1927 European Aquatics Championships

The 1927 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held from 31 August to 4 September in Bologna, Italy. Women's events were held for the first time.

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	5	6	16
2	Sweden	4	2	1	7
3	Netherlands	3	2	0	5
4	Great Britain	2	2	1	5
5	Hungary	1	2	1	4
6	Austria	1	0	2	3
7	France	0	2	0	2
8	Italy*	0	1	2	3
9	Belgium	0	0	2	2
10	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary[]

Diving[]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Ewald Riebschläger  Germany	7/173.86	Edmund Lindmark  Sweden	16.5/159.86	Luciano Cozzi  Italy	18/160.14
Platform	Hans Luber  Germany	7/114.86	Ewald Riebschläger  Germany	11/111.24	Ezio Selva  Italy	18/100.64

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Klara Bornett  Austria	5/103.32	Lini Söhnchen  Germany	11/91.96	Hanni Rehborn  Germany	14/86.24
Platform	Isabelle White  Great Britain	5/36.40	France	12.5/32.40	Eva Olliwier  Sweden	14/32.20

Swimming[]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Arne Borg  Sweden	1:00.0	István Bárány  Hungary	1:03.2	August Heitmann  Germany	1:03.4
400 m freestyle	Arne Borg  Sweden	5:08.6	Herbert Heinrich  Germany	5:15.8	Václav Antoš  Czechoslovakia	5:16.2
1500 m freestyle	Arne Borg  Sweden	19:07.2 WR	Giuseppe Perentin  Italy	21:50.4	Joachim Rademacher  Germany	22:00.0
100 m backstroke	Eskil Lundahl  Sweden	1:17.4	Aladár Bitskey  Hungary	1:17.6	Gustav Fröhlich  Germany	1:17.8
200 m breaststroke	Erich Rademacher  Germany	2:55.2	Germany	2:58.0	Louis Van Parijs  Belgium	2:59.8
4×200 m freestyle relay	Germany August Heitmann Joachim Rademacher Herbert Heinrich	9:49.6 WR	Sweden Åke Borg Aulo Gustafsson Eskil Lundahl Arne Borg	9:52.0	Hungary Géza Szigritz Rezsö Wanie András Wanié István Bárány	10:36.0

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Maria Vierdag  Netherlands	1:15.0	Joyce Cooper  Great Britain	1:15.0	Charlotte Lehmann  Germany	1:16.1
400 m freestyle	Marie Braun  Netherlands	6:11.8	Great Britain	6:13.6	Fritzi Löwy  Austria	6:21.0
100 m backstroke	Willy den Turk  Netherlands	1:24.6	Marie Braun  Netherlands	1:26.2	Phyllis Harding  Great Britain	1:30.8
200 m breaststroke	Hilde Schrader  Germany	3:20.4	Charlotte Mühe  Germany	3:25.2	Hedy Bienenfeld  Austria	3:27.0
4×100 m freestyle relay	Great Britain Valerie Davies Ellen King Joyce Cooper	5:11.0	Netherlands Truus Klapwijk Willy den Turk Marie Braun Maria Vierdag	5:11.6	Germany Charlotte Lehmann Anni Rehborn Reni Erkens	5:12.8

Legend: WR – World record

Water polo[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Hungary	France	Belgium

See also[]

• List of European Championships records in swimming

References[]