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The European Short Course Championships are held every year in winter, usually in December. The SC Championships are a Short Course (25 m pool) swimming competition organised by LEN

Ligue Européenne de Natation

Ligue Européenne de Natation or LEN is the European governing body for aquatic sports affiliated to FINA—it is the Continental Association for Europe. It was founded in 1927 in Bologna, Italy....

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Europe

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's main swimming governing body. Prior to 1996, the competition was called the European Sprint Swimming Championships.

Venues

Year	Host City	Country	Date
1991 European Sprint Swimming Championships 1991 The LEN European Sprint Swimming Championships 1991 were the first edition of what later would become the European Short Course Championships. It was held in Gelsenkirchen, Germany from 6–8 December 1991, and was organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation...	Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....	Germany	6–8 December
1992 European Sprint Swimming Championships 1992 The LEN European Sprint Swimming Championships 1992 were the second edition of what later would become the European Short Course Championships. It was held in Espoo, Finland from 21–22 December 1991, and was organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation...	Espoo Espoo Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....	Finland	21–22 December
1993 European Sprint Swimming Championships 1993 The third edition of the European Sprint Swimming Championships 1993 were held in Gateshead, United Kingdom, from 11–13 November. The championships were organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation , with events held in a short course pool....	Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...	United Kingdom	11–13 November
1994 European Sprint Swimming Championships 1994 The fourth edition of what later would be the European Short Course Championships was held in Stavanger, Norway, from 3 December to 4 December 1994. The event was named the European Sprint Swimming Championships. Only the 50 m events and the 100 m individual medley were at stake.-Medal...	Stavanger Stavanger Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...	Norway	3–4 December
1996	Rostock Rostock Rostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...	Germany	13–15 December
1998	Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...	United Kingdom	11–13 December
1999	Lisbon Lisbon Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...	Portugal	9–12 December
2000	Valencia	Spain	14–17 December
2001	Antwerpen	Belgium	13–16 December
2002	Riesa Riesa Riesa is a town in the district of Meißen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is located at the river Elbe, approx. 40 km northwest of Dresden.The world's first 110 kV power line was inaugurated between Riesa and Lauchhammer in 1912....	Germany	12–15 December
2003	Dublin	Republic of Ireland	11–14 December
2004	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...	Austria	9–12 December
2005	Trieste Trieste Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...	Italy	8–11 December
2006 European Short Course Swimming Championships 2006 The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2006 were held in Helsinki, Finland, from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 December. The venue of the event was the aquatic center of Mäkelänrinteen uintikeskus, which last hosted a major event at the pre-Olympic 2000 European Aquatics Championships.Three...	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...	Finland	7–10 December
2007 European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 was the fifteenth edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships, held in Debrecen, Hungary between 13–16 December...	Debrecen Debrecen Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...	Hungary	13–16 December
2008	Rijeka Rijeka Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...	Independent State of Croatia	11–14 December
2009	Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...	Turkey	10–13 December
2010 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships The 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships is held at Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 November 2010....	Eindhoven	Netherlands	25–28 November
2011 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships The 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships will be held in Szczecin, Poland, from December 8 to 11, 2011.The event is held over four days with heats, semifinals and a final for the 50 m and 100 m events and heats and a final for all other events with the exception of the...	Szczecin Szczecin Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....	Poland	8–11 December
2012	Chartres Chartres Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...	Early Modern France	22–25 November

Medal table (1991-2010)

1		125	119	102	346
2		69	55	38	162
3		62	40	30	132
4	/	45	42	57	144
5		41	41	43	125
6		37	50	60	147
7		32	26	26	84
8		30	27	22	79
9		27	19	15	61
10		21	22	17	60
11		19	7	7	33
12		15	13	20	48
13		13	10	14	37
14		12	14	11	37
15		11	15	13	39
16		9	18	21	48
17		9	10	13	32
18		8	16	20	44
19		6	2	2	10
20	/	5	4	2	11
21		4	5	8	17
22		3	5	10	18
23		2	6	9	17
24		2	1	1	4
25		1	0	3	4
26		0	7	6	13
27		0	3	5	8
28		0	3	3	6
29		0	1	6	7
30		0	1	5	6
31		0	1	2	3
32		0	1	1	2
33		0	1	0	1
Total		608	585	592	1785

Venues

Medal table (1991-2010)

See also