2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships Explained

2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Hostcity:	Istanbul, Turkey
Dates:	10–13 December 2009
Venues:	Abdi İpekçi Arena
Nations:	41
Events:	38
Previous:	2008
Next:	2010

See main article: European Short Course Swimming Championships.

The 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 December 2009. A temporary swimming pool was built within the Abdi İpekçi Arena.

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.

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

Participating nations

Of the 51 member nations of LEN, 41 participated in the championships. Albania and Liechtenstein made their European Short Course Championships debut.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

50 m freestyle	Frédérick Bousquet	20.53	Duje Draganja	20.70	Sergey Fesikov	20.84
100 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux	45.56	Daniil Izotov	45.70	Yevgeny Lagunov	46.06
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	1:39.81 CR	Danila Izotov	1:40.08	Nikita Lobintsev	1:41.52
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	3:34.55 CR	Nikita Lobintsev	3:35.75	Mads Glæsner	3:36.82
1500 m freestyle	Jan Wolfgarten	14:20.44	Federico Colbertaldo	14:25.68	Mads Glæsner	14:26.74
50 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets	22.76 ER	Thomas Rupprath	22.85	Aschwin Wildeboer	23.07
100 m backstroke	Arkady Vyatchanin Stanislav Donets	48.97 WR	None		Aschwin Wildeboer	49.05
200 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets	1:48.62 CR	Radosław Kawęcki	1:49.13	Evgeny Aleshin	1:49.31
50 m breaststroke	Aleksander Hetland	26.19	Alessandro Terrin	26.24	Čaba Silađi	26.31 NR
100 m breaststroke	Robin van Aggele	56.29 ER	Dániel Gyurta	56.72	Igor Borysik	56.97
200 m breaststroke	Dániel Gyurta	2:00.67 WR	Grigory Falko	2:02.50	Maxim Shcherbakov	2:03.76
50 m butterfly	Johannes Dietrich	22.07 CR	Frédérick Bousquet	22.17	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	22.34
100 m butterfly	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	48.93 CR	Peter Mankoč	49.65	Ivan Lenđer	49.79
200 m butterfly	Nikolay Skvortsov	1:49.46 ER	Paweł Korzeniowski	1:50.13 NR	Dinko Jukić	1:50.32
100 m individual medley	Duje Draganja	51.20	Sergey Fesikov	51.29	Peter Mankoč	51.52
200 m individual medley	Markus Rogan	1:51.72 ER	Vytautas Janušaitis	1:52.22	Alan Cabello Forns	1:53.04
400 m individual medley	László Cseh	3:57.27 WR	Dávid Verrasztó	4:00.10	Gal Nevo	4:00.55 NR
4×50 m freestyle relay	Amaury Leveaux Jérémy Stravius David Maitre Frédérick Bousquet	1:22.96	Duje Draganja Alexei Puninski Mario Todorović Mario Delač	1:23.18	Marco Orsi Federico Bocchia Filippo Magnini Luca Dotto	1:23.64
4×50 m medley relay	Stanislav Donets Sergey Geybel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Sergey Fesikov	1:31.80 WBT	Thomas Rupprath Hendrik Feldwehr Johannes Dietrich Stefan Herbst	1:32.02	Benjamin Stasiulis Hugues Duboscq Frédérick Bousquet Amaury Leveaux	1:32.13

Legend: WR – World record; WBT – World best time; ER – European record; CR – Championship record

Women's events

50 m freestyle	Hinkelien Schreuder	23.32 CR	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	23.58	Dorothea Brandt	23.74
100 m freestyle	Inge Dekker	51.35 CR	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	51.44	Jeanette Ottesen	52.18
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini	1:51.17 WR	Evelyn Verrasztó	1:52.61	Femke Heemskerk	1:54.20
400 m freestyle	Coralie Balmy	3:56.55	Lotte Friis	3:59.06	Ophelie Cyrielle Etienne	3:59.94
800 m freestyle	Lotte Friis	8:08.02	Erika Villaécija García	8:13.93	Ophelie Cyrielle Etienne	8:16.20
50 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović	25.70 WR	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	26.12	Ksenia Moskvina	26.38
100 m backstroke	Ksenia Moskvina	56.36 ER	Sanja Jovanović	56.93	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	57.23
200 m backstroke	Alexianne Castel	2:02.67	Jenny Mensing	2:03.31	Pernille Larsen	2:03.50
50 m breaststroke	Moniek Nijhuis	29.68 CR	Jane Trepp	29.82	Janne Schaefer	29.92
100 m breaststroke	Caroline Ruhnau	1:04.84 CR	Moniek Nijhuis	1:04.96	Jennie Johansson	1:05.19
200 m breaststroke	Rikke Møller-Pedersen	2:16.66 ER	Nađa Higl	2:17.52 NR	Joline Höstman	2:19.28
50 m butterfly	Inge Dekker Hinkelien Schreuder	25.00 CR	None		Ingvild Snildal	25.10
100 m butterfly	Inge Dekker	55.74	Diane Bui Duyet	55.93	Jeanette Ottesen	56.02
200 m butterfly	Aurore Mongel	2:03.22 CR	Petra Granlund	2:03.82	Franziska Hentke	2:04.68
100 m individual medley	Hinkelien Schreuder	57.85 CR	Evelyn Verrasztó	58.21	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	58.86
200 m individual medley	Evelyn Verrasztó	2:04.64 WR	Francesca Segat	2:06.21	Hannah Miley	2:06.96
400 m individual medley	Hannah Miley	4:25.66	Mireia Belmonte García	4:27.60	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	4:28.46
4×50 m freestyle relay	Inge Dekker Hinkelien Schreuder Saskia de Jonge Ranomi Kromowidjojo	1:33.25 WBT	Emma Svensson Josefin Lillhage Claire Hedenskog Sarah Sjöström	1:35.46	Dorothea Brandt Daniela Samulski Lisa Vitting Daniela Schreiber	1:36.73
4×50 m medley relay	Hinkelien Schreuder Moniek Nijhuis Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo	1:42.69 WBT	Emma Svensson Josefin Lillhage Sarah Sjöström Claire Hedenskog	1:45.13	Ksenia Moskvina Daria Deeva Olga Klyuchnikova Svetlana Fedulova	1:46.10

Legend: WR – World record; WBT – World best time; ER – European record; CR – Championship record

Records

The table below lists the world (WR), European (ER) and Championships (CR) records broken at the meet. Times displayed in shaded cells were subsequently broken later in the meet.

Date	Event	Heat/Semifinal/Final	Name(s)	Nation	Time	CR	ER	WR
	Men's 100 m breaststroke	Heat 6			57.33	=
	Men's 100 m breaststroke	Heat 7			56.89
	Women's 100 m freestyle	Heat 5			51.85
	Men's 50 m backstroke	Heat 1 (4×50 m medley relay)			23.04
	Men's 4×50 m medley relay	Heat 1			1:32.08			WBT
	Men's 400 m freestyle	Final			3:34.55
	Men's 200 m backstroke	Final			1:48.62
	Women's 100 m backstroke	Semifinal 2			56.74
	Women's 200 m individual medley	Final			2:04.64
	Men's 100 m breaststroke	Semifinal 2			56.79
	Women's 200 m butterfly	Final			2:03.22
	Men's 200 m individual medley	Final			1:51.72
	Women's 100 m freestyle	Semifinal 1			51.54
	Women's 50 m breaststroke	Final			29.68
	Men's 50 m backstroke	Final (4×50 m medley relay)			22.86
	Men's 4×50 m medley relay	Final			1:31.80			WBT
	Men's 50 m backstroke	Heat 5			22.80
	Women's 50 m butterfly	Heat 3			25.13
	Women's 100 m individual medley	Heat 4			59.12
	Men's 50 m backstroke	Semifinal 2			22.79
	Women's 50 m butterfly	Semifinal 1			25.09
	Men's 400 m individual medley	Final			3:57.27
	Women's 200 m breaststroke	Final			2:16.66
	Men's 50 m breaststroke	Final (100 m breaststroke)			26.34
	Men's 100 m breaststroke	Final			56.29
	Women's 100 m freestyle	Final			51.35
	Women's 100 m backstroke	Final			56.36
	Men's 100 m butterfly	Final			48.93
	Women's 100 m individual medley	Semifinal 1			58.61
	Women's 50 m butterfly	Final			25.00
	Men's 50 m backstroke	Final			22.76
	Women's 50 m freestyle	Final (4×50 m freestyle relay)			23.53
	Women's 4×50 m freestyle relay	Final			1:33.25			WBT
	Men's 100 m individual medley	Heat 5			51.35
	Women's 100 m butterfly	Heat 3			56.66
	Men's 50 m breaststroke	Semifinal 1			26.23
	Men's 50 m breaststroke	Semifinal 2			26.14
	Men's 100 m individual medley	Semifinal 1			50.76
	Men's 100 m backstroke	Semifinal 1			49.17
	Women's 100 m individual medley	Final			57.85
	Men's 200 m butterfly	Final			1:49.46
	Women's 100 m butterfly	Semifinal 1			55.05
	Women's 50 m backstroke	Final			25.70
	Women's 4×50 m medley relay	Final			1:42.69			WBT
	Women's 50 m freestyle	Heat 5			23.46
	Men's 200 m breaststroke	Heat 3			2:03.88
	Men's 200 m breaststroke	Heat 5			2:03.25
	Men's 200 m freestyle	Heat 6			1:40.87
	Men's 50 m butterfly	Semifinal 2			22.13
	Men's 200 m breaststroke	Final			2:00.67
	Women's 200 m freestyle	Final			1:51.17
	Men's 200 m freestyle	Final			1:39.81
	Women's 100 m breaststroke	Final			1:04.84
	Men's 100 m backstroke	Final			48.97
	Men's 50 m butterfly	Final			22.07
	Women's 50 m freestyle	Final			23.32

See also

• 2009 in swimming

References

Notes

Sources

• Web site: European Short Course Swimming Championships: Results Web Pages . Omega Timing . 10 December 2009 . https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120509092444/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2009/Istanbul/index_by_events.htm . 2012-05-09 . dead .

External links

• Official Championships Website
• Swim Rankings Results
• Results book

Notes and References

1. Web site: Record participation at Short Course Europeans: 41 nations . 2009-12-13 . 2009-12-13 .