1996 European Short Course Swimming Championships Explained

Hostcity:	Rostock, Germany
Dates:	13–15 December 1996
Nations:	21
Previous:	1994
Next:	1998

The first edition of the European Short Course Championships was held in Rostock, Germany, from December 13 to December 15, 1996. The event, just a couple of months after the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, replaced the European Sprint Swimming Championships, where only the 50 m events and the 100 m individual medley were at stake. From this edition on, also the events longer than that were contested.

Medal summary

Men's events

50 m freestyle	Mark Foster	22.25	René Gusperti	22.51	Dimitri Kalinovski	22.57
100 m freestyle	Lars Conrad	48.90	Nicolae Butacu	49.49	Nicolae Ivan	49.56
200 m freestyle	Lars Conrad	1:45.97	Andrew Clayton	1:47.35	Konstantin Dubrovin	1:48.60
400 m freestyle	Emiliano Brembilla	3:45.52	Stefan Pohl	3:48.10	Dimitrios Manganas	3:48.29
1500 m freestyle	Igor Snitko	14:46.59	Ian Wilson	14:54.24	Thomas Lohfink	15:04.13
50 m backstroke	Mariusz Siembida	25.03	Tomislav Karlo	25.14	Stev Theloke	25.15
100 m backstroke	Mariusz Siembida	53.56	Stev Theloke	53.87	Emanuele Merisi	54.39
200 m backstroke	Emanuele Merisi	1:54.91	Nicolae Butacu	1:56.29	Stev Theloke	1:56.51
50 m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson	27.76	Jens Kruppa	27.77	Daniel Málek	27.84
100 m breaststroke	Jens Kruppa	1:00.15	Patrik Isaksson	1:00.45	Aleksandr Gukov	1:00.94
200 m breaststroke	Aleksandr Gukov	2:09.86	Artur Paczynski	2:10.69	Jens Kruppa	2:10.70
50 m butterfly	Mark Foster	23.91	Fabian Hieronimus	24.07	Jonas Åkesson	24.25
100 m butterfly	Thomas Rupprath	53.22	Fabian Hieronimus	53.70	Denislav Kaltchev	54.02
200 m butterfly	Chris-Carol Bremer	1:57.04	Thomas Rupprath	1:57.30	David Abrard Adrian Andermatt	1:59.23
100 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda	54.62	Jens Kruppa	54.82	Christian Keller	55.45
200 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda	1:56.83	Christian Keller	1:58.52	Krešimir Čač	2:01.45
400 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda	4:08.90	Christian Keller	4:13.03	Uwe Volk	4:15.69
4×50 m freestyle relay	Lars Conrad Christian Tröger Tim Nolte Steffen Smöllich	1:29.54	Tomislav Karlo Miloš Milošević Miro Žeravica Alen Lončar	1:29.69	Anders Dahl Vermund Vetnes Thomas Sopp Thomas Nore	1:30.40
4×50 m medley relay	Stev Theloke Jens Kruppa Fabian Hieronimus Lars Conrad	1:38.28	Emanuele Merisi Domenico Fioravanti Luca Belfiore René Gusperti	1:38.50	Neil Willey Richard Maden Mark Foster Simon Handley	1:38.72

Women's events

50 m freestyle	Sandra Völker	24.67 ER	Sue Rolph	25.32	Vibeke Johansen	25.38
100 m freestyle	Sandra Völker	53.04 ER	Sue Rolph	54.46	Martina Moravcová	54.95
200 m freestyle	Martina Moravcová	1:57.22	Antje Buschschulte	1:58.34	Carla Geurts	1:59.16
400 m freestyle	Kristýna Kyněrová	4:09.94	Carla Geurts	4:10.36	Chantal Strasser	4:13.45
800 m freestyle	Carla Geurts	8:34.66	Flavia Rigamonti	8:39.20	Sarah Collings	8:42.42
50 m backstroke	Sandra Völker	27.94	Antje Buschschulte	28.55	Suze Valen	28.66
100 m backstroke	Antje Buschschulte	1:00.21	Kateřina Pivoňková	1:01.69	Alenka Kejžar	1:01.93
200 m backstroke	Kateřina Pivoňková	2:08.15	Antje Buschschulte	2:09.54	Alenka Kejžar	2:12.20
50 m breaststroke	Vera Lischka	31.36	Terrie Miller	31.47	Hanna Jaltner	32.04
100 m breaststroke	Terrie Miller	1:07.91	Vera Lischka	1:08.18	Alicja Pęczak	1:08.33
200 m breaststroke	Alicja Pęczak	2:26.11	Alenka Kejžar	2:27.33	Anne Poleska	2:27.57
50 m butterfly	Johanna Sjöberg	27.15 ER	Sandra Völker	27.23	Marja Pärssinen	27.69
100 m butterfly	Johanna Sjöberg	58.80 ER	Sandra Völker	59.44	Julia Voitowitsch	1:00.51
200 m butterfly	Bárbara Franco	2:10.20	Johanna Sjöberg	2:10.92	María Peláez	2:11.36
100 m individual medley	Sue Rolph	1:01.91	Martina Moravcová	1:01.98	Sabine Herbst	1:02.46
200 m individual medley	Sue Rolph	2:10.60	Alicja Pęczak	2:13.07	Sabine Herbst	2:13.29
400 m individual medley	Sabine Herbst	4:39.26	Beatrice Câșlaru	4:41.76	Pavla Chrástová	4:42.07
4×50 m freestyle relay	Katrin Meissner Marianne Hinners Silvia Stahl Sandra Völker	1:41.15	Johanna Sjöberg Linda Olofsson Nelly Jörgensen Malin Svahnström	1:42.18	Dominique Diezi Andrea Quadri Sandrine Paquier Chantal Strasser	1:44.90
4×50 m medley relay	Antje Buschschulte Sylvia Gerasch Julia Voitowitsch Sandra Völker	1:51.79 ER	Suze Valen Madelon Baans Wilma van Hofwegen Angela Postma	1:52.80	Nelly Jörgensen Hanna Jaltner Johanna Sjöberg Linda Olofsson	1:53.06

References

• Results on GBRSports.com