The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 took place in Rijeka, Croatia from 11 to 14 December 2008.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Croatia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	8	2	4	14
2	France (FRA)	7	9	4	20
3	Italy (ITA)	5	5	8	18
4	Netherlands (NED)	5	2	2	9
5	Spain (ESP)	2	3	2	7
6	Croatia (CRO)*	2	0	2	4
7	Slovenia (SLO)	2	0	1	3
8	Germany (GER)	1	3	2	6
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	3	6
10	Austria (AUT)	1	2	1	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	1	4
12	Serbia (SRB)	1	1	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
14	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	4	5
15	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
16	Hungary (HUN)	0	3	1	4
17	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
18	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
20	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		39	38	38	115

Medal summary

Legend:

• WR = World record
• ER = European record
• CR = Championships record

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux  France	20.63	Frédérick Bousquet  France	20.69	Duje Draganja  Croatia Yevgeny Lagunov  Russia	21.15
100 m freestyle	Amaury Leveaux  France	44.94 WR	Fabien Gilot  France	45.84	Filippo Magnini  Italy	46.62
200 m freestyle	Danila Izotov  Russia	1:43.09	Dominik Meichtry   Switzerland	1:43.11	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:43.52
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann  Germany	3:37.73 CR	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	3:39.33	Mads Glæsner  Denmark	3:39.77
1500 m freestyle	Federico Colbertaldo  Italy	14:24.21	Vitaly Romanovich  Russia	14:29.64	Samuel Pizzetti  Italy	14:31.60
50 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets  Russia	23.22	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain	23.28	Ľuboš Križko  Slovakia	23.47
100 m backstroke	Stanislav Donets  Russia	49.32 WR	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain	49.61	Helge Meeuw  Germany	50.89
200 m backstroke	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain Stanislav Donets  Russia	1:49.22 CR			Pierre Roger  France	1:52.26
50 m breaststroke	Matjaž Markič  Slovenia	26.47 CR	Aleksander Hetland  Norway	26.64	Emil Tahirovič  Slovenia	26.66
100 m breaststroke	Igor Borysik  Ukraine	57.33 ER	Hugues Duboscq  France	57.64	James Gibson  Great Britain	57.91
200 m breaststroke	Hugues Duboscq  France	2:04.59 ER	Edoardo Giorgetti  Italy	2:04.98	Igor Borysik  Ukraine	2:05.47
50 m butterfly	Amaury Leveaux  France	22.23	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	22.36 NR	Rafael Muñoz Pérez  Spain	22.46
100 m butterfly	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	49.19 ER	Rafael Muñoz Pérez  Spain	49.74	Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia	49.98
200 m butterfly	Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia	1:50.60 WR	Dinko Jukić  Austria	1:52.31	Maxim Ganikhin  Russia	1:52.32
100 m individual medley	Peter Mankoč  Slovenia	51.97 ER	Christian Galenda  Italy	52.29	James Goddard  Great Britain	52.36
200 m individual medley	James Goddard  Great Britain	1:53.46	Vytautas Janušaitis  Lithuania	1:54.51	Alan Cabello Forns  Spain	1:55.70
400 m individual medley	Dinko Jukić  Austria	4:03.01	Gergő Kis  Hungary	4:03.81	Lukasz Wojt  Poland	4:05.13
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	France Alain Bernard Fabien Gilot Amaury Leveaux Frédérick Bousquet	1:20.77 WB	Italy Alessandro Calvi Marco Orsi Mattia Nalesso Filippo Magnini	1:23.37	Croatia Duje Draganja Alexei Puninski Bruno Barbic Mario Todorović	1:23.68
4 × 50 m medley relay	Italy Mirco di Tora Alessandro Terrin Marco Belotti Filippo Magnini	1:32.91 WB	Russia Stanislav Donets Sergey Geybel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Yevgeny Lagunov  Germany Thomas Rupprath Marco Koch Johannes Dietrich Steffen Deibler	1:33.31

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands	23.55 CR	Hinkelien Schreuder  Netherlands	23.72	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	24.05
100 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands	51.95	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	52.08 NR	Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands	52.22
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	1:51.85 WR	Femke Heemskerk  Netherlands	1:53.79	Daria Belyakina  Russia	1:53.85
400 m freestyle	Coralie Balmy  France	3:56.39	Camille Muffat  France	3:57.48	Alessia Filippi  Italy	3:59.35
800 m freestyle	Alessia Filippi  Italy	8:04.53 WR	Coralie Balmy  France	8:05.32	Lotte Friis  Denmark	8:09.91
50 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović  Croatia	26.23 WR	Kateryna Zubkova  Ukraine	26.65	Elena Gemo  Italy	26.77
100 m backstroke	Sanja Jovanović  Croatia	56.87 ER	Kateryna Zubkova  Ukraine	57.01	Laure Manaudou  France	57.16
200 m backstroke	Alexandra Putra  France	2:02.48	Alexianne Castel  France	2:03.10	Elizabeth Simmonds  Great Britain	2:03.12
50 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva  Russia	29.96	Janne Schaefer  Germany	30.37	Moniek Nijhuis  Netherlands	30.45
100 m breaststroke	Valentina Artemyeva  Russia	1:05.02	Sophie de Ronchi  France	1:05.43	Mirna Jukić  Austria	1:05.64
200 m breaststroke	Alena Alekseeva  Russia	2:19.93	Mirna Jukić  Austria	2:20.48	Patrizia Humplik   Switzerland	2:21.68
50 m butterfly	Hinkelien Schreuder  Netherlands	25.21 ER	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	25.54	Diane Bui Duyet  France	25.55
100 m butterfly	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	56.70 CR NR	Diane Bui Duyet  France	56.83	Eszter Dara  Hungary	56.88
200 m butterfly	Petra Granlund  Sweden	2:04.27	Aurore Mongel  France	2:04.73	Jemma Lowe  Great Britain	2:04.78
100 m individual medley	Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland	59.24 CR NR	Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary	59.49	Francesca Segat  Italy	59.61
200 m individual medley	Francesca Segat  Italy	2:07.03 ER	Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary	2:07.93	Sophie de Ronchi  France	2:08.10
400 m individual medley	Mireia Belmonte García  Spain	4:25.06 WR	Alessia Filippi  Italy	4:26.06	Francesca Segat  Italy	4:27.12
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Hinkelien Schreuder Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marleen Veldhuis	1:33.80 WB	Sweden Petra Granlund Claire Hedenskog Sarah Sjöström Lovisa Ericsson	1:38.00	Germany Dorothea Brandt Petra Dallmann Lisa Vitting Daniela Schreiber	1:38.06
4 × 50 m medley relay	Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo Moniek Nijhuis Hinkelien Schreuder Marleen Veldhuis	1:45.73 WB	Germany Daniela Samulski Janne Schaefer Lena Kalla Petra Dallmann	1:46.84	Italy Elena Gemo Roberta Panara Silvia di Pietro Federica Pellegrini	1:47.05