will be vying for a second freestyle medal after having nabbed gold already in the 200m distance.
Roth had a breakthrough performance at the German Championships this past May, winning two individual titles and going five-for-five in personal best times.
Although it wasn’t one of her victories, arguably her best performance of the meet came in the 100 freestyle, where the 17-year-old turned in a massive lifetime best of 54.30 to become Germany’s 4th-fastest performer in history.
BOYS 200 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: Shin Ohashi (JPN), 2:06.59, 2026
- European Junior Record: 2:08.32, Filip Nowacki (GBR), 2025
- Championship Record: 2:08.32, Filip Nowacki (GBR), 2025
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 2:08.32, Filip Nowacki (GBR)
GOLD – Doruk Yogurtcuoglu (TUR), 2:09.43
SILVER – Evangelos Efraim Ntoumas (GRE), 2:11.37
BRONZE – Gabriele Garzia (ITA), 2:13.07
There may have been three boys who landed on the 200m breaststroke podium tonight; however, the race was all about 18-year-old Doruk Yogurtcuoglu of Turkey.
After knocking on the door of his own Turkish national record with his outing of 2:09.89 last night, the Virginia Tech made it happen this evening, ripping a lifetime best of 2:09.43 en route to gold.
That shaved .19 off his former PB and NR of 2:09.62 put up at the Acropolis Open earlier this year.
This represents Yogurtcuoglu’s 3rd consecutive European Championships medal in this event. He won the race in 2024, then settled for silver last year behind Great Britain’s Filip Nowacki, the reigning European Junior Record holder.
Runner-up status tonight went to Evangelos Efraim Ntoumas of Greece who notched 2:11.37, well ahead of Italian Gabriele Garzia who bagged the bronze in 2:13.07.
GIRLS 200 BUTTERFLY – SEMI-FINALS
- World Junior Record: 2:03.03, Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2024
- European Junior Record: 2:06.26, Lana Pudar (BIH), 2023
- Championship Record: 2:08.41, Anastasiia Markova (RUS), 2021
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 2:09.75 Sarah Dumont (BEL)
Top 8:
- Serafima Fokina (NA), 2:10.27
- Vivien Jackl (HUN), 2:11.41
- Alisa Enercan (TUR), 2:12.55
- Boroka Kertesz (HUN), 2:12.64
- Evelyn Wegrotzki (GER), 2:13.57
- Seher Kaya (TUR), 2:13.70
- Arina Brykanova (NA), 2:14.50
- Abbie Roscoe (GBR), 2:15.04
Hungary’s versatile Vivien Jackl entered tonight’s 200m butterfly semi-finals as the top-seeded swimmer but was overtaken this evening by Neutral Athlete Serafima Fokina.
Fokina is carrying momentum from a silver medal-worthy performance in last night’s final of the girls’ 100m butterfly sprint and is also the reigning European Junior Championships bronze medalist in this longer race. She owns a PB of 2:07.67 from scoring bronze in the 200m fly at last year’s World Junior Championships as well.
After landing on yesterday’s girls’ 1500m freestyle podium with a silver, 17-year-old Jackl is still very much in the mix for a medal here. She dropped her morning swim of 2:12.95 down to 2:11.41 as the 2nd-seeded swimmer, getting closer to her PB of 2:10.36 from earlier this season.
Although the once-Shane Tusup-trained Jackl’s hardware arsenal includes multiple European Junior Championships medals in the 400m IM and distance freestyle events, the Hungarian is seeking her first podium in this 2fly.
Turkey will be represented twice in tomorrow night’s final, with Alisa Enercan capturing the 3rd seed in 2:12.55 and Seher Kaya earning the 6th spot in 2:13.70.
BOYS 50 FREESTYLE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 21.75, Michael Andrew (USA), 2017/21.75, Nikita Sheremet (UKR), 2025
- European Junior Record: 21.83, Artem Selin (GER), 2019
- Championship Record: 21.83, Artem Selin (GER), 2019
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 22.14 Tajus Juska (LTU)
GOLD – Jan Foltyn (CZE), 22.10
SILVER – Luca Hoek (ESP), 22.14
BRONZE – Cristian Tassan-Caser, 22.25
There were high hopes we would see at least one sub-22-second 50m freestyle result tonight but, alas, no one managed to breakthrough with that speedy of performance.
Nonetheless, 18-year-old Jan Foltyn maintained his pole position out of the semi-finals, getting to the wall first in a time of 22.10.
That was off the 22.03 from last night, a result which lowered his own former Czechian national record of 22.24 put on the books just this past April at the Bergen Swim Festival.
18-year-old Luca Hoek added slightly but still came away with the silver.
The Spanish national record holder clocked 22.07 yesterday and came in with 22.14 this evening.
Earlier this year Hoek delivered a powerful lifetime best of 21.93 to establish a new Spanish national record, becoming the 5th-swiftest 18&U male in history in the process.
More recently Hoek punched a monster result of 47.72 to clock a Spanish standard in the 100m free, as well as a new 1:46.10 national record in the 200m free. Hoek enters this year’s competition as the reigning European Junior Championships 50m free bronze medalist, having clinched 3rd place last year in 22.28.
Italian Cristian Tassan-Caser also translated his 3rd seed into a piece of hardware, bagging the bronze in 22.25. He, too, added some time, having notched 22.19 yesterday.
Entering this competition, Tassan-Caser’s PB of 22.41 put up at this year’s Italian Championships
GIRLS 200 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 2:19.64, Viktoria Gunes (TUR), 2015
- European Junior Record: 2:19.64, Viktoria Gunes (TUR), 2015
- Championship Record: 2:21.07, Evgenia Chikunova (RUS), 2019
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 2:27.48, Lena Ludwig (GER)
GOLD – Imogen Myles (GBR), 2:26.02
SILVER – Kay-Lyn Lohr (SUI), 2:26.10
BRONZE – Viktoriia Kariuk (NA), 2:26.17
It was an incredibly close girls’ 200m breaststroke final, with the top tier of finishers separated by just .15 when all was said and done.
When the dust settled, it was Imogen Myles of Great Britain to hit the timepad first, registering a gold medal-worthy outing of 2:26.02.
That obliterated the 2:27.27 she logged yesterday to enter this final as the 4th-seeded competitor.
Swiss swimmer Kay-Lyn Lohr secured the silver in 2:26.10, a new lifetime best by .12. She upgraded from the bronze medal position in which she found herself last year in Slovakia.
Neutral Athlete Viktoriia Kariuk also laded on the podium in 2:26.17, good enough for bronze. This marks just the fourth occasion on which the Russian 17-year-old has been under the 2:30 barrier.
Myles earned a 4th-place finish at this year’s Aquatics GB Championships, earning a time of 2:26.56; therefore, tonight’s performance beat that prior result to score a new PB and check in as GBR’s 14th-fastest woman in history.
BOYS 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 1:55.14, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
- European Junior Record: 1:55.14, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
- Championship Record: 1:55.79, Oleksandr Zheltyakov (UKR), 2023
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 1:57.89, Zsombor Rácz (HUN)
GOLD – Nathan Muratory (FRA), 1:55.88
SILVER – Daniel Ransom (GBR), 1:59.00
BRONZE – Mateusz Bienkowski (POL), 1:59.19
One thing that was guaranteed in this boys’ 200m backstroke was the fact that the podium between last year’s edition of these championships and this year’s would look entirely different.
What we didn’t particularly bank on was that we’d see such a dominant performance, nor one that would render such a rapid result.
17-year-old Nathan Muratory of France blew away the field on his way to earning his nation’s first gold of this competition.
The University of Michigan commit scorched a monster lifetime best of 1:55.88 to clear his competitors by over three seconds.
The next-closest swimmer was represented by Daniel Ransom of Great Britain who turned in a time of 1:59.00, followed closely by Poland’s Mateusz Bienkowski who clocked 1:59.19 for bronze.
Muratory stalked this event carefully, conserving energy with a prelims swim of 1:59.92 followed by a semi swim of 2:00.16 before laying waste to his former PB.
That prior benchmark stood at 1:57.31 from just this past May; therefore the future Wolverine dropped well over a second from that time on his way to establishing a massive French Age Record. In fact, Muratory’s outing tonight would render him the 5th-quickest U.S. 17-18-year-old male of all time.
GIRLS 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 2:03.35, Regan Smith (USA), 2019
- European Junior Record: 2:06.62, Benchmark
- Championship Record: 2:08.97, Polina Egrova (RUS), 2017
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 2:10.02, Estella Tonrath
GOLD – Jeanne Lechevalier (FRA), 2:10.76 & Fanni Viktoria Kokas (HUN), 2:10.76
SILVER –
BRONZE – Eva Rottink (NED), 2:11.71
Perhaps inspired by Muratory’s impressive display of swimming, French teammate Jeanne Lechevalier followed his trajectory by claiming gold in the girls’ edition of the 200m backstroke.
Lechevalier elevated herself from entering this final as the 5th seed to wind up roaring to the wall first, clocking 2:10.76 as the gold medalist.
However, Lechevalier wasn’t alone, as Hungarian Fanni Viktoria Kokas touched simultaneously to share the top level of the podium.
Although Lechevalier has been faster, owning a PB of 2:10.01 from this past March, tonight’s performance represents just the 2nd sub-2:11 outing of her young career.
Kokas, too, reached a new best-ever performance, overtaking her former PB of 2:13.18 entering this competition from the Barcelona stop of the Mare Nostrum Tour.
Dutch swimmer Eva Rottink bagged the bronze, with the Indiana University commit touched in 2:11.71. That dropped even more time from last night’s 2:11.98 which already deleted her former PB of 2:13.96 produced at the Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year.
Unfortunately for Romania, its 2025 European Junior Championships bronze medalist Aissia-Claudia Prisecariu was rendered disqualified in the race.
BOYS 400 IM – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 4:08.84, Yumeki Kojima (JPN), 2026
- European Junior Record: 4:10.02, Ilya Borodin (RUS), 2021
- Championship Record: 4:14.65, Semen Makovich (RUS), 2013
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 4:18.22, Robert Badea (ROU)
GOLD – Simon Laviolette (BEL), 4:18.69
SILVER – Denis Piataikin (NA), 4:21.35
BRONZE – Anton Denysenko (UKR), 4:23.28
Belgium grabbed the gold in the boys’ 400m IM, courtesy of 18-year-old Simon Laviolette.
Laviolette of Swimming Club Rixensart already earned a bronze in the 200m IM, but successfully doubled up with a solid swim of 4:18.69 as the sole competitor of the field to dip under the 4:20 threshold.
Neutral Athlete Denis Paitaikin delivered a performance of 4:21.35 to snag silver and Ukraine’s Anton Denysenko rounded out the podium in 4:23.28.
Laviolette’s time registered a new PB, overtaking the 4:19.60 logged in May in his home nation.
MIXED 4×100 MEDLEY RELAY – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 3:44.84, United States, 2019
- European Junior Record: 3:47.07, Great Britain, 2025
- Championship Record: 3:47.07, Great Britain, 2025
- 2025 European Junior Champion: 3:47.07, Great Britain
GOLD – Italy, 3:48.14
SILVER – Germany, 3:48.25
BRONZE – Neutral Athletes, 3:48.39
It was another close contest, with the top three mixed 4x100m medley relay teams separated by less than half a second.
Italy followed up on its gold from yesterday in the girls’ 4x200m free relay with another top finish, producing a time of 3:48.14.
The squad consisted of Gabriele di Scola who led off in 54.98, with Matteo Ongaro clocking 1:01.42 on breaststroke. Caterina Santambrogio continued the momentum in 58.16 on fly; however, it was Mao who scorched a final 100m split of 53.58 to rocket the Italians from 4th to 1st before she ended her portion of the race.
That was enough to get the narrow advantage over Germany who scored silver in 3:48.25, with the Neutral Athletes earning bronze in 3:48.39.
On Germany’s team, Roth threw down a massive free anchor of 53.70 for her part.
Unfortunate that Taylor went home for Commies prep.
Cost GB a Gold in that relay and they end up not even getting a medal.
GB swimming really well for a 2nd year. Most of the females still a year down.
Only surprise is the lack of progress from Dean Fearne. But hopefully he’s saving his best for Glasgow!
Huge swim from Muratory, is he still heading to Michigan? Big get for them
No Theodora Taylor even for the mixed medley? Is she well?
Went home with Smith to prep for Commies
The world junior record is the wrong event for the boys 200 breastroke.
Fixed, thanks!
No problem, kinda forgot how fast Shin was