1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships

1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships
File:PondsForge.jpg
Host city	Sheffield, UK
Date	11–13 December 1998
Venue	Ponds Forge
Nations	34
Athletes	355
Events	38
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The second edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships was held in Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England, from 11 to 13 December 1998. A total number of 355 swimmers from 34 nations competed in these championships.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	10	8	5	23
2	Great Britain (GBR)*	7	5	9	21
3	Netherlands (NED)	6	5	4	15
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	6	6	15
5	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	4
6	Poland (POL)	3	0	0	3
7	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
8	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	2	4
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	2	3
10	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Iceland (ISL)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	2	2	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	2	4
17	Austria (AUT)	0	1	2	3
18	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
21	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		40	36	38	114

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Mark Foster Great Britain	21.31 WR	Mark Veens Netherlands	21.79	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	21.87
100 m freestyle	Lars Frölander Sweden	47.54	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	47.68	Mark Veens Netherlands	47.97
200 m freestyle	Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands	1:44.00	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	1:44.92	Jacob Carstensen Denmark	1:45.55
400 m freestyle	Emiliano Brembilla Italy	3:40.45 ER	Massimiliano Rosolino Italy	3:42.87	Jacob Carstensen Denmark	3:44.56
1500 m freestyle	Graeme Smith Great Britain	14:42.29	Igor Snitko Ukraine	14:51.70	Emiliano Brembilla Italy	14:53.45
50 m backstroke	Thomas Rupprath Germany	24.13 WR	Stev Theloke Germany	24.66	Daniel Carlsson Sweden	24.67
100 m backstroke	Stev Theloke Germany	52.71	Darius Grigalionis Lithuania	53.41	Eithan Urbach Israel	53.64
200 m backstroke	Örn Arnarson Iceland	1:55.16	Adam Ruckwood Great Britain	1:55.34	Jorge Sánchez Spain	1:55.78
50 m breaststroke	Mark Warnecke Germany	26.70 WR	Patrik Isaksson Sweden	27.21	Patrick Schmollinger Austria	27.60
100 m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson Sweden	59.22	Mark Warnecke Germany	59.77	Jens Kruppa Germany	59.89
200 m breaststroke	Adam Whitehead Great Britain	2:08.54	Stéphan Perrot France	2:09.41	Maxim Podoprigora Austria	2:10.09
50 m butterfly	Miloš Milošević Croatia	23.30 WR	Mark Foster Great Britain	23.34	Lars Frölander Sweden	23.48
100 m butterfly	James Hickman Great Britain	51.04 WR	Lars Frölander Sweden	51.11	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine	51.87
200 m butterfly	James Hickman Great Britain	1:52.96	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine	1:54.13	Thomas Rupprath Germany	1:54.99
100 m individual medley	Jani Sievinen Finland	53.64	Jens Kruppa Germany	54.00	James Hickman Great Britain	54.45
200 m individual medley	James Hickman Great Britain	1:56.36	Marcel Wouda Netherlands	1:56.51	Jani Sievinen Finland	1:57.14
400 m individual medley	Marcel Wouda Netherlands	4:07.70	Frederik Hviid Spain	4:12.13	Christian Keller Germany	4:12.56
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Mark Veens Johan Kenkhuis Stefan Aartsen Pieter van den Hoogenband	1:26.99 WBT	Great Britain Mark Foster James Hickman Simon Handley Sion Brinn	1:27.74	Germany Stephan Kunzelmann Lars Conrad Alexander Lüderitz Carsten Dehmlow	1:28.01
4 × 50 m medley relay	Germany Thomas Rupprath Mark Warnecke Alexander Lüderitz Stephan Kunzelmann Sweden Daniel Carlsson Patrik Isaksson Jonas Åkesson Lars Frölander	1:35.51 WBT	None		Great Britain James Hickman Darren Mew Mark Foster Sion Brinn	1:36.11

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Inge de Bruijn Netherlands	24.41 ER	Katrin Meissner Germany	24.79	Sue Rolph Great Britain	24.80
100 m freestyle	Sue Rolph Great Britain	53.84	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	53.93	Louise Jöhncke Sweden	53.97
200 m freestyle	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	1:55.12 ER	Franziska van Almsick Germany	1:57.05	Louise Jöhncke Sweden	1:57.39
400 m freestyle	Carla Geurts Netherlands	4:08.05	Vicky Horner Great Britain	4:09.02	Karen Legg Great Britain	4:09.66
800 m freestyle	Flavia Rigamonti Switzerland	8:27.85	Carla Geurts Netherlands	8:29.20	Sarah Collings Great Britain	8:33.70
50 m backstroke	Sandra Völker Germany	27.27 WR	Therese Alshammar Sweden	28.46	Alena Nývltová Czech Republic	28.47
100 m backstroke	Sandra Völker Germany	59.84	Antje Buschschulte Germany	59.97	Alena Nývltová Czech Republic	1.00.40
200 m backstroke	Antje Buschschulte Germany	2.07.31	Helen Don-Duncan Great Britain	2.09.83	Yuliya Fomenko Russia	2.10.38
50 m breaststroke	Sylvia Gerasch Germany	31.43	Vera Lischka Austria	31.61	Jaime King Great Britain	31.69
100 m breaststroke	Brigitte Becue Belgium Alicja Pęczak Poland	1:07.71	None		Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	1:07.86
200 m breaststroke	Alicja Pęczak Poland	2:25.18	Lourdes Becerra Spain	2:26.13	Anne Poleska Germany	2:26.21
50 m butterfly	Inge de Bruijn Netherlands	26.09 ER	Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden	26.30	Johanna Sjöberg Sweden	26.76
100 m butterfly	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	57.72 ER	Johanna Sjöberg Sweden	58.17	Inge de Bruijn Netherlands	58.47
200 m butterfly	Sophia Skou Denmark	2:07.68	Mette Jacobsen Denmark	2:07.92	Johanna Sjöberg Sweden	2:08.21
100 m individual medley	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	1:00.43 WR	Nataša Kejžar Slovenia	1:02.26	Sue Rolph Great Britain	1:02.39
200 m individual medley	Alicja Pęczak Poland	2:12.05	Nicole Hetzer Germany	2:13.05	Sue Rolph Great Britain	2:13.19
400 m individual medley	Hana Černá Czech Republic	4:36.03	Nicole Hetzer Germany	4:36.37	Lourdes Becerra Spain	4:39.56
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	Germany Katrin Meissner Simone Osygus Marianne Hinners Sandra Völker	1:39.56 WBT	Netherlands Angela Postma Nienke Valen Wilma van Hofwegen Inge de Bruijn	1:40.05	Great Britain Alison Sheppard Claire Huddart Karen Pickering Sue Rolph	1:40.11
4 × 50 m medley relay	Germany Sandra Völker Sylvia Gerasch Franziska van Almsick Katrin Meissner	1:50.13 WBT	Sweden Therese Alshammar Maria Östling Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling	1:50.84	Netherlands Brenda Starink Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Angela Postma	1:51.01

Abbreviations

• WR: World record
• ER: European record
• WBT: World best time (Not an official world record, because world governing body FINA doesn't recognize 4 × 50 m relay times)

References

• Results on GBRSports.com
• Results