2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships

2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships
2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Szczecin, Poland
Date(s)	8–11 December
Venue(s)	Floating Arena
Nations participating	39
Athletes participating	543
Events	38
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Last updated August 18, 2024

The 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships were held in Szczecin, Poland, from December 8 to 11, 2011.^[1]^[2] The event featured competition in a short course (25m) pool.

The event was held over four days with heats, semifinals and a final for the 50 m and 100 m events and heats and a final for all other events with the exception of the women's 800 m and men's 1500 m freestyle which were heat-declared winners. Heats were held in the morning, with semifinals, finals and the fastest heat of the distance freestyle events in the evening.^[3]

Each nation was permitted to enter four swimmers into each individual event, however only the fastest two were allowed to progress to the semifinal and/or final.

Participating nations

543 swimmers (302 males, 241 females) from 39 countries swam at the 2011 Short Course European Championships.^[4] Teams (and team size) were from:

Austria (20)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (13)
Belgium (8)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)
Bulgaria (12)
Croatia (12)
Cyprus (2)
Czech Republic (19)
Denmark (15)
Estonia (10)
Faroe Islands (2)
Finland (10)
France (15)
Germany (23)
Great Britain (26)
Greece (5)
Hungary (22)
Iceland (4)
Ireland (11)
Israel (13)
Italy (38)
Latvia (4)
Liechtenstein (1)
Lithuania (10)
Luxembourg (4)
Netherlands (24)
Norway (13)
Poland (45)
Portugal (5)
Russia (39)
Serbia (6)
Slovakia (11)
Slovenia (14)
Spain (14)
Sweden (10)
Switzerland (24)
Turkey (16)
Ukraine (19)

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Konrad Czerniak Poland	20.88 NR	Sergey Fesikov Russia	20.95	Marco Orsi Italy	21.01
100 m freestyle	Sergey Fesikov Russia	46.56	Luca Dotto Italy	46.89	Krisztián Takács Hungary	47.46
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	1:42.92	Filippo Magnini Italy	1:43.20	László Cseh Hungary	1:43.71
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	3:38.65	Mads Glæsner Denmark	3:39.30	Paweł Korzeniowski Poland	3:40.54
1500 m freestyle	Mateusz Sawrymowicz Poland	14:29.81	Mads Glæsner Denmark	14:29.88	Sergiy Frolov Ukraine	14:35.22 NR
50 m backstroke	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	23.43	Flori Lang Switzerland	23.57 NR	Pavel Sankovich Belarus	23.64 NR
100 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki Poland	50.43 NR	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	50.61	Pavel Sankovich Belarus	51.14 NR
200 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki Poland	1:49.15	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	1:50.63	Péter Bernek Hungary	1:51.21 NR
50 m breaststroke	Fabio Scozzoli Italy	26.25	Damir Dugonjič Slovenia	26.34 NR	Alexander Dale Oen Norway	26.49
100 m breaststroke	Alexander Dale Oen Norway	57.05	Damir Dugonjič Slovenia	57.29 NR	Fabio Scozzoli Italy	57.30
200 m breaststroke	Dániel Gyurta Hungary	2:02.37	Vyacheslav Sinkevich Russia	2:03.61	Michael Jamieson Great Britain	2:03.77 NR
50 m butterfly	Andriy Govorov Ukraine	22.70	Amaury Leveaux France	22.74	Konrad Czerniak Poland	22.77 NR
100 m butterfly	Konrad Czerniak Poland	49.62 NR	Yevgeny Korotyshkin Russia	49.88	Francois Heersbrandt Belgium	50.44 NR
200 m butterfly	László Cseh Hungary	1:50.87 NR	Nikolay Skvortsov Russia	1:51.21	Joseph Roebuck Great Britain	1:51.62
100 m individual medley	Peter Mankoč Slovenia	52.70	Markus Deibler Germany	53.04	Martti Aljand Estonia	53.37 NR
200 m individual medley	László Cseh Hungary	1:53.43	Markus Rogan Austria	1:53.63	Gal Nevo Israel	1:54.87
400 m individual medley	László Cseh Hungary	4:01.68	Dávid Verrasztó Hungary	4:03.03	Gal Nevo Israel	4:04.49 NR
4×50 m freestyle relay	Italy Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Federico Bocchia Andrea Rolla	1:24.82	Russia Sergey Fesikov Yevgeny Lagunov Andrey Grechin Nikita Konovalov	1:25.11	Belgium François Heersbrandt Emmanuel Vanluchene Louis Croenen Jasper Aerents	1:25.83 NR
4×50 m medley relay	Italy Mirco Di Tora Fabio Scozzoli Paolo Facchinelli Marco Orsi	1:33.18	Russia Vitaly Borisov Sergey Geybel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Sergey Fesikov	1:33.86	Germany Christian Diener Erik Steinhagen Steffen Deibler Stefan Herbst	1:34.41

Legend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record; NR - National record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Britta Steffen Germany	24.01	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	24.11 NR	Triin Aljand Estonia	24.23
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen Germany	51.94	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	52.05	Amy Smith Great Britain	52.77
200 m freestyle	Silke Lippok Germany	1:54.08	Melanie Costa Schmid Spain	1:54.31 NR	Evelyn Verrasztó Hungary	1:54.55
400 m freestyle	Mireia Belmonte García Spain	3:56.39 NR	Lotte Friis Denmark	3:58.02 NR	Melanie Costa Schmid Spain	4:00.30
800 m freestyle	Lotte Friis Denmark	8:07.53	Erika Villaécija García Spain	8:12.23	Melanie Costa Schmid Spain	8:16.28
50 m backstroke	Anastasia Zuyeva Russia	26.23 NR	Georgia Davies Great Britain	26.93	Simona Baumrtová Czech Republic	26.94 NR
100 m backstroke	Daryna Zevina Ukraine	56.96 NR	Anastasia Zuyeva Russia	57.12	Mie Nielsen Denmark	57.57 NR
200 m backstroke	Daryna Zevina Ukraine	2:02.25 CR , NR	Duane Da Rocha Spain	2:03.32 NR	Melanie Nocher Ireland	2:04.29 NR
50 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva Russia	30.06	Dorothea Brandt Germany	30.17	Daria Deeva Russia	30.63
100 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva Russia	1:05.19	Rikke Møller-Pedersen Denmark	1:05.23	Daria Deeva Russia	1:05.83
200 m breaststroke	Rikke Møller-Pedersen Denmark	2:19.55	Anastasia Chaun Russia	2:20.84	Fanny Lecluyse Belgium	2:21.14 NR
50 m butterfly	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	24.92 CR , NR	Triin Aljand Estonia	25.51	Sviatlana Khakhlova Belarus	25.96 NR
100 m butterfly	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	56.22	Jemma Lowe Great Britain	56.67	Ilaria Bianchi Italy	57.42 NR
200 m butterfly	Mireia Belmonte García Spain	2:03.37	Jemma Lowe Great Britain	2:04.04	Jessica Dickons Great Britain	2:04.80
100 m individual medley	Theresa Michalak Germany	59.05 NR	Zsuzsanna Jakabos Hungary	59.72	Mie Nielsen Denmark	1:00.10
200 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García Spain	2:07.06	Evelyn Verrasztó Hungary	2:08.28	Hannah Miley Great Britain	2:08.34
400 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García Spain	4:24.55 CR	Hannah Miley Great Britain	4:26.06	Zsuzsanna Jakabos Hungary	4:27.86 NR
4×50 m freestyle relay	Germany Britta Steffen Dorothea Brandt Paulina Schmiedel Daniela Schreiber	1:37.29	Denmark Mie Nielsen Pernille Blume Katrine Holm Soerensen Jeanette Ottesen	1:37.63 NR	Italy Erika Ferraioli Erica Buratto Federica Pellegrini Laura Letrari	1:38.12 NR
4×50 m medley relay	Denmark Mie Nielsen Rikke Møller Pedersen Jeanette Ottesen Pernille Blume	1:46.48	Russia Anastasia Zuyeva Valentina Artemyeva Irina Bespalova Margarita Nesterova	1:47.08	Poland Aleksandra Urbanczyk Ewa Scieszko Anna Dowgiert Katarzyna Wilk	1:48.70 NR

Legend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record; NR - National record

Medal table

* Host nation (Poland)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	2	1	10
2	Denmark (DEN)	5	7	2	14
3	Spain (ESP)	5	5	2	12
4	Poland (POL)*	5	0	3	8
5	Russia (RUS)	4	9	2	15
6	Hungary (HUN)	4	3	5	12
7	Italy (ITA)	3	2	4	9
8	Ukraine (UKR)	3	0	1	4
9	Slovenia (SLO)	1	2	0	3
10	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
11	Great Britain (GBR)	0	4	5	9
12	Estonia (EST)	0	1	2	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	3	3
16	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	3	3
18	Israel (ISR)	0	0	2	2
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
19	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		38	38	38	114

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References

↑ Szczecin 8-11 December 2011 Archived 2012-05-03 at the Wayback Machine . Published by the organizers of the 2011 SC Europeans via their website (www.ecszczecin2011.eu) on 2011-05-26; retrieved 2012-03-20.
↑ Szczen 2011 Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine event page, from the LEN website; retrieved 2012-03-20.
↑ 2011 SC European Results Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine from Omega Timing (official timer); retrieved 2012-03-20.
↑ Entry Statistics Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine for the 2011 SC Europeans. Published by the meet organizing committee on 2011-12-01, retrieved 2012-03-20.

External links

Event website: www.ecszczecin2011.eu
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[1] Szczecin 8-11 December 2011 Archived 2012-05-03 at the Wayback Machine . Published by the organizers of the 2011 SC Europeans via their website (www.ecszczecin2011.eu) on 2011-05-26; retrieved 2012-03-20.

[2] Szczen 2011 Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine event page, from the LEN website; retrieved 2012-03-20.

[3] 2011 SC European Results Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine from Omega Timing (official timer); retrieved 2012-03-20.

[4] Entry Statistics Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine for the 2011 SC Europeans. Published by the meet organizing committee on 2011-12-01, retrieved 2012-03-20.

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