EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017
- December, 13th to 17th
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- 25m course
- Entry lists
- Live timing
- Webcast (for Europe)
- Results
After dominating performances throughout the 2017 European Short Course Championships by Vlad Morozov, Kliment Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Popkov, Kirill Prigoda and others, Russia maintained a healthy lead in the medal table, which held through the end of the competition. Through all 40 events, Russia took the total medals to 18 in all, highlighted by 9 golds by the men.
Hungary was next, with mega help from the Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu, Boglarka Kapas, Peter Bernek, Laszlo Cseh, Gergely Gyurta and more. Collectively they earned 2nd place as a nation, owning 13 medals with 9 coming from the women and 4 coming from the men.
Italy managed to race its way to 3rd place with 17 total medals, but fell behind Hungary due to 3 fewer golds.
At the 2015 edition of these championships, it was Hungary at the top of the food chain with an incredible 11 total gold medals, while Italy finished 2nd in the medal standings and Germany was 3rd. Although Hungary and Italy finished near the top again this time around, Germany fell to 5th place in the medal table standings, while Russia leapfrogged over several nations to improve upon its 4th place finish back in 2015.
| MEDAL TABLE AFTER 40 EVENTS | |||||||||||||||||||
| RANK | NOC | WOMEN | MEN | MIXED | TOTAL | ||||||||||||||
| G | S | B | TOTAL | G | S | B | TOTAL | G | S | B | TOTAL | G | S | B | TOTAL | RNK BY TOTAL | |||
| 1 |  RUSSIA |
2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 1 | |||||
| 2 |  HUNGARY |
7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 3 | ||||||
| 3 |  ITALY |
1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 2 | ||||
| 4 |  NETHERLANDS |
3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | |||||
| 5 |  SWEDEN |
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
| 5 |  GERMANY |
2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| 7 |  LITHUANIA |
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | |||||||||
| 8 |  FRANCE |
1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | |||||
| 9 |  UKRAINE |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | |||||||||
| 10 |  GREAT BRITAIN |
1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | |||||||||
| 11 |  SPAIN |
1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |||||||||||
| 12 |  DENMARK |
3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 13 |  POLAND |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | |||||||||
| 14 |  FINLAND |
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |||||||||||||
| 14 |  GREECE |
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |||||||||||||
| 16 |  BELGIUM |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | ||||||||||
| 16 |  BELARUS |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | ||||||||||
| 18 |  NORWAY |
1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 19 |  ROMANIA |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  LIECHTENSTEIN |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||||||||||
| 19 |  SERBIA |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||||||||||
| TOTAL | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 58 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 121 | |||
Katinka rules! 6 events, 6 gold medals. Imagine the media frenzy if Katinka were a US, Swedish or UK swimmer.
I,ve read all the comments about doing regarding Russia. I agree with the comments. However the russian men seem FAR ahead of their women and you would expect doping to have a much more noticable effect on the women. The Russian women seem incredibly weak. If the women are doping them they are not doing it right?
I think that was true in the past, when doping was focused on adding testosterone-like substances to female athletes; however, it seems like doping has advanced beyond the use of such obvious methods.
I know doping has advanced but it should have more effects on the women regardless of whether the doping methods are crude or advanced.
The Russian women seem just really underwhelming. I mean they should be swimming some crazy times with all the doping scandals coming out of Russia. Or even if they are not swimming crazy times, they should at least be putting up respectable world class times. I mean there should be a russian ledecky or katinka hosszu by now, but it seems as if only the men are doping or maybe only the men have the talent to make the doping work. It seems so weird. The Russian men are so far ahead of the women… Read more »
posted elsewhere but a better fit here: After watching Icarus (documentary on state-sponsored doping in Russia in last few years), my views on their team are forever changed. It was much uglier than I ever would have expected. Much more robust, much more direct. And not comparable to anything done in the USA. If you doubt me, go ahead and watch it, and try to say with a straight face afterward that the same thing could happen here.
It does make me feel bad for the clean Russian athletes. They can either compete for a country that has systemically supported doping or they can compete for no country. Terrible options.
It is an eye-opening documentary and so is ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’ on Netflix too but this time about doping in America. One comment was … ‘steroids as as American as apple pie’! Really eye opening too as I didn’t realise Baseball had such a problem.
Not sure why all the downvotes – I thought that was a well-worded sentiment that lot’s of people are thinking.
It’s the fancy bears doing all the downvoting.
They have troll factories… Of course they’re downvoting on this site on a systematic level. This is the biggest site in swimming in the west.
We can’t take the country as a whole seriously anymore. They are thorough and aggressively at war with the west and the US even if its not as clear as machine guns and grenades. The world has moved on, and there is a lot of gray areas and confusion. Welcome to the 21st century.
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Welcome back!
Glad to have Bobo back!
I hope all is well in your world, Bobo! I always look for your comments and have thought of you often and wondered what your thoughts would be about many articles printed here.
RACE VIDEOS
MEN’S 400 FREE FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS4TG-bU5uo
WOMEN’S 400 IM FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bDMszQkcU
MEN’S 200 BACK FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sCVuZa_Gzs
WOMEN’S 50 BACK FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYSpWlNM9n4
MEN’S 50 BREAST FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW24A5iQxzs
MEN’S 4X50 FREE RELAY FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46tXLH4hF0
MEN’S 200 BREAST FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MNUQS68yo
MEN’S 200 FREE FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQObmLjCbP4
WOMEN’S 100 BACK FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diJU5VlPyIY
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Hey bobo! Welcome back! What happened with regard to what? Your comment was probably kicked to moderation because it had so many outbound links in it – that’s a red flag for spam that our system pushes to ask for human review. Should be live now.
Hi Braden. Error from my part. I forgot to click on read more to make appear the list correctly. It works.
Gotcha. It’s an annoying feature, that I wish we wouldn’t have to use…but when individual comments or comment threads get longer, Google decides the content is “too long” and won’t index the article. So, collapsing them is the best solution we have to keep us from being kicked out of google altogether.
Hi Bobo , i wondered what happened to you after this summer ….glad u are back home .
Welcome back Bobo. Hasn’t been the same without you.
That’s dope!