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)
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Women’s 200m Freestyle – Final
- World record: 1:52.23 – Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 2024
Mare Nostrum record: 1:54.27 – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 2026- Canet Record: 1:54.66 – Camille Muffat (FRA), 2012
Top 3:
- Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) – 1:54.13 ***New Mare Nostrum Record***
- Barbora Seemanová (Czech Republic) – 1:55.99
- Ainhoa Campabadal Amezcua (Spain) – 1:58.47
For the second time in less than a week, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey has broken her own Mare Nostrum championship record in the women’s 200 free.
Haughey threw down a time of 1:54.13 to blow past the record standard en route to securing the gold medal by a sizeable margin, hitting the wall over a second-and-a-half ahead of runner-up Barbora Seemanová (1:55.99).
Coming into the 2026 Mare Nostrum Tour, the championship record in the women’s 200 free stood at 1:54.53, which was set by Haughey back in 2024. During the first tour stop in Monaco last weekend, she blasted by that record mark with a time of 1:54.27, leading right from the start to solidify her hold on the record.
Haughey lowered the Mare Nostrum once again in Canet today, shaving another .14 off the standard with her winning time of 1:54.13.
Split Comparison
| New Mare Nostrum Record (Canet) | Old Mare Nostrum Record (Monaco) | Mare Nostrum Record 2024 | |
| 50 free | 26.98 | 26.27 | 26.99 |
| 100 free | 55.80 (28.82) | 55.24 (28.97) | 55.77 (28.78) |
| 150 free | 1:24.92 (29.12) | 1:24.89 (29.25) | 1:24.85 (29.08) |
| 200 free | 1:54.13 (29.21) | 1:54.27 (29.38) | 1:54.53 (29.68) |
Her performance also marks the 3rd-fastest time in the world this season; Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan leads the global rankings with a 1:53.52, while Canada’s Summer McIntosh sits in the #2 spot with a 1:53.80.
2025-2026 LCM Women 200 FREE
O'CALLAGHAN
1:52.86
View Top 27»2 Lani
PALLISTERAUS 1:53.65 06/10 3 Summer
MCINTOSHCAN 1:53.80 03/06 4 Siobhan
Haughey HKG 1:54.13 05/28 5 Freya
COLBERT GBR 1:54.34 04/16
While not a personal best time, Haughey was just .17 off of her lifetime best (1:53.96) from the 2023 World Championships, which remains the only time she has broken 1:54 in the 200 free. Her record-setting performance in Canet marked her fastest time since October 2023, when she posted a time of 1:54.08 at the World Aquatics World Cup in Berlin.
womens 100 and 200 free are growing when before they were getting slower. I think maybe women’s 100 breast is getting slower but with Sirokys breakout idk. 2027 will be the year hopefully when we see some long standing wr broken
Crazy how she went 1:53 in 2023 and got third by almost a second
Yeah especially since very few women are capable of breaking 1:55. Even in world championship and Olympic finals it’s typically only 3 or 4 at 1:54xx or lower, then a flock bunched at 1:55xx.
Same thing on the season best lists every year. For whatever reason not many of the 100 sprinters can sustain fast times to 200.
…and not many 400 swimmers have the speed to do it.
She got 4th in that race, McIntosh got the bronze
Omg I forgot about that
Even worse 😭
Haughey’s PB was set in Tokyo 2020 with a 1:53:92, not in 2023.
Swimcloud has a database error that says Oleksiak went the 1:53 for silver and Haughey went 1:54, swapping their times