Swimming Luxembourg Youth Team Claims Silver at SL Synchro Cup Open 2026

On Sunday 10 May 2026, the Youth Team of Swimming Luxembourg secured second place at the 33rd edition of the SL Synchro Cup Open, an international artistic swimming competition held at the pool of Campus Geesseknäppchen in Luxembourg-Merl.

From Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May 2026, the competition brought together more than 200 athletes from nineteen clubs representing seven countries: the UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Finland and Romania, with the latter two nations making their debut appearances at the SL Synchro Cup Open. Organised by Swimming Luxembourg, the event featured swimmers competing in the Youth (thirteen to fifteen) and Junior (sixteen to nineteen) categories across solo, duet and team disciplines.

For Youth athletes from the participating countries, the competition also served as preparation for the upcoming European Aquatics Youth Artistic Swimming Championships, which is scheduled to take place from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 June 2026 at the Coque National Sports and Culture Centre in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.

“This year, we had the Czech Republic national team here and, for the first time, the Luxembourg national team competing at our event in the Youth Team discipline. Our team finished in second place, which is a very good result for us. In general, our results as a club improved, so we are very, very proud of that,” stated Sonja Tholl, Coach and Assistant to the Organiser of the SL Synchro Cup Open, in an interview with Chronicle.lu.

She added that most of the club’s Youth swimmers are also members of the Luxembourg national team and will compete at the European Championships next month alongside athletes from another Luxembourgish club.

In the Youth Team event, victory went to the Czech National Team, which scored 284.2917 points. The host club, Swimming Luxembourg, represented by swimmers Martyna Dini, Julia Valentina Caccia, Alice Riva, Lucie Pauze, Ainoa Lewandowski, Romy Thill, Charlie Mutterer and Sophie Tron, secured second place with 257.9528 points. Bronze went to Algemene Capelse Zwemvereniging of Belgium with a score of 251.2878.

Two more medal events took place in the Youth category. In the Solo Free final, Elena Rooselaers of Synchro Club Bree (Belgium) claimed gold with 269.4045 points. Anne Kraak of Algemene Capelse Zwemvereniging finished second with 267.3451 points, while Filip Novotny of the Czech National Team took bronze with 262.7545.

In the Duet final, Belgium’s Enora Henkens and Elena Rooselaers of Synchro Club Bree secured first place with 213.4087 points. Elisa Kato and Emily Nixon of London Regional Artistic Swimming Club earned silver with 189.4817 points. Representing Swimming Luxembourg, Martyna Dini and Alice Riva finished third with 189.4728 points.

In the Junior category, Romane Gregoire and Eleni Soulakaki of Royal Castor Club Mons (Belgium) won the Duet Free final with 139.9638 points. The Duet Technical title went to Marie Cathenis and Stien Vanderriest of Brugse Zwemkring (Belgium), who scored 208.2058 points.

In the team events, Czech club SK Neptun claimed victory in the Junior Team Free competition with 130.5130 points, while Brugse Zwemkring secured gold in the Junior Team Technical final on 189.4792 points.

The overall team title and the SL Synchro Cup Open 2026 trophy went to Royal Castor Club Mons of Belgium, which accumulated 1,243.6075 points after fielding entries in all seven disciplines contested at the event.

“We were very pleased to see so many spectators, which is very good for the artistic swimming community here in Luxembourg because the sport still needs to grow. It is a wonderful sport and we hope even more people will discover it in the future,” added Sonja Tholl