The 8th European Short Course Swimming Championships was an international

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meet organized by LEN, and held in

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, December 9–12, 2004. The meet featured teams from

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, swimming in 38 short course events. It was held in Vienna's arena (

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), 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 Kateryna Mikhailivna Zubkova () (born 14 July 1988 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian swimmer. Career She has won national titles for Ukraine eight times, and is a former European breaststroke champion. She has competed at numerous international meets, ...

(UKR) and

Igor Borysik Ihor Borysyk (; born 2 June 1984) is a retired Ukraine, 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 r ...

(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 (GER) *

László Cseh László Cseh (; born 3 December 1985) is a retired Hungarian competitive swimmer and six-time Olympic medalist. He is a 33-time European Champion. His father, László Cseh Sr., also represented Hungary at the Olympics in swimming. In 2020, ...

(HUN) * Anna-Karin Kammerling (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 swimming, freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She competed in four Olympiads: in C ...

(SWE) * Peter Mankoč (SLO) *

Martina Moravcová Martina Moravcová (born 16 January 1976) is a Slovak Medley swimming, medley, butterfly swimming, butterfly, and Freestyle swimming, freestyle Swimming (sport), swimmer. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and ...

(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 ( ...

(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 furthe ...

(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 ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in ...

(GER) *

Thomas Rupprath Thomas Rupprath (born 16 March 1977 in Neuss) is an Olympic Games, Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed Michael Groß, "The New Albatross". Biography He held the world record for the 50 m backstroke (Short course (swimming), shor ...

(GER)

References

External links

Results book
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