European Swimming Championships 1981

15th European Swimming Championships
Host location	Split
Host country	Yugoslavia
Beginning	5th September 1981
The End	September 12, 1981
Venues
Disciplines	Swimming , diving , water polo , synchronized swimming
Number of athletes
← 1977 Jönköping	1983 Rome →
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The 15th European Swimming Championships took place in Split ( Yugoslavia ) from September 5 to 12, 1981 and were organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN).

The 1981 European Swimming Championships included competitions in swimming , art and high diving , synchronized swimming and the men's water polo tournament.

Pool swimming

Results men

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Per Johansson Sweden	50.55	Jörg Woithe GDR	50.81	Sergey Krasyuk Soviet Union	50.91
200 m freestyle	Sergey Kopliakov Soviet Union	1: 51.23	Michael Söderlund Sweden	1: 51.62	Thomas Lejdström Sweden	1: 52.35
400 m freestyle	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	3: 51.63	Vladimir Salnikov Soviet Union	3: 51.77	Darjan Petrič Yugoslavia	3: 53.71
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov Soviet Union	15: 09.17	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	15: 17.31	Rafael Escalas Spain	15: 17.93
100 m back	Sándor Wladár Hungary	56.72	Vladimir Shemetov Soviet Union	56.75	Viktor Kuznetsov Soviet Union	56.90
200 m back	Sándor Wladár Hungary	2: 00.80	Vladimir Shemetov Soviet Union	2: 01.32	Frédéric Delcourt France	2: 03.35
100 m chest	Yuriy Kis Soviet Union	1: 03.44	Arsenic Miskarov's Soviet Union	1: 03.63	Gerald Mörken Federal Republic of Germany	1: 03.85
200 m chest	Robertas Žulpa Soviet Union	2: 16.15	Arsenic Miskarov's Soviet Union	2: 08/18	Adrian Moorhouse Great Britain	2: 18.14
100 m butterfly	Aleksey Markovskiy Soviet Union	54.39	Pär Arvidsson Sweden	54.60	Vadim Dombrovskiy Soviet Union	55.00
200 m butterfly	Michael Groß Federal Republic of Germany	1: 59.19	Phil Hubble Great Britain	2: 00.21	Serhiy Fessenko Soviet Union	2: 00.48
200 m layers	Olexandr Sidorenko Soviet Union	2: 03.41	Giovanni Franceschi Italy	2: 04.97	Josef Hladký Czechoslovakia	2: 06.15
400 m layers	Serhiy Fessenko Soviet Union	4: 22.77	Leszek Górski Poland	4: 23.62	Giovanni Franceschi Italy	4: 24.82
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union	3: 21.48	Sweden	3: 22.48	BR Germany	3: 22.67
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union	7: 24.41	BR Germany	7: 25.22	Sweden	7: 27.78
4 × 100 m individual relay	Soviet Union	3: 44.23	Sweden	3: 45.01	German Democratic Republic	3: 45.66

Results women

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Caren Metschuck GDR	55.74	Birgit Meineke GDR	56.06	Conny van Bentum Netherlands	56.73
200 m freestyle	Carmela Schmidt GDR	2: 00.27	Birgit Meineke GDR	2: 00.57	Conny van Bentum Netherlands	2: 01.15
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers GDR	4: 08.58	Carmela Schmidt GDR	4: 08.71	Jackie Wilmott Great Britain	4: 15.23
800 m freestyle	Carmela Schmidt GDR	8: 32.79	Ines Diers GDR	8: 32.89	Jackie Wilmott Great Britain	8: 37.22
100 m back	Ina Kleber GDR	1: 02.81	Cornelia Polit GDR	1: 03.12	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	1: 03.34
200 m back	Cornelia Polit GDR	2: 12.55	Jolanda de Rover Netherlands	2: 15.22	Larisa Gorchakova Soviet Union	2: 16.10
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger GDR	1: 08.60	Suki Brownsdon Great Britain	1: 11.05	Larisa Belokon Soviet Union	1: 11.17
200 m chest	Ute Geweniger GDR	2: 32.41	Larisa Belokon Soviet Union	2: 33.07	Grazyna Dziedzic Poland	2: 35.35
100 m butterfly	Ute Geweniger GDR	1: 00.40	Ines Geissler GDR	1: 00.97	Karin Seick Federal Republic of Germany	1: 01.37
200 m butterfly	Ines Geissler GDR	2: 08.50	Heike Dähne GDR	2: 09.59	Agnieszka Czopek Poland	2: 13.57
200 m layers	Ute Geweniger GDR	2: 12.64	Petra Schneider GDR	2: 13.49	Olga Klewakina Soviet Union	2: 19.10
400 m layers	Petra Schneider GDR	4: 39.30	Ute Geweniger GDR	4: 45.43	Agnieszka Czopek Poland	4: 50.75
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	German Democratic Republic	3: 44.37	BR Germany	3: 47.42	Netherlands	3: 49.65
4 × 100 m individual relay	German Democratic Republic	4: 09.72	Soviet Union	4: 13.23	BR Germany	4: 13.42

Art and high diving

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Alexander Portnow Soviet Union	Sergey Kuzmin Soviet Union	Niki Stajković Austria
10 m	Dawit Hambarzumjan Soviet Union	Vladimir Alejnik Soviet Union	Dieter Waskow GDR

Results women

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Zhanna Tsirulnikova Soviet Union	Martina Jäschke GDR	Irina Kalinina Soviet Union
10 m	Katarina Zipperling GDR	Tatyana Belyakova Soviet Union	Martina Jäschke GDR

Synchronized swimming

competition	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Carolyn Wilson Great Britain	Alexandra Worisch Austria	Marijke Engelen Netherlands
duet	Caroline Holmyard Carolyn Wilson Great Britain	Catrien Eijken Marijke Engelen Netherlands	Eva-Maria Edinger Alexandra Worisch Austria
group	United Kingdom	Netherlands	Switzerland

Water polo

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
team	BR Germany Roland Freund Günter Kilian Thomas Loebb Ralf Obschernikat Werner Obschernikat Rainer Osselmann Frank Otto Peter Röhle Jürgen Schröder Hagen Tribe Jürgen Stiefel Michael Wendel Bernd Weyer	Soviet Union	Hungary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of swimming men
2. ↑ Results of swimming women
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results of high diving
4. ↑ Results synchronized swimming