The organizers of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships, to be held in Berlin, Germany in 2014, have launched the official website of the meet and the event schedule.
There is not much specific news-worthy information on the site yet, with the exception of the day-by-day meet schedule. We’ve embedded the full schedule below – click it to see in full-size.
The pool swimming portion of the meet will run from August 18th-24th, with open water immediately before it from the 13th through the 17th. That’s effectively the same relative timeline as we saw in 2010.
Though we didn’t notice any events that changed days, the order of the races throughout every finals session has changed drastically. For example, the women’s 50 free and 50 breaststroke are no longer back-to-back races as they were in 2010. That could be a huge benefit to the home country’s Dorothea Brandt, who has the potential to medal in both if she can recover in time. Her rest will still be brief, but even the break from the men’s 50 free could be a difference-maker. The women’s 50 free also comes before the women’s 50 breaststroke now, which arguably allows Brandt and anyone else trying the double to focus on the 50 free first (which is probably a more ‘important’ event, regardless of your feeling on the stroke 50’s) and then see what’s left for the 50 breaststroke.
2014 European Championships Schedule