European Diving Championships 2012

The European Diving Championships 2012 were held from May 15 to 21, 2012 in Eindhoven , the Netherlands . The organizer was the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN), the venue was the Pieter van den Hoogenband swimming stadium. The title fights should initially take place as part of the European Swimming Championships , with the competitions in pool and synchronized swimming in Antwerp and water jumping in Eindhoven. After Antwerp withdrew and the pool competitions were reassigned to Debrecen , the diving competitions took place as independent continental championships.

Eleven competitions were held, each for women and men jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board, diving from the 10-meter tower and 3-meter and 10-meter synchronized jumping. There was also a team competition in which pairings of a woman and a man competed against each other.

Attendees

112 athletes from 18 countries took part.

Participating nations (with number of participants)
Germany (11) Finland (4) France (7) Greece (4) Great Britain (13)	Italy (12) Netherlands (7) Norway (4) Austria (3) Poland (4)	Romania (2) Russia (13) Sweden (6) Switzerland (1) Spain (2)	Ukraine (9) Hungary (6) Belarus (6)

Results

Women

singles

1 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Sweden	Anna Lindberg	301.35
2	Italy	Tania Cagnotto	281.30
3	Russia	Nadezhda Baschina	275.15
4th	Germany	Uschi Friday	269.95
5	Russia	Anastasija Posdnyakova	259.45
6th	Germany	Katja Dieckow	254.70
7th	Italy	Francesca Dallapé	251.50
8th	Netherlands	Inge Jansen	247.45
9	France	Marion Farissier	242.75
10	Great Britain	Rhea Gayle	242.70
11	Great Britain	Alicia Blagg	235.05
12	Ukraine	Hanna Pysmenska	229.95

Preliminary match and final on May 18, 2012

 Sophie Somloi finished 13th with 229.50 points in the preliminary fight.

3 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Sweden	Anna Lindberg	342.75
2	Germany	Uschi Friday	321.40
3	Ukraine	Olena Fedorova	315.00
4th	Italy	Tania Cagnotto	307.65
5	Russia	Anastasija Posdnyakova	304.65
6th	Germany	Nora Subschinski	298.20
7th	Great Britain	Rebecca Gallantree	286.40
8th	Italy	Francesca Dallapé	281.20
9	Great Britain	Hannah Starling	280.70
10	Hungary	Nóra Barta	268.45
11	Netherlands	Inge Jansen	263.55
12	France	Marion Farissier	259.70

Preliminary match and final on May 19, 2012

 Sophie Somloi finished 23rd in the preliminary fight with 204.90 points.

Anna Lindberg confidently defended the title from the previous year and won her sixth European Championship gold medal. Uschi Freitag won her first international medal in an individual competition with silver.

10 meters

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Ukraine	Yulia Prokopchuk	321.55
2	Italy	Noemi Bátki	315.60
3	Germany	Maria Kurjo	312.65
4th	Germany	Nora Subschinski	301.70
5	Great Britain	Monique Gladding	300.70
6th	France	Audrey Labeau	300.25
7th	Russia	Natalia Goncharova	293.75
8th	Great Britain	Stacie Powell	292.15
9	France	Laura Marino	275.50
10	Russia	Julia Koltunova	274.65
11	Romania	Mara Elena Aiacoboae	272.70
12	Finland	Iira Laatunen	214.80

Preliminary match and final on May 16, 2012

Synchronous

3 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Italy	Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapé	325.50
2	Ukraine	Olena Fedorowa Hanna Pysmenska	302.10
3	Germany	Katja Dieckow Uschi Friday	296.70
4th	Russia	Anastassija Posdnyakova Svetlana Filippova	295.80
5	Great Britain	Alicia Blagg Rebecca Gallantree	258.90
6th	Hungary	Flóra Gondos Zsófia Reisinger	251.07
7th	Sweden	Julia Lönnegren Daniella Nero	244.86
8th	Netherlands	Inge Jansen Celine van Duijn	242.22

Preliminary match and final on May 20, 2012

The duo Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallapé won the title in the 3 m synchronized jumping for the fourth time in a row.

10 meters

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Great Britain	Sarah Barrow Tonia Couch	319.56
2	Ukraine	Julia Prokopchuk Viktoria Potechina	310.86
3	Germany	Nora Subschinski Christin Steuer	303.93
4th	France	Laura Marino Audrey Labeau	290.31
5	Russia	Yulia Koltunova Ekaterina Petuchowa	288.54
6th	Hungary	Villő Kormos Zsófia Reisinger	260.16

Preliminary match and final on May 17, 2012

Men

singles

1 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Ukraine	Illja Kwascha	430.50
2	Russia	Yevgeny Kuznetsov	412.65
3	France	Matthieu Rosset	403.95
4th	Spain	Javier Illana	395.30
5	Germany	Pavlo Rozenberg	382.45
6th	Russia	Yuri Kunakov	379.20
7th	Ukraine	Olexy Pryhorov	368.85
8th	Poland	Andrzej Rzeszutek	357.05
9	Italy	Giovanni Tocci	334.50
10	Belarus	Youheni Karaliou	308.85
11	Germany	Oliver Homuth	303.75
12	Netherlands	Yorick de Bruijn	295.00

Preliminary match and final on May 17, 2012

 Constantin Blaha finished 18th with 309.15 points in the preliminary fight. Andrea Aloisio was 21st with 281.45 points in the preliminary fight. Fabian Brandl was 26th with 248.35 points in the preliminary fight.
 
 

3 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	France	Matthieu Rosset	504.00
2	Germany	Patrick Hausding	502.75
3	Russia	Ilya Sakharov	493.80
4th	Russia	Yevgeny Kuznetsov	492.45
5	Ukraine	Illja Kwascha	486.50
6th	Great Britain	Jack Laugher	475.75
7th	Germany	Sascha Klein	439.95
8th	Great Britain	Christopher Mears	417.45
9	Spain	Javier Illana	412.95
10	Greece	Stefanos Paparounas	408.55
11	Netherlands	Yorick de Bruijn	389.10
12	France	Damien Cély	308.10

Preliminary match and final on May 17, 2012

 Constantin Blaha was 16th with 364.60 points in the preliminary fight. Fabian Brandl was 22nd with 301.70 points in the preliminary fight . Andrea Aloisio was 23rd with 291.25 points in the preliminary fight.
 
 

Matthieu Rosset won his first European title.

10 meters

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Great Britain	Thomas Daley	565.05
2	Russia	Viktor Minibayev	515.40
3	Russia	Gleb Galperin	511.55
4th	Ukraine	Olexandr Bondar	511.20
5	Ukraine	Anton Sakharov	483.90
6th	Italy	Andrea Chiarabini	433.90
7th	Sweden	Christofer Eskilsson	417.75
8th	Belarus	Wadim Kaptur	407.15
9	Italy	Francesco Dell'Uomo	384.00
10	Belarus	Timofei Hordejchik	379.45
11	Sweden	Jesper Tolvers	376.45
12	Norway	Amund Gismervik	355.40

Preliminary match and final on May 20, 2012

Thomas Daley jumped to his second European Championship title after defending champion and co-favorite Sascha Klein was unable to participate due to an injury.

Synchronous

3 meter

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Russia	Ilya Sakharov Yevgeny Kuznetsov	445.92
2	Germany	Patrick Hausding Stephan Feck	433.68
3	Ukraine	Illja Kwascha Olexij Pryhorow	432.48
4th	France	Damien Cély Matthieu Rosset	404.43
5	Great Britain	Christopher Mears Nick Robinson-Baker	390.84
6th	Belarus	Andrei Pawluk Youheni Karaliou	356.28
7th	Italy	Nicola Marconi Tommaso Marconi	329.16
8th	Netherlands	Yorick de Bruijn Ramon de Meijer	308.79

Preliminary match and final on May 18, 2012

With the victory of Ilya Sakharov and Yevgeny Kuznetsov , the favorites prevailed confidently and defended the title from the previous year.

10 meters

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Germany	Sascha Klein Patrick Hausding	463.08
2	Russia	Ilya Sakharov Viktor Minibayev	458.07
3	Ukraine	Olexandr Bondar Oleksandr Horschkowosow	437.79
4th	Belarus	Vadim Kaptur Timofei Hordejchik	394.17
5	Sweden	Jesper Tolvers Christofer Eskilsson	373.14
6th	Italy	Francesco Dell'Uomo Maicol Verzotto	371.28

Preliminary match and final on May 19, 2012

Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding have won the title in 10 m synchronized jumping for the fifth time in a row and are now the most successful participants in synchronized competitions at European championships .

team

space	country	athlete	Points
1	France	Audrey Labeau Matthieu Rosset	416.50
2	Ukraine	Olena Fedorova Olexandr Bondar	387.85
3	Russia	Nadeschda Baschina Artem Tschessakow	384.30
4th	Germany	Nora Subschinski Sascha Klein	378.35
5	Belarus	Alena Chamulkina Wadim Kaptur	340.30
6th	Great Britain	Rebecca Gallantree Thomas Daley	327.90
7th	Italy	Noemi Bátki Michele Benedetti	325.85
8th	Netherlands	Cindy Hertog's Joey van Etten	307.90

Date: May 15, 2012

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Ukraine	2	3	3	8th
2	France	2	-	1	3
3	Great Britain	2	-	-	2
	Sweden	2	-	-	2
5	Russia	1	3	4th	8th
6th	Germany	1	3	3	7th
7th	Italy	1	2	-	3
total		11	11	11	33

Web links

• Official homepage of the organizer
• Results page

Individual evidence

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