1996 European Short Course Swimming Championships

The first edition of the European Short Course Championships was held in Rostock, Germany, from December 13 to December 15, 1996. The event, just a couple of months after the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, replaced the European Sprint Swimming Championships, where only the 50 m events and the 100 m individual medley were at stake. From this edition on, also the events longer than that were contested.

1996 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Rostock, Germany
Date(s)	13–15 December 1996
Nations participating	21
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Medal table

  *   Host nation (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)*	14	14	11	39
2	Great Britain (GBR)	4	4	2	10
3	Netherlands (NED)	4	2	2	8
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	3	3	9
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	1	6
6	Italy (ITA)	2	2	1	5
7	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	2	5
8	Norway (NOR)	1	1	2	4
9	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
10	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	2	3
12	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
13	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
14	Romania (ROM)	0	3	1	4
15	Croatia (CRO)	0	2	1	3
16	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	3	4
17	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	2	3
18	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		38	38	39	115

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Mark Foster  Great Britain	22.25	René Gusperti  Italy	22.51	Dimitri Kalinovski  Belarus	22.57
100 m freestyle	Lars Conrad  Germany	48.90	Nicolae Butacu  Romania	49.49	Nicolae Ivan  Romania	49.56
200 m freestyle	Lars Conrad  Germany	1:45.97	Andrew Clayton  Great Britain	1:47.35	Konstantin Dubrovin  Germany	1:48.60
400 m freestyle	Emiliano Brembilla  Italy	3:45.52	Stefan Pohl  Germany	3:48.10	Dimitrios Manganas  Greece	3:48.29
1500 m freestyle	Igor Snitko  Ukraine	14:46.59	Ian Wilson  Great Britain	14:54.24	Thomas Lohfink  Germany	15:04.13
50 m backstroke	Mariusz Siembida  Poland	25.03	Tomislav Karlo  Croatia	25.14	Stev Theloke  Germany	25.15
100 m backstroke	Mariusz Siembida  Poland	53.56	Stev Theloke  Germany	53.87	Emanuele Merisi  Italy	54.39
200 m backstroke	Emanuele Merisi  Italy	1:54.91	Nicolae Butacu  Romania	1:56.29	Stev Theloke  Germany	1:56.51
50 m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson  Sweden	27.76	Jens Kruppa  Germany	27.77	Daniel Málek  Czech Republic	27.84
100 m breaststroke	Jens Kruppa  Germany	1:00.15	Patrik Isaksson  Sweden	1:00.45	Aleksandr Gukov  Belarus	1:00.94
200 m breaststroke	Aleksandr Gukov  Belarus	2:09.86	Artur Paczynski  Poland	2:10.69	Jens Kruppa  Germany	2:10.70
50 m butterfly	Mark Foster  Great Britain	23.91	Fabian Hieronimus  Germany	24.07	Jonas Åkesson  Sweden	24.25
100 m butterfly	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	53.22	Fabian Hieronimus  Germany	53.70	Denislav Kaltchev  Bulgaria	54.02
200 m butterfly	Chris-Carol Bremer  Germany	1:57.04	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	1:57.30	David Abrard  France Adrian Andermatt  Switzerland	1:59.23
100 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda  Netherlands	54.62	Jens Kruppa  Germany	54.82	Christian Keller  Germany	55.45
200 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda  Netherlands	1:56.83	Christian Keller  Germany	1:58.52	Krešimir Čač  Croatia	2:01.45
400 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda  Netherlands	4:08.90	Christian Keller  Germany	4:13.03	Uwe Volk  Germany	4:15.69
4×50 m freestyle relay	Germany Lars Conrad Christian Tröger Tim Nolte Steffen Smöllich	1:29.54	Croatia Tomislav Karlo Miloš Milošević Miro Žeravica Alen Lončar	1:29.69	Norway Anders Dahl Vermund Vetnes Thomas Sopp Thomas Nore	1:30.40
4×50 m medley relay	Germany Stev Theloke Jens Kruppa Fabian Hieronimus Lars Conrad	1:38.28	Italy Emanuele Merisi Domenico Fioravanti Luca Belfiore René Gusperti	1:38.50	Great Britain Neil Willey Richard Maden Mark Foster Simon Handley	1:38.72

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Sandra Völker  Germany	24.67 ER	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	25.32	Vibeke Johansen  Norway	25.38
100 m freestyle	Sandra Völker  Germany	53.04 ER	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	54.46	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	54.95
200 m freestyle	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:57.22	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	1:58.34	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	1:59.16
400 m freestyle	Kristýna Kyněrová  Czech Republic	4:09.94	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	4:10.36	Chantal Strasser  Switzerland	4:13.45
800 m freestyle	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	8:34.66	Flavia Rigamonti  Switzerland	8:39.20	Sarah Collings  Great Britain	8:42.42
50 m backstroke	Sandra Völker  Germany	27.94	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	28.55	Suze Valen  Netherlands	28.66
100 m backstroke	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	1:00.21	Kateřina Pivoňková  Czech Republic	1:01.69	Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia	1:01.93
200 m backstroke	Kateřina Pivoňková  Czech Republic	2:08.15	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	2:09.54	Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia	2:12.20
50 m breaststroke	Vera Lischka  Austria	31.36	Terrie Miller  Norway	31.47	Hanna Jaltner  Sweden	32.04
100 m breaststroke	Terrie Miller  Norway	1:07.91	Vera Lischka  Austria	1:08.18	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	1:08.33
200 m breaststroke	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:26.11	Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia	2:27.33	Anne Poleska  Germany	2:27.57
50 m butterfly	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	27.15 ER	Sandra Völker  Germany	27.23	Marja Pärssinen  Finland	27.69
100 m butterfly	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	58.80 ER	Sandra Völker  Germany	59.44	Julia Voitowitsch  Germany	1:00.51
200 m butterfly	Bárbara Franco  Spain	2:10.20	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	2:10.92	María Peláez  Spain	2:11.36
100 m individual medley	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	1:01.91	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:01.98	Sabine Herbst  Germany	1:02.46
200 m individual medley	Sue Rolph  Great Britain	2:10.60	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:13.07	Sabine Herbst  Germany	2:13.29
400 m individual medley	Sabine Herbst  Germany	4:39.26	Beatrice Câșlaru  Romania	4:41.76	Pavla Chrástová  Czech Republic	4:42.07
4×50 m freestyle relay	Germany Katrin Meissner Marianne Hinners Silvia Stahl Sandra Völker	1:41.15	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg Linda Olofsson Nelly Jörgensen Malin Svahnström	1:42.18	Switzerland Dominique Diezi Andrea Quadri Sandrine Paquier Chantal Strasser	1:44.90
4×50 m medley relay	Germany Antje Buschschulte Sylvia Gerasch Julia Voitowitsch Sandra Völker	1:51.79 ER	Netherlands Suze Valen Madelon Baans Wilma van Hofwegen Angela Postma	1:52.80	Sweden Nelly Jörgensen Hanna Jaltner Johanna Sjöberg Linda Olofsson	1:53.06

References

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