Diogo Ribeiro came 7th in the final of the 100 meter freestyle. In his first participation in an absolute European Short Course, the Portuguese swimmer swam the 100 meters in 46.61 seconds. An impressive milestone considering he is still recovering from food poisoning that affected the final days of preparation before arriving in the Romanian town of Otopeni, where the Europeans take place.

The 19-year-old swimmer started his participation in the European Open Short Course (25 meters, non-Olympic distance) in the 100 meter butterfly. He reached the semi-finals, but broke the national distance record, which belonged to Fernando Silva, and set it at 51.01 seconds.

The film was repeated on 50 meters mariposa. He reached the final with a ninth fastest time and a new national record (22.71s). In the 100 meters freestyle he reached the final, finishing in 7th place, but with a new national record (46.61 seconds), taking four hundredths off the maximum he had already reached, achieved in December 2022 in Leiria .

Frenchman Maxime Grousset became European champion (45.46s), beating Italian Alessandro Miressi (45.51s) and Romanian David Popovici (46.05s).

Five finals in

Earlier, Francisca Martins finished the 400m freestyle final in fifth place with a record of 4.04.57, beating the national record that had belonged to Diana Durães since 2017 (4.04.61).

Italy’s Simona Quadarella won gold with 3:59.50, ahead of France’s Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (3:59.56) and Belgium’s Valentine Dumont (4:00.84). Fourth place went to the Danish Helena Rosendahl Bach (4.02.97).

Francisca Martins’ fifth place was one of the five finals that the Portuguese reached in Otopeni. In addition to Diogo Ribeiro’s final, Camila Rebelo reached two finals – 5th in the 200 meter backstroke and 7th in the 100 meter backstroke – and both with national records.

The quartet of João Costa, Gabriel Lopes, Diogo Ribeiro and Miguel Nascimento also finished the 4x50m style relay in 5th place and with a national record (1.33.82 minutes).