LEN European Aquatics Championships

The European Aquatics Championships is the continental Aquatics championship for Europe, which is organised by LEN—the governing body for aquatics in Europe. The Championships are currently held every two years (in even years); and since 1999, they have included 4 aquatics disciplines: Swimming (long course/50m pool), Diving, Synchronised swimming and Open water swimming. Prior to 1999, the championships also included Water polo, which beginning in 1999 LEN split-off into a separate championships. The open water events are not held during the Olympic year.

The Championships are generally held over a two-week time-period in mid-to-late Summer; however, in the most recent Summer Olympics years (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020), the Championships were moved to the Spring to be moved away from the Summer Olympic Games.

The swimming portion of these championships is considered one of the pre-eminent swimming competitions in the world. Note however that LEN also conducts an annual short-course (25 meters) swimming championship, which is a completely separate and a completely distinct event (typically held in early December).

Championships[]

Historically, the Championships were first held in 1926, and included water polo prior to 1999 when the discipline was moved to the European Water Polo Championship. From 1973-1999 Europeans were held in years without a Summer Olympics or World Championships, save 1979 (1973 being the inception year of the World Championships; and 1999 being the last year before Worlds moved from even-years between Summer Olympics to every-odd year beginning in 2001). Women were first allowed to participate at the second Championships in 1927^[1]

Number	Year	Host city	Country	Events	Dates	1st Medal Table	2nd Medal Table	3rd Medal Table
1	1926	Budapest	Hungary	9	18–22 August 1926	Germany	Sweden	Hungary
2	1927	Bologna	Italy	16	31 August – 4 September 1927	Germany	Sweden	Netherlands
3	1931	Paris	France	16	23–30 August 1931	Hungary	Germany	Netherlands
4	1934	Magdeburg	Germany	16	12–19 August 1934	Germany	Netherlands	Hungary
5	1938	London	Great Britain	16	6–13 August 1938	Germany	Denmark	Netherlands
6	1947	Monte Carlo	Monaco	16	10–14 September 1947	France	Denmark	Hungary
7	1950	Vienna	Austria	16	20–27 August 1950	France	Netherlands	West Germany
8	1954	Turin	Italy	18	31 August – 5 September 1954	Hungary	Soviet Union	East Germany
9	1958	Budapest	Hungary	20	31 August – 6 September 1958	Soviet Union	Great Britain	Netherlands
10	1962	Leipzig	East Germany	23	18–25 August 1962	Netherlands	East Germany	Soviet Union
11	1966	Utrecht	Netherlands	23	20–27 August 1966	Soviet Union	East Germany	Netherlands
12	1970	Barcelona	Spain	34	5–13 September 1970	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
13	1974	Vienna	Austria	37	18–25 August 1974	East Germany	West Germany	Great Britain
14	1977	Jönköping	Sweden	37	14–21 August 1977	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
15	1981	Split	Yugoslavia	37	4–12 September 1981	East Germany	Soviet Union	Great Britain
16	1983	Rome	Italy	38	22–27 August 1983	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
17	1985	Sofia Oslo	Bulgaria  Norway	39	4–11 August 1985 12–18 August 1985	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
18	1987	Strasbourg	France	41	16–23 August 1987	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
19	1989	Bonn	West Germany	43	15–20 August 1989	East Germany	Soviet Union	France
20	1991	Athens Terracina	Greece  Italy	47	18–25 August 1991 14–15 September 1991	Soviet Union	Germany	Hungary
21	1993	Sheffield Slapy	Great Britain  Czech Republic	47	3–8 August 1993 28–29 August 1993	Germany	Russia	Hungary
22	1995	Vienna	Austria	47	22–27 August 1995	Russia	Germany	Hungary
23	1997	Seville	Spain	51	19–24 August 1997	Russia	Germany	Hungary
24	1999	Istanbul	Turkey	55	26 July – 1 August 1999	Germany	Russia	Netherlands
25	2000	Helsinki	Finland	55	3–9 July 2000	Russia	Germany	Italy
26	2002	Berlin	Germany	57	29 July – 4 August 2002	Germany	Russia	Italy
27	2004	Madrid	Spain	58	5–16 May 2004	Ukraine	Russia	Italy
28	2006	Budapest	Hungary	58	26 July – 6 August 2006	Russia	Germany	France
29	2008	Eindhoven	Netherlands	54	13–24 March 2008	Russia	Italy	France
30	2010	Budapest	Hungary	61	4–15 August 2010	Russia	Germany	France
31	2012	Debrecen Eindhoven	Hungary  Netherlands	55	15–27 May 2012	Hungary	Germany	Italy
32	2014	Berlin	Germany	64	13–24 August 2014	Great Britain	Russia	Italy
33	2016	London	Great Britain	64	9–22 May 2016	Great Britain	Hungary	Russia
34	2018[a]	Glasgow Edinburgh	Great Britain	72	2–12 August 2018	Russia	Great Britain	Italy
35	2021	Budapest	Hungary	73	10–23 May 2021	Russia	Great Britain	Italy
36	2022	Rome	Italy		11–21 August 2022

Medal table (1926–2021)[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	197	116	87	400
2	Germany	165	157	123	445
3	East Germany	143	115	68	326
4	Hungary	117	99	78	294
5	Italy	102	123	178	403
6	Great Britain	99	108	125	332
7	Soviet Union	97	87	79	263
8	France	88	90	82	260
9	Netherlands	83	97	84	264
10	Sweden	63	74	69	206
11	Ukraine	56	64	66	186
12	West Germany	41	33	49	123
13	Spain	31	54	50	135
14	Denmark	29	21	32	82
15	Poland	18	18	21	57
16	Finland	13	7	12	32
17	Austria	12	17	19	48
18	Romania	9	25	32	66
19	Greece	8	10	22	40
20	Norway	6	8	5	19
21	Belarus	5	10	17	32
22	Belgium	5	6	16	27
23	Switzerland	4	8	17	29
24	Ireland	4	6	1	11
25	Serbia	4	1	0	5
26	Czech Republic	4	0	15	19
27	Slovakia	3	11	2	16
28	Yugoslavia	2	14	13	29
29	Croatia	2	7	7	16
30	Czechoslovakia	2	5	11	18
31	Slovenia	2	5	10	17
32	Lithuania	2	5	7	14
33	Bulgaria	2	4	9	15
	Israel	2	4	9	15
35	Faroe Islands	0	3	0	3
36	Iceland	0	2	1	3
37	Portugal	0	1	1	2
38	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	FR Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
40	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (41 nations)		1420	1417	1419	4256

Note: The table includes medals won in swimming (since 1926), diving (since 1926), synchronized swimming (since 1974), open water swimming (since 1991) and water polo since 1926 until and including 1997 when the discipline was part of the event. From 1999 the water polo event was separated and got its own independent tournament as European Water Polo Championship.

As of 2018, Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia, Gibraltar, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino have yet to win a medal.

Multiple medalists in swimming (long course)[]

Update after the 2020 European Aquatics Championships.^[2][3]

Men[] # Athlete Country Total 1 Alexander Popov  Soviet Union  Russia 21 3 2 26 2 Adam Peaty  Great Britain 16 0 0 16 3 László Cseh  Hungary 14 4 5 23 4 Michael Gross  West Germany 13 4 2 19 5 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 10 5 4 19 6 Filippo Magnini  Italy 9 5 5 19 7 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 9 3 0 10 8 Peter Nocke  West Germany 9 1 0 10 9 Tamás Darnyi  Hungary 8 0 0 8 10 Duncan Scott  Great Britain 7 4 0 11 11 Oleh Lisohor  Ukraine 7 3 3 13 12 James Guy  Great Britain 7 2 3 12

Women[] # Athlete Country Total 1 Franziska van Almsick  Germany 18 3 0 21 2 Katinka Hosszú  Hungary 15 6 3 24 3 Sarah Sjöström  Sweden 14 6 3 23 4 Heike Friedrich  East Germany  Germany 11 2 0 13 5 Therese Alshammar  Sweden 10 7 4 21 6 Fran Halsall  Great Britain 10 3 4 17 7 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 10 2 4 16 8 Sandra Völker  Germany 9 4 4 17 9 Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary 9 4 0 13 9 Astrid Strauss  East Germany 9 4 0 13 11 Laure Manaudou  France 9 1 3 13 12 Kristin Otto  East Germany 9 1 1 11 13 Ute Geweniger  East Germany 9 1 0 10 14 Federica Pellegrini  Italy 7 6 7 20 15 Yuliya Yefimova  Russia 7 4 2 13 16 Mette Jacobsen  Denmark 7 3 8 18 17 Daniela Hunger  East Germany  Germany 7 3 0 10 18 Ágnes Kovács  Hungary 7 2 4 13 19 Britta Steffen  Germany 7 2 0 9 20 Freya Anderson  Great Britain 7 0 3 10

Championships records[]

See also[]

• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
• European Short Course Swimming Championships

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Swim Rankings results
• The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)