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.

  *   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
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	9	27

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

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

• List of European Championships records in swimming