2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships

The 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships (25 m) took place in Netanya, Israel, from 2–6 December 2015.^[1] They were originally scheduled to be held in January 2015, but the LEN moved the event to December.^[2] The venue of the event was the brand new swimming complex of the Wingate Institute. This complex features an Olympic-size pool with 10 lanes and 3 meter depth, backed by the latest built-in filtration systems, an 8-lane 50 m pool and a 6-lane 25 m pool.

2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Netanya,  Israel
Date(s)	2–6 December
Venue(s)	Wingate Institute
Nations participating	48
Athletes participating	500
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The swimmer of the meet honors went to Katinka Hosszú of Hungary and Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy.^[3] Hosszú won six gold medals and one silver, breaking two world records and six championship records, while Paltrinieri won one gold medal in a world record time.

Records broken

World records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day	References
400 m individual medley (record progression)	2 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:19.46	1	[4]
100 m individual medley (record progression)	4 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.67	3	[5]
1500 m freestyle (record progression)	4 December	Final	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:08.06	3	[6]

European records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day	References
200 m individual medley	4 December	Final	László Cseh	Hungary	1:51.36	3	[7]
200 m butterfly	6 December	Final	László Cseh	Hungary	1:49.00	5	[3]

Championships records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day	References
200 m backstroke	2 December	Final	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:48.33	1
100 m individual medley	3 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.52	2
200 m breaststroke	3 December	Final	Marco Koch	Germany	2:00.53	2
100 m backstroke	3 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	55.42	2
100 m individual medley	3 December	Semifinal 2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.49	2
50 m butterfly	3 December	Final	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.58	2
4×50 m mixed medley	3 December	Final	Simone Sabbioni Fabio Scozzoli Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli	Italy	1:38.33	2
200 m backstroke	4 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.95	3
200 m backstroke	4 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.84	3
200 m individual medley	5 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:02.53	4
4×50 m mixed freestyle	5 December	Final	Federico Bocchia Marco Orsi Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli	Italy	1:29.26	4
100 m butterfly	6 December	Final	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.03	5
4×50 m medley	6 December	Final	Simone Sabbioni Fabio Scozzoli Matteo Rivolta Marco Orsi	Italy	1:31.71	5

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Evgeny Sedov  Russia	20.87	Marco Orsi  Italy	20.92	Sebastian Szczepanski  Poland	21.21
100 m freestyle	Marco Orsi  Italy	46.05	Pieter Timmers  Belgium	46.61	Sebastian Szczepanski  Poland	46.87
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann  Germany	1:42.68	Pieter Timmers  Belgium	1:42.85	Glenn Surgeloose  Belgium Viacheslav Andrusenko  Russia	1:43.55
400 m freestyle	Péter Bernek  Hungary	3:35.46	Paul Biedermann  Germany	3:35.96	Gabriele Detti  Italy	3:37.22
1500 m freestyle	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	14:08.06 WR	Gabriele Detti  Italy	14:18.00	Henrik Christiansen  Norway	14:23.60
50 m backstroke	Tomasz Polewka  Poland	22.96	Chris Walker-Hebborn  United Kingdom Simone Sabbioni  Italy	23.09	none awarded
100 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki  Poland	49.64	Stanislav Donets  Russia	50.30	Chris Walker-Hebborn  United Kingdom	50.35
200 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki  Poland	1:48.33 CR	Yakov Toumarkin  Israel	1:49.84	Simone Sabbioni  Italy	1:50.75
50 m breaststroke	Damir Dugonjič  Slovenia	26.20	Adam Peaty  United Kingdom	26.21	Oleg Kostin  Russia Alexander Murphy  Ireland	26.35
100 m breaststroke	Marco Koch  Germany	56.78	Adam Peaty  United Kingdom	56.96	Giedrius Titenis  Lithuania	57.02
200 m breaststroke	Marco Koch  Germany	2:00.53 CR	Dániel Gyurta  Hungary	2:01.99	Andrew Willis  United Kingdom	2:02.76
50 m butterfly	Andriy Hovorov  Ukraine	22.36	Yauhen Tsurkin  Belarus	22.56	Aleksandr Popkov  Russia	22.69
100 m butterfly	László Cseh  Hungary	49.33	Matteo Rivolta  Italy	49.70	Nikita Konovalov  Russia	50.28
200 m butterfly	László Cseh  Hungary	1:49.00 ER	Viktor Bromer  Denmark	1:51.62	Simon Sjödin  Sweden	1:52.89
100 m individual medley	Sergey Fesikov  Russia	52.00	Yakov Toumarkin  Israel	52.62	Andreas Vazaios  Greece	52.67
200 m individual medley	László Cseh  Hungary	1:51.36 ER	Philip Heintz  Germany	1:53.21	Diogo Carvalho  Portugal	1:53.45
400 m individual medley	Dávid Verrasztó  Hungary	4:02.43	Roberto Pavoni  United Kingdom	4:02.69	Gal Nevo  Israel	4:04.68
4×50 m freestyle relay	Russia Evgeny Sedov (20.71) Andrey Arbuzov (20.94) Aleksandr Kliukin (20.93) Nikita Konovalov (20.91)	1:23.49	Italy Federico Bocchia (21.56) Marco Orsi (20.46) Giuseppe Guttuso (21.20) Filippo Magnini (21.22)	1:24.44	Belarus Yauhen Tsurkin (21.83) Anton Latkin (21.11) Viktar Staselovich (21.03) Artyom Machekin (21.04)	1:25.01
4×50 m medley relay	Italy Simone Sabbioni (23.29) Fabio Scozzoli (25.88) Matteo Rivolta (22.19) Marco Orsi (20.35)	1:31.71 CR	Russia Andrei Shabasov (23.46) Oleg Kostin (26.05) Aleksandr Popkov (22.26) Evgeny Sedov (20.40)	1:32.17	Belarus Pavel Sankovich (23.45) Ilya Shymanovich (26.59) Yauhen Tsurkin (21.99) Anton Latkin (21.18)	1:33.21

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands	23.56	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	23.63	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	23.94
100 m freestyle	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	51.37	Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands	51.59	Veronika Popova  Russia	52.02
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	1:51.89	Veronika Popova  Russia	1:52.46	Femke Heemskerk  Netherlands	1:52.81
400 m freestyle	Jazmin Carlin  United Kingdom	3:58.81	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	3:58.84	Boglárka Kapás  Hungary	3:59.02
800 m freestyle	Jazmin Carlin  United Kingdom	8:11.01	Boglárka Kapás  Hungary	8:11.43	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	8:15.84
50 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	26.13	Aleksandra Urbańczyk  Poland	26.27	Sanja Jovanović  Croatia	26.45
100 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	55.42 CR	Alicja Tchórz  Poland	57.17	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir  Iceland	57.42
200 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	1:59.84 CR	Daria Ustinova  Russia	2:01.57	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir  Iceland	2:03.53
50 m breaststroke	Jenna Laukkanen  Finland	29.71	Fanny Lecluyse  Belgium	29.84	Natalia Ivaneeva  Russia	29.99
100 m breaststroke	Jenna Laukkanen  Finland	1:04.56	Moniek Nijhuis  Netherlands	1:05.21	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes  Turkey	1:05.32
200 m breaststroke	Fanny Lecluyse  Belgium	2:18.49	Maria Astashkina  Russia	2:19.69	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes  Turkey	2:19.73
50 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	24.58 CR	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	25.04	Silvia Di Pietro  Italy	25.26
100 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	55.03 CR	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	55.68	Alexandra Wenk  Germany	56.43
200 m butterfly	Franziska Hentke  Germany	2:03.01	Lara Grangeon  France	2:03.85	Alessia Polieri  Italy	2:04.37
100 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	56.67 WR	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  United Kingdom	57.65	Marrit Steenbergen  Netherlands	59.00
200 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	2:02.53 CR	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  United Kingdom	2:05.13	Louise Hansson  Sweden	2:07.96
400 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	4:19.75	Hannah Miley  United Kingdom	4:26.87	Lara Grangeon  France	4:29.14
4×50 m freestyle relay	Italy Silvia Di Pietro (24.03) Erika Ferraioli (23.59) Aglaia Pezzato (24.14) Federica Pellegrini (24.29)	1:36.05	Netherlands Inge Dekker (24.41) Femke Heemskerk (24.01) Tamara van Vliet (24.52) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (23.26)	1:36.20	Russia Rozaliya Nasretdinova (24.40) Veronika Popova (23.92) Daria Kartashova (24.19) Nataliya Lovtsova (24.11)	1:36.62
4×50 m medley relay	Netherlands Tessa Vermeulen (27.51) Moniek Nijhuis (29.27) Inge Dekker (25.10) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (22.97)	1:44.85	Sweden Louise Hansson (27.23) Sophie Hansson (29.82) Sarah Sjöström (24.33) Magdalena Kuras (23.96)	1:45.34	Italy Elena Gemo (26.95) Martina Carraro (30.06) Silvia Di Pietro (24.98) Erika Ferraioli (23.74)	1:45.73

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×50 m mixed freestyle	Italy Federico Bocchia (21.58) Marco Orsi (20.46) Silvia Di Pietro (23.63) Erika Ferraioli (23.59)	1:29.26 CR	Russia Evgeny Sedov (21.14) Nikita Konovalov (20.85) Nataliya Lovtsova (23.63) Rozaliya Nasretdinova (23.97)	1:29.59	Netherlands Jesse Puts (21.74) Ben Schwietert (21.78) Inge Dekker (23.78) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (22.73)	1:30.03
4×50 m mixed medley	Italy Simone Sabbioni (23.50) Fabio Scozzoli (25.99) Silvia Di Pietro (25.24) Erika Ferraioli (23.60)	1:38.33 CR	Russia Andrei Shabasov (23.52) Andrei Nikolaev (25.69) Alina Kashinskaya (25.47) Rozaliya Nasretdinova (23.68)	1:38.36	Belarus Pavel Sankovich (23.50) Ilya Shymanovich (26.64) Sviatlana Khakhlova (25.33) Aleksandra Gerasimenya (23.56)	1:39.03

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Israel)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	11	3	1	15
2	Italy (ITA)	7	5	5	17
3	Germany (GER)	4	2	1	7
4	Russia (RUS)	3	7	7	17
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	2	7
	Sweden (SWE)	3	2	2	7
7	Great Britain (GBR)	2	7	2	11
8	Netherlands (NED)	2	3	4	9
9	Finland (FIN)	2	0	0	2
10	Belgium (BEL)	1	3	1	5
11	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
13	Denmark (DEN)	0	3	1	4
14	Israel (ISR)*	0	2	1	3
15	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	3	4
16	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
17	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	2	2
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
19	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		40	41	41	122

Participating nations

500 swimmers from 48 nations participated at the competition. The only LEN members did not participate are Gibraltar, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino.^[8][9]

•  Albania (2)
•  Andorra (2)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Austria (19)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Belarus (13)
•  Belgium (11)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Croatia (9)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (27)
•  Denmark (8)
•  Estonia (16)
•  Faroe Islands (3)
•  Finland (22)
•  France (13)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (27)
•  Great Britain (12)
•  Greece (3)
•  Hungary (27)
•  Iceland (3)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Israel (46) (Host country)
•  Italy (36)
•  Kosovo (2)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Lithuania (7)
•  Luxembourg (6)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Malta (2)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  Norway (8)
•  Poland (8)
•  Portugal (14)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (38)
•  Serbia (7)
•  Slovakia (12)
•  Slovenia (10)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (7)
•   Switzerland (11)
•  Turkey (18)
•  Ukraine (5)

References

1. "Netanya (ISR) to host LEN's top s\c showcase in January 2015". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
2. LEN moves 2015 Short Course Europeans to December
3. Lord, Craig (December 6, 2015). "Laszlo Cseh Goes Longer On Longevity With s/c 1:49 Euro Mark & WR-Rattler 200 'Fly". Swimvortex. Archived from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
4. "Every Moment An Olympic Height: Katinka Hosszu Cracks 400m IM". Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
5. Keith, Braden (December 4, 2015). "Katinka Hosszu Breaks World Record in 100 IM". Swimswam. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
6. Keith, Braden (December 4, 2015). "Gregorio Paltrinieri Breaks Oldest World Record on the Books in 1500". Swimswam. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
7. Grace, Jeff (December 4, 2015). "Cseh Breaks Rogan's 2009 European Record in the Men's 200 IM". Swimswam. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
8. "Official website". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
9. Entries Netanya 2015 - Statistics Archived 2015-12-20 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Official website
• Results