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

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 free	Árni Már Árnason   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	Árni Már Árnason   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 Þór Jakobsson   Iceland	4:06.14
1500 free	Sindri Þór 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	Davíð Hildiberg Aðalsteinsson   Iceland	58.03	Marios Panagi   Cyprus	1:00.13
200 back	Raphael Stacchiotti   Luxembourg	2:06.37	Davíð Hildiberg Aðalsteinsson   Iceland	2:10.48	Giannis Zinonos   Cyprus	2:11.52
100 breast	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson   Iceland	1:02.75 GR	Árni Már Árnason   Iceland	1:02.85	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	1:03.54
200 breast	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson   Iceland	2:16.34	Hocine Haciane Constantin   Andorra	2:17.10	Árni Már Árnason   Iceland	2:21.55
100 fly	Alexandre Bakhtiarov   Cyprus	54.80	Birkir Már Jónsson   Iceland	56.40	Sebastien Brillouet   Monaco	57.67
200 fly	Sindri Þór 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 Jóhann Sveinsson   Iceland	4:41.15
4x100   free relay	Iceland   Bragi Thorsteinsson,   Davíð Hildiberg Aðalsteinsson,   Birkir Már Jónsson,   Árni Már Árnason	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 Þór Jakobsson,   Davíð Hildiberg Aðalsteinsson,   Árni Már Árnason,   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   Davíð Hildiberg Aðalsteinsson,   Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson,   Birkir Már Jónsson,   Árni Már Árnason	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	Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir   Iceland	25.62 GR	Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir   Iceland	26.69	Rania Pavlou   Cyprus	26.98
100 free	Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir   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	Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir   Iceland	2:05.73
400 free	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	4:19.36 GR	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	4:21.34	Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir   Iceland	4:24.95
800 free	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	8:52.18 GR	Anna Stylianou   Cyprus	9:08.63	Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir   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	Jóhanna Gerða Gústafsdóttir   Iceland	2:19.82	Dana Gales   Luxembourg	2:21.74
100 breast	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir   Iceland	1:11.21 GR	Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir   Iceland	1:12.88	Anastasia Christoforou   Cyprus	1:13.12
200 breast	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir   Iceland	2:32.29 GR	Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir   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 Lúthersdóttir   Iceland	2:19.48 GR	Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir   Iceland	2:22.84	Simona Muccioli   San Marino	2:27.28
400 I.M.	Inga Elín Cryer   Iceland	5:03.56 GR	Julia Hassler   Liechtenstein	5:05.82	Simona Muccioli   San Marino	5:09.45
4x100   free relay	Iceland   Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir,   Jóhanna Gerða Gústafsdóttir	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   Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir,   Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Jóhanna Gerða Gústafsdóttir	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   Jóhanna Gerða Gústafsdóttir,   Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir,   Sarah Blake Bateman,   Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir	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.

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