1926 European Aquatics Championships

The 1926 LEN European Aquatics Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary between 18 and 26 August 1926. At these inaugural championships, only men were allowed to compete.

Medal table

* Host nation (Hungary)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	4	12
2	Sweden	2	3	3	8
3	Hungary*	2	2	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	0	1
5	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
5	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	9	27

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard details	Arthur Mund Germany	186.42	Josef Lechnir Germany	173.52	Július Balász Czechoslovakia	164.72
Platform details	Hans Luber Germany	112.84	Helge Öberg Sweden	107.60	Albert Knight Great Britain	101.60

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	István Bárány Hungary	1:01.0	Arne Borg Sweden	1:01.1	Georg Werner Sweden	1:03.6
400 m freestyle details	Arne Borg Sweden	5:14.2	Herbert Heinrich Germany	5:21.4	Friedrich Berges Germany	5:25.6
1500 m freestyle details	Arne Borg Sweden	21:29.2	Friedrich Berges Germany	22:08.2	Joachim Rademacher Germany	22:19.8
100 m backstroke details	Gustav Fröhlich Germany	1:16.0	Károly Bartha Hungary	1:16.0	Eskil Lundahl Sweden	1:16.1
200 m breaststroke details	Erich Rademacher Germany	2:52.6	Louis Van Parijs Belgium	2:54.8	Wilhelm Prasse Germany	3:00.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Germany August Heitmann Joachim Rademacher Friedrich Berger Herbert Heinrich	9:57.2	Hungary Zoltan Bitskey András Wanié Géza Szigritz István Bárány	10:03.4	Sweden Åke Borg Arne Borg Eskil Lundahl Georg Werner	10:06.8

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's water polo details	Hungary	Sweden	Germany