2026 Mare Nostrum Tour – Monaco
- May 23-24, 2026
- Prince Albert II Nautical Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Mare Nostrum Tour Central
- Mare Nostrum – Monaco Updated Entry Lists
SwimSwam reported last week on the preliminary entry lists for the first stop of the 2026 Mare Nostrum Tour, set for Monaco from May 23-24. The meet organizers have since published an updated entry list, with two big names joining the competition: Kristof Milak of Hungary and Mary-Sophie Harvey of Canada.
Milak, who has raced very sparingly since the Paris Olympics, is slated to take on both the 100 and 200m fly events. While those are his bread-and-butter distances, it comes as a mild surprise that he is not taking on any of the other shorter events, particularly given his recent Hungarian Nationals performance where he scratched out of the 200m fly final to focus on the 100m free. There, he swept the sprint free and fly events, clocking 21.79 (21.76 in semis)/48.36 and 23.03/50.22, with the 50m times in both events representing new lifetime bests.
As for Harvey, she will take aim at the 200/400 IMs and the 200 breast, three of a plethora of events she could have entered and contended in.
According to the updated entry lists, Belarus’ Anastasiya Shkurdai, Hungary’s Vivien Jackl, and Sweden’s Louise Hansson and Victor Johansson have all pulled out of the meet.
*UPDATED* Monaco Full Preliminary Entry List By Country
Note: New additions are bolded; Scratches are
crossed out
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
- *Appears to be an error as she will likely be swimming all three breaststroke events*
- Mary-Sophie Harvey — 200/400 IM, 200 breaststroke
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 — 50/100 backstroke
- Pauline Mahieu — 100/200 backstroke
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 — 400 IM, 800 freestyle- Kristof Milak — 100/200 butterfly
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
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 — 200 breaststroke
Serbia
- Andrej Barna – 50/100/200 freestyle
South Africa
- Lara Van Niekerk – 50/100 breaststroke
- Michael Houlie – 50/100 breaststroke
Sweden
Louise Hansson — no event entries included in the entry listVictor Johansson — en event entries included in the entry list
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 — 50/100 freestyle
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
I felt that cover photo on a deep level
Me too Kristof I get it
ANY idea of how Mare Nostrum will be broadcast in USA except with VPN?
I am also curious about this
This year, the winner of the 100 fly at the Europeans might be considered the favorite for Los Angeles; whoever wins will win with almost all the competition at the highest level (excluding Liendo and Kharun, and maybe dressel). I Will say grousset or milak
Liendo and Kharun will be formidable, and I wouldn’t count out Heilman either. He’s had a tough year but is young enough to do some damage with two more years of development.
I’m sure all these guys are great guys and going to be fast leading into LA, but if it ain’t Shaine Casas, then I don’t want it
It is too bad David Popovici isn’t racing. Monaco seems like a perfect fit for him. Maybe he’ll drive down in his Porsche at the last moment.
Ooh! We get Milak, Grousset, Ponti and Kharun in the 100 Fly. That should be intense. Incredibly excited to see what Grousset will do.
I think that Grousset will be only on 50 Free and 50 fly, because he is in périod of preparation to France championship in the end of june and the Européean championship of Paris in august.
In other side, be careful for WR Dressel for 100 Fly in Paris,
Ponti-Grousset and Milak under the 49″5, perhaps 😉
And too Minakov, Kostanje. under 50 “
Minakov and Korstanje under 50 is more unlikely than Milak-Grousset-Ponti all 49.5 podium I’m sorry.
Korstanje unlikely to be under 53
apparently , the usa will always stay the usa , “comme disait SERGE ” “I’m the best, still the rest”
I hope you are wrong. Really hoping to see him in the 100 Fly, also
Kristof is going for that 100 fly WR this year I reckon.
I think based on the state of his base, he’d do well just to get back to 49s right now.
We know little of his base. He has never been as fast as 50.2 at nationals before.
Neither did Phelps at 2010 nationals when he went 50.6
I think we know a bit after Milak’s 200 fly.
Good point, though Hungarian nats is not a taper meet for most – and he skipped the 200 fly final. I’d like to see his 200 fly in Monaco; if it’s in the 1:57-1:59 range by the end of the Mare Nostrum series, the 100 fly WR is not in danger (from him) this summer.
He didn’t swim the 200 fly in the finals because he had more speed for the 100 free and opted to go for that instead since it conflicted.
Milak hasn’t actually put in a consistent amount of work under him since 2023. Everything he’s done since then has largely been tapping into muscle memory with some sporadic bursts of training when he needed to like Phelps did from 2010-2012.
50.2 isn’t exactly crazy to get back to for someone who’s been 49.68, and tbh I think he dug deep to get there, just like Phelps did when he was washed.
His lack of endurance in the 200 and PB in the 50 fly to me says that he… Read more »
You may very well be right. Still, I am going to wait for him to actually swim a 200 fly in a finals context to make a verdict.