2002 European Aquatics Championships Explained

26th European Aquatics Championships
Hostcity:	Berlin, Germany
Dates:	29 July–4 August 2002
Events:	57
Previous:	2000 Helsinki
Next:	2004 Madrid

The 2002 LEN European Championships were held in Berlin, Germany from Monday 29 July to Sunday 4 August 2002 at the Berlin Eurosportpark in the German capital. The 26th edition of the event was organised by the LEN. A total number of 786 swimmers competed, from 38 countries. The event included disciplines of swimming (long course), open water swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming (women). A 10 km open water event, for both men and women was introduced in the open water swimming competition, this was held in Potsdam.

Swimming

Men's events

50 m freestyle	Bartosz Kizierowski Poland	Lorenzo Vismara Italy	Oleksandr Volynets Ukraine
100 m freestyle	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	Alexander Popov Russia	Duje Draganja Croatia
200 m freestyle	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	Emiliano Brembilla Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy
400 m freestyle	Emiliano Brembilla Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	Dragoş Coman Romania
1500 m freestyle	Yuri Prilukov Russia	Christian Minotti Italy	Igor Chervynskyi Ukraine
50 m backstroke	Thomas Rupprath Germany	Stev Theloke Germany	Bartosz Kizierowski Poland
100 m backstroke	Stev Theloke Germany	Markus Rogan Austria	Pierre Roger France
200 m backstroke	Gordan Kožulj Croatia	Markus Rogan Austria	Marko Strahija Croatia
50 m breaststroke	Oleg Lisogor Ukraine  WR	Mihály Flaskay Hungary	Károly Güttler Hungary
100 m breaststroke	Oleg Lisogor Ukraine	Roman Sloudnov Russia	Hugues Duboscq France
200 m breaststroke	Davide Rummolo Italy	Yohan Bernard France	Roman Sloudnov Russia
50 m butterfly	Jere Hård Finland	Thomas Rupprath Germany	Lars Frölander Sweden
100 m butterfly	Thomas Rupprath Germany	Andriy Serdinov Ukraine	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine
200 m butterfly	Franck Esposito France	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine	Anatoly Polyakov Russia
200 m individual medley	Jani Sievinen Finland	Alessio Boggiatto Italy	Markus Rogan Austria
400 m individual medley	Alessio Boggiatto Italy	István Batházi Hungary	Nicolas Rostoucher France
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Lars Conrad Stefan Herbst Torsten Spanneberg Stephan Kunzelmann	Eric la Fleur Stefan Nystrand Lars Frölander Mattias Ohlin	Lorenzo Vismara Christian Galenda Michele Garcia Simone Cercato
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Matteo Pelliciari Emiliano Brembilla Federico Cappellazzo Massimiliano Rosolino	Moritz Zimmer Stefan Pohl Lars Conrad Stefan Herbst	Athanasios Oikonomou Nikolaos Xylouris Ioannis Kokkodis Spyridon Gianniotis
4 × 100 m medley relay	Yevgeniy Alechin Roman Sloudnov Igor Marchenko Alexander Popov	Pierre Roger Hugues Duboscq Franck Esposito Romain Barnier	Stev Theloke Jens Kruppa Thomas Rupprath Stefan Herbst

Women's events

50 m freestyle	Therese Alshammar Sweden	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	Aleksandra Gerasimenya Belarus
100 m freestyle	Franziska van Almsick Germany	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	Alena Popchanka Belarus
200 m freestyle	Franziska van Almsick Germany	Camelia Potec Romania	Alena Popchanka Belarus
400 m freestyle	Yana Klochkova Ukraine	Éva Risztov Hungary	Camelia Potec Romania
800 m freestyle	Jana Henke Germany	Éva Risztov Hungary	Hannah Stockbauer Germany
50 m backstroke	Nina Zhivanevskaya Spain	Sandra Völker Germany	Aleksandra Gerasimenya Belarus
100 m backstroke	Stanislava Komarova Russia	Sandra Völker Germany	Antje Buschschulte Germany
200 m backstroke	Stanislava Komarova Russia	Nina Zhivanevskaya Spain	Irina Amshennikova Ukraine
50 m breaststroke	Emma Igelström Sweden	Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	Elena Bogomazova Russia
100 m breaststroke	Emma Igelström Sweden	Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	Elena Bogomazova Russia
200 m breaststroke	Mirna Jukić Austria	Anne Poleska Germany	Emma Igelström Sweden
50 m butterfly	Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden	Daniela Samulski Germany	Chantal Groot Netherlands
100 m butterfly	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	Otylia Jędrzejczak Poland	Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden
200 m butterfly	Otylia Jędrzejczak Poland	Éva Risztov Hungary	Annika Mehlhorn Germany
200 m individual medley	Yana Klochkova Ukraine	Hanna Shcherba Belarus	Alenka Kejžar Slovenia
400 m individual medley	Yana Klochkova Ukraine	Éva Risztov Hungary	Nicole Hetzer Germany
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Katrin Meissner Petra Dallmann Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick	Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling Therese Alshammar	Manon van Rooijen Marleen Veldhuis Chantal Groot Wilma van Hofwegen
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Petra Dallmann Alessa Ries Hannah Stockbauer Franziska van Almsick	Laura Roca Melissa Caballero Erika Villaecija Tatiana Rouba	Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg Lisa Wanberg Ida Mattson
4 × 100 m medley relay	Antje Buschschulte Simone Weiler Franziska van Almsick Sandra Völker	Therese Alshammar Emma Igelström Anna-Karin Kammerling Johanna Sjöberg	Irina Amshennikova Svitlana Bondarenko Yana Klochkova Olga Mukomol

Open water swimming

Men's events

5 km open water
10 km open water
25 km open water

Women's events

5 km open water
10 km open water
25 km open water

Diving

Men's events

1 m springboard	Nicola Marconi Italy	José Miguel Gil Spain	Christian Löffler Germany
3 m springboard	Dmitri Sautin Russia	Andreas Wels Germany	Vasiliy Lisovskiy Russia
10 m platform	Heiko Meyer Germany	Imre Lengyel Hungary	Aliaksandr Varlamau Belarus
3 m springboard synchro	Dmitri Baibakov Dmitri Sautin Russia	Tobias Schellenberg Andreas Wels Germany	Nicola Marconi Tommaso Marconi Italy
10 m platform synchro	Anton Zakharov Roman Volodkov Ukraine	Imre Lengyel András Hajnal Hungary	Aliaksandr Varlamau Andrei Mamontov Belarus

Women's events

1 m springboard	Heike Fischer Germany	Vera Ilyina Russia	Natalya Umyskova Russia
3 m springboard	Yuliya Pakhalina Russia	Ditte Kotzian Germany	Conny Schmalfuß Germany
10 m platform	Anke Piper Germany	Tania Cagnotto Italy	Olha Leonova Ukraine
3 m springboard synchro	Ditte Kotzian Conny Schmalfuß Germany	Vera Ilyina Yuliya Pakhalina Russia	Tania Cagnotto Maria Marconi Italy
10 m platform synchro	Ditte Kotzian Annett Gamm Germany	Olha Leonova Olena Zhupina Ukraine	Yevgeniya Olshevskaya Svetlana Timoshinina Russia

Synchronized swimming

Solo	Virginie Dedieu France	Anastasia Davydova Russia	Gemma Mengual Spain
Duet	Anastasia Davydova Anastasiya Yermakova Russia	Gemma Mengual Paola Tirados Spain	Virginie Dedieu Myriam Glez France
Team	Youlia Chestakovitch Anastasia Davydova Anastasia Ermakova Maria Gromova Elvira Khasyanova Elena Ovtchinnikova Anna Shorina Irina Tolkatcheva	Spain Raquel Corral Andrea Fuentes Tina Fuentes Gemma Mengual Ana Montero Irina Rodriguez Alicia Sanz Paola Tirados	Italy Eva Balzarotti Monica Cirulli Joey Paccagnella Elisa Plaisant Beatrice Spaziani Lorena Zaffalon Laura Zanazza Christina Zarfati

External links

• Results
• Swim Rankings Results
• Web site: LEN European Championships Aquatic finalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20201206142739/https://www2.len.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/LEN_2018_European_Championships.FINAL_sml-1.pdf . 6 December 2020.