Tom Dean has been crowned European Junior Champion in the men’s 200m individual medley after a stunning swim in Helsinki this afternoon.

Dean won Great Britain’s third gold medal of the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships in dominant fashion, leading the rest of the field home by more than two seconds.

Dean’s winning time of 1:59.17 was a personal best, topping his first ever sub-two-minute swim at Edinburgh earlier this year when he won his first senior British title. It was also a competition best time, helping Dean retain the title he won in Israel last year.

Russia occupied both minor podium positions, with Maksim Stupin taking silver in 2:01.42 and Danil Zaytsev landing bronze in 2:02.42.

Straight after Dean’s success, Lauren Cox bagged Britain’s second medal of the day with a silver in the 50m backstroke. She finished in 28.51, behind Russia’s Daria Vaskina (27.90).

The session ended in victorious fashion too, with the women’s 4x100m medley relay team picking up the second gold of the day for Great Britain. The team of Lily Boseley, Tatiana Belonogoff, Emily Large and Freya Anderson won in 4:02.48, beating Russia and Germany to the top of the podium. This success marked a second gold of the championships for Belonogoff and Anderson.

In the previous relay, Britain’s men’s 4x200m freestyle team bagged a bronze. The team of Harry Constantine, Jakob Goodman, Tom Dean and Luke Turley finished third in 7:17.73, behind winners Israel and runners-up Russia.

Jacob Peters just missed out on a medal for Great Britain in the first of this afternoon’s finals, finishing fourth in the men’s 200m butterfly. Peters was in the bronze medal position after the first 50m, but was passed by Ukraine’s Denys Kesil who went on to claim the final podium spot. Hungary’s Kristof Milak was the runaway winner in 1:53.94. Italy’s Federico Burdisso was second in 1:56.40, ahead of Kesil in 1:56.45 and Peters in 1:57.83.

Lily Booker reached this afternoon’s women’s 200m breaststroke final, where she swam a time of 2:30.54 to finish eighth.

Archie Goodburn won his men’s 50m breaststroke semi-final in 28.34 to advance to the final later in the afternoon, where he finished fifth in 28.30.

In the women’s 50m backstroke, Lauren Cox qualified for the final after finishing third in the second semi-final. Her time was 28.71. Lily Boseley was fifth in the other semi, with her time of 29.13 earning her the reserve spot.

Rachel Anderson and Laura McNab had both reached the semi-finals of the women’s 200m freestyle, but neither were able to advance after a seventh for Anderson (2:03.61) and an eighth for McNab (2:04.11).

Keanna Macinnes qualified for the final of the women’s 100m butterfly after swimming a time of 1:00.63 to finish third in this afternoon’s first semi-final. Emily Large was the only swimmer in the women’s 100m butterfly to go under one minute, which she did in both the preliminaries and the semi-finals.

Large won her morning heat in 59.54, and went even better in her semi to win in 59.16. There was confusion immediately after the race with a disqualification showing on the timing system, however her winning time was quickly reinstated.

European Junior Swimming Championships 2018 Results – Day 3 (Finals)

Men’s 200m Butterfly: 1 Kristof Milak (Hungary) 1:53.94, 2 Federico Burdisso (Italy) 1:56.40, 3 Denys Kesil (Ukraine) 1:56.45, 4 Jacob Peters (Britain) 1:57.83, 5 Egor Pavlov (Russia) 1:57.96, 6 Dmitriy Popov (Russia) 1:58.65, 7 Maurice Ingenrieth (Germany) 1:59.99, 8 Noe Ponti (Switzerland) 2:00.01.

Women’s 200m Breaststroke: 1 Anastacia R Makarova (Russia) 2:26.29, 2 Alena Chekhovskikh (Russia) 2:26.87, 3 Kotryna Teterevkova (Lithuania) 2:27.09, 4 Thea Blomsterberg (Denmark) 2:27.83, 5 Anastasia Gorbenko (Israel) 2:29.31, 6 Nikoletta Pavlopoulou (Greece) 2:29.51, 7 Letizia Memo (Italy) 2:30.41, 8 Lily Booker (Britain) 2:30.54.

Men’s 100m Freestyle: 1 Tomer Frankel (Israel) 49.23, 2 Andrei Minakov (Russia) 49.24, 3 Devid Zorzetto (Italy) 49.47, 4 Jakub Kraska (Poland) 49.62, 5 Robin Hanson (Sweden) 49.77, 6 Daniil Markov (Russia) 49.92, 7 Peter Varjasi (Germany) 50.15, 8 Guillaume Guth (France) 50.33.

Men’s 200m Individual Medley: 1 Tom Dean (Britain) 1:59.17, 2 Maksim Stupin (Russia) 2:01.42, 3 Danil Zaytsev (Russia) 2:02.42, 4 Jose Paulo Lopes (Portugal) 2:02.55, 5 Jakub Lahoda (Czech Republic) 2:03.34, 6 Apostolos Papastamos (Greece) 2:03.37, 7 Ron Polonsky (Israel) 2:03.46, 8 Kaloyan D Bratanov (Bulgaria) 2:04.73.

Women’s 50m Backstroke: 1 Daria Vaskina (Russia) 27.90, 2 Lauren Cox (Britain) 28.51, 3 Giulia D’Innocenzo (Italy) 28.62, 4 Anastasia Avdeeva (Russia) 28.67, =5 Costanza Cocconcelli (Italy) 28.80, =5 Barbara Schaal (Germany) 28.80, 7 Anastasiya Shkurdai (Belarus) 28.85, 8 Lena Riedemann (Germany) 28.99.

Men’s 50m Breaststroke: 1 Vladislav Gerasimenko (Russia) 28.03, 2 Didzis Rudavs (Latvia) 28.19, 3 Juri Benjamin Dijkstra (Netherlands) 28.21, 4 Lucas Matzerath (Germany) 28.24, 5 Archie Goodburn (Britain) 28.30, 6 Caspar James Corbeau (Netherlands) 28.36, 7 Andre Klippenb Grindheim (Norway) 28.44, 8 Jan Kalusowski (Poland) 29.47.

Women’s 1500m Freestyle: 1 Ajna Kesely (Hungary) 16:21.19, 2 Celine Rieder (Germany) 16:25.05, 3 Giulia Salin (Italy) 16:28.12, 4 Viktor Mihalyvari Farkas (Hungary) 16:37.13, 5 Marlene Kahler (Austria) 16:41.17, 6 Katja Fain (Slovenia) 16:43.39, 7 Gali Zilberberg (Israel) 16:44.61, 8 Andrea Galisteo Zapatero (Spain) 16:50.02.

Men’s 4x200m Freestyle: 1 Israel 7:16.28, 2 Russia 7:17.49, 3 Britain 7:17.73, 4 France7:19.12, 5 Switzerland 7:22.33, 6 Italy 7:26.30, 7 Spain 7:26.33, 8 Denmark 7:27.68.

Women’s 4x100m Medley: 1 Great Britain 4:02.48, 2 Russia 4:04.52, 3 Germany 4:06.59, 4 France 4:09.82, 5 Turkey 4:09.86, 6 Italy 4:10.77, 7 Netherlands 4:12.34, DSQ Denmark 0:00.00.

European Junior Swimming Championship 2018 Medals Table – After Day 3

European Junior Swimming Championships 2018 Results – Day 2 (Finals)

Men’s 100m Backstroke: =1 Kliment Kolesnikov (Russia) 53.52, =1 Daniel-Cristian Martin (Romania) 53.52, 3 Nick Pyle (Britain) 54.69, 4 Kristof Milak (Hungary) 54.70, 5 Thomas Ceccon (Italy) 54.73, 6 Roman Mityukov (Switzerland) 54.75, 7 Gabor Zombori (Hungary) 55.30, 8 Thierry Frederic Bollin (Switzerland) 55.68.

Women’s 400m Freestyle: 1 Ajna Kesely (Hungary) 4:05.89, 2 Isabel Marie Gose (Germany) 4:11.01, 3 Marlene Kahler (Austria) 4:11.62, 4 Giulia Salin (Italy) 4:12.54, 5 Yana Kurtseva (Russia) 4:13.14, 6 Leah Crisp (Britain) 4:14.78, 7 Petra Barocsai (Hungary) 4:14.86, 8 Esther Morillop Lopez (Spain) 4:15.69.

Women’s 200m Butterfly: 1 Blanka Berecz (Hungary) 2:10.06, 2 Ciara Schlosshan (Britain) 2:11.18, 3 Dora Hathazi (Hungary) 2:11.54, 4 Zehra-Duru Bilgin (Turkey) 2:12.38, 5 Julia Pujadas Rusinol (Spain) 2:13.08, 6 Laura Lahtinen (Finland) 2:14.27, 7 Regitze Gaard (Denmark) 2:14.44, Keanna Macinnes (Britain) 2:14.71.

Women’s 100m Freestyle: 1 Freya Anderson (Britain) 54.65, 2 Elizaveta Klevanovich (Russia) 55.31, 3 Selen Ozbilen (Turkey) 55.69, 4 Maria Masciopinto (Italy) 55.92, 5 Ieva Maluka (Latvia) 55.94, 6 Polina Nevmovenko (Russia) 56.01, 7 Emma Virginia Menicucci (Italy) 56.41, 8 Nienke Jytte Jonk (Netherlands) 56.43.

Men’s 200m Breaststroke: 1 Aleksandr Zhigalov (Russia) 2:12.47, 2 Jan Kalusowski (Poland) 2:13.45, 3 Caspar James Corbeau (Netherlands) 2:14.13, 4 Antoine Marc (France) 2:14.22, 5 Alessandro Fusco (Italy) 2:14.32, 6 Matija Moze (Slovenia) 2:15.42, 7 Savvas Thomoglou (Greece) 2:15.64, 8 Clement Bidard (France) 2:21.49.

Women’s 200m Backstroke: 1 Anastasia Avdeeva (Russia) 2:09.56, 2 Laura Vanda Ilyes (Hungary) 2:10.67, 3 Tatiana Salcutan (Moldova) 2:11.37, 4 Daria Vaskina (Russia) 2:11.57, 5 Cristi Garcia Kirichenko (Spain) 2:11.91, 6 Eszter Szabo Feltothy (Hungary) 2:12.38, 7 Giulia D’Innocenzo (Italy) 2:12.43, 8 Andrea Prades Rodriquez (Spain) 2:14.13.

Men’s 1500m Freestyle: 1 Akos Kalmar (Hungary) 15:04.91, 2 Alexander Asla Noergaard (Denmark) 15:10.88, 3 Johannes Calloni (Italy) 15:11.47, 4 Ferran Julia Tous (Spain) 15:20.67, 5 Ilia Sibirtsev (Russia) 15:22.25, 6 Andreas Georgakopoulos (Greece) 15:22.60, 7 Nathan Hughes (Britain) 15:24.81, 8 Kirill Martynychev (Russia) 15:25.33.

Mixed 4x100m Freestyle: 1 Russia, 2 Germany, 3 Hungary, 4 Israel, 5 Poland, 6 Italy, 7 France, 8 Spain.

European Junior Swimming Championships 2018 Results – Day 1 (Finals)

Women’s 400m Individual Medley: 1 Ajna Kesely (Hungary) 4:41.55, 2 Yara Sophie Hierath (Germany) 4:45.75, 3 Lili Horvath (Hungary) 4:45.88, 4 Alba Vazquez Ruiz (Spain) 4:46.01, 5 Anastasiia Sorokina (Russia) 4:46.35, 6 Maria-Claudia Gadea (Romania) 4:48.11, 7 Giulia Goerigk (Germany) 4:49.43, 8 Julia Pujadas Rusinol (Spain) 4:52.96.

Men’s 400m Freestyle: 1 Kristof Milak (Hungary) 3:50.00, 2 Ilia Sibirtsev (Russia) 3:50.71, 3 Johannes Calloni (Italy) 3:51.14, 4 Aleksandr Egorov (Russia) 3:51.35, 5 Marco De Tullio (Italy) 3:51.73, 6 Akos Kalmar (Hungary) 3:52.06, 7 Antonio Djakovic (Switzerland) 3:52.30, 8 Denis Loktev (Israel) 3:58.51.

Men’s 50m Butterfly: 1 Andrei Minakov (Russia) 23.56, 2 Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas (Norway) 23.68, 3 Daniil Markov (Russia) 23.77, 4 Tomer Frankel (Israel) 23.79, 5 Simon Bucher (Austria) 23.81, 6 Kristof Milak (Hungary) 23.82, =7 Jacob Peters (Britain) 24.21, =7 Noe Ponti (Switzerland) 24.21.

Women’s 50m Breaststroke: 1 Tatiana Belonogoff (Britain) 31.29, 2 Anna Elendt (Germany) 31.36, 3 Tina Celik (Slovenia) 31.57, 4 Fleur Vermeiren (Belgium) 31.58, 5 Katie Robertson (Britain) 31.70, 6 Anastacia Makarova (Russia) 31.71, 7 Rosey Aenne Metz (Netherlands) 31.87, 8 Niamh Coyne (Ireland) 32.14.

Women’s 800m Freestyle: 1 Ajna Hun Kesely (Hungary) 8:30.43, 2 Celine Rieder (Germany) 8:32.54, 3 Giulia Salin (Italy) 8:34.50, 4 Marlene Kahler (Austria) 8:39.88, 5 Yana Kurtseva (Russia) 8:45.81, 6 Andrea Galisteo Zapatero (Spain) 8:45.99, 7 Esther Morillo Lopez (Spain) 8:47.40, 8 Leah Crisp (Britain) 8:48.83.

Women’s 4x100m Freestyle: 1 Russia 3:43.03, 2 Germany 3:44.82, 3 Italy 3:45.39, 4 Turkey 3:46.03, 5 Hungary 3:46.37, 6 The Netherlands 3:46.47, 7 Denmark 3:46.69, DSQ France 0:00.00.

Men’s 4x100m Freestyle: 1 Russia 3:18.21, 2 Italy 3:18.79, 3 Germany 3:21.12, 4 Israel 3:21.17, 5 Poland 3:21.41, 6 France 3:22.41, 7 Britain 3:22.63, 8 Sweden 3:22.73.

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