2004 European Short Course Swimming Championships

Main article: European Short Course Swimming Championships

The 8th European Short Course Swimming Championships was an international swimming meet organized by LEN, and held in Vienna, Austria, December 9–12, 2004.^[1] The meet featured teams from Europe, swimming in 38 short course events. It was held in Vienna's arena (Wiener Stadthalle), in a temporary pool.

2004 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Vienna, Austria
Date(s)	9–12 December 2004
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Participating nations

36 nations had swimmers at the 2004 Short Course Europeans:^[2]

• Andorra
• Austria
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
•  Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Mark Foster   Great Britain	21.50	Mark Veens   Netherlands	21.72	Eduardo Lorente   Spain	21.75
100 freestyle	Frédérick Bousquet   France	47.52	Filippo Magnini   Italy	47.66	Jens Schreiber   Germany	48.00
200 freestyle	Filippo Magnini   Italy	1:44.57	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	1:44.95	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:45.58
400 freestyle	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	3:39.66	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	3:40.65	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	3:41.36
1500 freestyle	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	14:31.92	David Davies   Great Britain	14:32.56	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	14:39.54
50 backstroke	Thomas Rupprath   Germany	23.27 WR	Vyacheslav Shyrshov   Ukraine	24.50	Helge Meeuw   Germany	24.52
100 backstroke	Thomas Rupprath   Germany	50.73	Markus Rogan   Austria	50.80	László Cseh   Hungary	52.09
200 backstroke	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:51.24 ER	Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia	1:52.39	Evgeny Aleshin   Russia	1:53.71
50 breaststroke	Oleg Lisogor   Ukraine	26.92	Roman Sloudnov   Russia	27.09	Emil Tahirovič   Slovenia	27.17
100 breaststroke	Roman Sloudnov   Russia	58.73	Oleg Lisogor   Ukraine	58.81	Igor Borysik   Ukraine	59.70'
200 breaststroke	Paolo Bossini   Italy	2:07.29	Sławomir Kuczko   Poland	2:07.61	Grigory Falko   Russia	2:07.66
50 butterfly	Mark Foster   Great Britain	23.35	Jere Hård   Finland	23.38	Oliver Wenzel   Germany	23.50
100 butterfly	Thomas Rupprath   Germany	50.67	Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia	50.92	Ioan Gherghel   Romania	52.26
200 butterfly	Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia	1:52.90	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:53.19	Ioan Gherghel   Romania	1:54.86
100 I.M.	Peter Mankoč   Slovenia	53.05	Markus Rogan   Austria	53.64	Oliver Wenzel   Germany	54.14
200 I.M.	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:55.15	László Cseh   Hungary	1:55.36	Vytautas Janušaitis   Lithuania	1:57.45
400 I.M.	László Cseh   Hungary	4:03.96 ER	Luca Marin   Italy	4:05.93	Igor Berezutskiy   Russia	4:08.91
4 × 50  free relay	France   David Maître   Alain Bernard   Romain Barnier   Frédérick Bousquet	1:26.24	Germany   Benjamin Friedrich   Thomas Rupprath   Jens Schreiber   Carsten Dehmlow	1:26.30	Sweden   David Nordenlilja   Marcus Piehl   Erik Andersson   Petter Stymne	1:26.98
4 × 50  medley relay	Germany   Thomas Rupprath   Mark Warnecke   Fabian Friedrich   Carsten Dehmlow	1:34.56	Ukraine   Vyacheslav Shyrshov   Oleg Lisogor   Sergiy Breus   Oleksandr Volynets	1:34.94	Finland   Tero Raty   Jarno Pihlava   Jere Hård   Matti Rajakylä	1:35.89

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	24.34	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	24.57	Hinkelien Schreuder   Netherlands	24.64
100 freestyle	Malia Metella   France	53.37	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	53.63	Josefin Lillhage   Sweden	53.64
200 freestyle	Josefin Lillhage   Sweden	1:55.36	Melanie Marshall   Great Britain	1:56.36	Petra Dallmann   Germany	1:57.24
400 freestyle	Keri-Anne Payne   Great Britain	4:03.60	Daria Parshina   Russia	4:04.56	Erika Villaecija   Spain	4:06.05
800 freestyle	Flavia Rigamonti   Switzerland	8:17.39	Lotte Friis   Denmark	8:22.38	Erika Villaecija   Spain	8:26.38
50 backstroke	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	27.42	Kateryna Zubkova   Ukraine	27.50	Ilona Hlaváčková   Czech Republic	27.57
100 backstroke	Kateryna Zubkova   Ukraine	58.58	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	58.70	Louise Ørnstedt   Denmark	58.76
200 backstroke	Louise Ørnstedt   Denmark	2:06.33	Sarah Price   Great Britain	2:07.24	Gemma Spofforth   Great Britain	2:07.64
50 breaststroke	Sarah Poewe   Germany	31.09	Elena Bogomazova   Russia	31.46	Kate Haywood   Great Britain	31.52
100 breaststroke	Sarah Poewe   Germany	1:06.50	Mirna Jukić   Austria	1:07.05	Simone Weiler   Germany	1:07.70
200 breaststroke	Anne Poleska   Germany	2:21.79	Mirna Jukić   Austria	2:22.79	Sarah Poewe   Germany	2:24.33
50 butterfly	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	25.73	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	26.14	Fabienne Nadarajah   Austria	26.27
100 butterfly	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	56.89	Mette Jacobsen   Denmark	58.43	Malia Metella   France	58.47
200 butterfly	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	2:06.68	Mette Jacobsen   Denmark	2:06.99	Caterina Giacchetti   Italy	2:07.11
100 I.M.	Aleksandra Urbanczyk   Poland	1:00.75	Lisa Chapman   Great Britain	1:00.88	Teresa Rohmann   Germany	1:01.18
200 I.M.	Teresa Rohmann   Germany	2:09.40	Aleksandra Urbanczyk   Poland	2:10.64	Julie Hjorth-Hansen   Denmark	2:13.03
400 I.M.	Éva Risztov   Hungary	4:32.26	Teresa Rohmann   Germany	4:34.38	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	4:35.41
4 × 50  free relay	Netherlands   Inge Dekker   Hinkelien Schreuder   Chantal Groot   Marleen Veldhuis	1:37.97	Germany   Dorothea Brandt   Janine Pietsch   Daniela Götz   Petra Dallmann	1:38.52	Sweden   Lina Petersson   Anna-Karin Kammerling   Josefin Lillhage   Claire Hedenskog	1:38.76
4 × 50  medley relay	Netherlands   Hinkelien Schreuder   Moniek Nijhuis   Inge Dekker   Marleen Veldhuis	1:48.21 WBT	Germany   Janine Pietsch   Sarah Poewe   Antje Buschschulte   Dorothea Brandt	1:48.52	Sweden   Emelie Kierkegaard   Sanja Dizdarević   Anna-Karin Kammerling   Josefin Lillhage	1:50.05

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Austria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	9	5	8	22
2	Russia (RUS)	3	4	3	10
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	4	2	9
4	Italy (ITA)	3	3	2	8
5	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	1	6
6	France (FRA)	3	0	1	4
7	Ukraine (UKR)	2	5	1	8
8	Austria (AUT)*	2	4	1	7
9	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	4	7
10	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	2	5
11	Slovakia (SVK)	2	1	0	3
12	Denmark (DEN)	1	3	2	6
	Poland (POL)	1	3	2	6
14	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	1	3
15	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
16	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
17	Spain (ESP)	0	0	3	3
18	Romania (ROM)	0	0	2	2
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		38	38	38	114

Performance awards

Best newcomers: Kateryna Zubkova (UKR) and Igor Borysik (UKR). (Both were voted by the media, and received a special prize of Euro 1500 each.)

Top performances: a total of 32,000 Euro was awarded to the overall top-7 male and female performances. The athletes sharing the prize money were:

Antje Buschschulte (GER) László Cseh (HUN) Anna-Karin Kammerling (SWE) Josefin Lillhage (SWE) Peter Mankoč (SLO) Martina Moravcová (SVK)

Flavia Rigamonti (SUI) Éva Risztov (HUN) Markus Rogan (AUT) Teresa Rohmann (GER) Thomas Rupprath (GER)