2026 Mare Nostrum Tour — Canet
- Wednesday May 27 — Thursday May 28, 2026
- Canet-en-Roussillon, France
- Prelims at 9 am local (3 a.m. ET)/Finals 5:30 p.m. local (11:30 a.m. ET)
- LCM (50 Meters)
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- Results
- Live Stream
- Day 1 Finals Live Recap | Day 2 Finals Live Recap
The 2nd stop of the Mare Nostrum Tour in Canet wrapped up on Thursday, and Siobhan Haughey and Marrit Steenbergen topped the prize money standings.
As a reminder, athletes earned €350 for winning an event, followed by €200 for second, and €100 for third, and a Mare Nostrum Record earns an additional €750. Haughey and Steenbergen both benefited from the additional €750 Mare Nostrum Record bonus with Steenbergen breaking the 100 free record and Haughey breaking the 200 free record.
With the standard event finish prize money awards, Haughey came out on top with €1,650 after she finished 1st in two events and 2nd in one. Steenbergen earned one 1st place finish and one 2nd place finish for €1,300.
Hungary’s Kristof Milak was the highest earning male swimmer at €750 after he earned a 1st, a 2nd, and two 3rd place finishes.
Event Finish Awards
The Canet stop also had an additional prize money reward for the athletes with the overall Top-20 athletes based on point total of their highest earning swim. For example, Haughey won the 200 freestyle, scoring 950 points. In the 100 freestyle, she scored 963 points despite finishing 2nd. The 963 point swim is the one used in the point totals rather than the 950 point swim.
In these totals, Steenbergen earned the top prize of €4,000 (approx. $4,600 USD). Haughey was 2nd to earn €2,500 (approx. $2,900 USD).
Top-20 Awards
| 1 | Marrit Steenbergen | 991 | €4,000 |
| 2 | Siobhan Haughey | 963 | €2,500 |
| 3 | Analia Pigree | 935 | €1,500 |
| 4 | Kristof Milak | 926 | €1,000 |
| 5 | Michael Houlie | 925 | €750 |
| 6 | Ilya Kharun | 922 | €600 |
| 7 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | 920 | €600 |
| 8 | Victor Johansson | 912 | €600 |
| 9 | Andrej Barna | 910 | €600 |
| 10 | Evgeniia Chikunova | 907 | €600 |
| 11 | Ingrid Wilm | 906 | €500 |
| 12 | Miron Lifintsev | 905 | €500 |
| 13 | Barbora Seemanova | 905 | €500 |
| 14 | Ivan Kozhakin | 905 | €500 |
| 15 | Pavel Samusenko | 904 | €425 |
| 16 | Simona Quadarella | 904 | €425 |
| 17 | McKenzie Siroky | 904 | €425 |
| 18 | Andrei-Theodor Proca | 904 | €425 |
| 19 | Erika Fairweather | 903 | €400 |
| 20 | Patrick Sammon | 901 | €400 |
Overall, Steenbergen earned €5,300 (approx. $6,100 USD) to earn the most money at the 2nd stop in a row. Haughey finished 2nd with €4,150 (approx. $4,800 USD)
These are nice cash prizes, but last weekend more than $20,000 was awarded at the Irvine Novaquatics Speedo Grand Challenge. The 30th annual event in which the top 4 swimmers in each event qualify for the championship final and compete for prize money based on the spin of the wheel of fortune. Minimum handouts are $300-200-100 with the 4th finisher getting a pat on the back. Top total prize money went to Gabi Brito (BCA) of $1,800. Gabe Manteufel (SAND) walked away with $1,650. Third overall was Rebecca Diaconescu (BCA) with $1,050.
I like this and hope it will continue, the unfortunate thing for the event payouts with the Mare Nostrum’s are that they have not really increased the prize money for 20-30 years or so.
After two stops I think Marrit Steenbergen is the overall leader with €7600 ahead of Siobhan Haughey with €6050
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