1926 European Aquatics Championships

1st European Aquatics Championships

Host city	Budapest
Country	Hungary
Events	9
Opening	18 August 1926 (1926-08-18)
Closing	22 August 1926 (1926-08-22)
Bologna 1927  →

The 1926 LEN European Aquatics Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary between 18 and 26 August 1926. At these inaugural championships, only men were allowed to compete.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	4	12
2	Sweden	2	3	3	8
3	Hungary *	2	2	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	0	1
5	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medal summary

Diving

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard details	Arthur Mund   Germany	186.42	Josef Lechnir   Germany	173.52	Július Balász   Czechoslovakia	164.72
Platform details	Hans Luber   Germany	112.84	Helge Öberg   Sweden	107.60	Albert Knight   Great Britain	101.60

Swimming

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	István Bárány   Hungary	1:01.0	Arne Borg   Sweden	1:01.1	Georg Werner   Sweden	1:03.6
400 m freestyle details	Arne Borg   Sweden	5:14.2	Herbert Heinrich   Germany	5:21.4	Friedrich Berges   Germany	5:25.6
1500 m freestyle details	Arne Borg   Sweden	21:29.2	Friedrich Berges   Germany	22:08.2	Joachim Rademacher   Germany	22:19.8
100 m backstroke details	Gustav Fröhlich   Germany	1:16.0	Károly Bartha   Hungary	1:16.0	Eskil Lundahl   Sweden	1:16.1
200 m breaststroke details	Erich Rademacher   Germany	2:52.6	Louis Van Parijs   Belgium	2:54.8	Wilhelm Prasse   Germany	3:00.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Germany August Heitmann Joachim Rademacher Friedrich Berger Herbert Heinrich	9:57.2	Hungary Zoltan Bitskey András Wanié Géza Szigritz István Bárány	10:03.4	Sweden Åke Borg Arne Borg Eskil Lundahl Georg Werner	10:06.8

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's water polo details	Hungary	Sweden	Germany

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming

References

• "European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM.