The 2015

European Short Course Swimming Championships The European Short Course Swimming Championships (variously referred to informally as the "Short Course Europeans" or "European 25m Championships") are a swimming meet, organized by LEN. The meet features swimmers from Europe, competing in events ...

(25 m) took place in

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, from 2–6 December 2015. They were originally scheduled to be held in January 2015, but the

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moved the event to December. The venue of the event was the brand new swimming complex of the

Wingate Institute Wingate Institute ( he, מכון וינגייט), officially Orde Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports ( he, המכון לחינוך גופני ולספורט ע"ש אורד וינגייט), is a sports training institute located so ...

. This complex features an Olympic-size pool with 10 lanes and 3 meter depth, backed by the latest built-in filtration systems, an 8-lane 50 m pool and a 6-lane 25 m pool. The swimmer of the meet honors went to

Katinka Hosszú Katinka Hosszú (; born 3 May 1989) is a Hungarian competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She is owner of a Budapest based swim school and swi ...

of Hungary and

Gregorio Paltrinieri Gregorio Paltrinieri (born 5 September 1994) is an Italian competitive swimmer. He is a former world record holder in the short course 1500 metre freestyle. He holds the European record in the long course 800 metre and 1500 metre freestyle eve ...

of Italy. Hosszú won six gold medals and one silver, breaking two world records and six championship records, while Paltrinieri won one gold medal in a world record time.

Records broken

Results

Men's events

Legend: WR -

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; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Women's events

Legend: WR -

; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Mixed events

Legend: WR -

; ER - European record; CR - Championship record

Medal table

Participating nations

500 swimmers from 48 nations participated at the competition. The only LEN members did not participate are Gibraltar, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino.Entries Netanya 2015 - Statistics
* (2) * (2) * (2) * (19) * (3) * (13) * (11) * (3) * (2) * (9) * (2) * (27) * (8) * (16) * (3) * (22) * (13) * (2) * (27) * (12) * (3) * (27) * (3) * (2) * (46) (Host country) * (36) * (2) * (3) * (1) * (7) * (6) * (1) * (2) * (3) * (13) * (8) * (8) * (14) * (5) * (38) * (7) * (12) * (10) * (4) * (7) * (11) * (18) * (5)

References

External links

Official website
{{LEN swimming champs European Short Course Swimming Championships

Swimming competitions in Israel International sports competitions hosted by Israel Sport in Netanya