Swimming at the 2009 Games of the Small States of Europe

Swimming at the 13th Games of the Small States of Europe was held June 2–5, 2009 at the Limassol Swimming Pool in Limassol, Cyprus.^[1] The competition featured 32 events, swum in a long course (50 m) pool. Events for both sexes, by stroke, were:

• freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (women only), and 1500 (men only);
• backstroke: 100 and 200;
• breaststroke: 100 and 200;
• butterfly: 100 and 200;
• individual medley (I.M.): 200 and 400;
• relays: 4×100 free, 4×200 free, and 4×100 medley

Of note about the competition: every women's Games record was bettered, except one (the 200 fly); and all eight participating countries at the Games had swimmers: Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta (women only), Monaco and San Marino.

Competition schedule

session	Tuesday 2 June 2009	Wednesday 3 June 2009	Thursday 4 June 2009	Friday 5 June 2009
preliminary heats ---- 10:00	200 back (w) 100 free (w) 100 free (m) 200 IM (m)	100 back (w) 400 free (w) 100 breast (m) 100 fly (m)	50 free (w) 200 free (w) 200 free (m)	none
finals ---- 18:00	200 back (w) 200 back (m) 200 fly (w) 200 fly (m) 100 free (w) 100 free (m) 200 IM (w) 200 IM (m)	100 back (w) 100 back (m) 400 free (w) 400 free (m) 100 fly (w) 100 fly (m) 100 breast (w) 100 breast (m) 4x200 free relay (w) 4x200 free relay (m)	50 free (w) 50 free (m) 200 breast (w) 200 breast (m) 200 free (w) 200 free (m) 4x100 medley relay (w) 4x100 medley relay (m)	800 free (w) 1500 free (m) 400 IM (w) 400 IM (m) 4x100 free relay (w) 4x100 free relay (m)

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 free	Arni Mar Arnason   Iceland	22.87 GR	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	23.57	Francois-Xavier Paquot   Monaco	23.84
100 free	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	50.80	Alexandre Bakhtiarov   Cyprus	51.36	Arni Mar Arnason   Iceland	51.39
200 free	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	1:50.35 GR	Alexandre Bakhtiarov   Cyprus	1:53.44	Francois-Xavier Paquot   Monaco	1:54.32
400 free	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	4:00.30	Emanuele Nicolini   San Marino	4:04.25	Sindri Thor Jakobsson   Iceland	4:06.14
1500 free	Sindri Thor Jakobsson   Iceland	16:17.74	Emanuele Nicolini   San Marino	16:27.29	Marios Papagiannopoulos   Cyprus	16:28.45
100 back	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	57.05 GR	David Hildibe Adalsteinsson   Iceland	58.03	Marios Panagi   Cyprus	1:00.13
200 back	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	2:06.37	David Hildibe Adalsteinsson   Iceland	2:10.48	Giannis Zinonos   Cyprus	2:11.52
100 breast	Jakob Johann Sveinsson   Iceland	1:02.75 GR	Arni Mar Arnason   Iceland	1:02.85	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	1:03.54
200 breast	Jakob Johann Sveinsson   Iceland	2:16.34	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	2:17.10	Arni Mar Arnason   Iceland	2:21.55
100 fly	Alexandre Bakhtiarov   Cyprus	54.80	Birkir Mar Jonsson   Iceland	56.40	Sebastien Brillouet   Monaco	57.67
200 fly	Sindri Thor Jakobsson   Iceland	2:03.58 GR	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	2:03.79	Pietro Paolo Camilloni   San Marino	2:10.47
200 I.M.	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	2:04.36 GR	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	2:09.29	Sebastien Brillouet   Monaco	2:16.28
400 I.M.	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	4:28.78 GR	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	4:35.77	Jakob Johann Sveinsson   Iceland	4:41.15
4x100   free relay	Iceland   Bragi Thorsteinsson,   David Hildibe Adalsteinsson,   Birkir Mar Jonsson,   Arni Mar Arnason	3:28.80	Monaco   Tomas Molina,   Sebastien Brillouet,   Francois-Xavier Paquot,   Cedric Rousseau	3:32.49	San Marino   Pietro Paolo Camilloni,   Alberto Tasini,   Juan Cruz Guidi,   Emanuele Nicolini	3:43.40
4x200   free relay	Iceland   Sindri Thor Jakobsson,   David Hildibe Adalsteinsson,   Arni Mar Arnason,   Birkir Mar Jonsson	7:45.15	Cyprus   Nicolas Aresti,   Marios Papagiannopoulos,   Alexandros Papagiannopoulos,   Alexandre Bakhtiarov	7:51.07	Monoco   Tomas Molina,   Cedric Rousseau,   Francois-Xavier Paquot,   Sebastien Brillouet	7:52.83
4x100   medley relay	Iceland   David Hildibe Adalsteinsson,   Jakob Johann Sveinsson,   Birkir Mar Jonsson,   Arni Mar Arnason	3:49.99	Cyprus   Marios Panagi,   Georgios Lagos,   Alexandre Bakhtiarov,   Alexandros Arestis	4:01.39	San Marino   Alberto Tasini,   Mattia Guerra,   Pietro Paolo Camilloni,   Emanuele Nicolini	4:21.25

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 free	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir   Iceland	25.62 GR	Ingibjorg Jonsdottir   Iceland	26.69	Rania Pavlou   Cyprus	26.98
100 free	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir   Iceland	55.97 GR	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	56.47	Christine Mailliet   Luxembourg	58.02
200 free	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	2:02.28 GR	Christine Mailliet   Luxembourg	2:05.10	Sigrun Bra Sverrisdottir   Iceland	2:05.73
400 free	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	4:19.36 GR	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	4:21.34	Sigrun Bra Sverrisdottir   Iceland	4:24.95
800 free	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	8:52.18 GR	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	9:08.63	Sigrun Bra Sverrisdottir   Iceland	9:15.67
100 back	Sarah Rolko   Luxembourg	1:03.32 GR	Sarah Blake Bateman   Iceland	1:04.76	Dana Gales   Luxembourg	1:05.70
200 back	Sarah Rolko   Luxembourg	2:15.77 GR	Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir   Iceland	2:19.82	Dana Gales   Luxembourg	2:21.74
100 breast	Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir   Iceland	1:11.21 GR	Erla Dogg Haraldsdottir   Iceland	1:12.88	Anastasia Christoforou   Cyprus	1:13.12
200 breast	Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir   Iceland	2:32.29 GR	Erla Dogg Haraldsdottir   Iceland	2:36.16	Aurelie Waltzing   Luxembourg	2:44.21
100 fly	Anna Schoholeva   Cyprus	1:01.00 GR	Sarah Blake Bateman   Iceland	1:02.72	Christine Mailliet   Luxembourg	1:02.94
200 fly	Simona Muccioli   San Marino	2:18.21	Anna Schoholeva   Cyprus	2:19.56	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	2:21.03
200 I.M.	Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir   Iceland	2:19.48 GR	Erla Dogg Haraldsdottir   Iceland	2:22.84	Simona Muccioli   San Marino	2:27.28
400 I.M.	Inga Elin Cryer   Iceland	5:03.56 GR	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	5:05.82	Simona Muccioli   San Marino	5:09.45
4x100   free relay	Iceland   Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Ingibjorg Jonsdottir,   Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	3:52.06 GR	Luxembourg   Christine Mailliet,   Sarah Rolko,   Kim Nickels,   Dana Gales	3:59.05	Cyprus   Rania Pavlou,   Anastasia Christoforou,   Stella Papamiltiadous,   Anna Stylianou	4:03.57
4x200   free relay	Iceland   Sigrun Bra Sverrisdottir,   Ingibjorg Jonsdottir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	8:33.25 GR, NR	Luxembourg   Christine Mailliet,   Sarah Rolko,   Christina Roch,   Dana Gales	8:37.86	Cyprus   Rania Pavlou,   Anna Schoholeva,   Marilena Georgiou,   Anna Stylianou	8:39.16
4x100   medley relay	Iceland   Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir,   Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir	4:15.26 GR, NR	Cyprus   Sofia Papadopoulou,   Anastasia Christoforou,   Anna Schoholeva,   Anna Stylianou	4:21.54	Luxembourg   Sarah Rolko,   Aurelie Waltzing,   Christine Mailliet,   Kim Nickels	4:23.29

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iceland	17	11	7	35
2	Luxembourg	9	4	6	19
3	Cyprus	4	8	7	19
4	Liechtenstein	1	2	1	4
5	Andorra	-	4	1	5
6	San Marino	-	2	5	7
7	Monaco	-	1	5	6

Note:  Malta was the only country not to medal in Swimming.

References

1. Results page from the website of the XIII Games of the Small States of Europe (www.cyprus2009.org.cy). Published 2009-06-08, retrieved 2012-03-16.