{"id":1428583,"date":"2026-08-16T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-swimmer-sheremet-wins-euro-2026-gold-with-a-new-ukrainian-record\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:56:09","slug":"ukrainian-swimmer-sheremet-wins-euro-2026-gold-with-a-new-ukrainian-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-swimmer-sheremet-wins-euro-2026-gold-with-a-new-ukrainian-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykyta Sheremet Makes History With European Gold and New Ukrainian Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian swimmer Mykyta Sheremet won gold in the men\u2019s 50-meter freestyle at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in Paris, clocking 21.13 seconds to set a new Ukrainian record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is reported <a href=\"https:\/\/champion.com.ua\/ukr\/swimming\/sheremet-prinis-ukrajini-pershe-zoloto-na-chye-2026-z-vodnih-vidiv-sportu-u-plavanni-1082744\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheremet came first in the final swim, ahead of all his rivals. This is the first gold medal for Ukraine in swimming at this year&#8217;s European Aquatics Championships. Another Ukrainian, Vladislav Bukhov, took 5th place with a time of 21.58 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the final of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in the men&#8217;s 50m freestyle format:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Mykyta Sheremet (Ukraine)\u201421.13 sec;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Egor Kornev (neutral athletes) \u2014 21.37 sec;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Andrej Barna (Serbia)\u201421.37 sec;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kristof Milak (Hungary)\u201421.46 sec;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Vladyslav Bukhov (Ukraine) \u2014 21.58 sec;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sheremet&#8217;s time also became the 14th-fastest in history in the 50-meter freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Sheremet&#8217;s gold became the 3rd-highest award for the Ukrainian national team and the 7th medal overall in aquatics at Euro 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ukrainian track and field athlete Yaroslava <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yaroslava-mahuchikh-vtretie-pospil-stala-chempionkoiu-yevropy-zi-strybkiv-u-vysotu\/\">Maguchikh won the gold medal at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham<\/a>. For the 24-year-old athlete, this is the third consecutive European high jump title.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the leader of the Ukrainian rhythmic gymnastics team, Taisiya <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/taisiia-onofriychuk-zdobula-pershe-dlia-ukrainy-zoloto-chempionatu-svitu-z-khudozhnoi-himnastyky-za-13-rokiv\/\">Onofriychuk, became the 2026 world champion in the final of the hoop exercise.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2868\" data-end=\"3116\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2868\" data-end=\"3116\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian swimmer Mykyta Sheremet won gold in the men\u2019s 50-meter freestyle at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in Paris, clocking 21.13 seconds to set a new Ukrainian record. This is reported by Champion. Sheremet came first in the final swim, ahead of all his rivals. This is the first gold medal for Ukraine in swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1428577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1428583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428659,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428583\/revisions\/1428659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}