2010 European Junior Swimming Championships

The 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 14 to 18 July 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.^[1] The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50 m pool. Ages for competitors, per LEN rules are: girls-15 or 16 years old; boys-17 or 18 years old.^[2]

The 2010 Championships were held in the same country, and the week after, the 2010 European Junior Championships for diving (9-13 July in Helsinki, Finland) and synchronized swimming (7-11 July in Tampere, Finland).^[1] A 2010 European Junior Open Water Championships is also to be held; however, not in Finland, but rather in Hoorn, Netherlands on 31 July.

Participating countries

521 swimmers (279 boys, 242 girls) from 44 countries were entered in the event.^[3] Teams were from (with total team size following name):

•  Armenia (1)
•  Austria (8)
•  Belarus (6)
•  Belgium (12)
•  Bulgaria (5)
•  Croatia (14)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (5)
•  Denmark (17)
•  Estonia (15)
•  Faroe Islands (1)
•  Finland (29)
•  France (29)
•  Germany (30)
•  Great Britain (40)
•  Greece (12)
•  Hungary (9)
•  Iceland (5)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Israel (11)
•  Italy (27)
•  Latvia (7)
•  Lithuania (8)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Macedonia (6)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  Norway (10)
•  Poland (24)
•  Portugal (10)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (36)
•  Serbia (14)
•  Slovakia (7)
•  Slovenia (16)
•  Spain (24)
•  Sweden (20)
•   Switzerland (5)
•  Turkey (15)
•  Ukraine (20)

Five (5) countries were listed as attending, but without any swimmers:  Albania,  Azerbaijan,  Liechtenstein,  Moldova, and  Montenegro.

Schedule

Preliminary heats began at 9:00; Finals at 17:00. Prelims/semifinals/finals format used for events 200 m and under; prelim/finals used for events over 200 m. In 50 m events, prelims/semifinals/finals held on the same day; in 100 m and 200 m events, prelims/semis held on first day with finals the next event; and for 400 m+ events prelims/finals held the same day. Finals session order shown below.^[4]

Date	Wednesday 14 July 2010	Thursday 15 July 2010	Friday 16 July 2010	Saturday 17 July 2010	Sunday 18 July 2010
E v e n t s	50 breast (g) (semis) 50 fly (b) (semis) 400 IM (g) 200 breast (b) (semis) 200 fly (g) (semis) 400 free (b) 100 free (g) (semis) 100 back (b) (semis) 200 back (g) (semis) 50 fly (b) 50 breast (g) 1500 free (g) 4 × 100 free relay (b)	100 back (b) 400 free (g) 200 fly (b) (semis) 200 fly (g) 200 IM (b) (semis) 100 free (g) 200 breast (b) 200 back (g) 100 free (b) (semis) 200 breast (g) (semis) 1500 free (b) 4 × 100 free relay (g)	50 breast (b) (semis) 50 back (g) (semis) 200 fly (b) 200 free (g) (semis) 200 back (b) (semis) 200 breast (g) 100 free (b) 100 fly (g) (semis) 200 IM (b) 50 back (g) 50 breast (b) 800 free (g) 4 × 200 free relay (b)	50 free (disability) 50 free (g) (semis) 50 back (b) (semis) 100 back (g) (semis) 100 fly (b) (semis) 200 free (g) 200 free (b) (semis) 100 breast (g) (semis) 200 back (b) 200 IM (g) (semis) 100 breast (b) (semis) 100 fly (g) 800 free (b) 50 free (g) 50 back (b) 4 × 200 freestyle (g)	50 free (b) (semis) 50 fly (g) (semis) 400 IM (b) 100 back (g) 100 breast (b) 100 breast (g) 200 free (b) 200 IM (g) 100 fly (b) 50 fly (g) 50 free (b) 4 × 100 medley relay (g) 4 × 100 medley relay (b)

Results

Boys

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Andriy Govorov  Ukraine	22.54	Jasper Aerents  Belgium	22.79	Clement Mignon  France	22.96
100 m freestyle	Yannick Agnel  France	48.80	Mehdy Metella  France	49.89	Jasper Aerents  Belgium	50.23
200 m freestyle	Yannick Agnel  France	1:46.58  CR	Andrey Ushakov  Russia	1:49.11	Daniel Skaaning  Denmark	1:50.23
400 m freestyle	Yannick Agnel  France	3:46.26  CR, NR	Sergiy Frolov  Ukraine	3:55.70	Alfie Howes  Great Britain	3:56.11
800 m freestyle	Ediz Yıldırımer  Turkey	8:03.17  NR	Sergiy Frolov  Ukraine	8:04.84	Ward Bauwens  Belgium	8:07.25
1500 m freestyle	Sergiy Frolov  Ukraine	15:20.57	Ward Bauwens  Belgium	15:27.04	Ediz Yıldırımer  Turkey	15:31.07
50 m backstroke	Christian Diener  Germany	26.03	Mateusz Zawada  Poland	26.24	Philipp Wolf  Germany	26.26
100 m backstroke	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin  Israel	55.20	Péter Bernek  Hungary	56.16	David Gamburg  Israel	56.58
200 m backstroke	Péter Bernek  Hungary	1:59.24	Balazs Zambo  Hungary	2:01.10	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin  Israel	2:01.14
50 m breaststroke	Anton Lobanov  Russia	28.37	Yaroslav Parakhin  Ukraine	28.51	Ivan Capan  Croatia	28.56
100 m breaststroke	Anton Lobanov  Russia	1:01.06	Sverre Naess  Norway	1:01.91	Christian vom Lehn  Germany	1:02.56
200 m breaststroke	Christian vom Lehn  Germany	2:12.93	Sverre Naess  Norway	2:13.77	Flavio Bizzarri  Italy	2:13.93
50 m butterfly	Andriy Govorov  Ukraine	23.58	Dmitry Pokotylo  Russia	24.50	Mehdy Metella  France	24.62
100 m butterfly	Marcin Cieślak  Poland	53.91	Mehdy Metella  France	54.08	Bence Biczó  Hungary	54.22
200 m butterfly	Bence Biczó  Hungary	1:55.82 CR	Marcin Cieślak  Poland	1:56.76	Jordan Coelho  France	1:57.57
200 m individual medley	Raphaël Stacchiotti  Luxembourg	2:02.52	Ieuan Lloyd  Great Britain	2:02.72	Ganesh Pedurand  France	2:03.39
400 m individual medley	Maksym Shemberev  Ukraine	4:20.46	Raphaël Stacchiotti  Luxembourg	4:21.28	Zsombor Szana  Hungary	4:21.53
4x100 m freestyle	France Yannick Agnel Clement Mignon Lorys Bourelly Mehdy Metella	3:19.65	Great Britain James Disney-May Braxston Timm Liam Selby James Young	3:23.97	Croatia Ivan Levaj Ivan Kristo Luka Sever Dujam Sablic	3:24.54
4x200 m freestyle	France Lorys Bourelly Clement Mignon Mehdy Metella Yannick Agnel	7:21.40	Great Britain Braxston Timm James Young Liam Selby Ieuan Lloyd	7:26.09	Russia Dmitri Yermakov Mikhail Ukrainskiy Egor Degtyarev Andrey Ushakov	7:26.91
4x100 m medley	Russia Mikhail Zvyagin Anton Lobanov Dmitry Pokotylo Andrey Ushakov	3:41.12	France Julien Pierre Goyetche Thomas Rabeisen Mehdy Metella Yannick Agnel	3:41.55	Germany Christian Diener Christian vom Lehn Melvin Herrmann Kevin Leithold	3:43.58

Girls

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Nadiya Koba  Ukraine	25.46	Silke Lippok  Germany	25.71	Béryl Gastaldello  France	25.98
100 m freestyle	Silke Lippok  Germany	55.31	Mathilde Cini  France	56.41	Alizee Merdy  France	56.55
200 m freestyle	Silke Lippok  Germany	2:00.11	Henrietta Stenkvist  Sweden	2:01.72	Valeriya Podlesna  Ukraine	2:01.76
400 m freestyle	Henrietta Stenkvist  Sweden	4:13.69	Amalie Emma Thomsen  Denmark	4:14.61	Sycerika Mc Mahon  Ireland	4:15.92
800 m freestyle	Tjasa Oder  Slovenia	8:40.06	Claudia Dasca Romeu  Spain	8:43.31	Donata Kilijanska  Poland	8:44.81
1500 m freestyle	Claudia Dasca Romeu  Spain	16:27.97	Tjasa Oder  Slovenia	16:37.98	Donata Kilijanska  Poland	16:39.03
50 m backstroke	Emma Saunders  Great Britain	29.01 CR	Daryna Zevina  Ukraine	29.12	Mathilde Cini  France	29.42
100 m backstroke	Daryna Zevina  Ukraine	1:02.05	Rachele Qualla  Italy	1:02.72	Karley Mann  Great Britain	1:02.99
200 m backstroke	Karley Mann  Great Britain	2:11.48	Daryna Zevina  Ukraine	2:11.82	Henrietta Stenkvist  Sweden	2:13.38
50 m breaststroke	Lisa Fissneider  Italy	32.20	Lina Rathsack  Germany	32.37	Sara L Lougher  Great Britain	32.48
100 m breaststroke	Marina Garcia Urzainqui  Spain	1:09.40	Lisa Fissneider  Italy	1:09.59	Jenna Laukkanen  Finland	1:10.42
200 m breaststroke	Marina Garcia Urzainqui  Spain	2:27.12	Jenna Laukkanen  Finland	2:29.67	Anastasia Sineva  Russia	2:30.00
50 m butterfly	Nadiya Koba  Ukraine	27.13	Silke Lippok  Germany	27.47	Daria Tsvetkova  Russia	27.62
100 m butterfly	Rachael Kelly  Great Britain	1:00.47	Judit Ignacio Sorribes  Spain	1:00.60	Beatrice Fassone  Italy	1:00.64
200 m butterfly	Judit Ignacio Sorribes  Spain	2:12.30	Rachael Kelly  Great Britain	2:13.43	Alisa Trukhanovich  Russia	2:15.03
200 m individual medley	Sophie Smith  Great Britain	2:14.48	Beatriz Gomez Cortes  Spain	2:14.65	Juliane Reinhold  Germany	2:15.16
400 m individual medley	Sophie Smith  Great Britain	4:44.46	Beatriz Gomez Cortes  Spain	4:44.87	Alessia Polieri  Italy	4:46.71
4x100 m freestyle	Germany Juliane Reinhold Teresa Baerens Silke Lippok Alexandra Wenk	3:46.04	Great Britain Emma Saunders Jessica Lloyd Sophie Smith Sara Hamilton	3:46.60	France Mathilde Cini Alizee Merdy Béryl Gastaldello Charlotte Bonnet	3:48.21
4x200 m freestyle	Germany Elisa Thimm Juliane Reinhold Silke Lippok Johanna Friedrich	8:06.78 CR	Great Britain Emma Saunders Fiona Donnelly Rachael Williamson Sophie Smith	8:10.21	Italy Giorgia Crocione Ludovica Leoni Beatrice Magagnoli Chiara Giacone	8:15.37
4x100 m medley	Germany Silke Lippok Lina Rathsack Juliane Reinhold Alexandra Wenk	4:08.29	Great Britain Karley Mann Sara L Lougher Rachael Kelly Emma Saunders	4:09.48	Russia Maria Bobrovnik Sofya Zhigunova Alisa Trukhanovich Mariya Reznikova	4:13.41

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ukraine (UKR)	7	5	1	13
2	Germany (GER)	7	3	4	14
3	Great Britain (GBR)	5	7	3	15
4	France (FRA)	5	4	8	17
5	Spain (ESP)	4	4	0	8
6	Russia (RUS)	3	2	5	10
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	2	6
8	Italy (ITA)	1	2	4	7
9	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
10	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
11	Luxembourg (LUX)	1	1	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	0	2
13	Israel (ISR)	1	0	2	3
14	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
15	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	2	4
16	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
17	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	Finland (FIN)*	0	1	1	2
19	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	2	2
20	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		40	40	40	120

References

1. Finland 2010 (www.helsinki2010.fi)--official website of the 2010 European Junior Swimming, Diving & Synchronized Swimming Championships. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
2. LEN Swimming Rules 13: European Junior Championships Archived 2010-06-01 at the Wayback Machine, posted 2008-09-28 by LEN. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
3. Entries by nation Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine list for the 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships. Published by the official website for the Championships (www.helsinki2010.fi); retrieved 2010-07-13.
4. Swimming Schedule Archived 2010-05-18 at the Wayback Machine from www.helsinki2010.fi (official website for event); retrieved 2010-07-14.

• Medal Table from the 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships.
• Full Results (with points and splits)^{[permanent dead link‍]} from the 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships.