1954 European Aquatics Championships

The 1954 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held 31 August – 5 September in Turin, Italy. In swimming, butterfly events were contested for the first time; 100 m for women and 200 m for men.

8th European Aquatics Championships

Host city	Turin
Country	Italy
Events	18
Opening	31 August 1954 (1954-08-31)
Closing	5 September 1954 (1954-09-05)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	9	6	3	18
2	Soviet Union	4	3	4	11
3	East Germany	2	0	0	2
4	Netherlands	1	2	1	4
5	France	1	1	1	3
6	West Germany	1	0	2	3
7	Sweden	0	2	1	3
8	Italy*	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
10	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
12	Great Britain	0	0	3	3
13	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		18	18	18	54

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Roman Brener Soviet Union	153.26	Gennadiy Udalov Soviet Union	141.16	Christian Pire France	136.97
10 m platform	Roman Brener Soviet Union	144.01	Mikhail Chachba Soviet Union	142.06	Peter Heatly Great Britain	133.59

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Valentina Chumicheva Soviet Union	129.45	Birte Christoffersen-Hanson Sweden	127.79	Lyubov Zhigalova Soviet Union	125.30
10 m platform	Tatyana Karakashyants Soviet Union	79.86	Birte Christoffersen-Hanson Sweden	72.17	Eva Pfarrhofer Austria	65.68

Swimming

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Imre Nyéki Hungary	57.8	Lev Balandin Soviet Union	58.2	Géza Kádas Hungary	58.3
400 m freestyle	György Csordás Hungary	4:38.8	Angelo Romani Italy	4:40.4	Per-Olof Östrand Sweden	4:40.9
1500 m freestyle	György Csordás Hungary	18:57.8	György Schuszter Hungary	19:05.6	Vladimir Lavrinenko Soviet Union	19:10.6
100 m backstroke	Gilbert Bozon France	1:05.1	László Magyar Hungary	1:05.3	John Brockway Great Britain	1:05.9
200 m breaststroke	Klaus Bodinger East Germany	2:40.9	Marek Petrusewicz Poland	2:42.5	Sándor Utassy Hungary	2:43.8
200 m butterfly	György Tumpek Hungary	2:32.2	Zsolt Feyér Hungary	2:35.1	Vadim Martinchik Soviet Union	2:36.3
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Hungary Laszlo Till Zoltán Dömötör Géza Kádas Imre Nyéki	8:47.8	France Jean Boiteux Gilbert Bozon Guy Montserret Aldo Eminente	8:54.1	Soviet Union Nikolay Suhorukov Vyacheslav Kurennoy Yuriy Abovyan Lev Balandin	8:55.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Katalin Szőke Hungary	1:05.8	Judit Temes Hungary	1:06.7	Geertje Wielema Netherlands	1:07.3
400 m freestyle	Agata Sebö Hungary	5:14.4	Valéria Gyenge Hungary	5:16.3	Eša Ligorio Yugoslavia	5:18.7
100 m backstroke	Geertje Wielema Netherlands	1:13.2	Joke de Korte Netherlands	1:13.6	Pat Symons Great Britain	1:17.3
200 m breaststroke	Ursula Happe West Germany	2:54.9	Jytte Hansen Denmark	2:55.0	Klara Killerman Hungary	2:55.8
100 m butterfly	Jutta Langenau East Germany	1:16.6	Maria Littomeritzky Hungary	1:18.6	Ursula Happe West Germany	1:18.9
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Hungary Valéria Gyenge Agata Sebö Judit Temes Katalin Szőke	4:30.6	Netherlands Loes Zandvliet Joke de Korte Hetty Balkenende Geertje Wielema	4:33.2	West Germany Käthe Jansen Gisela von Netz Birgit Klomp Elisabeth Rechlin	4:37.2

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Hungary	Yugoslavia	Italy

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming

References

• "European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM.
• "European Swimming Championships (Women)". GBRSPORTS.COM.