2012 European Aquatics Championships Explained

31st European Aquatics Championships
Hostcity:	Debrecen Eindhoven
Dates:	14–27 May 2012isako
Venues:	Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex Hoogenband Swimming Stadium
Previous:	2010 Budapest - Balatonfüred
Next:	2014 Berlin

The 2012 European Aquatics Championships were held from 14 to 27 May 2012 in Debrecen, Hungary and Eindhoven, Netherlands.^[1] The 2012 European Swimming Championships were to take place in Antwerp, Belgium, but were reallocated to the City of Debrecen and were held on the same dates as previously planned, from 21 to 27 May. The Diving Championships were held in Eindhoven from 15 to 20 May. The Synchronised Swimming discipline, originally intended to take place in Antwerp, have also been reallocated, with its continental titles having been contested in Eindhoven.Originally, the Championships had been awarded to Vienna, but later they backed out due to the Great Recession.^[2]

The 2012 European Water Polo Championships were held separately a few months earlier, from 16 to 29 January, also in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Schedule

Competition dates by discipline were:

• Swimming: 21–27 May (Debrecen)
• Diving: 15–20 May (Eindhoven)
• Synchro: 23–27 May (Eindhoven)
• Water Polo: 16–29 January (Eindhoven)

Swimming

Results

Men's events

50 m freestyle^[3]	Frédérick Bousquet	21.80	Stefan Nystrand	22.04	Andriy Hovorov	22.18
100 m freestyle^[4]	Filippo Magnini	48.77	Alain Bernard	48.95	Norbert Trandafir	49.13
200 m freestyle^[5]	Paul Biedermann	1:46.27	Amaury Leveaux	1:47.69	Dominik Kozma	1:47.72
400 m freestyle^[6]	Paul Biedermann	3:47.84	Gergő Kis	3:48.09	Samuel Pizzetti	3:48.66
800 m freestyle^[7]	Gergő Kis	7:49.46	Gregorio Paltrinieri	7:52.23	Sergiy Frolov	7:52.81
1500 m freestyle^[8]	Gregorio Paltrinieri	14:48.92	Gergő Kis	14:58.15	Gergely Gyurta	15:04.38
50 m backstroke^[9]	Jonatan Kopelev	24.73	Mirco Di Tora	24.95	Guy Barnea Richárd Bohus Dorian Gandin	25.14
100 m backstroke^[10]	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	53.86	Helge Meeuw	54.06	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin	54.14
200 m backstroke^[11]	Radosław Kawęcki	1:55.28	Péter Bernek	1:55.88	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin	1:57.35
50 m breaststroke^[12]	Damir Dugonjič	27.32	Fabio Scozzoli	27.49	Panagiotis Samilidis	27.64
100 m breaststroke^[13]	Fabio Scozzoli	1:00.55	Valeriy Dymo	1:00.68	Mattia Pesce	1:00.93
200 m breaststroke^[14]	Dániel Gyurta	2:08.60	Marco Koch	2:09.26	Panagiotis Samilidis	2:09.72
50 m butterfly^[15]	Rafael Muñoz	23.16	Frédérick Bousquet	23.30	Yauhen Tsurkin	23.37
100 m butterfly^[16]	Milorad Čavić	51.45	László Cseh	51.77	Matteo Rivolta	52.40
200 m butterfly^[17]	László Cseh	1:54.95	Bence Biczó	1:55.85	Ioannis Drymonakos	1:56.48
200 m individual medley^[18]	László Cseh	1:56.66	James Goddard	1:57.84	Markus Rogan	1:59.39
400 m individual medley^[19]	László Cseh	4:12.17	Dávid Verrasztó	4:14.23	Ioannis Drymonakos	4:14.41
4 × 100 m freestyle relay^[20]	Amaury Leveaux (48.59) Alain Bernard (48.29) Frédérick Bousquet (48.40) Jérémy Stravius (48.27)	3:13.55	Andrea Rolla (49.48) Marco Orsi (48.15) Michele Santucci (49.11) Filippo Magnini (47.97)	3:14.71	Vitaly Syrnikov (49.48) Oleg Tikhobaev (48.01) Nikita Konovalov (48.39) Viacheslav Andrusenko (49.25)	3:15.13
4 × 200 m freestyle relay^[21]	Paul Biedermann (1:46.70) Dimitri Colupaev (1:47.41) Clemens Rapp (1:47.90) Tim Wallburger (1:47.16)	7:09.17	Gianluca Maglia (1:48.58) Riccardo Maestri (1:47.87) Samuel Pizzetti (1:48.26) Filippo Magnini (1:48.41)	7:13.10	Dominik Kozma (1:48.31) Gergő Kis (1:47.60) Péter Bernek (1:49.46) László Cseh (1:48.23)	7:13.60
4 × 100 m medley relay^[22]	Mirco di Tora (54.40) Fabio Scozzoli (59.38) Matteo Rivolta (51.24) Filippo Magnini (47.78)	3:32.80	Helge Meeuw (54.52) Christian vom Lehn (1:00.21) Steffen Deibler (51.74) Marco di Carli (47.94)	3:34.41	Péter Bernek (54.79) Dániel Gyurta (59.33) László Cseh (51.88) Dominik Kozma (48.57)	3:34.57

Women's events

50 m freestyle^[23]	Britta Steffen	24.37	Hinkelien Schreuder	24.78	Nery Mantey Niangkouara	24.93
100 m freestyle^[24]	Sarah Sjöström	53.61	Britta Steffen	54.15	Daniela Schreiber	54.41
200 m freestyle^[25]	Federica Pellegrini	1:56.76	Silke Lippok	1:58.19	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	1:58.23
400 m freestyle^[26]	Coralie Balmy	4:05.31	Mireia Belmonte García	4:05.45	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	4:07.47
800 m freestyle^[27]	Boglárka Kapás	8:26.49	Coralie Balmy	8:27.79	Éva Risztov	8:27.87
1500 m freestyle^[28]	Mireia Belmonte García	16:05.34	Éva Risztov	16:10.04	Erika Villaécija García	16:15.85
50 m backstroke	Mercedes Peris	28.25	Arianna Barbieri Sanja Jovanović	28.31	not awarded
100 m backstroke^[29]	Jenny Mensing	1:00.08	Arianna Barbieri	1:00.54	Simona Baumrtová	1:00.57
200 m backstroke^[30]	Alexianne Castel	2:08.41	Jenny Mensing	2:09.55	Duane Da Rocha	2:09.56
50 m breaststroke^[31]	Petra Chocová	31.25	Sycerika McMahon	31.27	Caroline Ruhnau	31.35
100 m breaststroke^[32]	Sarah Poewe	1:07.33	Jennie Johansson	1:07.85	Marina García	1:07.91
200 m breaststroke^[33]	Sara Nordenstam	2:26.91	Irina Novikova	2:27.25	Sarah Poewe	2:27.80
50 m butterfly^[34]	Sarah Sjöström	25.64	Triin Aljand	25.92	Ingvild Snildal	26.12
100 m butterfly^[35]	Ingvild Snildal	58.04	Martina Granström	58.07	Amit Ivri	58.78
200 m butterfly^[36]	Katinka Hosszú	2:07.28	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	2:07.86	Martina Granström	2:08.22
200 m individual medley^[37]	Katinka Hosszú	2:10.84	Sophie Allen	2:11.49	Evelyn Verrasztó	2:11.63
400 m individual medley^[38]	Katinka Hosszú	4:33.76	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	4:35.68	Barbora Závadová	4:38.07
4 × 100 m freestyle relay^[39]	Britta Steffen (54.21) Silke Lippok (55.07) Lisa Vitting (55.33) Daniela Schreiber (53.37)	3:37.98	Ida Marko-Varga (55.66) Michelle Coleman (54.08) Sarah Sjöström (54.04) Gabriella Fagundez (54.62)	3:38.40	Alice Mizzau (55.14) Federica Pellegrini (54.29) Erica Buratto (55.50) Erika Ferraioli (54.91)	3:39.84
4 × 200 m freestyle relay^[40]	Alice Mizzau (1:58.67) Alice Nesti (1:59.50) Diletta Carli (1:59.40) Federica Pellegrini (1:55.33)	7:52.90	Zsuzsanna Jakabos (1:58.43) Evelyn Verrasztó (1:59.02) Ágnes Mutina (1:58.52) Katinka Hosszú (1:58.73)	7:54.70	Sara Isaković (1:59.06) Anja Klinar (1:59.23) Urša Bežan (1:59.98) Mojca Sagmeister (2:01.46)	7:59.73
4 × 100 m medley relay^[41]	Jenny Mensing (1:00.51) Sarah Poewe (1:07.44) Alexandra Wenk (57.74) Britta Steffen (52.74)	3:58.43 CR	Arianna Barbieri (1:00.83) Chiara Bogiatto (1:08.51) Ilaria Bianchi (57.45) Alice Mizzau (55.13)	4:01.92	Therese Svendsen (1:03.34) Joline Höstman (1:08.54) Martina Grandström (58.46) Natalie Lindborg (55.24)	4:05.58

Medal table

Diving

Results

Men's events

1 m springboard^[42]	Illya Kvasha	430.50	Evgeny Kuznetsov	412.65	Matthieu Rosset	403.95
3 m springboard^[43]	Matthieu Rosset	504.00	Patrick Hausding	502.75	Ilya Zakharov	493.80
3 m synchro springboard^[44]	Evgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Zakharov	445.92	Patrick Hausding Stephan Feck	433.68	Oleksiy Pryhorov Illya Kvasha	432.48
10 m platform^[45]	Tom Daley	565.05	Victor Minibaev	515.40	Gleb Galperin	511.55
10 m synchro platform^[46]	Sascha Klein Patrick Hausding	463.08	Ilya Zakharov Victor Minibaev	458.07	Oleksandr Bondar Oleksandr Gorshkovozov	437.79

Women's events

1 m springboard^[47]	Anna Lindberg	301.35	Tania Cagnotto	281.30	Nadezhda Bazhina	275.15
3 m springboard^[48]	Anna Lindberg	342.75	Uschi Freitag	321.40	Olena Fedorova	315.00
3 m synchro springboard^[49]	Francesca Dallapé Tania Cagnotto	325.50	Hanna Pysmenska Olena Fedorova	302.10	Katja Dieckow Uschi Freitag	296.70
10 m platform^[50]	Yulia Prokopchuk	321.55	Noemi Batki	315.60	Maria Kurjo	312.65
10 m synchro platform^[51]	Tonia Couch Sarah Barrow	319.56	Viktoriya Potyekhina Yulia Prokopchuk	310.68	Nora Subschinski Christin Steuer	303.93

Team events

Team Event^[52]

Audrey Labeau Matthieu Rosset

416.50

Olena Fedorova Oleksandr Bondar

387.85

Nadezhda Bazhina Artem Chesakov

384.30

Medal table

Synchronised swimming

Results

Solo routine^[53]	Natalia Ishchenko	97.810	Andrea Fuentes	95.900	Lolita Ananasova	92.250
Duet routine^[54]	Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina	97.860	Ona Carbonell Andrea Fuentes	95.980	Daria Iushko Kseniya Sydorenko	92.950
Team routine^[55]	Clara Basiana Alba María Cabello Ona Carbonell Margalida Crespí Andrea Fuentes Thaïs Henríquez Paula Klamburg Irene Montrucchio	96.210	Lolita Ananasova Daria Iushko Ganna Klymenko Olga Kondrashova Oleksandra Sabada Kateryna Sadurska Kseniya Sydorenko Anna Voloshyna	93.660	Federica Bellaria Elisa Bozzo Camilla Catteneo Manila Flamini Giulia Lapi Maria Angela Perrupato Benedetta Re Sara Sgarzi	90.530
Combination routine^[56]	Clara Basiana Alba María Cabello Clara Camacho Ona Carbonell Margalida Crespí Andrea Fuentes Thaïs Henríquez Paula Klamburg Irene Montrucchio Laia Pons	95.600	Lolita Ananasova Olena Grechykhina Daria Iushko Ganna Khmelnytska Ganna Klymenko Olga Kondrashova Oleksandra Sabada Kateryna Sadurska Kseniya Sydorenko Anna Voloshyna	93.420	Federica Bellaria Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Catteneo Linda Cerruti Francesca Deidda Manila Flamini Benedetta Re Dalila Schiesaro Sara Sgarzi	90.440

Medal table

See also

• LEN European Aquatics Championships
• List of European Championships records in swimming
• Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN)
• 2011 World Aquatics Championships
• 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Notes and References

1. Web site: LEN news report . . 2011-05-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110810114530/http://www.len.eu/news_details.php?id=173 . 2011-08-10 . dead.
2. Web site: No Bidders Yet For 2012 European Champs . Craig . Lord . February 16, 2011 . Swimnews . December 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151022135144/http://www.swimnews.com/News/view/8443 . October 22, 2015 . live.
3. Web site: Men's 50 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
4. Web site: Men's 100 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
5. Web site: Men's 200 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526090841/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_110_Heat1_Men_200_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
6. Web site: Men's 400 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526090812/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_101_Heat1_Men_400_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
7. Web site: Men's 800 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
8. Web site: Men's 1500 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526090846/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_114_Heat1_Men_1500_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
9. Web site: Men's 50 metre backstroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
10. Web site: Men's 100 metre backstroke Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526093600/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_103_Heat1_Men_100_Back.pdf . 2012-05-26.
11. Web site: Men's 200 metre backstroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
12. Web site: Men's 50 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
13. Web site: Men's 100 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526094954/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_105_Heat1_Men_100_Breast.pdf . 2012-05-26.
14. Web site: Men's 200 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
15. Web site: Men's 50 metre butterfly Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526090817/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_107_Heat1_Men_50_Fly.pdf . 2012-05-26.
16. Web site: Men's 100 metre butterfly Final results . omegatiming.com.
17. Web site: Men's 200 metre butterfly Final results . omegatiming.com.
18. Web site: Men's 200 metre individual medley Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526093610/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_112_Heat1_Men_200_Medley.pdf . 2012-05-26.
19. Web site: Men's 400 metre individual medley Final results . omegatiming.com.
20. Web site: Men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526090822/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73B1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Relay)_109_Heat1_Men_4x100_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
21. Web site: Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay Final results . omegatiming.com.
22. Web site: Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay Final results . omegatiming.com.
23. Web site: Women's 50 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
24. Web site: Women's 100 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526093615/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_113_Heat1_Women_100_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
25. Web site: Women's 200 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
26. Web site: Women's 400 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
27. Web site: Women's 800 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
28. Web site: Women's 1500 metre freestyle Final results . omegatiming.com.
29. Web site: Women's 100 metre backstroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
30. Web site: Women's 200 metre backstroke Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526120623/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_106_Heat1_Women_200_Back.pdf . 2012-05-26.
31. Web site: Women's 50 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
32. Web site: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526120630/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_111_Heat1_Women_100_Breast.pdf . 2012-05-26.
33. Web site: Women's 200 metre breaststroke Final results . omegatiming.com.
34. Web site: Women's 50 metre butterfly Final results . 2012-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526120618/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_102_Heat1_Women_50_Fly.pdf . 2012-05-26 . live.
35. Web site: Women's 100 metre butterfly Final results . omegatiming.com.
36. Web site: Women's 200 metre butterfly Final results . omegatiming.com.
37. Web site: Women's 200 metre individual medley Final results . omegatiming.com.
38. Web site: Women's 400 metre individual medley Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526093605/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Individual)_104_Heat1_Women_400_Medley.pdf . 2012-05-26.
39. Web site: Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay Final results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526093621/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73B1_Results%20(One%20Heat%20-%20Relay)_108_Heat1_Women_4x100_Free.pdf . 2012-05-26.
40. Web site: Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay Final results . omegatiming.com.
41. Web site: Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay Final results . omegatiming.com.
42. Web site: Men's 1 m springboard results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120523053141/http://omegatiming.com/diving/racearchives/2012/Eindhoven/F73E_DetResIndidivual_102_Final_1m_springboard_men.pdf . 2012-05-23.
43. Web site: Men's 3 m springboard results . omegatiming.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120523053150/http://www.omegatiming.com/diving/racearchives/2012/Eindhoven/F73E_DetResIndidivual_104_Final_3m_springboard_men.pdf . 2012-05-23.
44. Web site: Men's 3 m synchro springboard results . omegatiming.com.
45. Web site: Men'10 m platform results . omegatiming.com.
46. Web site: Men's 10 m synchro platform results . omegatiming.com.
47. Web site: Women's 1 m springboard results . omegatiming.com.
48. Web site: Women's 3 m springboard results . omegatiming.com.
49. Web site: Women's 3 m synchro springboard results . omegatiming.com.
50. Web site: Women's 10 m platform results . omegatiming.com.
51. Web site: Women's 10 m synchro platform results . omegatiming.com.
52. Web site: Team event results . omegatiming.com.
53. Web site: Solo routine Final results . omegatiming.com.
54. Web site: Duet routine Final results . omegatiming.com.
55. Web site: Team routine Final results . omegatiming.com.
56. Web site: Combination routine Final results . omegatiming.com.