The European Aquatics Championships (commonly referred to as Europeans) is the continental Aquatics championship for Europe, which is organised by European Aquatics (LEN) – the governing body for aquatic sport in Europe. The Championships are currently held every two years (in even years) and since 2022, they have included 5 aquatics disciplines: swimming (long course/50m pool), diving, synchronised swimming, open water swimming and high diving. 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, but in the most recent Summer Olympics years (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020), 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. LEN also conducts an annual short-course (25 meters) swimming championship, which is a completely separate, 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.
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! Number
! Year
! width=100|Host city
! Country
! Events
! Dates
! First in the medal table
! Second in the medal table
! Third in the medal table
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| align=center|1||1926 || Budapest || || align=center|9 ||18–22 August 1926 || || ||
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| align=center|2||1927 || Bologna || || align=center|16 ||31 August – 4 September 1927 || || ||
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| align=center|3||1931 || Paris || || align=center|16 ||23–30 August 1931 || || ||
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| align=center|4||1934 || Magdeburg || || align=center|16 ||12–19 August 1934 || || ||
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| align=center|5||1938 || London || || align=center|16 ||6–13 August 1938 || Germany || ||
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| align=center|6||1947 || Monte Carlo || || align=center|16 ||10–14 September 1947 || || ||
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| align=center|7||1950 || Vienna || || align=center|16 ||20–27 August 1950 || || ||
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| align=center|8||1954 || Turin || || align=center|18 ||31 August – 5 September 1954 || || ||
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| align=center|9||1958 || Budapest || || align=center|20 ||31 August – 6 September 1958 || || ||
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| align=center|10||1962 || Leipzig || || align=center|23 ||18–25 August 1962 || || ||
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| align=center|11||1966 || Utrecht || || align=center|23 ||20–27 August 1966 || || ||
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| align=center|12||1970 || Barcelona || || align=center|34 ||5–13 September 1970 || || ||
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| align=center|13||1974 || Vienna || || align=center|37 ||18–25 August 1974 || || ||
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| align=center|14||1977 || Jönköping || || align=center|37 ||14–21 August 1977 || || ||
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| align=center|15||1981 || Split || || align=center|37 ||4–12 September 1981 || || ||
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| align=center|16||1983 || Rome || || align=center|38 ||22–27 August 1983 || || ||
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| align=center|17||1985 || Sofia <br> Oslo || <br> || align=center|39 ||4–11 August 1985 <br> 12–18 August 1985 || || ||
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| align=center|18||1987 || Strasbourg || || align=center|41 ||16–23 August 1987 || || ||
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| align=center|19||1989 || Bonn || || align=center|43 ||15–20 August 1989 || || ||
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| align=center|20||1991 || Athens <br> Terracina || <br> || align=center|47 ||18–25 August 1991 <br> 14–15 September 1991 || || ||
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| align=center|21||1993 || Sheffield <br> Slapy || <br> || align=center|47 ||3–8 August 1993 <br> 28–29 August 1993 || || ||
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| align=center|22||1995 || Vienna || || align=center|47 ||22–27 August 1995 || || ||
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| align=center|23||1997 || Seville || || align=center|51 ||19–24 August 1997 || || ||
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| align=center|24||1999 || Istanbul || || align=center|55 ||26 July – 1 August 1999 || || ||
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| align=center|25||2000 || Helsinki || || align=center|55 ||3–9 July 2000 || || ||
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| align=center|26||2002 || Berlin || || align=center|57 ||29 July – 4 August 2002 || || ||
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| align=center|27||2004 || Madrid || || align=center|58 ||5–16 May 2004 || || ||
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| align=center|28||2006 || Budapest || || align=center|58 ||26 July – 6 August 2006 || || ||
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| align=center|29||2008 || Eindhoven || || align=center|54 ||13–24 March 2008 || || ||
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| align=center|30||2010 || Budapest || || align=center|61 ||4–15 August 2010 || || ||
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| align=center|31||2012 || Debrecen <br> Eindhoven || <br> ||align=center|55 ||15–27 May 2012 || || ||
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| align=center|32||2014 || Berlin || ||align=center|64 ||13–24 August 2014 || || ||
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| align=center|33||2016 || London || || align=center|64||9–22 May 2016 || || ||
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| align=center|34||2018 || Glasgow<br>Edinburgh || || align=center|72 ||2–12 August 2018 || || ||
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| align=center|35||2020 || Budapest || || align=center|73 ||10–23 May 2021 || || ||
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| align=center|36||2022 || Rome || || align=center|77 ||11–21 August 2022 || || ||
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| align=center|37||2024 || Belgrade || || align=center|74 ||10–23 June 2024 || || ||
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| align=center|38||2026 || Paris || || align=center| ||31 July–16 August 2026 || || ||
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Medal tables (1926–2024)
Updated after the 2024 European Aquatics Championships.
Overall
Source:
Note: The table includes medals won in swimming (since 1926), diving (since 1926), synchronized swimming (since 1974), open water swimming (since 1991), high diving (since 2022) 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 2024, Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Gibraltar, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia and San Marino have yet to win a medal.
Swimming (1926–2024)
Source:
Diving (1926–2024)
Artistic swimming (1974–2024)
Open water swimming (1991–2024)
High diving (2022)
Water polo (1926–1997)
Multiple medalists in swimming (long course)
These table shows swimmers who have won at least 7 gold medals at the European Championships and is updated after the 2024 European Aquatics Championships.
Men
{| class="wikitable" width=90% style="font-size:100%; text-align:center"
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!# !!Swimmer !!Country !! || |||| Total
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!1
|align=left|Alexander Popov ||align=left|<BR> ||21||3||2||26
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!2
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Adam Peaty ||align=left| ||16||0||0||16
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!3
|align=left|László Cseh ||align=left| ||14||4||5||23
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!4
|align=left|Michael Gross ||align=left| ||13||4||2||19
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!5
|align=left|Pieter van den Hoogenband ||align=left| ||10||5||4||19
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!6
|align=left|Emiliano Brembilla ||align=left| ||10||3||0||13
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!7
|align=left|Filippo Magnini ||align=left| ||9||5||5||19
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!8
|align=left|Peter Nocke ||align=left| ||9||1||0||10
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!9
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Kristóf Milák ||align=left| ||8||2||0||10
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!10
|align=left|Tamás Darnyi ||align=left| ||8||0||0||8
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!11
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Duncan Scott ||align=left| ||7||4||0||11
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!12
|align=left|Oleh Lisohor ||align=left| ||7||3||3||13
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!13
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|James Guy ||align=left| ||7||2||3||12
|}
Women
{| class="wikitable" width=90% style="font-size:100%; text-align:center"
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!# !!Swimmer !!Country !! || |||| Total
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!1
|align=left|Franziska van Almsick ||align=left| ||18||3||0||21
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!2
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Sarah Sjöström ||align=left| ||17||7||4||28
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!3
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Katinka Hosszú ||align=left| ||15||6||4||25
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!4
|align=left|Heike Friedrich ||align=left|<BR> ||11||2||0||13
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!5
|align=left|Therese Alshammar ||align=left| ||10||7||4||21
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!6
|align=left|Fran Halsall ||align=left| ||10||3||4||17
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!7
|align=left|Yana Klochkova ||align=left| ||10||2||4||16
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!8
|align=left|Sandra Völker ||align=left| ||9||4||4||17
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!9
|align=left|Krisztina Egerszegi ||align=left| ||9||4||0||13
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!9
|align=left|Astrid Strauss ||align=left| ||9||4||0||13
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!11
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Freya Anderson ||align=left| ||9||3||4||16
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!12
|align=left|Laure Manaudou ||align=left| ||9||1||3||13
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!13
|align=left|Kristin Otto ||align=left| ||9||1||1||11
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!14
|align=left|Ute Geweniger ||align=left| ||9||1||0||10
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!15
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Simona Quadarella ||align=left| ||8||1||1||10
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!16
|align=left|Federica Pellegrini||align=left| ||7||6||7||20
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!17
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Yuliya Yefimova ||align=left| ||7||4||2||13
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!18
|align=left|Mette Jacobsen ||align=left| ||7||3||8||18
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!19
|align=left|Daniela Hunger ||align=left|<BR> ||7||3||0||10
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!20
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Boglárka Kapás ||align=left| ||7||2||4||13
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!20
|align=left|Ágnes Kovács ||align=left| ||7||2||4||13
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!22
|align=left bgcolor=lightblue|Lucy Hope ||align=left| ||7||2||0||9
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!22
|align=left|Britta Steffen ||align=left| ||7||2||0||9
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Championships records
See also
- List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
- List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in artistic swimming
- European Short Course Swimming Championships
References
External links
- Swim Rankings results
- The event at SVT's open archive
- https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/3