Dates Announced For 2026 European Championships In Paris

Dates Introduced For 2026 European Championships In Paris

The 2026 European Championships will run from 31 July to 16 August with the pool programme going down within the latter half of the occasion in Paris.

Inventive swimming and diving will each begin on 31 July and conclude on 5 and 6 August respectively with open water swimming going down within the Seine from 4-8 August. The Olympic marathon swimming was additionally contested within the river that threads by way of the French capital the place there have been points over water high quality and athletes fell sick with Kristof Rasovszky and Sharon van Rouwendaal rising as respective champions. Excessive diving dates are but to be introduced by European Aquatics.

The pool programme runs from 10-16 August on the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Paris St Denis, the one everlasting sports activities facility constructed for the 2024 Olympics

Leon Marchand introduced down the home at La Protection Enviornment final yr. 4 gold medals and a relay bronze put him in choose firm with solely Michael Phelps (twice), Mark Spitz and Kristin Otto having collected that many particular person golds within the pool at a single Olympics.

He was one in all three particular person French medallists together with Anastasia Kirpichnikova who took silver within the 1500 and Florent Manaudou whose bronze ensured a fourth straight 50 free medal.

The thirty eighth version of the European Aquatics Championships will happen in Paris 100 years after they had been first held in Budapest in 1926.

With the Commonwealth Video games going down each quadrennial and the Europeans on a biennial foundation, it implies that each competitions are held in the identical yr each 4 years. Given the pool programme is within the latter half of the Europeans, it means there received’t be an overlap between the 2 competitions with diving not on the schedule in Glasgow. The UK – which competes on the Commonwealths as Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Eire – are one of many European nations that might compete at each occasions.

In 2022, the Commonwealths ran in Birmingham from 29 July – 3 August with the Europeans getting underway on 11 August.