1958 European Aquatics Championships

The 1958 LEN European Aquatics Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary from 31 August until 6 September. In swimming, the 4 × 100 m medley relays for men and women were introduced.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	5	6	5	16
2	Great Britain	5	4	4	13
3	Netherlands	5	3	0	8
4	Hungary*	2	2	3	7
5	Italy	1	2	2	5
6	Sweden	1	0	2	3
7	France	1	0	0	1
8	West Germany	0	1	2	3
9	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
10	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
11	East Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		20	20	20	60

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard details	László Újvári  Hungary	141.17	Horst Rosenfeldt  West Germany	139.77	Roman Brener  Soviet Union	139.39
10 m platform details	Brian Phelps  Great Britain	143.74	Mikhail Chachba  Soviet Union	136.87	Jenõ Marton  Hungary	134.68

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard details	Ninel Krutova  Soviet Union	124.22	Charmain Welsh  Great Britain	123.32	Valentina Dedova  Soviet Union	122.75
10 m platform details	Aldona Kareckaité  Soviet Union	81.14	Raisa Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	80.93	Birte Hanson  Sweden	80.34

Swimming

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Paolo Pucci  Italy	56.3	Viktor Polevoy  Soviet Union	56.9	Gyula Dobai  Hungary	57.5
400 m freestyle details	Ian Black  Great Britain	4:31.3	Boris Nikitin  Soviet Union	4:36.2	Paolo Galletti  Italy	4:38.1
1500 m freestyle details	Ian Black  Great Britain	18:05.8	József Katona  Hungary	18:13.0	Gennady Androsov  Soviet Union	18:30.2
100 m backstroke details	Robert Christophe  France	1:03.1	Leonid Barbier  Soviet Union	1:03.9	Wolfgang Wagner  East Germany	1:05.5
200 m breaststroke details	Leonid Kolesnikov  Soviet Union	2:41.1	Roberto Lazzari  Italy	2:41.3	Klaus Bodinger  West Germany	2:41.4
200 m butterfly details	Ian Black  Great Britain	2:21.9	Pavel Pazdírek  Czechoslovakia	2:22.6	Graham Symonds  Great Britain	2:25.8
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union Gennady Nikolayev Vladimir Struzhanov Igor Luzhkovsky Boris Nikitin	8:33.7	Italy Frederico Dennerlein Paolo Galletti Angelo Romani Paolo Pucci	8:41.2	Hungary József Katona Imre Nyéki György Muller Gyula Dobai	8:45.3
4 × 100 m medley relay details	Soviet Union Leonid Barbier Vladimir Minachkin Vitaliy Chenenkov Viktor Polevoy	4:16.5	Hungary László Magyar György Kunsági György Tumpek Gyula Dobai	4:20.4	Italy Gilberto Elsa Roberto Lazzari Frederico Dennerlein Paolo Pucci	4:21.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Kate Jobson  Sweden	1:04.7	Cocky Gastelaars  Netherlands	1:05.0[1]	Judy Grinham  Great Britain	1:05.4[1]
400 m freestyle details	Jans Koster  Netherlands	5:02.6	Corrie Schimmel  Netherlands	5:02.6	Nancy Rae  Great Britain	5:07.7
100 m backstroke details	Judy Grinham  Great Britain	1:12.6	Margaret Edwards  Great Britain	1:12.9	Larisa Viktorova  Soviet Union	1:13.9
200 m breaststroke details	Ada den Haan  Netherlands	2:52.0	Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain	2:53.5	Wiltrud Urselman  West Germany	2:53.8
100 m butterfly details	Tineke Lagerberg  Netherlands	1:11.9	Atie Voorbij  Netherlands	1:12.2	Marta Skupilova  Czechoslovakia	1:14.3
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Netherlands Corrie Schimmel Tineke Lagerberg Greetje Kraan Cocky Gastelaars	4:22.9	Great Britain Judy Grinham Elspeth Ferguson Judith Samuel Diana Wilkinson	4:24.2	Sweden Birgitta Eriksson Karin Larsson Barbro Andersson Kate Jobson[2]	4:28.5
4 × 100 m medley relay details	Netherlands Lenie de Nijs Ada den Haan Atie Voorbij Cocky Gastelaars	4:52.9	Soviet Union Larisa Viktorova Eve Uusmees Galina Kamaeva Ulvi Voog	4:54.2	Great Britain Judy Grinham Anita Lonsbrough Christine Gosden Diana Wilkinson	4:54.3

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	Hungary	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union

See also

• List of European Championships records in swimming

References