LEN European Aquatics Championships

The European Aquatics Championships is organized by the LEN, the governing body for aquatics in Europe. Since 1999, they have included 4 aquatics disciplines: swimming (long course/50m pool), diving, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. Since 2000, they have been held biennially, in even-numbered years.

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

The swimming portion of these championships is considered one of the premier swimming competitions in the world. Note: LEN also conducts an annual short-course (25 m) swimming championship, which is a separate and different event (typically held in early December).

Locations

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

Year	Host city	Country	Date
1926	Budapest	Hungary	18–22 August
1927	Bologna	Italy	31 August–4 September
1931	Paris	France	23–30 August
1934	Magdeburg	Germany	12–19 August
1938	London	United Kingdom	6–13 August
1947	Monte Carlo	Monaco	10–14 September
1950	Vienna	Austria	20–27 August
1954	Turin	Italy	31 August–5 September
1958	Budapest	Hungary	31 August–6 September
1962	Leipzig	East Germany	18–25 August
1966	Utrecht	Netherlands	20–27 August
1970	Barcelona	Spain	5–13 September
1974	Amsterdam Vienna	Netherlands Austria	18–25 August
1977	Jönköping	Sweden	14–21 August
1981	Split	Yugoslavia	4–12 September
1983	Rome	Italy	22–27 August
1985	Oslo Sofia	Norway Bulgaria	4–11 August
1987	Strasbourg	France	16–23 August
1989	Bonn	West Germany	15–20 August
1991	Athens	Greece	18–25 August
1993	Sheffield	United Kingdom	3–8 August
1995	Vienna	Austria	22–27 August
1997	Seville	Spain	19–24 August
1999	Istanbul	Turkey	26 July–1 August
2000	Helsinki	Finland	3–9 July
2002	Berlin	Germany	29 July–4 August
2004	Madrid	Spain	5–16 May
2006	Budapest	Hungary	26 July–6 August
2008	Eindhoven	Netherlands	13–24 March
2010	Budapest	Hungary	4–15 August
2012	Debrecen Eindhoven	Hungary Netherlands	15-27 May
2014	Berlin	Germany

Medal table (1926-2010)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	143	116	68	327
2	Germany	139	130	96	365
3	Russia	133	78	51	262
4	Soviet Union	97	87	80	264
5	Hungary	82	71	50	203
6	France	66	75	63	204
7	Netherlands	64	77	76	217
8	Italy	61	73	108	242
9	Great Britain	51	61	89	201
10	Sweden	47	64	60	171
11	West Germany	41	33	49	123
12	Ukraine	36	34	42	112
13	Spain	22	37	31	90
14	Denmark	21	12	27	60
15	Poland	15	13	19	47
16	Austria	12	16	15	43
17	Finland	12	6	8	26
18	Romania	8	23	31	62
19	Belgium	5	5	13	23
20	Belarus	4	7	13	24
21	Norway	4	6	4	14
22	Ireland	4	5	0	9
23	Slovakia	3	10	2	15
24	Switzerland	3	5	15	19
25	Yugoslavia	2	14	13	29
26	Croatia	2	6	6	14
27	Greece	2	5	12	19
28	Czechoslovakia	2	4	11	17
29	Bulgaria	2	3	9	14
30	Czech Republic	2	1	13	16
31	Slovenia	1	4	6	11
32	Serbia	1	0	0	1
33	Israel	0	2	4	6
34	Lithuania	0	2	2	4
35	FR Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
35	Faroe Islands	0	1	0	1
35	Portugal	0	1	0	1
38	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Total		1087	1088	1087	3262

Note: The table includes medals won in swimming (since 1926), diving (since 1926), synchronized swimming (since 1974), open water swimming (since 1993) 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.

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)

External links

• Ligue Européenne de Natation - Official Website
• Swim Rankings results