The Men's 3 km knockout sprint competition at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 August 2026.

Results Round 1 The first round was started at 11:15.

Heat 1 Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Notes 1 Johannes Liebmann 15:22.06 Q 2 Kristóf Rasovszky 15:27.59 Q 3 Domenico Acerenza 15:29.37 Q 4 Vladimir Muratov Neutral Athletes B 15:33.83 Q 5 Marc-Antoine Olivier 15:34.59 Q 6 Émile Vincent 15:34.65 Q 7 Gregorio Paltrinieri 15:34.67 Q 8 Athanasios Kynigakis 15:34.79 Q 9 Paul Niederberger 15:34.79 Q 10 Yonatan Ahdut 15:35.40 Q 11 Martin Straka 15:35.60 12 Aleksandr Stepanov Neutral Athletes B 15:35.87 13 Muhammed Yavuz Selim Oğuz 15:38.82 14 Jakub Gabriel 15:39.08 15 Jesper Lietzen 15:42.31 16 Nolan Carrel 15:46.84 17 Tomáš Peciar 16:16.06 18 Théo Druenne 16:35.27 Jaan Pasko Did not finish

Heat 2 Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Notes 1 Florian Wellbrock 15:26.00 Q 2 Dávid Betlehem 15:26.27 Q 3 Oliver Klemet 15:26.73 Q 4 Mateo García 15:28.91 Q 5 Andrea Filadelli 15:29.83 Q 6 Logan Fontaine 15:31.78 Q 7 Luca Karl 15:33.46 Q 8 Vladimir Ivanov Neutral Athletes B 15:33.67 Q 9 Bartosz Kapała 15:34.32 Q 10 Diogo Cardoso 15:36.82 Q 11 Christian Schreiber 15:37.20 12 Mario Méndez 15:37.39 13 Denis Borovka 15:47.10 14 Esteban Faure 15:47.15 15 Petar Cekov 16:04.89 16 Emir Batur Albayrak 16:19.38 17 Doğukan Ulaç 16:31.84 18 Erik Mäesepp 17:05.87 Hunor Kovács-Seres Did not start

Round 2 The second round was started at 12:05.

Semifinal 1 Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Notes 1 Johannes Liebmann 10:46.55 Q 2 Gregorio Paltrinieri 10:46.60 Q 3 Marc-Antoine Olivier 10:49.51 Q 4 Athanasios Kynigakis 10:50.39 Q 5 Kristóf Rasovszky 10:50.51 Q 6 Domenico Acerenza 10:51.07 7 Émile Vincent 10:58.15 8 Vladimir Muratov Neutral Athletes B 10:59.17 9 Yonatan Ahdut 10:59.19 10 Paul Niederberger 13:47.44

Semifinal 2 Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Notes 1 Oliver Klemet 10:56.54 Q 2 Florian Wellbrock 10:57.37 Q 3 Dávid Betlehem 10:57.68 Q 4 Andrea Filadelli 10:58.92 Q 5 Logan Fontaine 10:59.62 Q 6 Bartosz Kapała 10:59.66 7 Mateo García 10:59.82 8 Luca Karl 11:00.16 9 Diogo Cardoso 11:03.87 10 Vladimir Ivanov Neutral Athletes B 11:03.96

Round 3 The third round was started at 12:37.

Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Dávid Betlehem 6:12.97 Marc-Antoine Olivier 6:16.26 Logan Fontaine 6:16.44 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 6:17.00 5 Kristóf Rasovszky 6:17.08 6 Athanasios Kynigakis 6:18.16 7 Florian Wellbrock 6:18.88 8 Johannes Liebmann 6:19.80 9 Oliver Klemet 6:20.25 10 Andrea Filadelli 6:29.65

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