European Short Course Swimming Championships

The European Short Course Swimming Championships (variously referred to informally as the "Short Course Europeans" or "European 25m Championships") are a swimming meet, organized by LEN. The meet features swimmers from Europe, competing in events in a short course (25-meter) pool. The meet has traditionally been held in the beginning of December. Annual until 2013, the event now occurs in odd years.

European Short Course Swimming Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Sports event
Date(s)	Varying
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Various
Inaugurated	1991 (1991)
Organised by	LEN

History

The Championships were first held in 1996, and were preceded by the "European Sprint Swimming Championships" which were held from 1991 to 1994. The Sprint meet featured 14 events: the 50s of the strokes, the 100 Individual Medley, and 4x50 relays (free and medley).

In 1996, the meet expanded to 38 events, adding the 100s and 200s of stroke, the 400 and 800/1500 frees, and the 200 and 400 IMs; and the name was changed to "Short Course". LEN also started numbering the championships again, such that 2011's meet was the 15th edition.^[1] In 2012, the meet expanded to 40 events: 19 for men, 19 for women, and two mixed. Of each 19, 17 are individual and 2 are relays.

Editions

Number	Year	Host city	Country	Dates	Events	Winner of the medal table	Second in the medal table	Third in the medal table
Sprint Championships
1	1991	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	6–8 December	14	Germany	Soviet Union	Sweden
2	1992	Espoo	Finland	21–22 December	14	Germany	Sweden	Finland
3	1993	Gateshead	Great Britain	11–13 November	20	Germany	Sweden	Great Britain
4	1994	Stavanger	Norway	3–4 December	14	Germany	Sweden	Netherlands
Short Course Championships
1	1996	Rostock	Germany	13–15 December	38	Germany	Great Britain	Netherlands
2	1998	Sheffield	Great Britain	11–13 December	38	Germany	Great Britain	Netherlands
3	1999	Lisbon	Portugal	9–12 December	38	Sweden	Germany	Ukraine
4	2000	Valencia	Spain	14–17 December	38	Sweden	Italy	Germany
5	2001	Antwerp	Belgium	13–16 December	38	Germany	Sweden	Ukraine
6	2002	Riesa	Germany	12–15 December	38	Germany	Italy	Sweden
7	2003	Dublin	Ireland	11–14 December	38	Germany	Great Britain	Netherlands
8	2004	Vienna	Austria	9–12 December	38	Germany	Russia	Great Britain
9	2005	Trieste	Italy	8–11 December	38	Germany	Poland	Netherlands
10	2006	Helsinki	Finland	7–10 December	38	Germany	France	Italy
11	2007	Debrecen	Hungary	13–16 December	38	Germany	Russia	France
12	2008	Rijeka	Croatia	11–14 December	38	Russia	France	Italy
13	2009	Istanbul	Turkey	10–13 December	38	Netherlands	Russia	France
14	2010	Eindhoven	Netherlands	25–28 November	38	Germany	Netherlands	Hungary
15	2011	Szczecin	Poland	8–11 December	38	Germany	Denmark	Spain
16	2012	Chartres	France	22–25 November	40	France	Denmark	Hungary
17	2013	Herning	Denmark	12–15 December	40	Russia	Hungary	Denmark
18	2015	Netanya	Israel	2–6 December	40	Hungary	Italy	Germany
19	2017	Copenhagen	Denmark	13–17 December	40	Russia	Hungary	Italy
20	2019	Glasgow	Great Britain	4–8 December	40	Russia	Italy	Netherlands
21	2021	Kazan	Russia	2–7 November	42	Russia	Netherlands	Italy
22	2023	Otopeni	Romania	5–10 December	42	Great Britain	Italy	France

Medals (1991–2023)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	143	139	115	397
2	Russia	100	81	86	267
3	Netherlands	90	52	56	198
4	Sweden	85	67	46	198
5	Italy	82	98	88	268
6	Hungary	68	42	34	144
7	France	56	55	53	164
8	Great Britain	53	79	88	220
9	Ukraine	39	32	30	101
10	Poland	35	31	29	95
11	Denmark	21	41	37	99
12	Spain	20	25	25	70
13	Slovakia	19	7	7	33
14	Slovenia	18	17	23	58
15	Finland	15	13	17	45
16	Austria	12	16	16	44
17	Croatia	12	15	12	39
18	Czech Republic	11	16	20	47
19	Lithuania	8	8	10	26
20	Belarus	7	11	23	41
21	Switzerland	7	9	9	25
22	Serbia*	6	5	4	15
23	Iceland	6	3	4	13
24	Greece	4	5	14	23
25	Norway	3	9	16	28
26	Belgium	3	7	10	20
27	Soviet Union*	3	2	2	7
28	Ireland	3	1	9	13
29	Estonia	1	8	6	15
30	Israel	1	5	11	17
31	Romania	1	4	10	15
32	Turkey	1	3	5	9
33	Bulgaria	1	0	3	4
34	Portugal	0	1	3	4
35	Faroe Islands	0	1	0	1
36	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Liechtenstein	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 entries)		934	908	923	2,765

Note 1:  Serbia medals Consist of  Serbia and Montenegro medals also.

Note 2:  Soviet Union is a former country.

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming
• List of European Short Course Swimming Championships medalists (men)
• List of European Short Course Swimming Championships medalists (women)

References

1. The most successful European short course swimmers Archived 2012-08-04 at archive.today. Press release published by LEN on 2012-12-07, retrieved 2012-03-20. Note: The release was before the start of the 2011 meet, and references tallies for the 14 previous editions.