2026 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, July 7 – Sunday, July 12, 2026
- Munich, Germany
- LCM (50 meters)
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On the 4th day of the European Junior Championships, Turkey’s Doruk Yogurtcuoglu swam 2:09.43 in the 200 breaststroke to break his own national record en route to the event win.
BOYS 200 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL
- World Junior Record: 2:06.59, Shin Ohahsi (JPN), 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
Yogurtcuoglu was the only athlete in the final under 2:10, finishing almost two seconds ahead of Evangelos Efraim Ntoumas from Greece, who stopped the clock in 2:11.37.
His swim took two tenths off his former national record time of 2:09.62 from the Acropolis Open in May.
Split Comparison
| Splits | Former Record — 2:09.62, Acropolis Open |
New Record — 2:09.43, European Junior Championships
|
| 50 | 29.86 | 29.93 |
| 100 | 32.68 | 32.65 |
| 150 | 33.12 | 33.29 |
| 200 | 33.96 | 33.56 |
The biggest difference in the splits came from the final 50, where he came home in 33.56 today, four tenths faster than the 33.96 he split at the Acropolis Open.
This swim will move him up to 15th in the world this season, just ahead of Canada’s Oliver Dawson at 2:09.50
2025-2026 LCM Men 200 BREAST
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WJR 2:06.59
| 2 | Qin Haiyang | CHN | 2:07.69 | 11/15 |
| 3 | Kirill Prigoda | RUS | 2:08.30 | 06/09 |
| 4 | Caspar CORBEAU | NED | 2:08.50 | 05/30 |
| 5 | Filip NOWACKI | GBR | 2:08.52 | 04/19 |
| 6 | IPPEI WATANABE | JPN | 2:08.57 | 03/21 |
| 7 | Kosuke Makino | JPN | 2:08.69 | 11/30 |
| 8 | Yamato Fukazawa | JPN | 2:08.72 | 03/21 |
| 9 | YU HANAGURUMA | JPN | 2:08.77 | 03/21 |
| 10 | Zac Stubblety-Cook | AUS | 2:08.92 | 06/12 |
| 11 | Dong Zhihao | CHN | 2:08.99 | 11/15 |
| 12 | Leon MARCHAND | FRA | 2:09.04 | 05/02 |
| 13 | Denis Petrashov | KYR | 2:09.16 | 06/18 |
| 14 | Ian HO | HKG | 2:09.33 | 06/20 |
| 15 | DORUK YOGURTCUOGLU | TUR | 2:09.43 | 07/10 |
| 16 | Oliver DAWSON | CAN | 2:09.50 | 07/08 |
Yogurtcuoglu is committed to swim at Virginia Tech starting in the fall. His swim today converts to 1:52.37 using SwimSwam’s Real-Time Converter, which would have come in just a tenth off the NCAA qualifying standard of 1:52.29 last season.
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