1970 European Aquatics Championships

12th European Aquatics Championships
Host city	Barcelona
Country	Spain
Events	34
Opening	5 September 1970
Closing	13 September 1970
	← Utrecht 1966 Vienna 1974 →

The 1970 European Aquatics Championships were held in Barcelona, Spain from 5 to 13 September 1970. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men). The swimming program was significantly expanded. Both men and women competed in the 200 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke and 200 individual medley for the first time. Furthermore, in the men's swimming program the 100 m butterfly was introduced and the 100 m backstroke was re-introduced after having been absent for the last two championships. In the women's swimming program, the 800 m freestyle, 200 m backstroke and 200 m butterfly were introduced.

Medal table

* Host nation (Spain)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	16	9	9	34
2	Soviet Union	6	4	8	18
3	West Germany	4	6	4	14
4	Sweden	3	2	2	7
5	Hungary	2	3	0	5
6	Italy	1	2	2	5
7	France	1	2	0	3
8	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
9	Yugoslavia	0	3	1	4
10	Spain*	0	2	2	4
11	Netherlands	0	1	2	3
12	Great Britain	0	0	4	4
Totals (12 entries)		34	34	34	102

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	555.21	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	534.72	Vladimir Vasin (URS)	529.80
10 m platform	Lothar Matthes (GDR)	454.74	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	444.18	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	435.36

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Heidi Becker (GDR)	420.63	Marina Janicke (GDR)	407.22	Tamara Safonova (URS)	405.60
10 m platform	Milena Duchková (TCH)	336.33	Marina Janicke (GDR)	329.85	Sylvia Fiedler (GDR)	322.26

Swimming

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Michel Rousseau (FRA)	52.9	Roland Matthes (GDR)	53.5	Georgiy Kulikov (URS)	53.7
200 m freestyle	Hans Fassnacht (FRG)	1:55.2	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	1:55.7	Georgiy Kulikov (URS)	1:56.6
400 m freestyle	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	4:02.6	Hans Fassnacht (FRG)	4:03.0	Santiago Esteva (ESP)	4:08.3
1500 m freestyle	Hans Fassnacht (FRG)	16:19.9	Werner Lampe (FRG)	16:25.6	Santiago Esteva (ESP)	16:35.7
100 m backstroke	Roland Matthes (GDR)	58.9	Santiago Esteva (ESP)	59.9	Bob Schoutsen (NED)	1:00.4
200 m backstroke	Roland Matthes (GDR)	2:08.8	Santiago Esteva (ESP)	2:09.7	Volker Werner (GDR)	2:11.5
100 m breaststroke	Nikolay Pankin (URS)	1:06.8	Roger-Philippe Menu (FRA)	1:07.8	Rolf Klees (FRG)	1:08.1
200 m breaststroke	Klaus Katzur (GDR)	2:26.0	Nikolay Pankin (URS)	2:26.1	Walter Kusch (FRG)	2:28.2
100 m butterfly	Hans Lampe (FRG)	57.5	Udo Poser (GDR)	57.9	Vladimir Nemshilov (URS)	58.0
200 m butterfly	Udo Poser (GDR)	2:08.0	Folkert Meeuw (FRG)	2:08.2	Hartmut Flöckner (GDR)	2:09.6
200 m individual medley	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	2:09.3	Matthias Pechmann (GDR)	2:13.6	Hans Ljungberg (SWE)	2:14.3
400 m individual medley	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	4:36.2	Hans Fassnacht (FRG)	4:36.9	Matthias Pechmann (GDR)	4:40.6
4×100 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union Vladimir Bure Viktor Mazanov Georgiy Kulikov Leonid Ilyichev	3:32.3	West Germany Gerhard Schiller Rainer Jacob Folkert Meeuw Hans Fassnacht	3:34.1	East Germany Roland Matthes Lutz Unger Frank Seebald Udo Poser	3:34.6
4×200 m freestyle relay	West Germany Werner Lampe Olaf von Schilling Folkert Meeuw Hans Fassnacht	7:49.5	Soviet Union Georgiy Kulikov Ahmed Anarbayev Aleksandr Samsonov Vladimir Bure	7:52.8	East Germany Lutz Unger Wilfried Hartung Roland Matthes Udo Poser	7:54.5
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Roland Matthes Klaus Katzur Udo Poser Lutz Unger	3:54.4	France Jean-Paul Berjeau Roger-Philippe Menu Alain Mosconi Michel Rousseau	3:57.6	Soviet Union Viktor Krasko Nikolay Pankin Vladimir Nemshilov Leonid Ilyichev	3:58.0

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Gabriele Wetzko (GDR)	59.6	Mirjana Šegrt (YUG)	1:00.8	Alexandra Jackson (GBR)	1:00.8
200 m freestyle	Gabriele Wetzko (GDR)	2:08.2	Mirjana Šegrt (YUG)	2:11.9	Yvonne Nieber (GDR)	2:12.8
400 m freestyle	Elke Sehmisch (GDR)	4:32.9	Gunilla Jonsson (SWE)	4:36.8	Karin Tülling (GDR)	4:38.0
800 m freestyle	Karin Neugebauer (GDR)	9:29.1	Linda de Boer (NED)	9:35.7	Novella Calligaris (ITA)	9:38.8
100 m backstroke	Tinatin Lekveishvili (URS)	1:07.8	Andrea Gyarmati (HUN)	1:07.9	Cobie Buter (NED)	1:08.5
200 m backstroke	Andrea Gyarmati (HUN)	2:25.5	Barbara Hofmeister (GDR)	2:26.6	Tinatin Lekveishvili (URS)	2:27.1
100 m breaststroke	Galina Stepanova-Prozumenshchikova (URS)	1:15.6	Uta Frommater (FRG)	1:16.9	Alla Grebennikova (URS)	1:16.9
200 m breaststroke	Galina Stepanova-Prozumenshchikova (URS)	2:40.7	Alla Grebennikova (URS)	2:43.5	Dorothy Harrison (GBR)	2:45.6
100 m butterfly	Andrea Gyarmati (HUN)	1:05.0	Helga Lindner (GDR)	1:05.6	Edeltraut Koch (FRG)	1:05.8
200 m butterfly	Helga Lindner (GDR)	2:20.2	Mirjana Šegrt (YUG)	2:24.5	Evelyn Stolze (GDR)	2:25.6
200 m individual medley	Martina Grunert (GDR)	2:26.6	Evelyn Stolze (GDR)	2:29.3	Shelagh Ratcliffe (GBR)	2:29.6
400 m individual medley	Evelyn Stolze (GDR)	5:07.0	Brigitte Schuchardt (GDR)	5:18.3	Shelagh Ratcliffe (GBR)	5:19.6
4×100 m freestyle relay	East Germany Gabriele Wetzko Iris Komar Elke Sehmisch Sabine Schulze	4:00.8	Hungary Andrea Gyarmati Judit Turóczy Edit Kovács Magdolna Patoh	4:02.7	Sweden Elisabeth Berglund Eva Andersson Anita Zarnowiecki Gunilla Jonsson	4:07.4
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Barbara Hofmeister Brigitte Schuchardt Helga Lindner Gabriele Wetzko	4:30.1	Soviet Union Tinatin Lekveishvili Galina Stepanova-Prozumenshchikova Valentina Tutayeva Tatyana Zolotnitskaya	4:31.3	West Germany Angelika Kraus Uta Frommater Heike Nagel Heidemarie Reineck	4:33.4

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's competition	Soviet Union	Hungary	Yugoslavia

References

"European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
"European Swimming Championships (Women)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.

External links

LEN European Aquatics Championships at SVT's open archive (including 1970 event) (in Swedish)