2026 World Junior Championships Results – Free Events

We have compiled for you all results from the free events at the 2026 World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships held in Budapest, Hungary from August 12 – 16

All results from the technical events can be found here.

 

* indicates at least one base mark or a zero on a TRE.

Free Solo (W) Preliminary

Nation Swimmer DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Ekaterina Shtatnova 59.90 143.7488 134.2500 277.9988 (Q)
2 Spain Naia Alvarez 61.45 135.6277 122.0750 257.7027 (Q)
3 People’s Republic of China Zhou Kunyi 57.55 128.3476 126.0250 246.3726 (P: 8.0) (Q)
4 Japan Miyazaki Kaho 57.55 122.9164 122.0750 244.9914 (Q)
5 Malta Zea Montfort 56.00 120.3213 110.7000 231.0213 (Q)
6 Italy Ginevra Marchetti 51.05* 108.5652 120.4500 229.0152 (Q)
7 Georgia Nita Natobadze 55.45 114.5963 113.8500 228.4463 (Q)
8 Uzbekistan Darya Kochneva 57.25 115.3651 108.1500 223.5151 (Q)
9 Hungary Blanka Barbocz 55.50 111.5464 107.5750 219.1214 (Q)
10 Türkiye Selin Hurmeric 42.15* 96.3575 121.0250 217.3825 (Q)
11 New Zealand Teresa Sun 56.05 110.1614 103.4000 213.5614 (Q)
12 Canada Olena Verbinska 40.85* 91.2550 119.4000 210.6550 (Q)
13 Egypt Gamila Ahmed Abdelhamid 43.15 92.5250 110.4750 203.0000
14 Sri Lanka Venuki Wijesena 49.15 96.2713 96.4500 192.7213
15 Serbia Teodora Sperlic 45.45 88.3588 101.9000 190.2588
16 Finland Vilma Vaisanen 38.85 77.2025 107.2250 184.4275
17 Mexico Anna Sofia Lopez 31.70* 63.0388 106.0750 169.1138
18 Czechia Sofie Schindlerova 27.70* 53.5026 109.4250 162.9276
19 Cayman Islands Nicole Kazakova 30.85* 57.8526 99.4500 157.3026
20 Colombia Valeria Jurado 24.20* 47.1675 106.1750 153.3425
21 Iceland Andrea Eliasson 21.50* 37.9113 86.2500 124.1613
22 Panama Katherine Castillo 11.45* 20.1375 89.1500 109.2875

Free Solo (W) Final 

Nation Swimmer DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Ekaterina Shtatnova 60.40 146.1326 137.2500 283.3826
2 Spain Naia Alvarez 62.20 140.3113 128.3250 268.6363
3 People’s Republic of China Zhou Kunyi 58.70 133.1626 128.3250 261.4876
4 Italy Ginevra Marchetti 56.25* 125.4876 125.5500 251.0376
5 Japan Miyazaki Kaho 57.55 124.0664 121.9500 246.0164
6 Malta Zea Montfort 56.00 124.2413 115.1000 239.3413
7 Canada Olena Verbinska 52.65* 119.9888 118.7000 238.6888
8 Georgia Nita Natobadze 55.30 117.3539 115.0000 232.3539
9 Türkiye Selin Hurmeric 46.60* 109.6875 122.4250 232.1125
10 Uzbekistan Darya Kochneva 57.25 120.9738 110.7000 231.6738
11 Hungary Blanka Barbocz 48.30* 100.3201 106.7750 207.0951
12 New Zealand Teresa Sun 41.50* 83.9801 107.2250 191.2051

Free Solo (M)

Nation Swimmer DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Zakhar Trofimov 60.15 139.9926 127.0500 267.0426
2 Spain Eneko Sanchez 57.60 134.2413 130.1750 264.4163
3 Kazakhstan Viktor Druzin 59.85 139.2201 117.9000 257.1201
4 Italy Filippo Pelati 54.80* 123.6339 121.7250 245.3589
5 People’s Republic of China Chen Xiuping 53.95 120.6938 121.8250 242.5188
6 France Nolan Fontbonne 48.10* 112.9901 123.2250 236.2151
7 Chile Nicolas Campos 38.00* 87.0163 120.1000 207.1163
8 Colombia Nicolas Tascon 41.35* 87.3001 105.7250 193.0251
9 Brazil Alan Domingues 35.40* 76.1875 110.9250 187.1125
10 Malta Jude Bonnici Peresso 28.90* 57.5350 102.3750 159.9100
11 Australia Christian Hoper 26.35* 49.6650 91.8250 141.4900

Free Duet Preliminary

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Spain Naia Alvarez, Daniela Suarez, Paula Marcipar (R) 66.40 167.0859 127.7500 294.8359 (Q)
2 Russian Federation Kristina Chekhanova, Anastasiia Sidorina, Anna-Mariia Fomicheva (R) 66.30* 162.1876 132.3750 294.5626 (Q)
3 People’s Republic of China He Zhien, Zhou Kunyi 66.20 161.3322 131.4500 292.7822 (Q)
4 Belarus Anastasiya Dabravolskaya, Aliaksandra Mironchyk 60.35 146.6159 127.0500 273.6659 (Q)
5 USA Ghizal Akbar, AnaMaria Camero, Jaclyn Zhuge (R) 64.825 152.5574 120.3250 272.8824 (Q)
6 Japan Ishimi Kikuno, Nanami Sakamoto, Fukuda Shiori (R) 57.35* 140.8138 125.6500 266.4638 (Q)
7 Switzerland Melody Halbeisen, Meret Isler 59.95 140.5872 121.0250 261.6122 (Q)
8 Ukraine Mariia Hrynishyna, Uliana Hrynishyna 61.30* 139.3084 119.2750 258.5834 (Q)
9 Türkiye Selin Hurmeric, Ece Ungor, Ayca Boru (R) 60.50 136.5329 121.9500 258.4829 (Q)
10 Canada Kaylynne Greensmith, Olena Verbinska 61.25 144.5579 116.1500 252.7079 (P: 8.0) (Q)
11 Italy Sarah Maria Rizea, Flaminia Vernice, Chiara Benesso (R) 57.70* 127.3093 118.1250 245.4343 (Q)
12 Czechia Mariana Kudynova, Silvia Majerova, Karolina Jetmarova (R) 59.95 131.7267 107.3500 239.0767 (Q)
13 Austria Linda Reiter, Kira Schrottner, Laura Ploy (R) 56.75* 122.5634 109.9000 232.4634
14 Great Britain Loya Cenkci, Holly Hughes, Eve Young (R) 52.70* 121.4795 111.0500 224.5295 (P: 8.0)
15 Egypt Zeina Amr, Jana Mohamed Awad, Nadin Mohieeldin Mohamed (R) 47.90 115.2893 107.7000 222.9893
16 Kazakhstan Salima Akylbek, Zhanerke Nurkenkyzy, Alisha Rafkatova (R) 47.25* 105.3597 111.0500 216.4097
17 Uzbekistan Khadicha Agzamova, Sabina Makhmudova, Darya Kochneva (R) 42.80* 97.9896 114.8750 212.8646
18 Brazil Eduarda Mattos, Marina Postal, Hannah Sukman (R) 46.30* 101.9863 105.5000 207.4863
19 Hungary Blanka Barbocz, Angelika Bastianelli, Eniko Gulyas (R) 44.25* 96.2480 109.0750 205.3230
20 Peru Valeria Machicado, Rafaella Romero 51.90* 99.1826 96.4500 195.6326
21 New Zealand Teresa Sun, Phoebe Suoliu 34.05* 64.1551 99.2250 163.3801
22 Colombia Luisa Botero, Mabel Tobon 15.05* 18.5522 97.6000 116.1522

Free Duet Final

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Spain Naia Alvarez, Daniela Suarez, Paula Marcipar (R) 66.40 167.4563 131.2250 298.6813
2 People’s Republic of China He Zhien, Zhou Kunyi 66.20 163.7451 131.3250 295.0701
3 Russian Federation Kristina Chekhanova, Anastasiia Sidorina, Anna-Mariia Fomicheva (R) 66.60* 158.8246 135.2750 294.0996
4 Italy Sarah Maria Rizea, Flaminia Vernice, Chiara Benesso (R) 67.45 156.8776 119.4000 276.2776
5 USA Ghizal Akbar, AnaMaria Camero, Jaclyn Zhuge (R) 66.025 154.5094 119.6250 274.1344
6 Belarus Anastasiya Dabravolskaya, Aliaksandra Mironchyk 60.35 144.6713 124.3750 269.0463
7 Japan Ishimi Kikuno, Nanami Sakamoto, Fukuda Shiori (R) 57.35* 139.9230 121.9500 261.8730
8 Türkiye Selin Hurmeric, Ece Ungor, Ayca Boru (R) 60.50 138.9392 121.3750 260.3142
9 Ukraine Mariia Hrynishyna, Uliana Hrynishyna 61.30* 137.3804 116.5000 253.8804
10 Canada Kaylynne Greensmith, Olena Verbinska 60.05* 135.6367 114.5250 250.1617
11 Czechia Mariana Kudynova, Silvia Majerova, Karolina Jetmarova (R) 60.05 134.4388 107.3500 241.7888
12 Switzerland Melody Halbeisen, Meret Isler 52.20* 122.7980 117.9000 240.6980

Free Mixed Duet 

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Spain Arlet Arnan, Eneko Sanchez, Martina Garcia (R) 54.70 114.8492 148.4500 263.2992
2 Kazakhstan Yasmina Islamova, Aldiyar Ramazanov 52.525 115.6058 132.5000 248.1058
3 Japan Aitaka Heizo, Dodo Manami 52.60 107.8850 139.1000 246.9850
4 People’s Republic of China Chen Xiuping, Wang Ziyan, Chen Keyu (R), Xu Keyi (R) 54.80 104.4709 142.2500 246.7209
5 Italy Ginevra Marchetti, Gabriele Minak 43.45* 90.1509 141.2000 231.3509
6 Greece Marios Kritsas, Nikoletta Lyra, Alexandra Orfanou (R) 47.65 86.6659 132.3500 219.0159
7 USA David Llorente, Yilian Yuan 47.35* 82.9091 131.0500 213.9591
8 Canada NoeMie Jobin, Nathan Zhang, Emily Mc Mahon (T) 48.35 80.2091 115.1000 195.3091
9 Colombia Natalia Jurado, Nicolas Tascon, Valerie Cuenca Londono (R) 33.65* 58.8850 115.5000 174.3850
10 Russian Federation Alina Rumiantseva, Zakhar Trofimov 18.80* 26.0333 145.8000 171.8333
11 Brazil Alan Domingues Rodrigues, Marina Postal, Isabella Lima Viana (R) 16.85* 44.8834 121.5500 166.4334

Free Team Preliminary

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Almazova, Chibisova, Fomicheva, Gotalskaia, Klenina, Pishchikova, Shevchenko, Shtatnova, Chechura (R), Zavialova (R) 78.574 137.8895 130.9000 268.7895 (Q)
2 Spain Bjorklund, Calle, Garcia, Gualtieri, Marcipar, Simo, Suarez, Velazquez, Alvarez (R), Huidobro (R) 78.652 131.4194 125.9750 257.3944 (Q)
3 People’s Republic of China Chen Keyu, Chen Xiuping, Hou Jiayi, Ji Heyue, Jin Yanxiao, Wang Ziyan, Wei Luohui, Xu Keyi, Liu Sa (R), Ye Jixuan (R) 74.762* 120.9734 127.3000 248.2734 (Q)
4 Japan Aitaka, Dodo, Fukai, Fukuda, Ishimi, Koyama, Miyazaki, Sakamoto, Nobutake (R), Takeoka (R) 69.362* 107.8046 123.4750 231.2796 (Q)
5 Greece Chrysou, Kaltsogianni, Karagianni, Karamanidou, Koutraki, Rapti, Tsioli, Vasvateki, Kasviki (R), Orfanou (R) 72.6375 116.1912 113.5500 229.7412 (Q)
6 USA Akbar, Bae, Camero, Field, Park, Schwickert, Yuan, Zhuge, Fu (R), Shakeri (R) 73.95* 113.2080 113.5500 226.7580 (Q)
7 Belarus Charota, Damashneva, Dzemidovich, Hil, Holubeva, Malyshava, Shynkevich, Trafimava, Halaukova (R) 70.625 104.5221 117.1500 221.6721 (P: 8.0) (Q)
8 Kazakhstan Akylbek, Ichshenko, Islamova, Jamanchalova, Kalmurza, Merzlyakova, Saim, Voronkova, Nurkenkyzy (R), Ramazanov (R) 58.012 94.9846 112.0250 207.0096 (Q)
9 Great Britain Appleby, Gibbons, Hughes, Hussey, Lanham, Sutton, Townsend, Young, Cenkci (R), Pringle (R) 62.97 96.7988 109.7250 206.5238 (Q)
10 Brazil Lima Viana, Martins dos Santos, Mattos, Pontes de Braganca, Postal, Santolin, Stramandinoli Huber, Sukman, Abramovitz Lukowiecki (R) 54.5575* 75.8964 105.0500 180.9464 (Q)
11 Colombia Abello, Acosta, Botero, Cuenca, Jurado N, Jurado V, Mejia, Tobon, Tascon (R), Yepes (R) 52.425* 74.2557 102.3000 176.5557 (Q)
12 Egypt Ahmed Osman, Amr, Fathy, Mohamed Abdelmoniem, Mohamed Awad, Mohieeldin Mohamed, Samer, Tharwat, Ahmed Abelhamid (R), Hisham Mohamed (R) 43.9875* 66.8067 104.8250 171.6317 (Q)

Free Team Final

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Almazova, Chibisova, Fomicheva, Gotalskaia, Klenina, Pishchikova, Shevchenko, Shtatnova, Chechura (R), Zavialova (R) 80.624 144.9314 132.7500 277.6814
2 People’s Republic of China Chen Keyu, Chen Xiuping, Hou Jiayi, Ji Heyue, Jin Yanxiao, Wang Ziyan, Wei Luohui, Xu Keyi, Liu Sa (R), Ye Jixuan (R) 79.762 135.2654 126.1000 261.3654
3 Spain Alvarez, Bjorklund, Calle, Garcia, Gualtieri, Marcipar, Simo, Velazquez, Huidobro (R), Suarez (R) 75.907* 123.5596 127.6250 251.1846
4 Greece Chrysou, Kaltsogianni, Karagianni, Karamanidou, Koutraki, Rapti, Tsioli, Vasvateki, Kasviki (R), Orfanou (R) 74.1875 120.6142 118.9000 239.5142
5 Japan Aitaka, Dodo, Fukai, Fukuda, Ishimi, Koyama, Miyazaki, Sakamoto, Nobutake (R), Takeoka (R) 69.3620* 112.9103 123.7000 236.6103
6 USA Akbar, Bae, Camero, Field, Park, Schwickert, Yuan, Zhuge, Fu (R), Shakeri (R) 64.70* 109.4182 117.4750 226.8932
7 Kazakhstan Akylbek, Ichshenko, Islamova, Jamanchalova, Kalmurza, Merzlyakova, Saim, Voronkova, Nurkenkyzy (R), Ramazanov (R) 58.012 97.2250 111.3750 208.6000
8 Belarus Charota, Damashneva, Dzemidovich, Halaukova, Hil, Holubeva, Malyshava, Shynkevich, Trafimava (R) 56.425* 84.5480 115.0750 199.6230
9 Great Britain Appleby, Gibbons, Hughes, Hussey, Lanham, Sutton, Townsend, Young, Cenkci (R), Pringle (R) 60.47* 90.1020 108.4250 198.5270
10 Colombia Abello, Acosta, Botero, Cuenca, Jurado N, Jurado V, Mejia, Tobon, Tascon (R), Yepes (R) 63.775 94.5459 101.6500 196.1959
11 Brazil Lima Viana, Martins dos Santos, Mattos, Pontes de Braganca, Postal, Santolin, Stramandinoli Huber, Sukman, Abramovitz Lukowiecki (R) 54.5575* 81.5440 105.9250 187.4690
12 Egypt Ahmed Osman, Amr, Fathy, Mohamed Abdelmoniem, Mohamed Awad, Mohieeldin Mohamed, Samer, Tharwat, Ahmed Abelhamid (R), Hisham Mohamed (R) 48.3375* 78.6801 105.1500 183.8301

Acrobatic Team

Nation Swimmers DD EL AI Total
1 Russian Federation Almazova, Chechura, Chibisova, Fomicheva, Gotalskaia, Pishchikova, Shtatnova, Zavialova, Klenina (R), Shevchenko (R) 25.7495 139.3147 92.9000 232.2147
2 Kazakhstan Ichshenko, Islamova, Jamanchalova, Kalmurza, Merzlyakova, Ramazanov, Saim, Voronkova, Akylbek (R), Zairova (R) 23.112 119.2926 83.8000 203.0926
3 Belarus Charota, Dabravolskaya, Damashneva, Dzemidovich, Hil, Holubeva, Malyshava, Myronchyk, Halaukova (R), Shynkevich (R) 22.912 114.8777 86.1000 200.9777
4 Spain Alvarez, Arnan, Calle, Charbonneau, Gualtieri, Marcipar, Suarez, Velazquez, Huidobro (R), Simo (R) 21.1115* 108.5535 92.0000 200.5535
5 Chile Amoros, Campos, Cerda, Cesped, Gacitua Aguirre, Lazcano, Plaut, Rubio, Oravec (R) 22.1745 111.4450 82.0500 193.4950
6 Canada Bernier L, Bernier N, Breault, Harvey, Lefebvre, Mc Mahon, Peloquin, Williams, Greensmith (R), Jobin (R) 23.8020 112.7407 79.6500 192.3907
7 People’s Republic of China Chen Keyu, Chen Xiuping, Hou Jiayi, Ji Heyue, Liu Sa, Wang Ziyan, Xu Keyi, Ye Jixuan, Gu Jiayu (R), Liu Shuang (R) 19.325* 100.2501 90.4000 190.6501
8 Japan Aitaka, Dodo, Fukai, Fukuda, Ishimi, Koyama, Miyazaki, Sakamoto, Takeoka (R), Tsuboi (R) 19.812* 102.8163 87.5000 190.3163
9 USA Akbar, Bae, Camero, Field, Goldhoff, Park, Yuan, Zhuge, Schwickert (R), Starck (R) 17.462* 83.4120 86.3500 169.7620
10 Mexico Alva, Avila, Delgado, Govea, Guizar, Maldonado, Miranda, Quintero 20.627 95.8077 81.1000 168.9077 (P: 8.0)
11 France Ayalon-Jegoux, Bonnin, Fontbonne, Guillot A, Hauss, Libot, Sperry, Tapie, Bassou (R), Himmi (R) 17.3625* 81.0051 84.9000 165.9051
12 Italy Benesso, Marchetti, Minak, Ottonello, Pelati, Rizea, Spiz, Vernice F 12.675* 64.8700 90.0500 154.9200
13 Hungary Almadi, Boros, Csaszik, Duhonyi, Feher, Janku, Kovacs, Szabo, Gulyas (R), Nemes (R) 17.587* 76.2658 72.3500 148.6158
14 Egypt Ahmed Osman, Amr, Fathy, Hisham Mohamed, Mohamed Abdelmoniem, Ramy, Samer, Tharwat, Ahmed Abelhamid (R), Mohieeldin Mohamed (R) 14.7125* 68.5656 74.8500 143.4156
15 Brazil Clemente Vieira, Domingues Rodrigues, Lima Viana, Mattos, Postal, Santolin, Stramandinoli Huber, Sukman, Abramovitz Lukowiecki (R), Martins dos Santos (R) 15.7125* 70.5375 72.7500 143.2875
16 Australia Chen, Chew, Enzor, Jamieson Takahashi, Longhi, Moon, Szarnyasi, Yasuda 13.475* 61.7226 76.4500 138.1726
17 Czechia Flekova, Jetmarova, Kalvodova, Kaufmanova, Kudelkova, Ridelova, Schindlerova, Smejova, Kudynova (R), Majerova (R) 13.2625* 58.2188 70.8000 129.0188
18 Colombia Acosta, Botero, Cuenca, Jurado N, Jurado V, Mejia, Tobon, Yepes, Abello (R), Tascon (R) 13.20* 53.4776 73.4000 118.8776 (P: 8.0)

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