The 8th European Short Course Swimming Championships was an international
swimming meet organized by
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Vienna, Austria
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, December 9–12, 2004. The meet featured teams from
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short course
In swimming, the term short course (abbreviated SC) is used to identify a pool that is in length. The term is also often included in meet names when conducted in a short course pool. "Short course" is the second type of pool configuration current ...
events. It was held in Vienna's arena (
Wiener Stadthalle), in a temporary pool.
Participating nations
36 nations had swimmers at the 2004 Short Course Europeans:
Participating nations
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Results
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Performance awards
Best newcomers: Kateryna Zubkova (UKR) and Igor Borysik
Ihor Borysyk (born June 2, 1984) is a retired Ukrainian swimmer. He was born in Simferopol.
At the 2009 Ukraine National Cup, he swam a time of 58.67 seconds in a 100-meter breaststroke time-trial, a result that was under the world record at ...
(UKR). (Both were voted by the media, and received a special prize of Euro 1500 each.)
Top performances: a total of 32,000 Euro was awarded to the overall top-7 male and female performances. The athletes sharing the prize money were:
* Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte (born 27 December 1978 in Berlin) is a former German swimmer. Her best disciplines were the short distance backstroke and freestyle races. Buschschulte swam for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. She participated in Olympic Games ...
(GER)
* László Cseh (HUN)
* Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling (born 19 October 1980) is a world-record breaking Swedish former swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden.
Kammerling has twice lowered the world record in the 50-meter butterfly event. In 2000, she was a member of the 4× ...
(SWE)
* Josefin Lillhage
Josefin Lillhage (born 15 March 1980) is a former swimmer from Sweden, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She competed in four Olympiads: in 1996, 2000, 200 ...
(SWE)
* Peter Mankoč
Peter Mankoč (born 4 July 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian swimmer. He is one of the most successful short course European Championship swimmers in the history of the event. Mankoč is the former world record holder in the 100 meter ...
(SLO)
* Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová (born 16 January 1976) is a Slovak medley, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics (1992–2008). ...
(SVK)
* Flavia Rigamonti
Flavia Rigamonti (born 1 July 1981) is a Swiss swimmer from Sorengo. As of 2010, she holds the Swiss Records in the women's 400, 800 and 1500 freestyles.
At the 2007 World Championships, she set the European Record in the women's 1500 free (1 ...
(SUI)
* Éva Risztov
Éva Risztov (; born 30 August 1985) is a Hungarian Olympic gold medalist female swimmer.
She won four silver medals at the 2002 European Aquatics Championships and three silver medals at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. She won a furt ...
(HUN)
* Markus Rogan
Markus Antonius Rogan (born 4 May 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Short Course Championships in ...
(AUT)
* Teresa Rohmann
Teresa Rohmann (born July 24, 1987 in Nuremberg) is a medley swimmer from Germany. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) ...
(GER)
* Thomas Rupprath (GER)
References
External links
Results book
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