Israel Finishes Seventh in Free Team Routine at 2026 European Artistic Swimming Championships

The Israeli artistic swimming team secured seventh place in the free team routine final at the 2026 European Championships held in Paris. The team scored 214.2970 points, showing a notable improvement from their preliminary round score of 206.4693 points. The main enhancement came from an acrobatic element that was executed cleanly and with higher difficulty in the final, compared to a basic score in the preliminaries.

Despite finishing fifth in the preliminaries, Israel dropped to seventh in the final as other teams, including France and Ukraine, improved their performances and surpassed Israel's score. The Israeli lineup for the free team routine included Yogev Dagan (Mizrah Batya), Keti Konin (Hapoel Jerusalem), Alexandra Lerman (Greater Jerusalem), Noga Levi (Hapoel Jerusalem), Lior Makmel (Mizrah Batya), Leah Makmel (Mizrah Batya), Aya Mazor (Mizrah Batya), and Noya Tzarfati (Maccabi Tel Aviv).

Later in the evening, the Israeli team was scheduled to compete in the technical team routine final, aiming to build on their performance from the free routine.

Summary: Israel's artistic swimming team placed seventh in the free team routine final at the 2026 European Championships in Paris, improving their score from preliminaries but overtaken by other teams. They will compete next in the technical routine final.