2008 European Aquatics Championships Explained

2008 European Aquatics Championships
Hostcity:	Eindhoven
Dates:	13–24 March 2008
Previous:	2006 Budapest
Next:	2010 Budapest-Balatonfüred

The 2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from 13 - 24 March 2008. They were the European championships for swimming (50 m), diving and synchronised swimming for 2008. Two new events were contested: the 800 m freestyle men and the 1500 m freestyle women. This is the first time that the men's and women's swimming programs are identical.

Swimming

Men's events

50 m freestyle	Alain Bernard	21.66	Duje Draganja	22.00	Stefan Nystrand	22.16
100 m freestyle	Alain Bernard	47.50 WR	Stefan Nystrand	48.40	Filippo Magnini	48.53
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	1:46.59	Amaury Leveaux	1:46.99	Massimiliano Rosolino	1:47.33
400 m freestyle	Yury Prilukov	3:45.10 CR	Massimiliano Rosolino	3:45.19	Nikita Lobintsev	3:46.75
800 m freestyle	Gergő Kis	7:51.94 CR	Samuel Pizzetti	7:54.09	Dragoș Coman	7:54.37 NR
1500 m freestyle	Yury Prilukov	14:50.40 CR	David Davies	14:54.28	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	14:58.78
50 m backstroke	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	25.13	Flori Lang	25.18	Ľuboš Križko	25.44
100 m backstroke	Markus Rogan	54.03	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	54.27	Arkady Vyatchanin	54.45
200 m backstroke	Markus Rogan	1:55.85	Arkady Vyatchanin	1:57.04	Răzvan Florea	1:57.53
50 m breaststroke	Oleg Lisogor	27.43	Alexander Dale Oen	27.53 NR	Alessandro Terrin	27.64
100 m breaststroke	Alexander Dale Oen	59.76 ER	Hugues Duboscq	59.78	Oleg Lisogor	1:00.53
200 m breaststroke	Grigory Falko	2:09.64 CR	Alexander Dale Oen	2:09.74 NR	Hugues Duboscq	2:09.91
50 m butterfly	Milorad Čavić	23.11 ER	Sergiy Breus	23.48	Rafael Muñoz Pérez	23.60
100 m butterfly	Evgeny Korotyshkin	51.89 CR	Peter Mankoč	52.07	Rafael Muñoz Pérez	52.09
200 m butterfly	Ioannis Drymonakos	1:54.16 ER	Paweł Korzeniowski	1:54.38	Nikolay Skvortsov	1:54.65
200 m individual medley	László Cseh	1:58.02	Dinko Jukić	1:59.65	Vytautas Janušaitis	2:00.17
400 m individual medley	László Cseh	4:09.59 ER	Ioannis Drymonakos	4:14.72	Luca Marin	4:16.69
4×100 m freestyle relay	Marcus Piehl (50.56) Stefan Nystrand (47.52) Petter Stymne (49.30) Jonas Persson (48.03)	3:15.41	Massimiliano Rosolino (49.94) Alessandro Calvi (48.79) Christian Galenda (48.74) Filippo Magnini (48.20)	3:15.77	Mitja Zastrow (49.14) Bas van Velthoven (49.33) Robert Lijesen (48.60) Pieter van den Hoogenband (48.81)	3:15.88
4×200 m freestyle relay	Emiliano Brembilla (1:48.36) Massimiliano Rosolino (1:47.38) Nicola Cassio (1:46.57) Filippo Magnini (1:47.63)	7:09.94	Nikita Lobintsev (1:48.20) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.97) Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.37) Yury Prilukov (1:48.16)	7:11.70	Dominik Koll (1:48.21) Markus Rogan (1:48.42) David Brandl (1:48.52) Dinko Jukić (1:48.84)	7:13.99
4×100 m medley relay	Arkady Vyatchanin (54.13) Grigory Falko (1:00.45) Evgeny Korotyshkin (51.35) Andrey Grechin (48.32)	3:34.25 ER	Gordan Kožulj (55.28) Vanja Rogulj (1:00.93) Mario Todorović (51.83) Duje Draganja (48.28)	3:36.32	Simon Sjödin (56.08) Jonas Andersson (1:01.13) Lars Frölander (52.21) Stefan Nystrand (47.43)	3:36.85

Women's events

50 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis	24.09 WR	Hinkelien Schreuder	24.59	Therese Alshammar	24.71
100 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis	53.77	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	54.04	Inge Dekker	54.12
200 m freestyle	Sara Isaković	1:57.45	Camelia Potec	1:57.47	Ágnes Mutina	1:58.06
400 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini	4:01.53 WR	Coralie Balmy	4:04.15	Camelia Potec	4:05.62
800 m freestyle	Alessia Filippi	8:23.50	Erika Villaécija García	8:24.08	Camelia Potec	8:25.28
1,500 m freestyle	Flavia Rigamonti	15:58.54 CR	Erika Villaécija García	16:02.08	Lotte Friis	16:11.26
50 m backstroke	Anastasia Zuyeva	28.05 ER	Nina Zhivanevskaya	28.11	Sanja Jovanović	28.17
100 m backstroke	Anastasia Zuyeva	59.41 ER	Laure Manaudou	1:00.05	Nina Zhivanevskaya	1:00.29
200 m backstroke	Laure Manaudou	2:07.99	Anastasia Zuyeva	2:09.59	Nikolett Szepesi	2:09.90
50 m breaststroke	Janne Schäfer	31.08 CR	Yuliya Yefimova	31.41	Mirna Jukić	31.59
100 m breaststroke	Mirna Jukić	1:08.18	Alena Alekseeva	1:08.91	Joline Höstman	1:08.94
200 m breaststroke	Yuliya Yefimova	2:24.09 CR	Mirna Jukić	2:24.58	Alena Alekseeva	2:25.22
50 m butterfly	Chantal Groot	26.03	Inge Dekker	26.30	Sviatlana Khakhlova	26.52
100 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström	58.44	Inge Dekker	58.50	Aurore Mongel	58.54
200 m butterfly	Aurore Mongel	2:06.59	Emese Kovács	2:06.71	Mireia Belmonte García	2:09.32
200 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García	2:11.16 CR	Evelyn Verrasztó	2:12.93	Camille Muffat	2:13.63
400 m individual medley	Alessia Filippi	4:36.68	Katinka Hosszú	4:37.43	Yana Martynova	4:37.86
4×100 m freestyle relay	Inge Dekker (53.77) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.61) Femke Heemskerk (53.62) Marleen Veldhuis (52.62)	3:33.62 WR	Erika Ferraioli (56.14) Federica Pellegrini (53.68) Maria Laura Simonetto (55.54) Cristina Chiuso (55.70)	3:41.06	Claire Hedenskog (55.56) Josefin Lillhage (54.36) Ida Marko-Varga (55.33) Magdalena Kuras (56.03)	3:41.28
4×200 m freestyle relay	Laure Manaudou (1:58.51) Coralie Balmy (1:56.58) Mylène Lazare (1:59.39) Alena Popchanka (1:57.61)	7:52.09	Joanne Jackson (1:59.10) Melanie Marshall (1:57.81) Ellen Gandy (1:59.26) Caitlin McClatchey (1:56.19)	7:52.36	Alice Carpanese (2:01.06) Federica Pellegrini (1:54.98) Alessia Filippi (1:58.47) Renata Spagnolo (2:01.18)	7:55.69
4×100 m medley relay	Elizabeth Simmonds (1:01.20) Kate Haywood (1:07.11) Jemma Lowe (58.00) Francesca Halsall (53.02)	3:59.33 ER	Anastasia Zuyeva (59.72) Yuliya Yefimova (1:07.30) Natalya Sutyagina (58.29) Daria Belyakina (55.16)	4:00.47	Hinkelien Schreuder (1:03.30) Jolijn van Valkengoed (1:10.67) Inge Dekker (57.69) Marleen Veldhuis (52.75)	4:04.41

Diving

Results

Men's events

1 m springboard	Illya Kvasha	454.65	Joona Puhakka	432.80	Christopher Sacchin	423.80
3 m springboard	Dmitry Sautin	493.70	Illya Kvasha	468.70	Joona Puhakka	441.80
3 m springboard synchro	Yuriy Kunakov Dmitry Sautin	440.76	Tobias Schellenberg Andreas Wels	413.94	Dmytro Lysenko Anton Zakharov	406.56
10 m platform	Tom Daley	491.95	Sascha Klein	487.60	Francesco Dell'Uomo	481.30
10 m platform synchro	Patrick Hausding Sascha Klein	453.24	Vadim Kaptur Aliaksandr Varlamau	427.35	Konstantin Khanbekov Oleg Vikulov	426.24

Women's events

1 m springboard	Anna Lindberg	293.85	Nóra Barta	270.60	Katja Dieckow	264.15
3 m springboard	Yuliya Pakhalina	347.40	Katja Dieckow	330.80	Olena Fedorova	319.70
3 m springboard synchro	Yuliya Pakhalina Anastasia Pozdnyakova	327.57	Heike Fischer Ditte Kotzian	305.64	Olena Fedorova Alevtina Korolyova	301.86
10 m platform	Tania Cagnotto	355.35	Iuliia Prokopchuk	328.35	Elina Eggers	319.65
10 m platform synchro	Annett Gamm Nora Subschinski	336.63	Alina Chaplenko Iuliia Prokopchuk	334.20	Noemi Batki Tania Cagnotto	323.13

Synchronised swimming

Results

Solo free routine	Gemma Mengual	98.400	Natalia Ishchenko	98.300	Beatrice Adelizzi	94.000
Duet free routine	Gemma Mengual Andrea Fuentes	97.800	Beatrice Adelizzi Giulia Lapi	94.900	Daria Iushko Xenia Sidorenko	93.900
Team free routine	Alba Cabello Ona Carbonell Raquel Corral Andrea Fuentes Thaïs Henríquez Gemma Mengual Irina Rodríguez Paola Tirados	97.800	Alessia Bigi Elisa Bozzo Costanza Fiorentini Manila Flamini Francesca Gangemi Mariangela Perrupato Sara Sgarzi Federica Tommasi	95.200	Anna Bagirova Nadiya Berezhna Anastasiya Chepak Daria Iushko Ganna Khmelnytska Olga Kondrashova Yuliya Maryanko Kseniya Sydorenko	93.300
Free combination routine	Alba Cabello Raquel Corral Andrea Fuentes Thaïs Henríquez Laura López Gemma Mengual Gisela Morón Irina Rodríguez Paola Tirados Cristina Violán	97.900	Alessia Bigi Elisa Bozzo Costanza Fiorentini Manila Flamini Francesca Gangemi Mariangela Perrupato Dalila Schiesaro Sara Sgarzi Federica Tommasi	95.100	Anna Bagirova Nadiya Berezhna Anastasiya Chepak Inga Giller Daria Iushko Ganna Khmelnytska Olga Kondrashova Yuliya Maryanko Olga Shevchuk Kseniya Sydorenko	94.100

See also

• LEN European Aquatics Championships
• Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN)

External links

• Tournament's official site
• Swim Rankings Results