2008 European Junior Swimming Championships

The 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from July 30 to August 3, 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. The age groups for this event are girls born in 1992 or 1993 and boys born in 1990 and 1991. The tournament is held in a 50 m pool. All events which are held in senior championships are included in the junior championships, including non-Olympic events.

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	10	5	3	18
2	Russia (RUS)	6	7	11	24
3	Italy (ITA)	4	8	3	15
4	Poland (POL)	3	5	3	11
5	Serbia (SRB)	3	1	0	4
6	Faroe Islands (FRO)	3	0	0	3
7	Germany (GER)	2	4	5	11
8	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
9	Belgium (BEL)	2	0	0	2
10	France (FRA)	1	4	4	9
11	Netherlands (NED)	1	3	0	4
12	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	2	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	2	3
14	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
15	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
16	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
17	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 nations)		40	40	40	120

Medal summary[]

Male events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boy's freestyle
50 m	Luca Dotto  Italy	22.36	Russia	22.47	Romania	22.56
100 m	Russia	50.03	Marcin Tarczyński  Poland	50.11	Marco Orsi  Italy	50.16
200 m	Great Britain	1:49.05	Artem Lobuzov  Russia	1:49.29	Alex Di Giorgio  Italy	1:49.33
400 m	Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands	3:51.44	Alex Di Giorgio  Italy	3:51.55	Great Britain	3:54.21
800 m	Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands	7:56.90	France	8:02.70	Russia	8:04.56
1500 m	Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands	15:18.37	Poland	15:24.63	France	15:25.02
Boy's backstroke
50 m	Russia	26.25	Italy	26.34	Vitaly Melnikov  Russia	26.36
100 m	Christopher Walker-Hebborn  Great Britain	55.44	Russia	55.58	Russia	56.07
200 m	Christopher Walker-Hebborn  Great Britain	1:59.61	Gábor Balog  Hungary	2:01.01	France	2:01.43
Boy's breaststroke
50 m	Italy	28.26	Csaba Szilágyi  Serbia	28.28	Marco Koch  Germany	28.32
100 m	Csaba Szilágyi  Serbia	1:01.91	Marco Koch  Germany	1:01.98	Great Britain	1:02.45
200 m	Marco Koch  Germany	2:12.25	Russia	2:14.89	Russia	2:15.36
Boy's butterfly
50 m	Ivan Lenđer  Serbia	24.17	Great Britain	24.58	Turkey	24.63
100 m	Ivan Lenđer  Serbia	52.53 EJCR	Great Britain	53.16	Spain	54.28
200 m	Italy	1:59.29	Roberto Pavoni  Great Britain	1:59.94	Jan Sefl  Czech Republic	1:59.96
Boy's individual medley
200 m	Great Britain	2:00.73 EJC	Germany	2:03.22	Roberto Pavoni  Great Britain	2:04.03
400 m	Roberto Pavoni  Great Britain	4:19.95	Great Britain	4:20.74	Germany	4:22.87
Boy's relays
4×100 m freestyle	Germany	3:19.36 EJC	Italy Luca Dotto Luca Leonardi Marco Orsi	3:20.00	Russia Artem Lobuzov	3:20.84
4×200 m freestyle	Great Britain Christopher Walker-Hebborn	7:19.98	Italy Alex Di Giorgio	7:22.72	Russia Artem Lobuzov	7:23.78
4×100 m medley	Great Britain Christopher Walker-Hebborn	3:39.75 EJCR	Russia	3:41.16	Italy Andrea Toniato Marco Orsi	3:43.10

Female events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girl's freestyle
50 m	Jolien Sysmans  Belgium	25.40	France	25.47	Kristel Vourna  Greece	25.94
100 m	Jolien Sysmans  Belgium	56.00	Silvia di Pietro  Italy	56.17	Viktoriya Andreeva  Russia	56.20
200 m	Patricia Castro Ortega  Spain	2:00.45	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	2:01.30	France	2:01.74
400 m	Great Britain	4:12.51	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	4:12.53	Margaux Fabre  France	4:12.60
800 m	Slovenia	8:36.92	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	8:39.00	Germany	8:45.80
1500 m	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	16:36.44	Margaux Fabre  France	16:43.79	Slovenia	16:46.99
Girl's backstroke
50 m	Eva Dobar  Hungary	29.42	Klaudia Nazieblo  Poland	29.62	Ukraine	29.63
100 m	Alicja Tchorz  Poland	1:02.98	Pernille Larsen  Denmark	1:03.29	Ukraine	1:03.38
200 m	Ukraine	2:13.32	Italy	2:14.16	Klaudia Nazieblo  Poland	2:14.83
Girl's breaststroke
50 m	Russia	32.34	Poland	32.83	Vitalina Simonova  Russia	32.85
100 m	Russia	1:09.65	Poland	1:10.83	Israel	1:10.90
200 m	Russia	2:28.42	Vitalina Simonova  Russia	2:29.63	Poland	2:31.22
Girl's butterfly
50 m	Hungary	26.43 EJCR	Silvia Di Pietro  Italy	26.83	Germany	26.86
100 m	Silvia Di Pietro  Italy	59.28	Germany	1:00.28	Hungary	1:00.77
200 m	Poland	2:11.50	Italy	2:12.65	Alicja Tchorz  Poland	2:13.28
Girl's individual medley
200 m	Viktoriya Andreeva  Russia	2:16.09	Sophie Allen  Great Britain	2:16.40	Russia	2:17.24
400 m	Great Britain	4:46.58	Russia	4:48.30	Slovenia	4:49.04
Girl's relays
4×100 m freestyle	France Margaux Fabre	3:45.75	Germany	3:47.60	Russia Vitalina Simonova Viktoriya Andreeva	3:49.02
4×200 m freestyle	Great Britain Rebecca Turner Alexandra Hooper	8:08.82 EJCR	France Margaux Fabre	8:12.15	Germany Theresa Michalak	8:16.05
4×100 m medley	Poland Alicja Tchorz Katarzyna Wilk	4:10.96	Greece Theodora Drakou	4:12.40	Russia Viktoriya Andreeva	4:12.71

See also[]

• 2008 in swimming

External links[]

• Official site (was): www.belgrade2008.org (Note: Website now offline.)
• Official Results
• Swimstar 2000