2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships

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Kantrida Pool, site of the Championships

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Championship mascot "Valko"

The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 took place in Rijeka, Croatia from Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 December 2008.

Medal table

      Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	8	2	4	14
2	France	7	9	4	20
3	Italy	5	5	8	18
4	Netherlands	5	2	2	9
5	Spain	2	3	2	7
6	Croatia	2	0	2	4
7	Slovenia	2	0	1	3
8	Germany	1	3	2	6
9	Denmark	1	2	3	6
10	Austria	1	2	1	4
10	Ukraine	1	2	1	4
12	Serbia	1	1	0	2
12	Sweden	1	1	0	2
14	Great Britain	1	0	4	5
15	Finland	1	0	0	1
16	Hungary	0	3	1	4
17	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
18	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
18	Norway	0	1	0	1
20	Poland	0	0	1	1
20	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Total		39	38	38	115

Medal summary

Legend:

• WR = World record
• ER = European record
• CR = Championships record

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux France	20.63	Frédérick Bousquet France	20.69	Duje Draganja Croatia Yevgeny Lagunov Russia	21.15
100 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux France	44.94 WR	Fabien Gilot France	45.84	Filippo Magnini Italy	46.62
200 m freestyle	Danila Izotov Russia	1:43.09	Dominik Meichtry Switzerland	1:43.11	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	1:43.52
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	3:37.73 CR	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	3:39.33	Mads Glæsner Denmark	3:39.77
1500 m freestyle	Federico Colbertaldo Italy	14:24.21	Vitaly Romanovich Russia	14:29.64	Samuel Pizzetti Italy	14:31.60
50 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets Russia	23.22	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	23.28	Ľuboš Križko Slovakia	23.47
100 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets Russia	49.32 WR	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	49.61	Helge Meeuw Germany	50.89
200 m backstroke	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain Stanislav Donets Russia	1:49.22 CR			Pierre Roger France	1:52.26
50 m breaststroke	Matjaž Markič Slovenia	26.47 CR	Aleksander Hetland Norway	26.64	Emil Tahirovič Slovenia	26.66
100 m breaststroke	Igor Borysik Ukraine	57.33 ER	Hugues Duboscq France	57.64	James Gibson Great Britain	57.91
200 m breaststroke	Hugues Duboscq France	2:04.59 ER	Edoardo Giorgetti Italy	2:04.98	Igor Borysik Ukraine	2:05.47
50 m butterfly	Amaury Leveaux France	22.23	Milorad Čavić Serbia	22.36 NR	Rafael Muñoz Pérez Spain	22.46
100 m butterfly	Milorad Čavić Serbia	49.19 ER	Rafael Muñoz Pérez Spain	49.74	Nikolay Skvortsov Russia	49.98
200 m butterfly	Nikolay Skvortsov Russia	1:50.60 WR	Dinko Jukić Austria	1:52.31	Maxim Ganikhin Russia	1:52.32
100 m individual medley	Peter Mankoč Slovenia	51.97 ER	Christian Galenda Italy	52.29	James Goddard Great Britain	52.36
200 m individual medley	James Goddard Great Britain	1:53.46	Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania	1:54.51	Alan Cabello Forns Spain	1:55.70
400 m individual medley	Dinko Jukić Austria	4:03.01	Gergő Kis Hungary	4:03.81	Lukasz Wojt Poland	4:05.13
4×50 m freestyle relay	France Alain Bernard Fabien Gilot Amaury Leveaux Frédérick Bousquet	1:20.77 WB	Italy Alessandro Calvi Marco Orsi Mattia Nalesso Filippo Magnini	1:23.37	Croatia Duje Draganja Alexei Puninski Bruno Barbic Mario Todorovic	1:23.68
4×50 m medley relay	Italy Mirco di Tora Alessandro Terrin Marco Belotti Filippo Magnini	1:32.91 WB	Russia Stanislav Donets Sergey Geybel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Yevgeny Lagunov Germany Thomas Rupprath Marco Koch Johannes Dietrich Steffen Deibler	1:33.31

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands	23.55 CR	Hinkelien Schreuder Netherlands	23.72	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	24.05
100 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands	51.95	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	52.08 NR	Ranomi Kromowidjojo Netherlands	52.22
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini Italy	1:51.85 WR	Femke Heemskerk Netherlands	1:53.79	Daria Belyakina Russia	1:53.85
400 m freestyle	Coralie Balmy France	3:56.39	Camille Muffat France	3:57.48	Alessia Filippi Italy	3:59.35
800 m freestyle	Alessia Filippi Italy	8:04.53 WR	Coralie Balmy France	8:05.32	Lotte Friis Denmark	8:09.91
50 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović Croatia	26.23 WR	Kateryna Zubkova Ukraine	26.65	Elena Gemo Italy	26.77
100 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović Croatia	56.87 ER	Kateryna Zubkova Ukraine	57.01	Laure Manaudou France	57.16
200 m backstroke	Alexandra Putra France	2:02.48	Alexianne Castel France	2:03.10	Elizabeth Simmonds Great Britain	2:03.12
50 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva Russia	29.96	Janne Schaefer Germany	30.37	Moniek Nijhuis Netherlands	30.45
100 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva Russia	1:05.02	Sophie de Ronchi France	1:05.43	Mirna Jukić Austria	1:05.64
200 m breaststroke	Alena Alekseeva Russia	2:19.93	Mirna Jukić Austria	2:20.48	Patrizia Humplik Switzerland	2:21.68
50 m butterfly	Hinkelien Schreuder Netherlands	25.21 ER	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	25.54	Diane Bui Duyet France	25.55
100 m butterfly	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	56.70 CR NR	Diane Bui Duyet France	56.83	Eszter Dara Hungary	56.88
200 m butterfly	Petra Granlund Sweden	2:04.27	Aurore Mongel France	2:04.73	Jemma Lowe Great Britain	2:04.78
100 m individual medley	Hanna-Maria Seppälä Finland	59.24 CR NR	Evelyn Verrasztó Hungary	59.49	Francesca Segat Italy	59.61
200 m individual medley	Francesca Segat Italy	2:07.03 ER	Evelyn Verrasztó Hungary	2:07.93	Sophie de Ronchi France	2:08.10
400 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García Spain	4:25.06 WR	Alessia Filippi Italy	4:26.06	Francesca Segat Italy	4:27.12
4×50 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Hinkelien Schreuder Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marleen Veldhuis	1:33.80 WB	Sweden Petra Granlund Claire Hedenskog Sarah Sjöström Lovisa Ericsson	1:38.00	Germany Dorothea Brandt Petra Dallmann Lisa Vitting Daniela Schreiber	1:38.06
4×50 m medley relay	Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo Moniek Nijhuis Hinkelien Schreuder Marleen Veldhuis	1:45.73 WB	Germany Daniela Samulski Janne Schaefer Lena Kalla Petra Dallmann	1:46.84	Italy Elena Gemo Roberta Panara Silvia di Pietro Federica Pellegrini	1:47.05

See also

• 2008 in swimming

References

• Omega Timing Results

External links

• Official Site
• Swim Rankings Results