2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships

2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Host city	Netanya, Israel
Date(s)	2–6 December
Venue(s)	Wingate Institute
Nations participating	48
Athletes participating	500
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The 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships took place in Netanya, Israel, from 2–6 December 2015.^[1] They were originally scheduled to be held in January 2015, but the LEN moved the event to December.^[2] The venue of the event is going to be the brand new swimming complex of the Wingate Institute. This complex features an Olympic-size pool with 10 lanes and 3 meter depth, backed by the latest built-in filtration systems, an 8-lane 50 m pool and a 6-lane 25 m pool.

The swimmer of the meet honors went to Katinka Hosszú of Hungary and Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy.^[3] Hosszú won six gold medals and one silver, breaking two world records and six championship records, while Paltrinieri won one gold medal in a world record time.

Records broken

World records
Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day	References
400 m individual medley (record progression)	2 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	4:19.46	1	^[4]
100 m individual medley (record progression)	4 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.67	3	^[5]
1500 m freestyle (record progression)	4 December	Final	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:08.06	3	^[6]

European records
Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day	References
200 m individual medley	4 December	Final	László Cseh	Hungary	1:51.36	3	^[7]
200 m butterfly	6 December	Final	László Cseh	Hungary	1:49.00	5	^[3]

Championships records
Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day
200 m backstroke	2 December	Final	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:48.33	1
100 m individual medley	3 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.52	2
200 m breaststroke	3 December	Final	Marco Koch	Germany	2:00.53	2
100 m backstroke	3 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	55.42	2
100 m individual medley	3 December	Semifinal 2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.49	2
50 m butterfly	3 December	Final	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.58	2
4×50 m mixed medley	3 December	Final	Simone Sabbioni Fabio Scozzoli Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli	Italy	1:38.33	2
200 m backstroke	4 December	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.95	3
200 m backstroke	4 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:59.84	3
200 m individual medley	5 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:02.53	4
4×50 m mixed freestyle	5 December	Final	Federico Bocchia Marco Orsi Silvia Di Pietro Erika Ferraioli	Italy	1:29.26	4
100 m butterfly	6 December	Final	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.03	5
4×50 m medley	6 December	Final	Simone Sabbioni Fabio Scozzoli Matteo Rivolta Marco Orsi	Italy	1:31.71	5

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Evgeny Sedov Russia	20.87	Marco Orsi Italy	20.92	Sebastian Szczepanski Poland	21.21
100 m freestyle	Marco Orsi Italy	46.05	Pieter Timmers Belgium	46.61	Sebastian Szczepanski Poland	46.87
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	1:42.68	Pieter Timmers Belgium	1:42.85	Glenn Surgeloose Belgium Viacheslav Andrusenko Russia	1:43.55
400 m freestyle	Péter Bernek Hungary	3:35.46	Paul Biedermann Germany	3:35.96	Gabriele Detti Italy	3:37.22
1500 m freestyle	Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy	14:08.06 WR	Gabriele Detti Italy	14:18.00	Henrik Christiansen Norway	14:23.60
50 m backstroke	Tomasz Polewka Poland	22.96	Chris Walker-Hebborn United Kingdom Simone Sabbioni Italy	23.09	none awarded
100 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki Poland	49.64	Stanislav Donets Russia	50.30	Chris Walker-Hebborn United Kingdom	50.35
200 m backstroke	Radosław Kawęcki Poland	1:48.33 CR	Yakov Toumarkin Israel	1:49.84	Simone Sabbioni Italy	1:50.75
50 m breaststroke	Damir Dugonjič Slovenia	26.20	Adam Peaty United Kingdom	26.21	Oleg Kostin Russia Alexander Murphy Ireland	26.35
100 m breaststroke	Marco Koch Germany	56.78	Adam Peaty United Kingdom	56.96	Giedrius Titenis Lithuania	57.02
200 m breaststroke	Marco Koch Germany	2:00.53 CR	Dániel Gyurta Hungary	2:01.99	Andrew Willis United Kingdom	2:02.76
50 m butterfly	Andriy Hovorov Ukraine	22.36	Yauhen Tsurkin Belarus	22.56	Aleksandr Popkov Russia	22.69
100 m butterfly	László Cseh Hungary	49.33	Matteo Rivolta Italy	49.70	Nikita Konovalov Russia	50.28
200 m butterfly	László Cseh Hungary	1:49.00 ER	Viktor Bromer Denmark	1:51.62	Simon Sjödin Sweden	1:52.89
100 m individual medley	Sergey Fesikov Russia	52.00	Yakov Toumarkin Israel	52.62	Andreas Vazaios Greece	52.67
200 m individual medley	László Cseh Hungary	1:51.36 ER	Philip Heintz Germany	1:53.21	Diogo Carvalho Portugal	1:53.45
400 m individual medley	Dávid Verrasztó Hungary	4:02.43	Roberto Pavoni United Kingdom	4:02.69	Gal Nevo Israel	4:04.68
4×50 m freestyle relay	Russia Evgeny Sedov (20.71) Andrey Arbuzov (20.94) Aleksandr Kliukin (20.93) Nikita Konovalov (20.91)	1:23.49	Italy Federico Bocchia (21.56) Marco Orsi (20.46) Giuseppe Guttuso (21.20) Filippo Magnini (21.22)	1:24.44	Belarus Yauhen Tsurkin (21.83) Anton Latkin (21.11) Viktar Staselovich (21.03) Artyom Machekin (21.04)	1:25.01
4×50 m medley relay	Italy Simone Sabbioni (23.29) Fabio Scozzoli (25.88) Matteo Rivolta (22.19) Marco Orsi (20.35)	1:31.71 CR	Russia Andrei Shabasov (23.46) Oleg Kostin (26.05) Aleksandr Popkov (22.26) Evgeny Sedov (20.40)	1:32.17	Belarus Pavel Sankovich (23.45) Ilya Shymanovich (26.59) Yauhen Tsurkin (21.99) Anton Latkin (21.18)	1:33.21

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Ranomi Kromowidjojo Netherlands	23.56	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	23.63	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	23.94
100 m freestyle	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	51.37	Ranomi Kromowidjojo Netherlands	51.59	Veronika Popova Russia	52.02
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini Italy	1:51.89	Veronika Popova Russia	1:52.46	Femke Heemskerk Netherlands	1:52.81
400 m freestyle	Jazmin Carlin United Kingdom	3:58.81	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	3:58.84	Boglárka Kapás Hungary	3:59.02
800 m freestyle	Jazmin Carlin United Kingdom	8:11.01	Boglárka Kapás Hungary	8:11.43	Sharon van Rouwendaal Netherlands	8:15.84
50 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	26.13	Aleksandra Urbańczyk Poland	26.27	Sanja Jovanović Croatia	26.45
100 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	55.42 CR	Alicja Tchórz Poland	57.17	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Iceland	57.42
200 m backstroke	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	1:59.84 CR	Daria Ustinova Russia	2:01.57	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Iceland	2:03.53
50 m breaststroke	Jenna Laukkanen Finland	29.71	Fanny Lecluyse Belgium	29.84	Natalia Ivaneeva Russia	29.99
100 m breaststroke	Jenna Laukkanen Finland	1:04.56	Moniek Nijhuis Netherlands	1:05.21	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes Turkey	1:05.32
200 m breaststroke	Fanny Lecluyse Belgium	2:18.49	Maria Astashkina Russia	2:19.69	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes Turkey	2:19.73
50 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	24.58 CR	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	25.04	Silvia Di Pietro Italy	25.26
100 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	55.03 CR	Jeanette Ottesen Denmark	55.68	Alexandra Wenk Germany	56.43
200 m butterfly	Franziska Hentke Germany	2:03.01	Lara Grangeon France	2:03.85	Alessia Polieri Italy	2:04.37
100 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	56.67 WR	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor United Kingdom	57.65	Marrit Steenbergen Netherlands	59.00
200 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	2:02.53 CR	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor United Kingdom	2:05.13	Louise Hansson Sweden	2:07.96
400 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	4:19.75	Hannah Miley United Kingdom	4:26.87	Lara Grangeon France	4:27.31
4×50 m freestyle relay	Italy Silvia Di Pietro (24.03) Erika Ferraioli (23.59) Aglaia Pezzato (24.14) Federica Pellegrini (24.29)	1:36.05	Netherlands Inge Dekker (24.41) Femke Heemskerk (24.01) Tamara van Vliet (24.52) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (23.26)	1:36.20	Russia Rozaliya Nasretdinova (24.40) Veronika Popova (23.92) Daria Kartashova (24.19) Nataliya Lovtsova (24.11)	1:36.62
4×50 m medley relay	Netherlands Tessa Vermeulen (27.51) Moniek Nijhuis (29.27) Inge Dekker (25.10) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (22.97)	1:44.85	Sweden Louise Hansson (27.23) Sophie Hansson (29.82) Sarah Sjöström (24.33) Magdalena Kuras (23.96)	1:45.34	Italy Elena Gemo (26.95) Martina Carraro (30.06) Silvia Di Pietro (24.98) Erika Ferraioli (23.74)	1:45.73

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×50 m mixed freestyle	Italy Federico Bocchia (21.58) Marco Orsi (20.46) Silvia Di Pietro (23.63) Erika Ferraioli (23.59)	1:29.26 CR	Russia Evgeny Sedov (21.14) Nikita Konovalov (20.85) Nataliya Lovtsova (23.63) Rozaliya Nasretdinova (23.97)	1:29.59	Netherlands Jesse Puts (21.74) Ben Schwietert (21.78) Inge Dekker (23.78) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (22.73)	1:30.03
4×50 m mixed medley	Italy Simone Sabbioni (23.50) Fabio Scozzoli (25.99) Silvia Di Pietro (25.24) Erika Ferraioli (23.60)	1:38.33 CR	Russia Andrei Shabasov (23.52) Andrei Nikolaev (25.69) Alina Kashinskaya (25.47) Rozaliya Nasretdinova (23.68)	1:38.36	Belarus Pavel Sankovich (23.50) Ilya Shymanovich (26.64) Svetlana Khokhlova (25.33) Aleksandra Gerasimenya (23.56)	1:39.03

Legend: WR - World record; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Medal table

Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	11	3	1	15
2	Italy	7	5	5	17
3	Germany	4	2	1	7
4	Russia	3	7	7	17
5	Poland	3	2	2	7
5	Sweden	3	2	2	7
7	Great Britain	2	7	2	11
8	Netherlands	2	3	4	9
9	Finland	2	0	0	2
10	Belgium	1	3	1	5
11	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
11	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
13	Denmark	0	3	1	4
14	Israel	0	2	1	3
15	Belarus	0	1	3	4
16	France	0	1	1	2
17	Iceland	0	0	2	2
17	Turkey	0	0	2	2
19	Croatia	0	0	1	1
19	Greece	0	0	1	1
19	Ireland	0	0	1	1
19	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
19	Norway	0	0	1	1
19	Portugal	0	0	1	1
Total		40	41	41	122^[8]

Participating nations

500 swimmers from 48 nations will take place at the competition. The only LEN members that will not participate are Gibraltar, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino.^[9]^[10]