2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships

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 (25 m) pool.

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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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
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	3	3
18	Israel (ISR)	0	0	2	2
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		38	38	38	114