2026 SWISS LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, April 9th – Sunday, April 12th
- Uster, Switzerland
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap
- Live Results
- Livestream
25-year-old Olympic medalist Roman Mityukov successfully completed his sweep of the men’s backstroke events to close out the 2026 Swiss Long Course Championships.
After producing times of 25.10 in the 50m and 1:55.36 in the 200m earlier in the competition, Mityukov put up a mark of 53.43 in the 100m sprint to come up with another gold to close out his campaign.
Tonight, Mityukov opened in 25.91 and closed in 27.52 to establish a new season-best, coming within .11 of his own 53.32 national record he posted in 2023.
He beat tonight’s field by a large margin, with Flavio Bucca next to the wall in 54.94, followed by Gian-Luca Gartmann, who rounded out the podium in 56.55.
Mityukov now ranks 8th in the world on the season.
2025-2026 LCM Men 100 BACK
Jiayu
52.39
| 2 | Pieter COETZE | RSA | 52.40 | 04/14 |
| 3 | Oliver MORGAN | GBR | 52.41 | 04/16 |
| 4 | Kliment KOLESNIKOV | RUS | 52.51 | 06/10 |
| 5 | Apostolos CHRISTOU | GRE | 52.53 | 05/10 |
| 6 | Hubert Kos | HUN | 52.63 | 12/05 |
| 7 | Pavel Samusenko | RUS | 52.72 | 06/11 |
| 8 | Ryan Murphy | USA | 52.80 | 06/17 |
| 9 | Thomas CECCON | ITA | 53.16 | 04/16 |
| 10 | John SHORTT | IRL | 53.17 | 04/09 |
24-year-old national record holder Noe Ponti was also in the water this evening, taking on the men’s 200m butterfly final.
Ponti stopped the clock at a solid result of 1:56.15 to represent just one of two swimmers who delved into sub-2:00 territory.
Joining him under the barrier was Enrico Sottile, who nabbed 1:59.12 as the silver medalist. Ilan Gagnebin bagged the bronze in 2:00.37.
Ponti’s lifetime best remains at the 1:54.14 Swiss standard he notched at the 2024 Olympic Games. There in Paris, that time rendered him the 5th place finisher.
He checks in as the 16th-fastest man on the planet at the moment.
Additional Notes
- 23-year-old Short Course World Championships medalist Antonio Djakovic proved too quick to catch in the men’s 400m free. Djakovic logged a result of 3:52.56 to hold a healthy advantage over his competitors. Mattia Mauri was next ot the wall in 3:55.35 and Julio Bernardon also landed on the podium, hitting 3:59.89, good enough for bronze.
- No woman cleared the 25-second barrier in the 50m free, as Seraphine Hoigne got it done for gold in 25.91. But Hoigne wasn’t alone, as Angelique Brugger touched simultaneously in the same mark to share the top tier of the podium tonight. Bronze went to Angelina Patt, who registered 26.31.
- Basel Aquatics nabbed the top two slots in the men’s edition of the splash n’ dash, with Balint Ashton and teammate Robin Yeboah capturing respective gold and silver. The former touched in 22.57 with the latter only .04 behind in 22.61. Nicolo Trenta‘s outing of 22.84 gave him the bronze medal.
