2006 European Aquatics Championships

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Swimming pool just before the finales on 3rd of August 2006

The 2006 European Swimming Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, from 26 July – 6 August 2006. Disciplines include swimming, diving, synchronised swimming (synchro) and open water swimming. European Water Polo Championships for 2006 were also organized by LEN, but held separately.

Competition dates by discipline were:^[1]

• Swimming: 31 July - 6 August
• Diving: 1–6 August
• Synchro: 26–30 July
• Open Water: 26–30 July

Medal table

      Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	16	7	3	26
2	Germany	12	10	5	27
3	France	6	3	9	18
4	Italy	5	6	11	22
5	Ukraine	5	4	5	14
6	Poland	5	2	1	8
7	Sweden	3	3	0	6
8	United Kingdom	2	5	6	13
9	Netherlands	2	3	3	8
10	Hungary	2	2	5	9
11	Finland	1	0	1	2
12	Spain	0	4	0	4
13	Greece	0	2	5	7
14	Austria	0	2	0	2
15	Croatia	0	1	1	2
16	Belarus	0	1	0	1
16	Norway	0	1	0	1
16	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
19	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
20	Denmark	0	0	1	1
20	Romania	0	0	1	1
20	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Total		59	57	60	176

Swimming

Schedule

Competition dates for Swimming were: 31 July - 6 August.^[1][2] All swimming events contested in a long-course (50m) pool; with morning sessions (preliminary heats) beginning at 09:30, and evening sessions (semifinals and finals) beginning at 17:00. Event format was:

• 200m and under: prelims/semifinals/finals--preliminary heats and semifinals were held on the same day (morning then evening), with finals of the event on the next evening.
• 400m and longer: prelims/finals. In the 400m, and the 4x100m and 4x200m relays, prelims and finals were held on the same day. In the women's 800m and men's 1500m events, prelims were held in the morning of day 1 of the event, with finals of the event in the evening session of day 2.

Event order for evening sessions was:

Results

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Bartosz Kizierowski   Poland	21.88   CR	Oleksandr Volynets   Ukraine	21.97	Duje Draganja   Croatia	22.14
100 m freestyle	Filippo Magnini   Italy	48.79	Stefan Nystrand   Sweden	48.91	Pieter vd Hoogenband   Netherlands	48.94
200 m freestyle	Pieter vd Hoogenband   Netherlands	1:45.65	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	1:47.02	Filippo Magnini   Italy	1:47.57
400 m freestyle	Yury Prilukov   Russia	3:45.73   CR	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	3:46.87	Nicolas Rostoucher   France	3:47.04
1500 m freestyle	Yury Prilukov   Russia	14:51.93   CR	Sébastien Rouault   France	14:55.73	Nicolas Rostoucher   France	15:01.82
50 m backstroke	Helge Meeuw   Germany	25.06	Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece	25.14	Matthew Clay   Great Britain	25.15
100 m backstroke	Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia	53.50   CR	Markus Rogan   Austria	54.07	Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece	54.34
200 m backstroke	Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia	1:55.44   ER, CR	László Cseh   Hungary	1:56.69	Răzvan Florea   Romania	1:57.83
50 m breaststroke	Oleg Lisogor   Ukraine Alessandro Terrin   Italy	27.48	not awarded		Matjaž Markič   Slovenia	27.87
100 m breaststroke	Roman Sloudnov   Russia	1:00.61	Alexander Dale Oen   Norway	1:00.63	Oleg Lisogor   Ukraine	1:00.64
200 m breaststroke	Sławomir Kuczko   Poland	2:12.12	Paolo Bossini   Italy	2:12.35	Kristopher Gilchrist   Great Britain	2:13.21
50 m butterfly	Sergiy Breus   Ukraine	23.41   CR	Duje Draganja   Croatia	23.62	Jakob Andkjær   Denmark Andriy Serdinov   Ukraine	23.77
100 m butterfly	Andriy Serdinov   Ukrain	51.95	Amaury Leveaux   France	52.76	Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia	52.96
200 m butterfly	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:55.04   CR	Ioannis Drymonakos   Greece	1:57.03	Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia	1:57.12
200 m individual medley	László Cseh   Hungary	1:58.17   CR	Alessio Boggiatto   Italy	2:00.14	Tamas Kerekjarto   Hungary	2:00.17
400 m individual medley	László Cseh   Hungary	4:09.86   CR	Luca Marin   Italy	4:14.15	Alessio Boggiatto   Italy	4:16.34
4×100 m   freestyle relay	Alessandro Calvi Christian Galenda Lorenzo Vismara Filippo Magnini Italy	3:15.23   CR	Evgeny Lagunov Andrey Grechin Ivan Usov Andrey Kapralov Russia	3:16.47	Alain Bernard Grégory Mallet Fabien Gilot Amaury Leveaux France	3:16.53
4×200 m   freestyle relay	Massimiliano Rosolino David Berbotto Nicola Cassio Filippo Magnini Italy	7:09.60   CR	David Carry Simon Burnett Andrew Hunter Ross Davenport Great Britain	7:11.63	Andreas Zisimos Georgios Demetis Dimitrios Manganas Nikolaos Xylouris Greece	7:16.67
4×100 m   medley relay	Arkady Vyatchanin Roman Sloudnov Nikolay Skvortsov Andrey Kapralov Russia	3:34.96   CR	Andriy Oleynyk Oleg Lisogor Andriy Serdinov Yuriy Yegoshin Ukraine	3:36.21	Liam Tancock James Gibson Todd Cooper Simon Burnett Great Britain	3:36.61

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Britta Steffen   Germany	24.72	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	24.87	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	24.89
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen   Germany	53.30   WR	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	54.32	Nery-Madey Niangkoura   Greece	54.48
200 m freestyle	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	1:57.25	Annika Liebs   Germany	1:57.48	Laure Manaudou   France	1:58.48
400 m freestyle	Laure Manaudou   France	4:02.13   WR	Joanne Jackson   Great Britain	4:07.76	Caitlin McClatchey   Great Britain	4:08.13
800 m freestyle	Laure Manaudou   France	8:19.29   ER	Rebecca Adlington   Great Britain	8:27.88	Rebecca Cooke   Great Britain	8:28.40
50 m backstroke	Janine Pietsch   Germany	28.36   CR	Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus	28.72	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	28.73
100 m backstroke	Laure Manaudou   France	1:00.88	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	1:01.40	Janine Pietsch   Germany	1:01.55
200 m backstroke	Esther Baron   France	2:10.07	Iryna Amshennikova   Ukraine	2:12.13	Melanie Marshall   Great Britain	2:12.17
50 m breaststroke	Elena Bogomazova   Russia	31.69	Kate Haywood   Great Britain	31.71	Ágnes Kovács   Hungary	31.95
100 m breaststroke	Ganna Khlystunova   Ukraine	1:07.55   CR	Kirsty Balfour   Great Britain	1:07.95	Ágnes Kovács   Hungary	1:08.60
200 m breaststroke	Kirsty Balfour   Great Britain	2:25.66	Yuliya Pidlisna   Ukraine	2:28.42	Ágnes Kovács   Hungary	2:28.90
50 m butterfly	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	26.06	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	26.23	Chantal Groot   Netherlands	26.49
100 m butterfly	Inge Dekker   Netherlands	58.35	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	58.98	Alena Popchanka   France	59.06
200 m butterfly	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	2:07.09	Francesca Segat   Italy	2:08.96	Caterina Giacchetti   Italy	2:09.01
200 m individual medley	Laure Manaudou   France	2:12.69	Katarzyna Baranowska   Poland	2:13.36	Alessia Filippi   Italy	2:13.75
400 m individual medley	Alessia Filippi   Italy	4:35.80	Nicole Hetzer   Germany	4:37.97	Katarzyna Baranowska   Poland	4:40.02
4×100 m  freestyle relay	Petra Dallmann Daniela Götz Britta Steffen Annika Liebs Germany	3:35.22   WR	Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Chantal Groot Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands	3:37.04	Alena Popchanka Aurore Mongel Céline Couderc Malia Metella France	3:38.83
4×200 m  freestyle relay	Petra Dallmann Daniela Samulski Britta Steffen Annika Liebs Germany	7:50.82   WR	Otylia Jędrzejczak Joanna Budzis Agata Zwiejska Paulina Barzycka Poland	7:56.32	Alena Popchanka Sophie Huber Aurore Mongel Laure Manaudou France	7:56.44
4×100 m  medley relay	Melanie Marshall Kirsty Balfour Terri Dunning Francesca Halsall Great Britain	4:02.24	Antje Buschschulte Sarah Poewe Annika Mehlhorn Britta Steffen Germany	4:02.35	Laure Manaudou Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën Alena Popchanka Céline Couderc France	4:03.64

WR= World Record (and by default also new European, Championships and National records for those involved); ER= European Record (and by default also new Championships and National records); CR= Championships Record

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	1	2	10
2	Germany	6	4	2	12
3	Italy	5	6	4	15
4	France	5	2	8	15
5	Poland	5	2	1	8
6	Ukraine	4	4	2	10
7	Great Britain	2	5	6	13
8	Netherlands	2	2	3	7
9	Hungary	2	1	4	7
10	Sweden	1	3	0	4
11	Greece	0	2	3	5
12	Croatia	0	1	1	2
13	Austria	0	1	0	1
13	Belarus	0	1	0	1
13	Norway	0	1	0	1
13	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
17	Denmark	0	0	1	1
17	Romania	0	0	1	1
17	Slovenia	0	0	1	1

Diving

Schedule

Competition dates for Diving were: 1–6 August 2006.^[1]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1 m springboard	Joona Puhakka  Finland	425.00	Alexander Dobroskok  Russia	416.60	Christopher Sacchin  Italy	415.70
3 m springboard	Dmitri Sautin  Russia	496.10	Alexander Dobroskok  Russia	479.95	Joona Puhakka  Finland	464.60
10 m platform	Gleb Galperin  Russia	472.90	Heiko Meyer  Germany	459.45	Konstyantyn Milyayev  Ukraine	436.50
3 m springboard synchro	Tobias Schellenberg Andreas Wels  Germany	403.86	Yury Kunakov Dmitri Sautin  Russia	401.46	Nicola Marconi Tommaso Marconi  Italy	394.68
10 m platform synchro	Dmitry Dobroskok Gleb Galperin  Russia	469.38	Sascha Klein Heiko Meyer  Germany	447.96	Michele Benedetti Francesco Dell'Uomo  Italy	435.12

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1 m springboard	Anna Lindberg  Sweden	291.90	Ditte Kozian  Germany	279.30	Maria Marconi  Italy	267.35
3 m springboard	Anna Lindberg  Sweden	330.60	Ditte Kozian  Germany	324.90	Nóra Barta  Hungary	319.85
10 m platform	Iulia Prokopchuk  Ukraine	338.00	Anja Richter  Austria	332.35	Christin Steuer  Germany	330.40
3 m springboard synchro	Nataliya Umyskova Nadezhda Bazhina  Russia	314.55	Heike Fischer Ditte Kozian  Germany	298.60	Olena Fedorova Kristina Ishchenko  Ukraine	292.17
10 m platform synchro	Anett Gamm Nora Subschinski  Germany	325.92	Natalia Goncharova Yulia Koltunova  Russia	306.24	Iulia Prokopchuk Kateryna Zhuk  Ukraine	297.21

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	4	0	8
2	Germany	2	5	1	8
3	Sweden	2	0	0	2
4	Ukraine	1	0	3	4
5	Finland	1	0	1	2
6	Austria	0	1	0	1
7	Italy	0	0	4	4
8	Hungary	0	0	1	1

Synchronized Swimming

Schedule

Competition dates for Synchro were 26–30 July 2006.^[1]

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Solo free routine	Natalia Ishchenko  Russia	98.4	Gemma Mengual  Spain	97.7	Nathalia Anthopolou  Greece	93.9
Duet free routine	Anastasia Davydova Anastassia Ermakova  Russia	98.8	Gemma Mengual Paola Tirados  Spain	97.5	Eleftheria Ftouli Evanthia Makrygianni  Greece	94.0
Team free routine	Russia	98.8	Spain	97.3	Italy	93.6
Free routine combination	Russia	97.9	Spain	95.9	Italy	93.5

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	0	0	4
2	Spain	0	4	0	4
3	Italy	0	0	2	2
3	Greece	0	0	2	2

Open Water Swimming

Schedule

Competition dates for Open Water were 26–30 July 2006.^[1]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km	Thomas Lurz  Germany	56:00.1	Christian Hein  Germany	56:01.1	Simone Ercoli  Italy	56:01.8
10 km	Thomas Lurz  Germany	1:58:12.1	Maarten van der Weijden  Netherlands	1:58:13.5	Christian Hein  Germany	1:58:16.6
25 km	Gilles Rondy  France	5:10:17.3	Anton Sanachev  Russia	5:10:18.2	Stéphane Gomez  France	5:10:19.3

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km	Ekaterina Seliverstova  Russia	1:01:50.8	Cathi Dietrich  France	1:01:52.3	Jana Pechanová  Czech Republic Larisa Ilchenko  Russia	1:01:52.4
10 km	Angela Maurer  Germany	2:07:10.8	Rita Kovács  Hungary	2:07:14.3	Jana Pechanová  Czech Republic	2:07:15.6
25 km	Angela Maurer  Germany	5:35:19.1	Natalia Pankina  Russia	5:35:25.1	Stefanie Biller  Germany	5:35:29.5

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	1	2	7
2	Russia	1	2	1	4
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
4	Hungary	0	1	0	1
6	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
7	Italy	0	0	1	1

See also

• Ligue Européenne de Natation - LEN: the European Swimming League

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 2006 LEN European Championships

• Official Budapest 2006 Website
• Swim Rankings Results