The 2017 Euro Meet featured some of the World’s best swimmers like Olympic champions Katinka Hosszu (HUN), Sarah Sjöström (SWE) and Adam Peaty (GBR) and World champions Laszlo Cseh (HUN) and Marco Koch (GER).
The “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu entered all events and qualified for all finals – she earned six gold medals and one meet record.
Sarah Sjöström set eight meet records in the 50/100 freestyle – 50/100 butterfly events during heats and finals. Also Adam Peaty, Apostolos Christou (GRE) and Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR) entered the Euro Meet’s records book.
Since the first edition of the meet in 1999, it has established itself as a top event and the meet always brings world class swimmers to Luxembourg and it is also a door opener for youngsters.
The Euro Meet took place in the beautiful aquatic centre “d’Coque” at Luxembourg-Kirchberg. The facility has a 50 m, 10-lane competition pool and also a 50 m training pool as well as a 25 m warm-up pool. Luxembourg is a small country in western Europe, it is bordered by Belgium, Germany and France and it is one of the smallest sovereign states in Europe. Nonetheless the city of Luxembourg, which is the country’s capital, is the seat of several institutions and agencies of the European Nation and Luxembourg is the largest private banking centre in the eurozone. Luxembourg is a very international and hospitable country and the organizers of the event and the audience welcomed all swimmers, coaches and officials very cordialy. The video shows the great atmosphere at the 2017 Euro Meet.
