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 earned a score of 214.2970 points, showing a significant improvement from their preliminary score of 206.4693 points. The main enhancement came from an acrobatic element, which was executed cleanly and with higher difficulty in the final compared to the preliminaries, where it received only a base score.

Despite finishing fifth in the preliminaries, Israel was surpassed by other teams, including France and Ukraine, who improved their performances in the final. The Israeli team members competing in the free team routine included Yogev Dagan (Mizrah Bet Yehuda), Katy Konin (Hapoel Jerusalem), Alexandra Lerman (Jerusalem Rabati), Noga Levi (Hapoel Jerusalem), Lior Makmel (Mizrah Bet Yehuda), Leah Makmel (Mizrah Bet Yehuda), Aya Mazor (Mizrah Bet Yehuda), 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. The team is set to compete next in the technical routine final.