1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships

1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Sheffield, UK
Date(s)	11–13 December
Venue(s)	Ponds Forge
Nations participating	34
Athletes participating	355
Events	38

The second edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships was held in Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England, from 11 to 13 December 1998. A total number of 355 swimmers from 34 nations competed in these championships.

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	10	8	5	23
2	Great Britain (GBR)*	7	5	9	21
3	Netherlands (NED)	6	5	4	15
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	6	6	15
5	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	4
6	Poland (POL)	3	0	0	3
7	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
8	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	2	4
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	2	3
10	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Iceland (ISL)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	2	2	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	2	4
17	Austria (AUT)	0	1	2	3
18	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
21	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 nations)		40	36	38	114

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Mark Foster  Great Britain	21.31 WR	Mark Veens  Netherlands	21.79	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	21.87
100 m freestyle details	Lars Frölander  Sweden	47.54	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	47.68	Mark Veens  Netherlands	47.97
200 m freestyle details	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	1:44.00	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:44.92	Jacob Carstensen  Denmark	1:45.55
400 m freestyle details	Emiliano Brembilla  Italy	3:40.45 ER	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	3:42.87	Jacob Carstensen  Denmark	3:44.56
1500 m freestyle	Graeme Smith  Great Britain	14:42.29	Igor Snitko  Ukraine	14:51.70	Emiliano Brembilla  Italy	14:53.45
50 m backstroke details	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	24.13 WR	Stev Theloke  Germany	24.66	Daniel Carlsson  Sweden	24.67
100 m backstroke	Stev Theloke  Germany	52.71	Darius Grigalionis  Lithuania	53.41	Eithan Urbach  Israel	53.64
200 m backstroke	Örn Arnarson  Iceland	1:55.16	Adam Ruckwood  Great Britain	1:55.34	Jorge Sánchez  Spain	1:55.78
50 m breaststroke details	Mark Warnecke  Germany	26.70 WR	Patrik Isaksson  Sweden	27.21	Patrick Schmollinger  Austria	27.60
100 m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson  Sweden	59.22	Mark Warnecke  Germany	59.77	Jens Kruppa  Germany	59.89
200 m breaststroke	Adam Whitehead  Great Britain	2:08.54	Stéphan Perrot  France	2:09.41	Maxim Podoprigora  Austria	2:10.09
50 m butterfly	Miloš Milošević  Croatia	23.30 WR	Mark Foster  Great Britain	23.34	Lars Frölander  Sweden	23.48
100 m butterfly	James Hickman  Great Britain	51.04 WR	Lars Frölander  Sweden	51.11	Denys Sylantyev  Ukraine	51.87
200 m butterfly details	James Hickman  Great Britain	1:52.96	Denys Sylantyev  Ukraine	1:54.13	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	1:54.99
100 m individual medley details	Jani Sievinen  Finland	53.64	Jens Kruppa  Germany	54.00	James Hickman  Great Britain	54.45
200 m individual medley details	James Hickman  Great Britain	1:56.36	Marcel Wouda  Netherlands	1:56.51	Jani Sievinen  Finland	1:57.14
400 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda  Netherlands	4:07.70	Frederik Hviid  Spain	4:12.13	Christian Keller  Germany	4:12.56
4×50 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Mark Veens Johan Kenkhuis Stefan Aartsen Pieter van den Hoogenband	1:26.99 WBT	Great Britain Mark Foster James Hickman Sion Brinn	1:27.74	Germany Stephan Kunzelmann Lars Conrad Alexander Lüderitz Carsten Dehmlow	1:28.01
4×50 m medley relay	Germany Thomas Rupprath Mark Warnecke Alexander Lüderitz Stephan Kunzelmann  Sweden Daniel Carlsson Patrik Isaksson Lars Frölander	1:35.51 WBT	None		Great Britain James Hickman Darren Mew Mark Foster Sion Brinn	1:36.11

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands	24.41 ER	Katrin Meissner  Germany	24.79	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	24.80
100 m freestyle details	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	53.84	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	53.93	Louise Jöhncke  Sweden	53.97
200 m freestyle details	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:55.12 ER	Franziska van Almsick  Germany	1:57.05	Louise Jöhncke  Sweden	1:57.39
400 m freestyle details	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	4:08.05	Vicky Horner  Great Britain	4:09.02	Karen Legg  Great Britain	4:09.66
800 m freestyle details	Flavia Rigamonti   Switzerland	8:27.85	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	8:29.20	Sarah Collings  Great Britain	8:33.70
50 m backstroke	Sandra Völker  Germany	27.27 WR	Therese Alshammar  Sweden	28.46	Czech Republic	28.47
100 m backstroke	Sandra Völker  Germany	59.84	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	59.97	Czech Republic	1.00.40
200 m backstroke details	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	2.07.31	Helen Don-Duncan  Great Britain	2.09.83	Yuliya Fomenko  Russia	2.10.38
50 m breaststroke	Sylvia Gerasch  Germany	31.43	Vera Lischka  Austria	31.61	Jaime King  Great Britain	31.69
100 m breaststroke details	Brigitte Becue  Belgium Alicja Pęczak  Poland	1:07.71	None		Svitlana Bondarenko  Ukraine	1:07.86
200 m breaststroke	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:25.18	Lourdes Becerra  Spain	2:26.13	Anne Poleska  Germany	2:26.21
50 m butterfly details	Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands	26.09 ER	Anna-Karin Kammerling  Sweden	26.30	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	26.76
100 m butterfly	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	57.72 ER	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	58.17	Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands	58.47
200 m butterfly	Sophia Skou  Denmark	2:07.68	Mette Jacobsen  Denmark	2:07.92	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	2:08.21
100 m individual medley	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:00.43 WR	Nataša Kejžar  Slovenia	1:02.26	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	1:02.39
200 m individual medley	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:12.05	Nicole Hetzer  Germany	2:13.05	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	2:13.19
400 m individual medley details	Hana Černá  Czech Republic	4:36.03	Nicole Hetzer  Germany	4:36.37	Lourdes Becerra  Spain	4:39.56
4×50 m freestyle relay	Germany Katrin Meissner Simone Osygus Sandra Völker	1:39.56 WBT	Netherlands Angela Postma Wilma van Hofwegen Inge de Bruijn	1:40.05	Great Britain Alison Sheppard Claire Huddart Karen Pickering Sue Rolph	1:40.11
4×50 m medley relay	Germany Sandra Völker Sylvia Gerasch Franziska van Almsick Katrin Meissner	1:50.13 WBT	Sweden Therese Alshammar Maria Östling Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling	1:50.84	Netherlands Brenda Starink Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Angela Postma	1:51.01

Abbreviations[]

• WR: World record
• ER: European record
• WBT: World best time (Not an official world record, because world governing body FINA doesn't recognize 4×50 m relay times)

References[]

• Results on GBRSports.com
• Results