LEN European Aquatics Championships

The European Aquatics Championships is the continental Aquatics championship for Europe, which is organised by LEN—the governing body for aquatics in Europe. The Championships are currently held every two years (in even years); and since 1999, they have included 4 aquatics disciplines: Swimming (long course/50m pool), Diving, Synchronised swimming and Open water swimming. Prior to 1999, the championships also included Water polo, which beginning in 1999 LEN split-off into a separate championships. The open water events are not held during the Olympic year.

The Championships are generally held over a two-week time-period in mid-to-late Summer; however, in the most recent Summer Olympics years (2004, 2008 and 2012), the Championships were moved to the Spring to be moved away from the Summer Olympic Games.

The swimming portion of these championships is considered one of the pre-eminent swimming competitions in the world. Note however that LEN also conducts an annual short-course (25 meters) swimming championship, which is a completely separate and a completely distinct event (typically held in early December).

Championships

Historically, the Championships were first held in 1926, and included water polo prior to 1999 when the discipline was moved to the European Water Polo Championship. From 1973-1999 Europeans were held in years without a Summer Olympics or World Championships, save 1979 (1973 being the inception year of the World Championships; and 1999 being the last year before Worlds moved from even-years between Summer Olympics to every-odd year beginning in 2001). Women were first allowed to participate at the second Championships in 1927^[1]

Number	Year	Host city	Country	Events	Dates	Winner of the Medal Table	Second in the Medal Table	Third in the Medal Table
1	1926	Budapest	Hungary	9	18–22 August	Germany	Sweden	Hungary
2	1927	Bologna	Italy	16	31 August – 4 September	Germany	Sweden	Netherlands
3	1931	Paris	France	16	23–30 August	Hungary	Germany	Netherlands
4	1934	Magdeburg	Germany	16	12–19 August	Germany	Netherlands	Hungary
5	1938	London	Great Britain	16	6–13 August	Germany	Denmark	Netherlands
6	1947	Monte Carlo	Monaco	16	10–14 September	France	Denmark	Hungary
7	1950	Vienna	Austria	16	20–27 August	France	Netherlands	West Germany
8	1954	Turin	Italy	18	31 August – 5 September	Hungary	Soviet Union	East Germany
9	1958	Budapest	Hungary	20	31 August – 6 September	Soviet Union	Great Britain	Netherlands
10	1962	Leipzig	East Germany	23	18–25 August	Netherlands	East Germany	Soviet Union
11	1966	Utrecht	Netherlands	23	20–27 August	Soviet Union	East Germany	Netherlands
12	1970	Barcelona	Spain	34	5–13 September	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
13	1974	Vienna	Austria	37	18–25 August	East Germany	West Germany	Great Britain
14	1977	Jönköping	Sweden	37	14–21 August	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
15	1981	Split	Yugoslavia	37	4–12 September	East Germany	Soviet Union	Great Britain
16	1983	Rome	Italy	38	22–27 August	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
17	1985	Oslo Sofia	Norway  Bulgaria	39	4–11 August	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
18	1987	Strasbourg	France	41	16–23 August	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
19	1989	Bonn	West Germany	43	15–20 August	East Germany	Soviet Union	France
20	1991	Athens	Greece	47	18–25 August	Soviet Union	Germany	Hungary
21	1993	Sheffield	Great Britain	47	3–8 August	Germany	Russia	Hungary
22	1995	Vienna	Austria	47	22–27 August	Russia	Germany	Hungary
23	1997	Seville	Spain	51	19–24 August	Russia	Germany	Hungary
24	1999	Istanbul	Turkey	55	26 July – 1 August	Germany	Russia	Netherlands
25	2000	Helsinki	Finland	55	3–9 July	Russia	Germany	Italy
26	2002	Berlin	Germany	57	29 July – 4 August	Germany	Russia	Italy
27	2004	Madrid	Spain	58	5–16 May	Ukraine	Russia	Italy
28	2006	Budapest	Hungary	58	26 July – 6 August	Russia	Germany	France
29	2008	Eindhoven	Netherlands	54	13–24 March	Russia	Italy	France
30	2010	Budapest	Hungary	61	4–15 August	Russia	Germany	France
31	2012	Debrecen Eindhoven	Hungary  Netherlands	55	15–27 May	Hungary	Germany	Italy
32	2014	Berlin	Germany	64	13–24 August	Great Britain	Russia	Italy
33	2016	London	Great Britain	64	9–22 May	Great Britain	Hungary	Russia
34	2018[lower-alpha 1]	Glasgow Edinburgh	Great Britain	72	2–12 August	Russia	Great Britain	Italy
35	2020	Budapest	Hungary		11–24 May

Medal table (1926–2018)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	178	107	74	359
2	Germany (GER)	160	154	120	434
3	East Germany (East Germany)	143	116	68	327
4	Hungary (HUN)	112	95	71	278
5	Soviet Union (Soviet Union)	97	87	80	264
6	Italy (ITA)	92	111	156	359
7	Great Britain (GBR)	87	94	118	299
8	France (FRA)	85	86	80	251
9	Netherlands (NED)	77	92	82	251
10	Sweden (SWE)	62	74	64	200
11	Ukraine (UKR)	49	53	60	162
12	West Germany (West Germany)	41	33	49	123
13	Spain (ESP)	30	49	49	128
14	Denmark (DEN)	29	20	31	80
15	Poland (POL)	19	16	21	56
16	Austria (AUT)	12	16	18	46
17	Finland (FIN)	12	6	12	30
18	Romania (ROU)	8	24	32	64
19	Norway (NOR)	6	8	5	19
20	Belarus (BLR)	5	8	15	28
21	Belgium (BEL)	5	6	16	27
22	Greece (GRE)	4	7	19	30
23	Ireland (IRL)	4	6	1	11
24	Switzerland (SUI)	4	5	16	25
25	Serbia (SRB)	4	1	0	5
26	Slovakia (SVK)	3	11	2	16
27	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	1	15	19
28	Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia)	2	14	13	29
29	Croatia (CRO)	2	7	7	16
30	Slovenia (SLO)	2	5	10	17
31	Lithuania (LTU)	2	5	6	13
32	Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia)	2	4	11	17
33	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	9	14
34	Israel (ISR)	1	4	8	13
35	Faroe Islands (FRO)	0	3	0	3
36	Iceland (ISL)	0	2	1	3
37	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
38	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro)	0	1	0	1
40	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (41 nations)		1344	1336	1342	4022

Note: The table includes medals won in swimming (since 1926), diving (since 1926), synchronized swimming (since 1974), open water swimming (since 1993) and water polo since 1926 until and including 1997 when the discipline was part of the event. From 1999 the water polo event was separated and got its own independent tournament as European Water Polo Championship.

As of 2018, Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia, Gibraltar, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino have yet to win a medal.

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)

References

External links

• Ligue Européenne de Natation - Official Website
• Swim Rankings results
• The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)