European Short Course Championships 1998

European Short Course Championships 1998
Venue	Sheffield
Participating Nations	34
Participating athletes	355
decisions	38
opening	December 11, 1998
graduation	December 13, 1998

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	10	8th	5	23
2	United Kingdom	7th	5	9	21st
3	Netherlands	6th	5	4th	15th
4th	Sweden	3	6th	6th	15th
5	Slovakia	3	1	0	4th
6th	Poland	3	0	0	3
7th	Italy	1	2	1	4th
8th	Denmark	1	1	2	4th
9	Czech Republic	1	0	2	3
10	Finland	1	0	1	2
11	Belgium Iceland Croatia Switzerland	1	0	0	1
15th	Spain Ukraine	0	2	2	4th
17th	Austria	0	1	2	2
18th	France Lithuania Slovenia	0	1	0	1
21st	Israel Russia	0	0	1	1

The European Short Course Swimming Championships in 1998 in swimming took place from 11. bis 13. December 1998 in Sheffield instead and were from the European Swimming Federation LEN organized.

The competitions took place at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center .

Explanation of symbols

• WR - world record
• ER - European record

Swimming men

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 21.31 WR
2	Netherlands	Mark Veens	00: 21.79
3	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband	00: 21.87

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 47.54
2	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband	00: 47.68
3	Netherlands	Mark Veens	00: 47.97

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband	01: 44.00
2	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino	01: 44.92
3	Denmark	Jacob Carstensen	01: 45.55

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Italy	Emiliano Brembilla	03: 40.45 ER
2	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino	03: 42.87
3	Denmark	Jacob Carstensen	03: 43.56

1500 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Graeme Smith	14: 42.29
2	Ukraine	Igor Snitko	14: 51.70
3	Italy	Emiliano Brembilla	14: 53.45

butterfly

50 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Croatia	Miloš Milošević	00: 23.30 WR
2	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 23.34
3	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 23.48

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	James Hickman	00: 51.04 WR
2	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 51.11
3	Ukraine	Denys Sylantiev	00: 51.87

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	James Hickman	01: 52.96
2	Ukraine	Denys Sylantiev	01: 54.13
3	Germany	Thomas Rupprath	01: 54.99

move

50 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Thomas Rupprath	00: 24.13 WR
2	Germany	Stev Theloke	00: 24.66
3	Sweden	Daniel Carlsson	00: 24.67

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Stev Theloke	00: 52.71
2	Lithuania	Darius Grigalionis	00: 53.41
3	Israel	Eithan Urbach	00: 53.64

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Iceland	Örn Arnarson	01: 55.16
2	Society. King	Adam Ruckwood	01: 55.19
3	Spain	Jorge Sanchez	01: 55.25

chest

50 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Mark Warnecke	00: 26.70 WR
2	Sweden	Patrik Isaksson	00: 27.21
3	Austria	Patrick Schmollinger	00: 27.60

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Patrik Isaksson	00: 59.22
2	Germany	Mark Warnecke	00: 59.77
3	Germany	Jens Kruppa	00: 59.89

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Adam Whitehead	02: 08.54
2	France	Stephan Perrot	02: 09.41
3	Austria	Maxim Podoprigora	02: 10.09

Locations

100 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Finland	Jani Sievinen	00: 53.64
2	Germany	Jens Kruppa	00: 54.00
3	Society. King	James Hickman	00: 54.45

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	James Hickman	01: 56.36
2	Netherlands	Marcel Wouda	01: 56.51
3	Finland	Jani Sievinen	01: 57.14

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Marcel Wouda	04: 07.70
2	Spain	Frederik Hviid	04: 12.13
3	Germany	Christian Keller	04: 12.56

Season

Relay 4 × 50 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Netherlands	Mark Veens Johan Kenkhuis Stefan Aartsen Pieter van den Hoogenband	01: 26.99 WR
2	Society. King	Mark Foster James Hickman Simon Handley Sion Brinn	01: 27.74
3	Germany	Stephan Kunzelmann Lars Conrad Alexander Lüderitz Carsten Dehmlow	01: 28.01

Relay 4 × 50 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Germany	Thomas Rupprath Mark Warnecke Alexander Lüderitz Stephan Kunzelmann	01: 35.51 WR
	Sweden	Daniel Carlsson Patrik Isaksson Jonas Åkesson Lars Frölander
3	Society. King	James Hickman Darren Mew Mark Foster Sion Brinn	01: 36.11

Swimming women

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Inge de Bruijn	00: 24.41 ER
2	Germany	Katrin Meissner	00: 24.79
3	Society. King	Sue Rolph	00: 24.80

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Sue Rolph	00: 53.84
2	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	00: 53.93
3	Switzerland	Louise Jöhncke	00: 53.97

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	01: 55.12 ER
2	Germany	Franziska van Almsick	01: 57.05
3	Sweden	Louise Jöhncke	01: 57.39

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Carla Geurts	04: 08.05
2	Society. King	Vicki Horner	04: 09.02
3	Society. King	Karen Legg	04: 09.66

800 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Switzerland	Flavia Rigamonti	08: 27.85
2	Netherlands	Carla Geurts	08: 29.20
3	Society. King	Sarah Collings	08: 33.70

butterfly

50 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Inge de Bruijn	00: 26.09 ER
2	Sweden	Anna-Karin Kammerling	00: 26.30
3	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg	00: 26.76

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	00: 57.72 ER
2	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg	00: 58.17
3	Netherlands	Inge de Bruijn	00: 58.47

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Denmark	Sophia Skou	02: 07.68
2	Denmark	Mette Jacobsen	02: 07.92
3	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg	02: 08.21

move

50 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 27.27 WR
2	Sweden	Therese Alshammar	00: 28.46
3	Czech Republic	Alena Nývltová	00: 28.47

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 59.84
2	Germany	Antje Buschschulte	00: 59.97
3	Czech Republic	Alena Nývltová	01: 00.40

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Antje Buschschulte	02: 07.31
2	Society. King	Helen Don-Duncan	02: 09.83
3	Russia	Julia Fomenko	02: 10.38

chest

50 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Sylvia Gerasch	00: 31.43
2	Austria	Vera Lischka	00: 31.61
3	Society. King	Jaime King	00: 31.69

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Belgium	Brigitte Becue	01: 07.71
	Poland	Alicja Pęczak
3	Sweden	Svetlana Bondarenko	01: 07.86

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Poland	Alicja Pęczak	02: 25.18
2	Spain	Lourdes Becerra	02: 26.13
3	Germany	Anne Poleska	02: 26.21

Locations

100 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	01: 00.43 WR
2	Slovenia	Nataša Kejžar	01: 02.26
3	Society. King	Sue Rolph	01: 02.39

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Poland	Alicja Pęczak	02: 12.05
2	Germany	Nicole Hetzer	02: 13.05
3	Society. King	Sue Rolph	02: 13.19

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Czech Republic	Hana Černá	04: 36.03
2	Germany	Nicole Hetzer	04: 36.37
3	Spain	Lourdes Becerra	04: 39.56

Season

Relay 4 × 50 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Germany	Katrin Meissner Simone Osygus Marianne Hinners Sandra Völker	01: 39.56 WR
2	Netherlands	Angela Postma Nienke Valen Wilma van Hofwegen Inge de Bruijn	01: 40.05
3	Society. King	Alison Sheppard Claire Huddart Karen Pickering Sue Rolph	01: 40.11

Relay 4 × 50 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Germany	Sandra Völker Sylvia Gerasch Franziska van Almsick Katrin Meissner	01: 50.13 WR
2	Sweden	Therese Alshammar Maria Ostling Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling	01: 50.84
3	Netherlands	Brenda Starink Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Angela Postma	01: 51.01

See also

• European short course championships
• Short course world championships
• European Swimming Championships

swell

• http://www.scmsom.se/results.htm