2008 European Aquatics Championships

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2008 European Aquatics Championships

Host city|  Eindhoven
Date(s)| 13–24 March 2008

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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.

## Medal table

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*   Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 12| 7| 6| 25
2|  Italy| 5| 7| 9| 21
3|  France| 5| 4| 3| 12
4|  Spain| 5| 3| 4| 12
5|  Germany| 4| 4| 1| 9
6|  Netherlands*| 4| 3| 3| 10
7|  Hungary| 3| 4| 2| 9
8|  Austria| 3| 2| 2| 7
9|  Sweden| 3| 1| 6| 10
10|  Ukraine| 2| 4| 7| 13
11|  Great Britain| 2| 2| 0| 4
Greece| 2| 2| 0| 4
13|  Norway| 1| 2| 0| 3
14|  Slovenia| 1| 1| 0| 2
Switzerland| 1| 1| 0| 2
16|  Serbia| 1| 0| 0| 1
17|  Croatia| 0| 2| 1| 3
Finland| 0| 2| 1| 3
19|  Romania| 0| 1| 4| 5
20|  Belarus| 0| 1| 1| 2
Poland| 0| 1| 1| 2
22|  Denmark| 0| 0| 1| 1
Lithuania| 0| 0| 1| 1
Slovakia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (24 entries)| 54| 54| 54| 162

## Swimming

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### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 8| 7| 4| 19
2|  France| 5| 4| 4| 13
3|  Italy| 4| 5| 4| 13
4|  Netherlands| 4| 3| 3| 10
5|  Hungary| 3| 3| 2| 8
6|  Austria| 3| 2| 3| 8
7|  Greece| 2| 2| 0| 4
8|  Sweden| 2| 1| 5| 8
9|  Spain| 1| 3| 4| 8
10|  Ukraine| 1| 1| 1| 3
11|  Poland| 1| 0| 1| 2
Totals (11 entries)| 34| 31| 31| 96

### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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50 m freestyle  | Alain Bernard
France | 21.66
| Duje Draganja
Croatia | 22.00
| Stefan Nystrand
Sweden | 22.16
100 m freestyle  | Alain Bernard
France | 47.50
WR | Stefan Nystrand
Sweden | 48.40  | Filippo Magnini
Italy | 48.53
200 m freestyle  | Paul Biedermann
Germany | 1:46.59  | Amaury Leveaux
France | 1:46.99  | Massimiliano Rosolino
Italy | 1:47.33
400 m freestyle  | Yury Prilukov
Russia | 3:45.10
CR | Massimiliano Rosolino
Italy | 3:45.19  | Nikita Lobintsev
Russia | 3:46.75
800 m freestyle  | Gergő Kis
Hungary | 7:51.94
CR | Samuel Pizzetti
Italy | 7:54.09  | Dragoș Coman
Romania | 7:54.37

1500 m freestyle  | Yury Prilukov
Russia | 14:50.40
CR | David Davies
Great Britain | 14:54.28  | Mateusz Sawrymowicz
Poland | 14:58.78
50 m backstroke  | Aristeidis Grigoriadis
Greece | 25.13  | Flori Lang
Switzerland | 25.18  | Ľuboš Križko
Slovakia | 25.44
100 m backstroke  | Markus Rogan
Austria | 54.03  | Aristeidis Grigoriadis
Greece | 54.27  | Arkady Vyatchanin
Russia | 54.45
200 m backstroke  | Markus Rogan
Austria | 1:55.85  | Arkady Vyatchanin
Russia | 1:57.04  | Răzvan Florea
Romania | 1:57.53
50 m breaststroke  | Oleg Lisogor
Ukraine | 27.43  | Alexander Dale Oen
Norway | 27.53
NR | Alessandro Terrin
Italy | 27.64
100 m breaststroke  | Alexander Dale Oen
Norway | 59.76
ER | Hugues Duboscq
France | 59.78  | Oleg Lisogor
Ukraine | 1:00.53
200 m breaststroke  | Grigory Falko
Russia | 2:09.64
CR | Alexander Dale Oen
Norway | 2:09.74
NR | Hugues Duboscq
France | 2:09.91
50 m butterfly  | Milorad Čavić
Serbia | 23.11
ER | Sergiy Breus
Ukraine | 23.48  | Rafael Muñoz Pérez
Spain | 23.60
100 m butterfly  | Evgeny Korotyshkin
Russia | 51.89
CR | Peter Mankoč
Slovenia | 52.07  | Rafael Muñoz Pérez
Spain | 52.09
200 m butterfly  | Ioannis Drymonakos
Greece | 1:54.16
ER | Paweł Korzeniowski
Poland | 1:54.38  | Nikolay Skvortsov
Russia | 1:54.65
200 m individual medley  | László Cseh
Hungary | 1:58.02  | Dinko Jukić
Austria | 1:59.65  | Vytautas Janušaitis
Lithuania | 2:00.17
400 m individual medley  | László Cseh
Hungary | 4:09.59
ER | Ioannis Drymonakos
Greece | 4:14.72  | Luca Marin
Italy | 4:16.69
4 × 100 m freestyle relay  | Marcus Piehl (50.56)
Stefan Nystrand (47.52)
Petter Stymne (49.30)
Jonas Persson (48.03)
Sweden | 3:15.41  | Massimiliano Rosolino (49.94)
Alessandro Calvi (48.79)
Christian Galenda (48.74)
Filippo Magnini (48.20)
Italy | 3:15.77  | Mitja Zastrow (49.14)
Bas van Velthoven (49.33)
Robert Lijesen (48.60)
Pieter van den Hoogenband (48.81)
Netherlands | 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)
Italy | 7:09.94  | Nikita Lobintsev (1:48.20)
Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.97)
Evgeny Lagunov (1:48.37)
Yury Prilukov (1:48.16)
Russia | 7:11.70  | Dominik Koll (1:48.21)
Markus Rogan (1:48.42)
David Brandl (1:48.52)
Dinko Jukić (1:48.84)
Austria | 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)
Russia | 3:34.25
ER | Gordan Kožulj (55.28)
Vanja Rogulj (1:00.93)
Mario Todorović (51.83)
Duje Draganja (48.28)
Croatia | 3:36.32  | Simon Sjödin (56.08)
Jonas Andersson (1:01.13)
Lars Frölander (52.21)
Stefan Nystrand (47.43)
Sweden | 3:36.85

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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50 m freestyle  | Marleen Veldhuis
Netherlands | 24.09
WR | Hinkelien Schreuder
Netherlands | 24.59  | Therese Alshammar
Sweden | 24.71
100 m freestyle  | Marleen Veldhuis
Netherlands | 53.77  | Hanna-Maria Seppälä
Finland | 54.04  | Inge Dekker
Netherlands | 54.12
200 m freestyle  | Sara Isaković
Slovenia | 1:57.45  | Camelia Potec
Romania | 1:57.47  | Ágnes Mutina
Hungary | 1:58.06
400 m freestyle  | Federica Pellegrini
Italy | 4:01.53
WR | Coralie Balmy
France | 4:04.15  | Camelia Potec
Romania | 4:05.62
800 m freestyle  | Alessia Filippi
Italy | 8:23.50  | Erika Villaécija García
Spain | 8:24.08  | Camelia Potec
Romania | 8:25.28
1500 m freestyle  | Flavia Rigamonti
Switzerland | 15:58.54
CR | Erika Villaécija García
Spain | 16:02.08  | Lotte Friis
Denmark | 16:11.26
50 m backstroke  | Anastasia Zuyeva
Russia | 28.05
ER | Nina Zhivanevskaya
Spain | 28.11  | Sanja Jovanović
Croatia | 28.17
100 m backstroke  | Anastasia Zuyeva
Russia | 59.41
ER | Laure Manaudou
France | 1:00.05  | Nina Zhivanevskaya
Spain | 1:00.29
200 m backstroke  | Laure Manaudou
France | 2:07.99  | Anastasia Zuyeva
Russia | 2:09.59  | Nikolett Szepesi
Hungary | 2:09.90
50 m breaststroke  | Janne Schäfer
Germany | 31.08
CR | Yuliya Yefimova
Russia | 31.41  | Mirna Jukić
Austria | 31.59
100 m breaststroke  | Mirna Jukić
Austria | 1:08.18  | Alena Alekseeva
Russia | 1:08.91  | Joline Höstman
Sweden | 1:08.94
200 m breaststroke  | Yuliya Yefimova
Russia | 2:24.09
CR | Mirna Jukić
Austria | 2:24.58  | Alena Alekseeva
Russia | 2:25.22
50 m butterfly  | Chantal Groot
Netherlands | 26.03  | Inge Dekker
Netherlands | 26.30  | Sviatlana Khakhlova
Belarus | 26.52
100 m butterfly  | Sarah Sjöström
Sweden | 58.44  | Inge Dekker
Netherlands | 58.50  | Aurore Mongel
France | 58.54
200 m butterfly  | Aurore Mongel
France | 2:06.59  | Emese Kovács
Hungary | 2:06.71  | Mireia Belmonte García
Spain | 2:09.32
200 m individual medley  | Mireia Belmonte García
Spain | 2:11.16
CR | Evelyn Verrasztó
Hungary | 2:12.93  | Camille Muffat
France | 2:13.63
400 m individual medley  | Alessia Filippi
Italy | 4:36.68  | Katinka Hosszú
Hungary | 4:37.43  | Yana Martynova
Russia | 4:37.86
4 × 100 m freestyle relay  | Inge Dekker (53.77)
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.61)
Femke Heemskerk (53.62)
Marleen Veldhuis (52.62)
Netherlands | 3:33.62
WR | Erika Ferraioli (56.14)
Federica Pellegrini (53.68)
Maria Laura Simonetto (55.54)
Cristina Chiuso (55.70)
Italy | 3:41.06  | Claire Hedenskog (55.56)
Josefin Lillhage (54.36)
Ida Marko-Varga (55.33)
Magdalena Kuras (56.03)
Sweden | 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)
France | 7:52.09  | Joanne Jackson (1:59.10)
Melanie Marshall (1:57.81)
Ellen Gandy (1:59.26)
Caitlin McClatchey (1:56.19)
Great Britain | 7:52.36  | Alice Carpanese (2:01.06)
Federica Pellegrini (1:54.98)
Alessia Filippi (1:58.47)
Renata Spagnolo (2:01.18)
Italy | 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)
Great Britain | 3:59.33
ER | Anastasia Zuyeva (59.72)
Yuliya Yefimova (1:07.30)
Natalya Sutyagina (58.29)
Daria Belyakina (55.16)
Russia | 4:00.47  | Hinkelien Schreuder (1:03.30)
Jolijn van Valkengoed (1:10.67)
Inge Dekker (57.69)
Marleen Veldhuis (52.75)
Netherlands | 4:04.41

## Diving

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### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 4| 0| 1| 5
2|  Germany| 2| 4| 1| 7
3|  Ukraine| 1| 3| 3| 7
4|  Italy| 1| 0| 3| 4
5|  Sweden| 1| 0| 1| 2
6|  Great Britain| 1| 0| 0| 1
7|  Finland| 0| 1| 1| 2
8|  Belarus| 0| 1| 0| 1
Hungary| 0| 1| 0| 1
Totals (9 entries)| 10| 10| 10| 30

### Results

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#### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

#### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Synchronised swimming

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### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Spain| 4| 0| 0| 4
2|  Italy| 0| 3| 1| 4
3|  Russia| 0| 1| 0| 1
4|  Ukraine| 0| 0| 3| 3
Totals (4 entries)| 4| 4| 4| 12

### Results

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## See also

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

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