Iris Tió and Dennis González, European runners-up in mixed free duet

Spanish swimmers Iris Tió and Dennis González won the silver medal on Saturday in the mixed duet free artistic swimming final at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships, being held in Paris, France, securing Spain’s first medal at the continental event.

At the Olympic Aquatics Centre in the French capital, the Catalan pair, reigning world champions in mixed duet free, lived up to expectations with a routine performed to Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.” Without a baseline score, Tió and González earned 257.9733 points, 95.0233 for elements, and 162.9500 for impression.

However, the low difficulty of the routine meant that their momentary first place was later overtaken by the British pair Isabelle Thorpe and Ranjuo Tomblin, who took the gold with 258.2383 points (112.2883 in elements and 145.9500 in impression). The bronze went to the Italians Filippo Pelati and Lucrezia Ruggiero (255.1641).

In the morning, in the free solo preliminaries, Iris Tió finished in second place, only behind the Belarusian Vasilina Khandoshka. Dancing to Édith Piaf’s ‘Hymne à l’amour’, the Catalan skater achieved a score of 276.4849, with 133.7849 in elements and 142.7000 in impression.

With this result, she finished ten points behind Khandoshka (287.3999), while Germany’s Klara Bleyer finished third (271.6687). Tió will seek a medal in the final next Monday (9:00 a.m.).

In addition, in the one-meter springboard event, Max Liñán failed to qualify for the final, finishing fourteenth in the preliminary round. His 319.60 points left him six points shy of qualifying, although he is the second reserve for the final. France’s Jules Bouyer (379.25) dominated the preliminary rounds.