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

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

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Paolo Pucci Italy	56.3	Viktor Polevoy Soviet Union	56.9	Gyula Dobai Hungary	57.5
400 m freestyle	Ian Black Great Britain	4:31.3	Boris Nikitin Soviet Union	4:36.2	Paolo Galletti Italy	4:38.1
1500 m freestyle	Ian Black Great Britain	18:05.8	József Katona Hungary	18:13.0	Gennady Androsov Soviet Union	18:30.2
100 m backstroke	Robert Christophe France	1:03.1	Leonid Barbier Soviet Union	1:03.9	Wolfgang Wagner East Germany	1:05.5
200 m breaststroke	Leonid Kolesnikov Soviet Union	2:41.1	Roberto Lazzari Italy	2:41.3	Klaus Bodinger West Germany	2:41.4
200 m butterfly	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	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	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Kate Jobson Sweden	1:04.7	Cocky Gastelaars Netherlands	1:05.0^[1]	Judy Grinham Great Britain	1:05.4^[1]
400 m freestyle	Jans Koster Netherlands	5:02.6	Corrie Schimmel Netherlands	5:02.6	Nancy Rae Great Britain	5:07.7
100 m backstroke	Judy Grinham Great Britain	1:12.6	Margaret Edwards Great Britain	1:12.9	Larisa Viktorova Soviet Union	1:13.9
200 m breaststroke	Ada den Haan Netherlands	2:52.0	Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain	2:53.5	Wiltrud Urselman West Germany	2:53.8
100 m butterfly	Tineke Lagerberg Netherlands	1:11.9	Atie Voorbij Netherlands	1:12.2	Marta Skupilova Czechoslovakia	1:14.3
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	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	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

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

^ ^a ^b "Results". Archived from the original on 27 March 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
^ "Results". Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2022.