2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships

The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 took place in Rijeka, Croatia from 11 to 14 December 2008.

2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Rijeka, Croatia
Date(s)	11—14 December 2018
Venue(s)	Kantrida Pool
Events	38
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Kantrida Pool, site of the Championships

Championship mascot "Valko"

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Croatia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	8	2	4	14
2	France (FRA)	7	9	4	20
3	Italy (ITA)	5	5	8	18
4	Netherlands (NED)	5	2	2	9
5	Spain (ESP)	2	3	2	7
6	Croatia (CRO)*	2	0	2	4
7	Slovenia (SLO)	2	0	1	3
8	Germany (GER)	1	3	2	6
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	3	6
10	Austria (AUT)	1	2	1	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	1	4
12	Serbia (SRB)	1	1	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
14	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	4	5
15	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
16	Hungary (HUN)	0	3	1	4
17	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
18	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
20	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		39	38	38	115

Medal summary

Legend:

• WR = World record
• ER = European record
• CR = Championships record

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux  France	20.63	Frédérick Bousquet  France	20.69	Duje Draganja  Croatia Yevgeny Lagunov  Russia	21.15
100 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux  France	44.94 WR	Fabien Gilot  France	45.84	Filippo Magnini  Italy	46.62
200 m freestyle	Danila Izotov  Russia	1:43.09	Dominik Meichtry   Switzerland	1:43.11	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:43.52
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann  Germany	3:37.73 CR	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	3:39.33	Mads Glæsner  Denmark	3:39.77
1500 m freestyle	Federico Colbertaldo  Italy	14:24.21	Vitaly Romanovich  Russia	14:29.64	Samuel Pizzetti  Italy	14:31.60
50 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets  Russia	23.22	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain	23.28	Ľuboš Križko  Slovakia	23.47
100 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets  Russia	49.32 WR	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain	49.61	Helge Meeuw  Germany	50.89
200 m backstroke	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain Stanislav Donets  Russia	1:49.22 CR			Pierre Roger  France	1:52.26
50 m breaststroke	Matjaž Markič  Slovenia	26.47 CR	Aleksander Hetland  Norway	26.64	Emil Tahirovič  Slovenia	26.66
100 m breaststroke	Igor Borysik  Ukraine	57.33 ER	Hugues Duboscq  France	57.64	James Gibson  Great Britain	57.91
200 m breaststroke	Hugues Duboscq  France	2:04.59 ER	Edoardo Giorgetti  Italy	2:04.98	Igor Borysik  Ukraine	2:05.47
50 m butterfly	Amaury Leveaux  France	22.23	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	22.36 NR	Rafael Muñoz Pérez  Spain	22.46
100 m butterfly	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	49.19 ER	Rafael Muñoz Pérez  Spain	49.74	Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia	49.98
200 m butterfly	Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia	1:50.60 WR	Dinko Jukić  Austria	1:52.31	Maxim Ganikhin  Russia	1:52.32
100 m individual medley	Peter Mankoč  Slovenia	51.97 ER	Christian Galenda  Italy	52.29	James Goddard  Great Britain	52.36
200 m individual medley	James Goddard  Great Britain	1:53.46	Vytautas Janušaitis  Lithuania	1:54.51	Alan Cabello Forns  Spain	1:55.70
400 m individual medley	Dinko Jukić  Austria	4:03.01	Gergő Kis  Hungary	4:03.81	Lukasz Wojt  Poland	4:05.13
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	France Alain Bernard Fabien Gilot Amaury Leveaux Frédérick Bousquet	1:20.77 WB	Italy Alessandro Calvi Marco Orsi Mattia Nalesso Filippo Magnini	1:23.37	Croatia Duje Draganja Alexei Puninski Bruno Barbic Mario Todorović	1:23.68
4 × 50 m medley relay	Italy Mirco di Tora Alessandro Terrin Marco Belotti Filippo Magnini	1:32.91 WB	Russia Stanislav Donets Sergey Geybel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Yevgeny Lagunov  Germany Thomas Rupprath Marco Koch Johannes Dietrich Steffen Deibler	1:33.31

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands	23.55 CR	Hinkelien Schreuder  Netherlands	23.72	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	24.05
100 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands	51.95	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	52.08 NR	Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands	52.22
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	1:51.85 WR	Femke Heemskerk  Netherlands	1:53.79	Daria Belyakina  Russia	1:53.85
400 m freestyle	Coralie Balmy  France	3:56.39	Camille Muffat  France	3:57.48	Alessia Filippi  Italy	3:59.35
800 m freestyle	Alessia Filippi  Italy	8:04.53 WR	Coralie Balmy  France	8:05.32	Lotte Friis  Denmark	8:09.91
50 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović  Croatia	26.23 WR	Kateryna Zubkova  Ukraine	26.65	Elena Gemo  Italy	26.77
100 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović  Croatia	56.87 ER	Kateryna Zubkova  Ukraine	57.01	Laure Manaudou  France	57.16
200 m backstroke	Alexandra Putra  France	2:02.48	Alexianne Castel  France	2:03.10	Elizabeth Simmonds  Great Britain	2:03.12
50 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva  Russia	29.96	Janne Schaefer  Germany	30.37	Moniek Nijhuis  Netherlands	30.45
100 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva  Russia	1:05.02	Sophie de Ronchi  France	1:05.43	Mirna Jukić  Austria	1:05.64
200 m breaststroke	Alena Alekseeva  Russia	2:19.93	Mirna Jukić  Austria	2:20.48	Patrizia Humplik   Switzerland	2:21.68
50 m butterfly	Hinkelien Schreuder  Netherlands	25.21 ER	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	25.54	Diane Bui Duyet  France	25.55
100 m butterfly	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	56.70 CR NR	Diane Bui Duyet  France	56.83	Eszter Dara  Hungary	56.88
200 m butterfly	Petra Granlund  Sweden	2:04.27	Aurore Mongel  France	2:04.73	Jemma Lowe  Great Britain	2:04.78
100 m individual medley	Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland	59.24 CR NR	Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary	59.49	Francesca Segat  Italy	59.61
200 m individual medley	Francesca Segat  Italy	2:07.03 ER	Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary	2:07.93	Sophie de Ronchi  France	2:08.10
400 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García  Spain	4:25.06 WR	Alessia Filippi  Italy	4:26.06	Francesca Segat  Italy	4:27.12
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Hinkelien Schreuder Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marleen Veldhuis	1:33.80 WB	Sweden Petra Granlund Claire Hedenskog Sarah Sjöström Lovisa Ericsson	1:38.00	Germany Dorothea Brandt Petra Dallmann Lisa Vitting Daniela Schreiber	1:38.06
4 × 50 m medley relay	Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo Moniek Nijhuis Hinkelien Schreuder Marleen Veldhuis	1:45.73 WB	Germany Daniela Samulski Janne Schaefer Lena Kalla Petra Dallmann	1:46.84	Italy Elena Gemo Roberta Panara Silvia di Pietro Federica Pellegrini	1:47.05

See also

• 2008 in swimming