# 2004 European Short Course Swimming Championships

The 8th European Short Course Swimming Championships was an international swimming meet organized by LEN, and held in Vienna, Austria, December 9–12, 2004. The meet featured teams from Europe, swimming in 38 short course 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:
* Andorra
* Austria
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia and Montenegro
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine

## Results
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50 freestyle | Mark Foster Great Britain | 21.50 | Mark Veens Netherlands | 21.72 | Eduardo Lorente Spain | 21.75 |
| 100 freestyle | Frédérick Bousquet France | 47.52 | Filippo Magnini Italy | 47.66 | Jens Schreiber Germany | 48.00 |
| 200 freestyle | Filippo Magnini Italy | 1:44.57 | Massimiliano Rosolino Italy | 1:44.95 | Paweł Korzeniowski Poland | 1:45.58 |
| 400 freestyle | Massimiliano Rosolino Italy | 3:39.66 | Yuri Prilukov Russia | 3:40.65 | Paweł Korzeniowski Poland | 3:41.36 |
| 1500 freestyle | Yuri Prilukov Russia | 14:31.92 | David Davies Great Britain | 14:32.56 | Massimiliano Rosolino Italy | 14:39.54 |
| 50 backstroke | Thomas Rupprath Germany | 23.27 WR | Vyacheslav Shyrshov Ukraine | 24.50 | Helge Meeuw Germany | 24.52 |
| 100 backstroke | Thomas Rupprath Germany | 50.73 | Markus Rogan Austria | 50.80 | László Cseh Hungary | 52.09 |
| 200 backstroke | Markus Rogan Austria | 1:51.24 ER | Blaž Medvešek Slovenia | 1:52.39 | Evgeny Aleshin Russia | 1:53.71 |
| 50 breaststroke | Oleg Lisogor Ukraine | 26.92 | Roman Sloudnov Russia | 27.09 | Emil Tahirovič Slovenia | 27.17 |
| 100 breaststroke | Roman Sloudnov Russia | 58.73 | Oleg Lisogor Ukraine | 58.81 | Igor Borysik Ukraine | 59.70' |
| 200 breaststroke | Paolo Bossini Italy | 2:07.29 | Sławomir Kuczko Poland | 2:07.61 | Grigory Falko Russia | 2:07.66 |
| 50 butterfly | Mark Foster Great Britain | 23.35 | Jere Hård Finland | 23.38 | Oliver Wenzel Germany | 23.50 |
| 100 butterfly | Thomas Rupprath Germany | 50.67 | Nikolay Skvortsov Russia | 50.92 | Ioan Gherghel Romania | 52.26 |
| 200 butterfly | Nikolay Skvortsov Russia | 1:52.90 | Paweł Korzeniowski Poland | 1:53.19 | Ioan Gherghel Romania | 1:54.86 |
| 100 I.M. | Peter Mankoč Slovenia | 53.05 | Markus Rogan Austria | 53.64 | Oliver Wenzel Germany | 54.14 |
| 200 I.M. | Markus Rogan Austria | 1:55.15 | László Cseh Hungary | 1:55.36 | Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania | 1:57.45 |
| 400 I.M. | László Cseh Hungary | 4:03.96 ER | Luca Marin Italy | 4:05.93 | Igor Berezutskiy Russia | 4:08.91 |
| 4×50 free relay | France David Maître Alain Bernard Romain Barnier Frédérick Bousquet | 1:26.24 | Germany Benjamin Friedrich Thomas Rupprath Jens Schreiber Carsten Dehmlow | 1:26.30 | Sweden David Nordenlilja Marcus Piehl Erik Andersson Petter Stymne | 1:26.98 |
| 4×50 medley relay | Germany Thomas Rupprath Mark Warnecke Fabian Friedrich Carsten Dehmlow | 1:34.56 | Ukraine Vyacheslav Shyrshov Oleg Lisogor Sergiy Breus Oleksandr Volynets | 1:34.94 | Finland Tero Raty Jarno Pihlava Jere Hård Matti Rajakylä | 1:35.89 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50 freestyle | Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands | 24.34 | Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden | 24.57 | Hinkelien Schreuder Netherlands | 24.64 |
| 100 freestyle | Malia Metella France | 53.37 | Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands | 53.63 | Josefin Lillhage Sweden | 53.64 |
| 200 freestyle | Josefin Lillhage Sweden | 1:55.36 | Melanie Marshall Great Britain | 1:56.36 | Petra Dallmann Germany | 1:57.24 |
| 400 freestyle | Keri-Anne Payne Great Britain | 4:03.60 | Daria Parshina Russia | 4:04.56 | Erika Villaecija Spain | 4:06.05 |
| 800 freestyle | Flavia Rigamonti Switzerland | 8:17.39 | Lotte Friis Denmark | 8:22.38 | Erika Villaecija Spain | 8:26.38 |
| 50 backstroke | Antje Buschschulte Germany | 27.42 | Kateryna Zubkova Ukraine | 27.50 | Ilona Hlaváčková Czech Republic | 27.57 |
| 100 backstroke | Kateryna Zubkova Ukraine | 58.58 | Antje Buschschulte Germany | 58.70 | Louise Ørnstedt Denmark | 58.76 |
| 200 backstroke | Louise Ørnstedt Denmark | 2:06.33 | Sarah Price Great Britain | 2:07.24 | Gemma Spofforth Great Britain | 2:07.64 |
| 50 breaststroke | Sarah Poewe Germany | 31.09 | Elena Bogomazova Russia | 31.46 | Kate Haywood Great Britain | 31.52 |
| 100 breaststroke | Sarah Poewe Germany | 1:06.50 | Mirna Jukić Austria | 1:07.05 | Simone Weiler Germany | 1:07.70 |
| 200 breaststroke | Anne Poleska Germany | 2:21.79 | Mirna Jukić Austria | 2:22.79 | Sarah Poewe Germany | 2:24.33 |
| 50 butterfly | Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden | 25.73 | Martina Moravcová Slovakia | 26.14 | Fabienne Nadarajah Austria | 26.27 |
| 100 butterfly | Martina Moravcová Slovakia | 56.89 | Mette Jacobsen Denmark | 58.43 | Malia Metella France | 58.47 |
| 200 butterfly | Martina Moravcová Slovakia | 2:06.68 | Mette Jacobsen Denmark | 2:06.99 | Caterina Giacchetti Italy | 2:07.11 |
| 100 I.M. | Aleksandra Urbanczyk Poland | 1:00.75 | Lisa Chapman Great Britain | 1:00.88 | Teresa Rohmann Germany | 1:01.18 |
| 200 I.M. | Teresa Rohmann Germany | 2:09.40 | Aleksandra Urbanczyk Poland | 2:10.64 | Julie Hjorth-Hansen Denmark | 2:13.03 |
| 400 I.M. | Éva Risztov Hungary | 4:32.26 | Teresa Rohmann Germany | 4:34.38 | Katinka Hosszú Hungary | 4:35.41 |
| 4×50 free relay | Netherlands Inge Dekker Hinkelien Schreuder Chantal Groot Marleen Veldhuis | 1:37.97 | Germany Dorothea Brandt Janine Pietsch Daniela Götz Petra Dallmann | 1:38.52 | Sweden Lina Petersson Anna-Karin Kammerling Josefin Lillhage Claire Hedenskog | 1:38.76 |
| 4×50 medley relay | Netherlands Hinkelien Schreuder Moniek Nijhuis Inge Dekker Marleen Veldhuis | 1:48.21 WBT | Germany Janine Pietsch Sarah Poewe Antje Buschschulte Dorothea Brandt | 1:48.52 | Sweden Emelie Kierkegaard Sanja Dizdarević Anna-Karin Kammerling Josefin Lillhage | 1:50.05 |

### Medal table

* Host nation (Austria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Germany (GER) | 9 | 5 | 8 | 22 |
| 2 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 8 | Austria (AUT)* | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Slovakia (SVK) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 14 | Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 18 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |

## Performance awards

Best newcomers: Kateryna Zubkova (UKR) and Igor Borysik (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: