1981 European Aquatics Championships

Host City	Split
Country	YUG
Held	5 – 12 September 1981
Competitors	645
Countries	27

Events

• Artistic Swimming
• Diving
• Swimming
• Water Polo

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	15	11	3	29
2	Soviet Union	URS	13	11	8	32
3	Great Britain	GBR	3	2	3	8
4	Germany	GER	2	2	4	8
5	Hungary	HUN	2	0	1	3
6	Sweden	SWE	1	4	2	7
7	Yugoslavia	YUG	1	1	1	3
8	Netherlands	NED	0	3	4	7
9	Poland	POL	0	1	3	4
10	Austria	AUT	0	1	2	3
11	Italy	ITA	0	1	1	2
12	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	1	1
=	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1
=	Spain	ESP	0	0	1	1
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Solo, Women	Carolyn Wilson	GBR	Alexandra Worisch	AUT	Marijke Engelen	NED
Duet, Women	Caroline Holmyard / Carolyn Wilson	GBR	Catrien Eijken / Marijke Engelen	NED	Eva-Maria Edinger / Alexandra Worisch	AUT
Team, Women	Great Britain	GBR	Netherlands	NED	Switzerland	SUI
3 m Springboard, Men	Aleksandr Portnov	URS	Sergey Kuzmin	URS	Niki Stajkovic	AUT
10 m Platform, Men	Davit Hambardzumyan	URS	Vladimir Aleynik	URS	Dieter Waskow	GDR
3 m Springboard, Women	Zhanna Tsirulnikova	URS	Martina Jäschke	GDR	Irina Kalinina	URS
10 m Platform, Women	Katrin Zipperling	GDR	Tatyana Belyakova	URS	Martina Jäschke	GDR
100 m Freestyle, Men	Per Johansson	SWE	Jörg Woithe	GDR	Sergey Krasyuk	URS
200 m Freestyle, Men	Sergey Koplyakov	URS	Michael Söderlund	SWE	Thomas Lejdström	SWE
400 m Freestyle, Men	Borut Petrič	YUG	Vladimir Salnikov	URS	Darjan Petrič	YUG
1,500 m Freestyle, Men	Vladimir Salnikov	URS	Borut Petrič	YUG	Rafael Escalas	ESP
4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	Germany	GER
4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER	Sweden	SWE
100 m Backstroke, Men	Sándor Wladár	HUN	Vladimir Shemetov	URS	Viktor Kuznetsov	URS
200 m Backstroke, Men	Sándor Wladár	HUN	Vladimir Shemetov	URS	Frédéric Delcourt	FRA
100 m Breaststroke, Men	Yury Kis	URS	Arsens Miskarovs	URS	Gerald Mörken	GER
200 m Breaststroke, Men	Robertas Žulpa	URS	Arsens Miskarovs	URS	Adrian Moorhouse	GBR
100 m Butterfly, Men	Aleksey Markovsky	URS	Pär Arvidsson	SWE	Vadim Dombrovsky	URS
200 m Butterfly, Men	Michael Groß	GER	Phil Hubble	GBR	Sergey Fesenko	URS
200 m Individual Medley, Men	Aleksandr Sidorenko	URS	Giovanni Franceschi	ITA	Josef Hladký	TCH
400 m Individual Medley, Men	Sergey Fesenko	URS	Leszek Górski	POL	Giovanni Franceschi	ITA
4 x 100 m Medley Relay, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	East Germany	GDR
100 m Freestyle, Women	Caren Metschuck	GDR	Birgit Meineke	GDR	Conny van Bentum	NED
200 m Freestyle, Women	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	Birgit Meineke	GDR	Conny van Bentum	NED
400 m Freestyle, Women	Ines Diers	GDR	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	Jackie Willmott	GBR
800 m Freestyle, Women	Carmela Schmidt	GDR	Ines Diers	GDR	Jackie Willmott	GBR
4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Germany	GER	Netherlands	NED
100 m Backstroke, Women	Ina Kleber	GDR	Cornelia Polit	GDR	Carmen Bunaciu	ROU
200 m Backstroke, Women	Cornelia Polit	GDR	Jolanda de Rover	NED	Larisa Gorchakova	URS
100 m Breaststroke, Women	Ute Geweniger	GDR	Suki Brownsdon	GBR	Larisa Belokon	URS
200 m Breaststroke, Women	Ute Geweniger	GDR	Larisa Belokon	URS	Grażyna Dziedzic	POL
100 m Butterfly, Women	Ute Geweniger	GDR	Ines Geißler	GDR	Karin Seick	GER
200 m Butterfly, Women	Ines Geißler	GDR	Heike Dähne	GDR	Agnieszka Czopek	POL
200 m Individual Medley, Women	Ute Geweniger	GDR	Petra Schneider	GDR	Olga Klevakina	URS
400 m Individual Medley, Women	Petra Schneider	GDR	Ute Geweniger	GDR	Agnieszka Czopek	POL
4 x 100 m Medley Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Water Polo, Men	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN