2006 European Short Course Swimming Championships

The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2006 were held in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 December. The venue of the event was the aquatic center of Mäkelänrinteen uintikeskus, which last hosted a major event at the pre-Olympic 2000 European Aquatics Championships.

Three world records (two in relays) and eight European records were broken during the event.

Medal table

Medal summary Men's events 50 m freestyle Eduardo Lorente 21.53 Milorad Čavić 21.60 Julien Sicot 21.68100 m freestyle Filippo Magnini 46.81 Stefan Nystrand 47.05 Alain Bernard 47.24200 m freestyle Filippo Magnini 1:42.54 Massimiliano Rosolino 1:44.17 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:44.41400 m freestyle Yury Prilukov 3:39.02 Przemysław Stańczyk 3:39.92 Paweł Korzeniowski 3:40.401500 m freestyle Yury Prilukov 14:16.13ER Mateusz Sawrymowicz 14:28.43 Sébastien Rouault 14:39.0650 m backstroke Helge Meeuw 23.70 Thomas Rupprath 23.92 Ľuboš Križko 24.19100 m backstroke Arkady Vyatchanin 51.11 Helge Meeuw 51.16 Thomas Rupprath 52.02200 m backstroke Arkady Vyatchanin 1:49.98 ER Helge Meeuw 1:53.45 Răzvan Florea 1:53.71 NR50 m breaststroke Oleg Lisogor 26.50CR Alessandro Terrin 26.92 Darren Mew 27.23100 m breaststroke Oleg Lisogor 58.14 Valeriy Dymo 58.64 Alexander Dale Oen 58.70200 m breaststroke Dániel Gyurta 2:06.58 Sławomir Kuczko 2:06.61 Paolo Bossini 2:07.1350 m butterfly Alexei Puninski 23.21 Thomas Rupprath 23.34 Örn Arnarson 23.55100 m butterfly Milorad Čavić 50.63 Peter Mankoč 50.78 Nikolay Skvortsov 51.17200 m butterfly Paweł Korzeniowski 1:52.33 László Cseh 1:53.08 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:53.10100 m individual medley Peter Mankoč 53.05 Vytautas Janušaitis 53.66 Aleksander Hetland 53.70200 m individual medley László Cseh 1:54.43 Vytautas Janušaitis 1:56.20 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:57.12400 m individual medley Luca Marin 4:01.71 László Cseh 4:03.39 Ioannis Drymonakos 4:05.944 × 50 m freestyle relayStefan NystrandPetter StymneMarcus PiehlJonas Tilly 1:24.89WBTFrédérick BousquetJulien SicotDavid MaîtreAlain Bernard 1:25.16Johan KenkhuisBas van VelthovenRobin van AggeleMitja Zastrow 1:26.034 × 50 m medley relayHelge MeeuwJohannes NeumannThomas RupprathJens Schreiber 1:34.06WBTTero RätyJarno PihlavaJere HårdMatti Rajakylä 1:34.95Cesare PizziraniAlessandro TerrinRudy GoldinFilippo Magnini 1:35.20

Women's events 50 m freestyle Marleen Veldhuis 23.69CR Therese Alshammar 23.76 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 24.57100 m freestyle Marleen Veldhuis 52.41 CR Alena Popchanka 52.91 Josefin Lillhage 53.09200 m freestyle Alena Popchanka 1:54.25ER Otylia Jędrzejczak 1:54.39 Josefin Lillhage 1:54.75400 m freestyle Laure Manaudou 3:56.09WR Federica Pellegrini 3:59.96 Joanne Jackson 4:01.48800 m freestyle Laure Manaudou 8:12.24 Anastasia Ivanenko 8:18.90 Erika Villaécija García 8:20.0950 m backstroke Janine Pietsch 27.32 Iryna Amshennikova 27.44 Anna Gostomelsky 27.50100 m backstroke Laure Manaudou 57.87 Antje Buschschulte 58.20 Iryna Amshennikova 59.03200 m backstroke Esther Baron 2:04.08ER Iryna Amshennikova 2:04.57 Elizabeth Simmonds 2:05.9350 m breaststroke Janne Schäfer 30.43 Kate Haywood 30.88 Elena Bogomazova 30.98100 m breaststroke Anna Khlistunova 1:05.73Kirsty Balfour 1:06.57 Janne Schäfer 1:07.32200 m breaststroke Kirsty Balfour 2:21.82 Anne Poleska 2:23.12 Beata Kamińska 2:24.8750 m butterfly Therese Alshammar 25.36CR Inge Dekker 25.60 Anna-Karin Kammerling 25.92100 m butterfly Antje Buschschulte 56.94 Inge Dekker 57.19 Martina Moravcová 57.69200 m butterfly Otylia Jędrzejczak 2:04.94 ER Beatrix Boulsevicz 2:06.73 Jessica Dickons 2:07.36100 m individual medley Hanna-Maria Seppälä 1:00.45 Ganna Dzerkal 1:00.50 Svitlana Khakhlova 1:00.78200 m individual medley Katarzyna Baranowska 2:09.47 Camille Muffat 2:10.83 Aleksandra Urbańczyk 2:10.89400 m individual medley Alessia Filippi 4:31.58 Katarzyna Baranowska 4:32.78 Anastasia Ivanenko 4:33.464 × 50 m freestyle relayMagdalena KurasTherese AlshammarAnna-Karin KammerlingJosefin Lillhage 1:36.61Inge DekkerSaskia de JongeChantal GrootMarleen Veldhuis 1:37.27Daniela SamulskiDaniela GötzMeike FreitagAnnika Lurz 1:38.504 × 50 m medley relayJanine PietschJanne SchäferAntje BuschschulteDaniela Samulski 1:47.55 Therese AlshammarRebecca EjdervikAnna-Karin KammerlingJosefin Lillhage 1:48.14 Elizabeth SimmondsKate HaywoodRosalind BrettFrancesca Halsall 1:48.26

Results Record information was correct before the Championships started.

Men's events 50 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Roland Mark Schoeman 20.98 ER Frédérick Bousquet 21.10 CR Stefan Nystrand 21.15Pos.NamesNationTime Eduard Lorente Ginesta 21.53 Milorad Čavić 21.60 Julien Sicot 21.68 4 Alexei Puninski 21.73 5 Steffen Deibler 21.79 6 Oleksandr Volynets 21.86 7 Johan Kenkhuis 21.87 8 Matti Rajakylä 21.97

100 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ian Crocker 46.25 Roland Mark Schoeman ER Filippo Magnini 46.52 CR Filippo Magnini 46.52Pos.NamesNationTime Filippo Magnini 46.81 Stefan Nystrand 47.05 Alain Bernard 47.24 4 Fabien Gilot 47.76 5 Stanislau Neviarouski 47.90 6 Alexei Puninski 48.19 7 Andrey Grechin 48.35 8 Matti Rajakylä 48.51

200 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ian Thorpe 1:41.10 ER Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:41.89 CR Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:41.89Pos.NamesNationTime Filippo Magnini 1:42.54 Massimiliano Rosolino 1:44.17 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:44.41 4 Květoslav Svoboda 1:45.22 5 Stefan Herbst 1:45.45 6 Shal Livnat 1:45.64 7 Fabien Gilot 1:45.84 8 Paul Biedermann 1:45.88

400 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Grant Hackett 3:34.58 ER Yury Prilukov 3:37.81 CR Yury Prilukov 3:37.81Pos.NamesNationTime Yury Prilukov 3:39.02 Przemysław Stańczyk 3:39.92 Paweł Korzeniowski 3:40.40 4 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:41.60 5 Květoslav Svoboda 3:42.89 6 Paul Biedermann 3:43.24 7 Federico Colbertaldo 3:43.37 8 Nikolaos Xylouris 3:44.82

1500 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Grant Hackett 14:10.10 ER Yury Prilukov 14:23.92 CR Yury Prilukov 14:27.12Pos.NamesNationTime Yury Prilukov 14:16.13 (ER) Mateusz Sawrymowicz 14:28.43 Sébastien Rouault 14:39.06 4 Nikita Lobintsev 14:39.60 5 David Davies 14:40.65 6 Dávid Verrasztó 14:44.56 7 Federico Colbertaldo 14:45.41 8 Maciej Hreniak 14:46.21

50 m backstroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Thomas Rupprath 23.27 ER Thomas Rupprath 23.27 CR Thomas Rupprath 23.27Pos.NamesNationTime Helge Meeuw 23.70 Thomas Rupprath 23.92 Ľuboš Križko 24.19 4 Liam Tancock 24.25 5 Ivan Tolić 24.32 6 Arkady Vyatchanin 24.38 7 Tero Räty 24.46 8 Stanislav Donets 24.75

100 m backstroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ryan Lochte 49.99 ER Thomas Rupprath 50.58 CR Thomas Rupprath 50.72Pos.NamesNationTime Arkady Vyatchanin 51.11 Helge Meeuw 51.16 Thomas Rupprath 52.02 4 Gregor Tait 52.48 5 Stanislav Donets 52.75 6 Matthew Clay 52.78 7 Răzvan Florea 53.31 8 Nick Driebergen 53.42

200 m backstroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ryan Lochte 1:49.05 ER Markus Rogan 1:50.43 CR Markus Rogan 1:50.43Pos.NamesNationTime Arkady Vyatchanin 1:49.98 (ER) Helge Meeuw 1:53.45 Răzvan Florea 1:53.71 4 James Goddard 1:54.30 5 Gregor Tait 1:54.48 6 Simon Dufour 1:56.13 7 Luca Marin 1:56.58 8 Marko Strahija 1:58.05

50 m breaststroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Oleg Lisogor 26.17 ER Oleg Lisogor 26.17 CR Oleg Lisogor 26.57Pos.NamesNationTime Oleg Lisogor 26.50 (CR) Alessandro Terrin 26.92 Darren Mew 27.23 4 Michael Malul 27.25 5 Emil Tahirovič 27.27 5 Chris Cook 27.27 7 Jarno Pihlava 27.37 7 Alexander Dale Oen 27.37

100 m breaststroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ed Moses 57.47 ER Oleg Lisogor 57.67 CR James Gibson 58.03Pos.NamesNationTime Oleg Lisogor 58.14 Valeriy Dymo 58.64 Alexander Dale Oen 58.70 4 Chris Cook 59.25 5 Alessandro Terrin 59.42 6 Sergey Geybel 59.53 7 Sławomir Kuczko 59.76 8 Mariusz Winogrodzki 59.79

200 m breaststroke Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ed Moses 2:02.92 ER Ian Edmond 2:05.63 CR Ian Edmond 2:05.63Pos.NamesNationTime Dániel Gyurta 2:06.58 Sławomir Kuczko 2:06.61 Paolo Bossini 2:07.13 4 Valeriy Dymo 2:07.45 5 Oleg Lisogor 2:07.72 6 Kristopher Gilchrist 2:09.40 7 Sławomir Wolniak 2:09.62 8 Ákos Molnár 2:10.34

50 m butterfly Rec.NamesNationTime WR Kaio de Almeida 22.60 ER Mark Foster 22.87 CR Thomas Rupprath 23.05Pos.NamesNationTime Alexei Puninski 23.21 Thomas Rupprath 23.34 Örn Arnarson 23.55 4 Jere Hård 23.59 5 Evgeny Korotyshkin 23.65 5 Steffen Diebler 23.65 7 Sergiy Breus 23.67 8 Matti Rajakylä 23.70

100 m butterfly Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ian Crocker 49.07 ER Milorad Čavić 50.02 CR Milorad Čavić 50.02Pos.NamesNationTime Milorad Čavić 50.63 Peter Mankoč 50.78 Nikolay Skvortsov 51.17 4 Evgeny Korotyshkin 51.34 5 Thomas Rupprath 51.43 6 Rudy Goldin 51.89 7 Andriy Serdinov 52.00 8 Ioan Gherghel 52.27

200 m butterfly Rec.NamesNationTime WR Franck Esposito 1:50.73 ER Franck Esposito 1:50.73 CR Paweł Korzeniowski 1:50.89Pos.NamesNationTime Paweł Korzeniowski 1:52.33 László Cseh 1:53.08 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:53.10 4 Anatoly Polyakov 1:53.83 5 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:54.41 6 Ioan Gherghel 1:54.69 7 Sergiy Advena 1:55.28 8 Łukasz Drzewiński 1:57.05

100 m individual medley Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ryk Neethling 51.52 ER Thomas Rupprath 52.58 CR Peter Mankoč 52.63Pos.NamesNationTime Peter Mankoč 53.05 Vytautas Janušaitis 53.66 Aleksander Hetland 53.70 4 Robin van Aggele 53.79 5 Jani Sievinen 54.41 6 Martin Liivamägi 54.92 7 Örn Arnarson 55.04 8 Martti Aljand 55.09

200 m individual medley Rec.NamesNationTime WR Ryan Lochte 1:53.31 ER László Cseh 1:53.46 CR László Cseh 1:53.46Pos.NamesNationTime László Cseh 1:54.43 Vytautas Janušaitis 1:56.20 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:57.12 4 Ioannis Kokkodis 1:57.16 5 Leonardo Tumiotto 1:57.61 6 Łukasz Wójt 1:58.17 7 Saša Imprić 1:58.90 8 Martin Liivamägi 1:59.28

400 m individual medley Rec.NamesNationTime WR László Cseh 4:00.37 ER László Cseh 4:00.37 CR László Cseh 4:00.37Rec.NamesNationTime Luca Marin 4:01.71 László Cseh 4:03.39 Ioannis Drymonakos 4:05.94 4 Dávid Verrasztó 4:09.48 5 Łukasz Wójt 4:09.91 6 Alexey Kovrigin 4:10.80 7 Mateusz Matczak 4:11.81 8 Andrey Krylov 4:12.80

4 × 50 m freestyle relay Rec.Nation/NamesTime WR 1:25.03 ER 1:25.03 CR 1:25.03Pos.Nation/NamesTime 1:24.89 (WR) Stefan NystrandPetter StymneMarcus PiehlJonas Tilly 21.3621.2120.9621.36 1:25.16 Frédérick BousquetJulien SicotDavid MaitreAlain Bernard 21.9921.0621.2620.85 1:26:03 Johan KenkhuisBas van VelthovenRobin van AggeleMitja Zastrow 21.8221.3521.4221.44 4 1:27.04 Oleksandr VolynetsOleg LisogorAndriy SerdinovYuriy Yegoshin 21.8021.4122.4021.43 5 1:27.20 Jere HårdManu MäntymäkiJani RusiMatti Rajakylä 22.1621.7821.8621.42 6 1:27.56 Christopher CozensBenjamin HockinLiam TancockTodd Cooper 22.5121.9121.2721.87 7 1:27.72 Evgeny LagunovAndrey GrechinEvgeny KorotyshkinArkady Vyatchanin 22.4221.8321.9721.50

4 × 50 m medley relay Pos.Nation/NamesTime WR 1:34.46 ER 1:34.46 CR 1:34.46Pos.Nation/NamesTime 1:34.06 (WR) Helge Meeuw Johannes Neumann Thomas Rupprath Jens Schreiber 23.66 26.86 22.30 21.24 1:34.95 Tero Räty Jarno Pihlava Jere Hård Matti Rajakylä 24.58 26.43 23.06 20.88 1:35.20 Cesare Pizzirani Alessandro Terrin Rudy Goldin Filippo Magnini 24.83 26.23 23.04 21.10 4 1:35.23 Andriy Oleynyk Oleg Lisogor Sergiy Breus Oleksandr Volynets 24.90 25.78 22.82 21.73 5 1:35.84 Arkady Vyatchanin Sergey Geybel Evgeny Korotyshkin Evgeny Lagunov 24.32 26.87 23.21 21.44 6 1:36.43 Liam Tancock Darren Mew Matthew Clay Benjamin Hockin 24.30 26.61 23.37 22.15 7 1:36.44 Ivan Tolić Nikola Delić Alexei Puninski Mario Todorović 24.43 26.95 23.36 21.70 8 1:37.06 Nick Driebergen Robin van Aggele Bastiaan Tamminga Johan Kenkhuis 24.79 27.11 23.77 21.39

Women's results 50 m freestyle Rec.NamesNationTime WR Therese Alshammar 23.59 ER Therese Alshammar 23.59 CR Inge de Bruijn 23.89Pos.NamesNationTime Marleen Veldhuis 23.69 (CR) Therese Alshammar 23.76 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 24.57 4 Francesca Halsall 24.58 5 Cristina Chiuso 24.76 6 Svitlana Khakhlova 24.83 7 Maria Metella 24.93 8 Magdalena Kuras 25.01

100 m freestyle