2026 Mare Nostrum Tour – Barcelona
Welcome to the primary finals session of the ultimate cease of the Mare Nostrum Tour in Barcelona!
There are simply two days left of the Tour, and swimming followers are in for a deal with at this time if the final two stops are something to go by.
Immediately’s session options one of the vital anticipated occasions of this cease, the ladies’s 100 freestyle. Marrit Steenbergen has been on hearth, and has been steadily dropping time over the stops. In Monaco, she swam 52.13, and in Canet, she stopped the clock in 51.86 to turn into the #2 performer all-time.
Immediately, she will likely be looking the tour sweep and the World Report. It at the moment stands at 51.71, set by Sarah Sjostrom again in 2017.
Occasion Lineup
Males’s 800 Freestyle — Last Warmth
Girls’s 50 Backstroke
Males’s 50 Breaststroke
Girls’s 50 Butterfly
Males’s 400 IM
Girls’s 100 Freestyle
Males’s 100 Backstroke
Girls’s 100 Breaststroke
Males’s 50 Freestyle
Girls’s 200 Backstroke
There are loads of different occasions tonight. The boys’s 800 freestyle remaining warmth, which is able to see Sweden’s Victor Johansson as the highest seed, however Romania’s Andrei Theodor Proca had a really robust 1500 in Canet and may very well be searching for a serious drop right here.
There are three 50s instantly after the ultimate warmth of the lads’s 800. American Leah Shackley is the highest seed within the ladies’s 50 again. Russia’s Ivan Kozhakin is the highest seed within the males’s 50 breast, and Canada’s Taylor Ruck is the highest seed within the ladies’s 50 fly.
Hungary’s Gabor Zombori will lead the lads’s 400 IM remaining because the final occasion earlier than Marrit Steenbergen‘s 100 freestyle remaining. The ladies’s 100 free remaining may even function fellow Dutch athlete Milou van Wijk because the 2nd seed and Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey because the third seed.
Miron Lifintsev, from Russia, is the highest seed within the males’s 100 backstroke, simply forward of two swimmers from Czechia, Jan Cejka and Miroslav Knedla.
The ladies’s 100 breaststroke sees a stacked subject with Alexanne Lepage from Canada as the highest seed, simply forward of seven different athletes who might all realistically stroll house with the highest time together with World Champion Anna Elendt.
Within the males’s 50 freestyle, Serbia’s Andrej Barna and American Quintin McCarty have been the one swimmers beneath 22 seconds within the prelims.
The ultimate occasion of the session would be the ladies’s 200 backstroke, the place Canadian teenager Madison Kryger is the highest seed.
Males’s 800 Freestyle Last Warmth
World Report: 7:32.12 – Zhang Lin (CHN), 2009
European Report: 7:37.94 – Johannes Liebmann (GER), 2026
Mare Nostrum Report: 7:45.17 – Daniel Wiffen (IRL), 2025
Barcelona Report: 7:45.17 – Daniel Wiffen (IRL), 2025
High 8 Finishers
Victor Johansson (SWE) — 7:49.43
Andrei Theodor Proca (ROM) — 7:54.84
Tommaso Griffante (ITA) — 7:56.93
Girls’s 50 Backstroke
World Report: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
European Report: 27.10 – Kira Toussaint (NED), 2021
Mare Nostrum Report: 27.24 – Kylie Masse (CAN), 2024
Barcelona Report: 27.24 – Kylie Masse (CAN), 2024
High 3 Finishers
Ingrid Wilm (CAN) — 27.58
Leah Shackley (USA) — 28.04
Lilla Abraham — 28.49
Males’s 50 Breaststroke
World Report: 25.95 – Adam Peaty (GBR), 2017
European Report: 25.95 – Adam Peaty (GBR), 2017
Mare Nostrum Report: 26.33 – Felipe Lima (BRA), 2019
Barcelona Report: 26.55 – Adam Peaty (GBR), 2019
High 3 Finishers
Michael Houlie (RSA) — 26.77
Ivan Kozhakin (BLR) — 26.88
Ilya Shymanovich (RUS) — 27.06
Girls’s 50 Butterfly
World Report: 24.43 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2014
European Report: 24.43 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2014
Mare Nostrum Report: 24.76 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2013
Barcelona Report: 24.76 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2017
High 3 Finishers
Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL)– 25.88
Taylor Ruck (CAN) — 25.98
Anastasiya Kuliashova (BLR) — 26.24
Males’s 400 IM
World Report: 4:02.50 – Léon Marchand (FRA), 2023
European Report: 4:02.50 – Léon Marchand (FRA), 2023
Mare Nostrum Report: 4:07.96 – László Cseh (HUN), 2004
Barcelona Report: 4:11.22 – László Cseh (HUN), 2011
High 3 Finishers
Gabor Zombori (HUN) — 4:17.14
Matei-Cristian State (ROM) — 4:21.01
Diego Mira Albaladejo (ESP) — 4:21.38
Girls’s 100 Freestyle
World Report: 51.71 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2017
European Report: 51.71 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2017
Mare Nostrum Report: 51.86 – Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 2026
Barcelona Report: 52.28 – Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 2017
High 3 Finishers
Marrit Steenbergen (NED) — 51.97 **New Barcelona Report
Siobhan Haughey (HKG) — 52.53
Milou van Wijk (NED) — 53.85
Males’s 100 Backstroke
World Report: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
European Report: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
Mare Nostrum Report: 53.02 – Ryosuke Irie (JPN), 2022
Barcelona Report: 53.08 – Hugo González de Oliveira (ESP), 2021
High 3 Finishers
Miron Lifintsev (RUS) — 53.72
Miroslav Knedla (CZE) — 54.02
Ulises Saravia (ARG) — 54.60
Girls’s 100 Breaststroke
World Report: 1:04.13 – Lilly King (USA), 2017
European Report: 1:04.35 – Rūta Meilutytė (LTU), 2013
Mare Nostrum Report: 1:04.82 – Yuliya Efimova (RUS), 2013
Barcelona Report: 1:05.21 – Rūta Meilutytė (LTU), 2013
High 3 Finishers
McKenzie Siroky (USA) — 1:06.20
Alexanne Lepage (CAN) — 1:06.78
Alina Zmushka (RUS) — 1:06.84
Males’s 50 Freestyle
World Report: 20.88 – Cameron McEvoy (AUS), 2026
European Report: 20.94 – Frédérick Bousquet (FRA), 2009
Mare Nostrum Report: 21.31 – Bruno Fratus (BRA), 2019
Barcelona Report: 21.58 – Ben Proud (GBR), 2019
Girls’s 200 Backstroke
World Report: 2:03.14 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
European Report: 2:04.94 – Anastasia Fesikova (RUS), 2009
Mare Nostrum Report: 2:06.66 – Emily Seebohm (AUS), 2013
Barcelona Report: 2:07.30 – Emily Seebohm (AUS), 2017
