European Swimming Championships 1962

10th European Swimming Championships
Host location	Leipzig
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Beginning	August 18, 1962
The End	August 25, 1962
Venues	Sportforum Leipzig
Disciplines	Swimming , water polo , water jumping
Number of athletes
← 1958 Budapest	1966 Utrecht →
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Ingrid Krämer won two gold medals

The 10th European Swimming Championships took place from August 18 to 25, 1962 in Leipzig ( GDR ) and were organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN) and carried out in the swimming stadium .

The 1962 European Swimming Championships included competitions in swimming , art and high diving as well as the men's water polo tournament. 750 athletes from 23 nations took part. Because of the construction of the Wall, the Federal Republic of Germany did not take part in the European Swimming Championships in 1962.

Pool swimming

Results men

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Alain Gottvallès France	55.0	Per-Ola Lindberg Sweden	55.5	Ronald Kroon Netherlands	55.5
400 m freestyle	Jan Bontekoe Netherlands	4: 25.6	Hans Rosendahl Sweden	4: 25.8	Frank Wiegand GDR	4: 26.8
1500 m freestyle	József Katona Hungary	17: 49.5	Miguel Torres Spain	17: 55.6	Richard Champion Great Britain	17: 59.8
200 m back	Leonid Barbijer Soviet Union	2: 16.6	Wolfgang Wagner GDR	2: 17.9	József Csikány Hungary	2: 18.5
200 m chest	Georgi Prokopenko Soviet Union	2: 32.8	Ivan Karetnikov Soviet Union	2: 33.2	Robert van Empen Netherlands	2: 38.1
200 m butterfly	Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union	2: 14.2	Brian Jenkins Great Britain	2: 15.6	Wolfgang Sieber GDR	2: 18.0
400 m layers	Gennady Androsov Soviet Union	5: 01.3	Jan Jiskoot Netherlands	5: 05.5	Jürgen Bachmann GDR	5: 05.9
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	France	3: 43.7	United Kingdom	3: 44.7	Sweden	3: 45.0
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Sweden	8: 18.4	France	8: 20.4	German Democratic Republic	8: 24.6
4 × 100 m individual relay	German Democratic Republic	4: 09.0	Soviet Union	4: 10.3	Netherlands	4: 10.9

Results women

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Heidi Pechstein GDR	1: 03.3	Diana Wilkinson Great Britain	1: 03.3	Wilhelmina Tigelaar Netherlands	1: 03.3
400 m freestyle	Adrie Lasterie Netherlands	4: 52.4	Wilhelmina Tigelaar Netherlands	4: 57.3	Elisabeth Ljunggren Sweden	4: 58.1
100 m back	Rita van Velsen Netherlands	1: 10.5	Cornelia Winkel Netherlands	1: 10.7	Veronika Holletz GDR	1: 11.3
200 m chest	Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain	2: 50.2	Klena Bimolt Netherlands	2: 51.2	Ursula Küper GDR	2: 52.2
100 m butterfly	Ada Kok Netherlands	1: 09.0	Ute Noack GDR	1: 10.0	Marianne Heemskerk Netherlands	1: 10.3
400 m layers	Adrie Lasterie Netherlands	5: 27.8	Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain	5: 32.3	Márta Egervári Hungary	5: 33.3
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Netherlands	4: 15.1	United Kingdom	4: 16.3	Hungary	4: 17.5
4 × 100 m individual relay	German Democratic Republic	4: 40.1	Netherlands	4: 42.9	United Kingdom	4: 46.2

Art and high diving

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Kurt Mrkwicka Austria	Hans-Dieter Pophal GDR	Boris Poluljach Soviet Union
10 m	Brian Phelps Great Britain	Rolf Sperling GDR	Gennadi Galkin Soviet Union

Results women

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Ingrid Krämer GDR	Christiane Lanzke GDR	Natalia Kuznetsova Soviet Union
10 m	Ingrid Krämer GDR	Ninel Krutowa Soviet Union	Gabriele Schöpe GDR

Water polo

→ Main article : 1962 European Water Polo Championship

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
team	Hungary	Soviet Union Yugoslavia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Swimming EM: Boycott of the DSV 1962. Accessed on September 14, 2016 . 
2. ^ In the vortex of politics: The German swimmers . In: The time . August 31, 1962, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 24, 2016]).
3. ↑ Results of swimming men
4. ↑ Results of swimming women
5. ↑ ^{a b} Results of high diving

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