Swedish Swimming Championships


The Swedish Swimming Championships are held annually in the Swedish summer in outdoor 50 m pool. The championships sometimes also works as trials for the Summer Olympics, World Championships and European Championships. Swimmers representing Swedish swim teams may participate.

History

The first Swedish Swimming Championship was held in 1899 and in the beginning the championships were held in lakes or seas. During the 1920s and 1930s next to all championships were held in Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm, but when it was demolished the championships started to move around Sweden.
Since 1988 the Senior's and Junior's Swedish Championships are hosted together with timed finals for the Junior's in the morning together with the prelims for the older swimmer.
The swimmer with the most individual gold medals is Anders Holmertz with 39 titles, before Therese Alshammar with 34, Arne Borg with 30, Lars Frölander with 27 titles and Robert Andersson with 24 titles. Of them, Therese Alshammar and Lars Frölander are the only swimmer still active.

Champions

NameClubsTitlesYearsBest event
Motala SS, Spårvägens SF391984–199613 400 m freestyle
Järfälla SS, SK Neptun341993–200709 50 m freestyle, 50 m backstroke
Stockholms KK301919–192909 500 m freestyle
Borlänge SS, Sundsvalls SS, Linköpings ASS271993–200710 100 m butterfly
Stockholms KK241906–191905 200 m freestyle, 500 m freestyle
Norrköpings KK231936–194406 400 m freestyle
Malmö SS211967–197305 400 m freestyle, 200 m IM
Täby Sim211997–200307 400 m IM
Hofors AIF, IF Elfsborg211947–195509 400 m freestyle
SK Neptun211911–192106 200 m breaststroke, 400 m breaststroke
SoIK Hellas201937–194911 100 m freestyle
Malmö KK192002–200607 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke
Stockholms KK191937–194911 200 m breaststroke
Västerås SS181979–198704 400 m freestyle, 400 m IM
Malmö KK171986–199206 400 m IM
Simavdelningen 1902171969–197506 400 m IM
Väsby SS162001–200707 200 m freestyle
Västerås SS161979–198706 100 m butterfly
Väsby SS151998–200306 400 m IM
SK Neptun151909–191805 500 m freestyle

Venues