The 1997 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held in Seville, Spain from Tuesday 19 August to Sunday 24 August, in the 50 m pool of the Centro Deportivo San Pablo. The 23rd edition of the event was organised by the LEN. Besides swimming there were titles contested in open water swimming, diving, synchronized swimming (women) and – for the last time – water polo.
The swimming championships resulted in two European records: Ágnes Kovács on the women's 200 m breaststroke and Russia in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Alexander Popov returned in competition after being stabbed down in Moscow, shortly after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Medal table
Swimming Men's events 50 m freestyle Alexander PopovRussia Mark FosterGreat Britain Julien SicotFrance 100 m freestyle Alexander PopovRussia Lars FrölanderSweden Oleg RykhlevichBelarus 200 m freestyle Paul PalmerGreat Britain Massimiliano RosolinoItaly Béla SzabadosHungary 400 m freestyle Emiliano BrembillaItaly Massimiliano RosolinoItaly Paul PalmerGreat Britain 1500 m freestyle Emiliano BrembillaItaly Igor SnitkoUkraine Denis ZavhorodnyUkraine 100 m backstroke Martin López-ZuberoSpain Eithan UrbachIsrael Vladimir SelkovRussia 200 m backstroke Vladimir SelkovRussia Emanuele MerisiItaly Ralf BraunGermany 100 m breaststroke Aleksandr GukovBelarus Károly GüttlerHungary Daniel MálekCzech Republic 200 m breaststroke Aleksandr GukovBelarus Andrey KorneyevRussia Daniel MálekCzech Republic 100 m butterfly Lars FrölanderSweden Denys SylantyevUkraine Franck EspositoFrance 200 m butterfly Franck EspositoFrance Denys SylantyevUkraine Stephen ParryGreat Britain 200 m individual medley Marcel WoudaNetherlands Xavier MarchandFrance Jani SievinenFinland 400 m individual medley Marcel WoudaNetherlands Frederik HviidSpain Robert SeibtGermany 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Alexander Popov Roman Yegorov Denis Pimankov Vladimir Pyshnenko Alexander Lüderitz Steffen Zesner Christian Tröger Torsten Spanneberg Bram van Haandel Martijn Zuijdweg Mark Veens Pieter van den Hoogenband 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Paul Palmer Andrew Clayton Gavin Meadows James Salter Pieter van den Hoogenband Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Marcel Wouda Lars Conrad Christian Keller Stefan Pohl Steffen Zesner 4 × 100 m medley relay Vladimir Selkov Andrey Korneyev Vladislav Kulikov Alexander Popov Ralf Braun Jens Kruppa Thomas Rupprath Christian Tröger Mariusz Siembida Marek Krawczyk Marcin Kaczmarek Bartosz Kizierowski
Women's events 50 m freestyle Natalya MeshcheryakovaRussia Sandra VölkerGermany Therese AlshammarSweden 100 m freestyle Sandra VölkerGermany Martina MoravcováSlovakia Antje BuschschulteGermany 200 m freestyle Michelle SmithIreland Nadezhda ChemezovaRussia Camelia PotecRomania 400 m freestyle Dagmar HaseGermany Michelle SmithIreland Kerstin KielgassGermany 800 m freestyle Kerstin KielgassGermany Carla GeurtsNetherlands Jana HenkeGermany 100 m backstroke Antje BuschschulteGermany Roxana MaracineanuFrance Sandra VölkerGermany 200 m backstroke Cathleen RundGermany Antje BuschschulteGermany Roxana MaracineanuFrance 100 m breaststroke Ágnes KovácsHungary Svitlana BondarenkoUkraine Brigitte BecueBelgium 200 m breaststroke Ágnes KovácsHungary Alicja PęczakPoland Brigitte BecueBelgium 100 m butterfly Mette JacobsenDenmark Martina MoravcováSlovakia Johanna SjöbergSweden 200 m butterfly María PeláezSpain Michelle SmithIreland Mette JacobsenDenmark 200 m individual medley Oxana Verevka Russia Martina MoravcováSlovakia Yana Klochkova Ukraine 400 m individual medley Michelle SmithIreland Yana KlochkovaUkraine Hana ČernáCzech Republic 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Katrin Meissner Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Sandra Völker Louise Jöhncke Josefin Lillhage Malin Svahnström Therese Alshammar Svetlana Leshukova Natalya Meshcheryakova Inna Yaitskaya Nadezhda Chemezova 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Dagmar Hase Janina Götz Antje Buschschulte Kerstin Kielgass Louise Jöhncke Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg Malin Svahnström Britt Raaby Berit Puggaard Mette Jacobsen Ditte Jensen 4 × 100 m medley relay Antje Buschschulte Sylvia Gerasch Katrin Meissner Sandra Völker Olga Kochetkova Olga Landik Svetlana Pozdeyeva Natalya Meshcheryakova Sarah Price Jaime King Caroline Foot Karen Pickering
Open water swimming Men's events 5 km open water 25 km open water
Women's events 5 km open water 25 km open water
Diving Men's events 1 m springboard Andreas WelsGermany Holger SchleppsGermany Rafael ÁlvarezSpain 3 m springboard Dmitri SautinRussia Andreas WelsGermany Stefan AhrensGermany 10 m platform Jan HempelGermany Yaroslav MakoginUkraine Heiko MeyerGermany 3 m springboard synchro Holger SchleppsAlexander MeschGermany José Luis HidalgoRubén SantosSpain Donald MirandaNicola MarconiItaly 10 m platform synchro Jan HempelMichael KühneGermany Igor LukashinAleksandr VarlamovRussia Frédéric PierreGilles Emptoz-LacoteFrance
Women's events 1 m springboard Vera IlyinaRussia Irina LashkoRussia Dörte LindnerGermany 3 m springboard Yuliya PakhalinaRussia Vera IlyinaRussia Anna LindbergSweden 10 m platform Olga KhristoforovaRussia Annika WalterGermany Svitlana SerbinaUkraine 3 m springboard synchro Claudia BocknerConny SchmalfussGermany Irina LashkoYuliya PakhalinaRussia Julia CruzDolores SáezSpain 10 m platform synchro Ute WetzigAnke PiperGermany Julie DanauxOdile Arboles-SouchonFrance Marion ReiffAnja RichterAustria
Synchronized swimming Solo Olga SedakovaRussia Virginie DedieuFrance Giovanna BurlandoItaly Duet Olga BrusnikinaMariya KiselyovaRussia Virginie DedieuMyriam LignotFrance Giada BallanSerena BianchiItaly TeamElena AzarovaElena BarantsevaOlga BrusnikinaNatalia GruzdevaMariya KiselyovaOlga MedvedevaOlga NovokshchenovaAnna YuriaevaAgnes BerthetVirginie DedieuJulie FabreMyriam LignotIsabelle ManableDelphine MarechalCharlotte MassardierEva RiffetGiada BallanSerena BianchiGiovanna BurlandoBrunella CarrafelliChiara CassinAlessia LucchiniLetizia Nuzzo Clara Porchetto
Water polo Men's team event
Team competition
Women's team event
Team competition
External links Results LEN European Aquatics Championships at SVT's open archive (including 1997 event)