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10th European Aquatics Championships
Host city	Leipzig
Country	East Germany
Events	23
Opening	18 August 1962
Closing	25 August 1962
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The 1962 European Aquatics Championships were held in Leipzig, East Germany from 18 to 25 August 1962. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men). In the men's swimming program, the 100 m backstroke had been replaced by the 200 m backstroke. Furthermore, the 400 m individual medley and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay were introduced. In women's swimming, the 400 m individual medley was introduced.

Medal table

* Host nation (East Germany)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	6	5	5	16
2	East Germany*	5	5	7	17
3	Soviet Union	4	4	3	11
4	Great Britain	2	5	2	9
5	France	2	1	0	3
6	Hungary	2	0	3	5
7	Sweden	1	2	2	5
8	Austria	1	0	0	1
9	Spain	0	1	0	1
9	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		23	24	22	69

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT)	147.21	Hans-Dieter Pophal (GDR)	145.70	Boris Polulyakh (URS)	145.20
10 m platform	Brian Phelps (GBR)	150.81	Rolf Sperling (GDR)	148.24	Gennadiy Galkin (URS)	143.18

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Ingrid Krämer (GDR)	153.57	Christiane Lanzke (GDR)	137.78	Natalya Kuznetsova (URS)	133.78
10 m platform	Ingrid Krämer (GDR)	107.96	Ninel Krutova (URS)	95.92	Gabriele Schöpe (GDR)	90.88

Swimming

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Alain Gottvallès (FRA)	55.0	Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE)	55.5	Ron Kroon (NED)	55.5
400 m freestyle	Johan Bontekoe (NED)	4:25.6	Hans Rosendahl (SWE)	4:25.8	Frank Wiegand (GDR)	4:26.8
1500 m freestyle	József Katona (HUN)	17:49.5	Miguel Torres (ESP)	17:55.6	Richard Campion (GBR)	17:59.8
200 m backstroke	Leonid Barbier (URS)	2:16.6	Wolfgang Wagner (GDR)	2:17.9	József Csikány (HUN)	2:18.5
200 m breaststroke	Georgy Prokopenko (URS)	2:32.8	Ivan Karetnikov (URS)	2:33.2	Rob van Empel (NED)	2:38.1
200 m butterfly	Valentin Kuzmin (URS)	2:14.2	Brian Jenkins (GBR)	2:15.6	Wolfgang Sieber (GDR)	2:18.0
400 m individual medley	Gennady Androsov (URS)	5:01.3	Jan Jiskoot (NED)	5:05.5	Jürgen Bachmann (GDR)	5:05.9
4×100 m freestyle relay	France Alain Gottvallès Jean-Pascal Curtillet Robert Christophe Gérard Gropaiz	3:43.7	Great Britain Bob McGregor John Martin-Dye Peter Kendrew Stanley Clarke	3:44.7	Sweden Bengt-Olof Nordvall Jan Lundin Mats Svensson Per-Ola Lindberg	3:45.0
4×200 m freestyle relay	Sweden Hans Rosendahl Per-Ola Lindberg Mats Svensson Lars-Erik Bengtsson	8:18.4	France Gérard Gropaiz Alain Gottvallès Jean-Pascal Curtillet Robert Christophe	8:20.4	East Germany Joachim Herbst Martin Klink Frank Wiegand Volker Frischke	8:24.6
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Jürgen Dietze Egon Henninger Horst-Günter Gregor Frank Wiegand	4:09.0	Soviet Union Veliko Siymar Leonid Kolesnikov Valentin Kuzmin Viktor Konoplyov	4:10.3	Netherlands Jan Weeteling Wieger Mensonides Jan Jiskoot Ron Kroon	4:10.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Heidi Pechstein (GDR)	1:03.3	Diana Wilkinson (GBR)	1:03.3	Ineke Tigelaar (NED)	1:03.3
400 m freestyle	Adrie Lasterie (NED)	4:52.4	Ineke Tigelaar (NED)	4:57.3	Elisabeth Ljunggren (SWE)	4:58.1
100 m backstroke	Ria van Velsen (NED)	1:10.5	Corrie Winkel (NED)	1:10.7	Veronika Holletz (GDR)	1:11.3
200 m breaststroke	Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)	2:50.2	Klenie Bimolt (NED)	2:51.2	Ursula Küper (GDR)	2:52.2
100 m butterfly	Ada Kok (NED)	1:09.0	Ute Noack (GDR)	1:10.0	Marianne Heemskerk (NED)	1:10.3
400 m individual medley	Adrie Lasterie (NED)	5:27.8	Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)	5:32.3	Márta Egerváry (HUN)	5:33.3
4×100 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Cocky Gastelaars Adrie Lasterie Erica Terpstra Ineke Tigelaar	4:15.1	Great Britain Linda Amos Adrienne Brenner Jennifer Thompson Diana Wilkinson	4:16.3	Hungary Maria Frank Zsuzsa Kovács Csilla Dobai-madarász Katalin Takacs	4:17.5
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Ingrid Schmidt Barbara Göbel Ute Noack Heidi Pechstein	4:40.1	Netherlands Ria van Velsen Klenie Bimolt Ada Kok Ineke Tigelaar	4:42.9	Great Britain Linda Ludgrove Anita Lonsbrough Mary-Anne Cotterill Diana Wilkinson	4:46.2

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's competition	Hungary	Soviet Union Yugoslavia	none

References

"European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
"European Swimming Championships (Women)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.

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+{{Infobox games
-The '''1962 European Aquatics Championships''' were held in [[Leipzig]], [[East Germany]] from 18 to 25 August 1962. Titles were contested in [[swimming (sport)|swimming]], [[diving]] and [[water polo]] (men). In the men's swimming program, the 100 m backstroke had been replaced by the 200 m backstroke. Furthermore, the 400 m individual medley and the 4×100 m freestyle relay were introduced. In women's swimming, the 400 m individual medley was introduced.
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+}}
+The '''1962 European Aquatics Championships''' were held in [[Leipzig]], [[East Germany]] from 18 to 25 August 1962. Titles were contested in [[swimming (sport)|swimming]], [[diving (sport)|diving]] and [[water polo]] (men). In the men's swimming program, the 100 m backstroke had been replaced by the 200 m backstroke. Furthermore, the 400 m individual medley and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay were introduced. In women's swimming, the 400 m individual medley was introduced.
 ==Medal table==
+[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-A0623-0091-001, Leipzig, X. Schwimm-EM, Ingrid Krämer.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ingrid Krämer]] won two gold medals ]]
-{| {{RankedMedalTable|class=wikitable}}
+{{Medals table
-|-
-| 1 ||align="left"|{{NED}} || 6 || 5 || 5 || 16
+ | caption        =
+ | host           = GDR
-|-
+ | flag_template  = flagcountry
-| 2 ||align="left"|{{GDR}} || 5 || 6 || 7 || 18
+ | event          =
-|-
-| 3 ||align="left"|{{URS}} || 4 || 4 || 4 || 12
+ | team           =
+ | gold_NED = 6 | silver_NED = 5 | bronze_NED = 5
-|-
+ | gold_GDR = 5 | silver_GDR = 5 | bronze_GDR = 7 | host_GDR = yes
-| 4 ||align="left"|{{GBR2}} || 2 || 4 || 2 || 8
+ | gold_URS = 4 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 3
-|-
+ | gold_GBR = 2 | silver_GBR = 5 | bronze_GBR = 2
-| 5 ||align="left"|{{FRA}} || 2 || 1 || - || 3
+ | gold_FRA = 2 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 0
-|-
+ | gold_HUN = 2 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 3
-| 6 ||align="left"|{{flag|Hungary|1957}} || 2 || - || 2 || 4
+ | gold_SWE = 1 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 2
-|-
+ | gold_AUT = 1 | silver_AUT = 0 | bronze_AUT = 0
-| 7 ||align="left"|{{SWE}} || 1 || 2 || 2 || 5
+ | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 0 | name_ESP = {{flagcountry|ESP|1945}}
-|-
+ | gold_YUG = 0 | silver_YUG = 1 | bronze_YUG = 0
-| 8 ||align="left"|{{AUT}} || 1 || - || - || 1
+}}
-|-
-| 9 ||align="left"|{{flag|Spain|1945}} || - || 1 || - || 1
-|-
-| 10 ||align="left"|{{YUG}} || - || 1 || - || 1
-|-
-!colspan=2| Total !! 23 !! 24 !! 22 !! 69
-|}
 ==Medal summary==
 ===Diving===
 ;Men's events
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 ===Swimming===
 ====Men's events====
 {| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
@@ Line 64: / Line 87: @@
 |{{flagathlete|[[Alain Gottvallès]]|FRA}} ||align=right| 55.0
 |{{flagathlete|[[Per-Ola Lindberg]]|SWE}} ||align=right| 55.5
-|{{flagathlete|[[Ronald Kroon]]|NED}} ||align=right| 55.5
+|{{flagathlete|[[Ron Kroon]]|NED}} ||align=right| 55.5
 |-valign=top
 | 400&nbsp;m freestyle
-| {{flagathlete|[[Jan Bontekoe]]|NED}} ||align=right| 4:25.6
+| {{flagathlete|[[Johan Bontekoe]]|NED}} ||align=right| 4:25.6
 | {{flagathlete|[[Hans Rosendahl]]|SWE}} ||align=right| 4:25.8
 | {{flagathlete|[[Frank Wiegand]]|GDR}} ||align=right| 4:26.8
@@ Line 74: / Line 97: @@
 | {{flagathlete|[[József Katona (swimmer)|József Katona]]|HUN|1957}} ||align=right| 17:49.5
 | {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Torres (swimmer)|Miguel Torres]]|ESP|1945}} ||align=right| 17:55.6
-| {{flagathlete|[[Richard Champion (swimmer)|Richard Champion]]|GBR}} ||align=right| 17:59.8
+| {{flagathlete|[[Richard Campion (swimmer)|Richard Campion]]|GBR}} ||align=right| 17:59.8
 |-valign=top
 | 200&nbsp;m backstroke
@@ Line 82: / Line 105: @@
 |-valign=top
 | 200&nbsp;m breaststroke
-| {{flagathlete|[[Georgiy Prokopenko]]|URS}} ||align=right| 2:32.8
+| {{flagathlete|[[Georgy Prokopenko]]|URS}} ||align=right| 2:32.8
 | {{flagathlete|[[Ivan Karetnikov]]|URS}} ||align=right| 2:33.2
-| {{flagathlete|[[Robert van Empen]]|NED}} ||align=right| 2:38.1
+| {{flagathlete|[[Rob van Empel]]|NED}} ||align=right| 2:38.1
 |-valign=top
 | 200&nbsp;m butterfly
@@ Line 92: / Line 115: @@
 |-valign=top
 | 400&nbsp;m individual medley
-| {{flagathlete|[[Gennadiy Androsov]]|URS}} ||align=right| 5:01.3
+| {{flagathlete|[[Gennady Androsov]]|URS}} ||align=right| 5:01.3
 | {{flagathlete|[[Jan Jiskoot]]|NED}} ||align=right| 5:05.5
 | {{flagathlete|[[Jürgen Bachmann]]|GDR}} ||align=right| 5:05.9
 |-valign=top
 | 4×100&nbsp;m freestyle relay
-|{{FRA}}<br>[[Alain Gottvallès]]<br>[[Jean-Pascal Gurtillet]]<br>[[Robert Christophe (swimmer)|Robert Christophe]]<br>[[Gérard Gropaiz]] ||align=right| 3:43.7
+|{{FRA}}<br>[[Alain Gottvallès]]<br>[[Jean-Pascal Curtillet]]<br>[[Robert Christophe (swimmer)|Robert Christophe]]<br>[[Gérard Gropaiz]] ||align=right| 3:43.7
-|{{GBR2}}<br>[[Robert Mcgregor]]<br>[[John Martin-dye]]<br>[[Peter Kendrew]]<br>[[Stanley Clarke (swimmer)|Stanley Clarke]] ||align=right| 3:44.7
+|{{GBR2}}<br>[[Bob McGregor]]<br>[[John Martin-Dye]]<br>[[Peter Kendrew]]<br>[[Stanley Clarke (swimmer)|Stanley Clarke]] ||align=right| 3:44.7
-|{{SWE}}<br>[[Bengt-olof Nordvall]]<br>[[Jan Lundin]]<br>[[Mats Svensson]]<br>[[Per-Ola Lindberg]] ||align=right| 3:45.0
+|{{SWE}}<br>[[Bengt-Olof Nordvall]]<br>[[Jan Lundin]]<br>[[Mats Svensson]]<br>[[Per-Ola Lindberg]] ||align=right| 3:45.0
 |-valign=top
 | 4×200&nbsp;m freestyle relay
-|{{SWE}}<br>[[Hans Rosendahl]]<br>[[Per-Ola Lindberg]]<br>[[Mats Svensson]]<br>[[Lars-erik Bengtsson]] ||align=right| 8:18.4
+|{{SWE}}<br>[[Hans Rosendahl]]<br>[[Per-Ola Lindberg]]<br>[[Mats Svensson]]<br>[[Lars-Erik Bengtsson]] ||align=right| 8:18.4
-|{{FRA}}<br>[[Gérard Gropez]]<br>[[Alain Gottvallès]]<br>[[Jean-pascal Curtillet]]<br>[[Robert Christophe (swimmer)|Robert Christophe]] ||align=right| 8:20.4
+|{{FRA}}<br>[[Gérard Gropaiz]]<br>[[Alain Gottvallès]]<br>[[Jean-Pascal Curtillet ]]<br>[[Robert Christophe (swimmer)|Robert Christophe]] ||align=right| 8:20.4
 |{{GDR}}<br>[[Joachim Herbst]]<br>[[Martin Klink]]<br>[[Frank Wiegand]]<br>[[Volker Frischke]] ||align=right| 8:24.6
 |-valign=top
@@ Line 109: / Line 132: @@
 |{{GDR}}<br>[[Jürgen Dietze]]<br>[[Egon Henninger]]<br>[[Horst-Günter Gregor]]<br>[[Frank Wiegand]] ||align=right| 4:09.0
 |{{URS}}<br>[[Veliko Siymar]]<br>[[Leonid Kolesnikov]]<br>[[Valentin Kuzmin]]<br>[[Viktor Konoplyov (swimmer)|Viktor Konoplyov]] ||align=right| 4:10.3
-|{{NED}}<br>[[Jan Weeteling]]<br>[[Wieger Mensonides]]<br>[[Jan Jiskoot]]<br>[[Ronald Kroon]] ||align=right| 4:10.9
+|{{NED}}<br>[[Jan Weeteling]]<br>[[Wieger Mensonides]]<br>[[Jan Jiskoot]]<br>[[Ron Kroon]] ||align=right| 4:10.9
 |}
@@ Line 118: / Line 141: @@
 |{{flagathlete|[[Heidi Pechstein]]|GDR}} ||align=right| 1:03.3
 |{{flagathlete|[[Diana Wilkinson]]|GBR}} ||align=right| 1:03.3
-|{{flagathlete|[[Wilhelmina Tigelaar]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:03.3
+|{{flagathlete|[[Ineke Tigelaar]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:03.3
 |-valign=top
 | 400&nbsp;m freestyle
 | {{flagathlete|[[Adrie Lasterie]]|NED}} ||align=right| 4:52.4
-| {{flagathlete|[[Wilhelmina Tigelaar]]|NED}} ||align=right| 4:57.3
+| {{flagathlete|[[Ineke Tigelaar]]|NED}} ||align=right| 4:57.3
 | {{flagathlete|[[Elisabeth Ljunggren]]|SWE}} ||align=right| 4:58.1
 |-valign=top
 | 100&nbsp;m backstroke
-| {{flagathlete|[[Rita van Velsen]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:10.5
+| {{flagathlete|[[Ria van Velsen]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:10.5
-| {{flagathlete|[[Cornelia Winkel]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:10.7
+| {{flagathlete|[[Corrie Winkel]]|NED}} ||align=right| 1:10.7
 | {{flagathlete|[[Veronika Holletz]]|GDR}} ||align=right| 1:11.3
 |-valign=top
 | 200&nbsp;m breaststroke
 | {{flagathlete|[[Anita Lonsbrough]]|GBR}} ||align=right| 2:50.2
-| {{flagathlete|[[Klena Bimolt]]|NED}} ||align=right| 2:51.2
+| {{flagathlete|[[Klenie Bimolt]]|NED}} ||align=right| 2:51.2
 | {{flagathlete|[[Ursula Küper]]|GDR}} ||align=right| 2:52.2
 |-valign=top
@@ Line 143: / Line 166: @@
 | {{flagathlete|[[Adrie Lasterie]]|NED}} ||align=right| 5:27.8
 | {{flagathlete|[[Anita Lonsbrough]]|GBR}} ||align=right| 5:32.3
-| {{flagathlete|[[Márta Egervári]]|HUN|1957}} ||align=right| 5:33.3
+| {{flagathlete|[[Márta Egerváry]]|HUN|1957}} ||align=right| 5:33.3
 |-valign=top
 | 4×100&nbsp;m freestyle relay
-|{{NED}}<br>[[Cockie Gastelaars]]<br>[[Adrie Lasterie]]<br>[[Erica Terpstra]]<br>[[Ineke Tigelaar]] ||align=right| 4:15.1
+|{{NED}}<br>[[Cocky Gastelaars]]<br>[[Adrie Lasterie]]<br>[[Erica Terpstra]]<br>[[Ineke Tigelaar]] ||align=right| 4:15.1
 |{{GBR2}}<br>[[Linda Amos]]<br>[[Adrienne Brenner]]<br>[[Jennifer Thompson (swimmer)|Jennifer Thompson]]<br>[[Diana Wilkinson]] ||align=right| 4:16.3
-|{{Flag|Hungary|1957}}<br>[[Maria Frank]]<br>[[Zsuzsa Kovács]]<br>[[Csilla Dobai-madarász]]<br>[[Katalin Takacs]] ||align=right| 4:17.5
+|{{HUN}}<br>[[Maria Frank]]<br>[[Zsuzsa Kovács]]<br>[[Csilla Dobai-madarász]]<br>[[Katalin Takacs]] ||align=right| 4:17.5
 |-valign=top
 | 4×100&nbsp;m medley relay
 |{{GDR}}<br>[[Ingrid Schmidt]]<br>[[Barbara Göbel]]<br>[[Ute Noack (swimmer)|Ute Noack]]<br>[[Heidi Pechstein]] ||align=right| 4:40.1
-|{{NED}}<br>[[Ria van Velsen]]<br>[[Klena Bimolt]]<br>[[Ada Kok]]<br>[[Ineke Tigelaar]] ||align=right| 4:42.9
+|{{NED}}<br>[[Ria van Velsen]]<br>[[Klenie Bimolt]]<br>[[Ada Kok]]<br>[[Ineke Tigelaar]] ||align=right| 4:42.9
 |{{GBR2}}<br>[[Linda Ludgrove]]<br>[[Anita Lonsbrough]]<br>[[Mary-Anne Cotterill]]<br>[[Diana Wilkinson]] ||align=right| 4:46.2
 |}
@@ Line 160: / Line 183: @@
 |-valign="top"
 | Men's competition
-| {{wp|HUN|1957}}
+| {{wp|HUN}}
 | {{wp|URS}}<br>{{wp|YUG}}
 | none
@@ Line 170: / Line 193: @@
 ==References==
 {{Refbegin}}
-*{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimec.htm |title=European Swimming Championships (Men) |publisher=GBRSPORTS.COM }}
+*{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimec.htm |title=European Swimming Championships (Men) |publisher=GBRSPORTS.COM |access-date=7 May 2011  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517061839/http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimec.htm |archive-date=17 May 2011 |url-status=live }}
-*{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimecw.htm |title=European Swimming Championships (Women) |publisher=GBRSPORTS.COM }}
+*{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimecw.htm |title=European Swimming Championships (Women) |publisher=GBRSPORTS.COM |access-date=7 May 2011  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517062454/http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimecw.htm |archive-date=17 May 2011 |url-status=live }}
 {{Refend}}
 {{Reflist}}
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 {{LEN swimming champs}}
-[[Category:1962 in aquatics|European Championships]]
+[[Category:1962 in water sports|European Championships]]
-[[Category:1962 in Germany|European Aquatics Championships]]
+[[Category:1962 in East German sport|European Aquatics Championships]]
-[[Category:LEN European Championships]]
+[[Category:LEN European Aquatics Championships]]
-[[Category:Sports festivals in Germany]]
+[[Category:International sports competitions hosted by East Germany]]
-[[Category:Sport in Leipzig|European Aquatics]]
+[[Category:Sports competitions in Leipzig|European Aquatics]]
+[[Category:1962 in German sport]]
+[[Category:International aquatics competitions hosted by Germany]]
-[[de:Schwimmeuropameisterschaften 1962]]
+[[Category:August 1962 sports events in Europe]]
-[[es:Campeonato Europeo de Natación de 1962]]
-[[fr:Championnats d'Europe de natation 1962]]
-[[it:Campionati europei di nuoto 1962]]
-[[pl:Mistrzostwa Europy w Pływaniu 1962]]