LEN European Aquatics Championships

Template:Short description Template:Template other 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.

Number	Year	Host city	Country	Events	Dates	First in the medal table	Second in the medal table	Third in the medal table
1	1926	Budapest	Hungary	9	18–22 August 1926			Hungary
2	1927	Bologna	Italy	16	31 August – 4 September 1927
3	1931	Paris	France	16	23–30 August 1931	Hungary
4	1934	Magdeburg	Germany	16	12–19 August 1934	Germany		Hungary
5	1938	London	Great Britain	16	6–13 August 1938	Template:Flagicon Germany
6	1947	Monte Carlo	Monaco	16	10–14 September 1947	France		Hungary
7	1950	Vienna	Austria	16	20–27 August 1950	France
8	1954	Turin	Italy	18	31 August – 5 September 1954	Hungary	Soviet Union	East Germany
9	1958	Budapest	Hungary	20	31 August – 6 September 1958	Soviet Union	Template:GBR2
10	1962	Leipzig	East Germany	23	18–25 August 1962		Template:GDR	Soviet Union
11	1966	Utrecht	Netherlands	23	20–27 August 1966	Soviet Union	Template:GDR
12	1970	Barcelona	Spain	34	5–13 September 1970	Template:GDR	Soviet Union
13	1974	Vienna	Austria	37	18–25 August 1974	Template:GDR		Template:GBR2
14	1977	Jönköping	Sweden	37	14–21 August 1977	Template:GDR	Soviet Union
15	1981	Split	Yugoslavia	37	4–12 September 1981	Template:GDR		Template:GBR2
16	1983	Rome	Italy	38	22–27 August 1983	Template:GDR
17	1985	Sofia Oslo	Bulgaria Norway	39	4–11 August 1985 12–18 August 1985	Template:GDR
18	1987	Strasbourg	France	41	16–23 August 1987	Template:GDR
19	1989	Bonn	West Germany	43	15–20 August 1989	Template:GDR
20	1991	Athens Terracina	Greece Italy	47	18–25 August 1991 14–15 September 1991
21	1993	Sheffield Slapy	Great Britain Czech Republic	47	3–8 August 1993 28–29 August 1993
22	1995	Vienna	Austria	47	22–27 August 1995
23	1997	Seville	Spain	51	19–24 August 1997
24	1999	Istanbul	Turkey	55	26 July – 1 August 1999
25	2000	Helsinki	Finland	55	3–9 July 2000
26	2002	Berlin	Germany	57	29 July – 4 August 2002
27	2004	Madrid	Spain	58	5–16 May 2004
28	2006	Budapest	Hungary	58	26 July – 6 August 2006
29	2008	Eindhoven	Netherlands	54	13–24 March 2008
30	2010	Budapest	Hungary	61	4–15 August 2010
31	2012	Debrecen Eindhoven	Hungary Netherlands	55	15–27 May 2012
32	2014	Berlin	Germany	64	13–24 August 2014	Template:GBR2
33	2016	London	Great Britain	64	9–22 May 2016	Template:GBR2
34	2018	Glasgow Edinburgh	Great Britain	72	2–12 August 2018		Template:GBR2
35	2020	Budapest	Hungary	73	10–23 May 2021		Template:GBR2
36	2022	Rome	Italy	77	11–21 August 2022		Template:GBR2
37	2024	Belgrade	Serbia	74	10–23 June 2024
38	2026	Paris	France		31 July–16 August 2026

Medal tables (1926–2024)

Updated after the 2024 European Aquatics Championships.

Overall

Source:

Template:Medals table 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: Template:Medals table

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.

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Men

#	Swimmer	Country				Total
1	Alexander Popov		21	3	2	26
2	Adam Peaty	Template:GBR2	16	0	0	16
3	László Cseh		14	4	5	23
4	Michael Gross		13	4	2	19
5	Pieter van den Hoogenband		10	5	4	19
6	Emiliano Brembilla		10	3	0	13
7	Filippo Magnini		9	5	5	19
8	Peter Nocke		9	1	0	10
9	Kristóf Milák		8	2	0	10
10	Tamás Darnyi		8	0	0	8
11	Duncan Scott	Template:GBR2	7	4	0	11
12	Oleh Lisohor		7	3	3	13
13	James Guy	Template:GBR2	7	2	3	12

Women

#	Swimmer	Country				Total
1	Franziska van Almsick		18	3	0	21
2	Sarah Sjöström		17	7	4	28
3	Katinka Hosszú		15	6	4	25
4	Heike Friedrich	Template:GDR	11	2	0	13
5	Therese Alshammar		10	7	4	21
6	Fran Halsall	Template:GBR2	10	3	4	17
7	Yana Klochkova		10	2	4	16
8	Sandra Völker		9	4	4	17
9	Krisztina Egerszegi		9	4	0	13
9	Astrid Strauss	Template:GDR	9	4	0	13
11	Freya Anderson	Template:GBR2	9	3	4	16
12	Laure Manaudou		9	1	3	13
13	Kristin Otto	Template:GDR	9	1	1	11
14	Ute Geweniger	Template:GDR	9	1	0	10
15	Simona Quadarella		8	1	1	10
16	Federica Pellegrini		7	6	7	20
17	Yuliya Yefimova		7	4	2	13
18	Mette Jacobsen		7	3	8	18
19	Daniela Hunger	Template:GDR	7	3	0	10
20	Boglárka Kapás		7	2	4	13
20	Ágnes Kovács		7	2	4	13
22	Lucy Hope	Template:GBR2	7	2	0	9
22	Britta Steffen		7	2	0	9

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

External links

• Template:Official
• Swim Rankings results
• The event at SVT's open archive Template:In lang
• https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/3