The 1962 European Aquatics Championships were held in Leipzig, East Germany from 18 to 25 August 1962. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men). In the men's swimming program, the 100 m backstroke had been replaced by the 200 m backstroke. Furthermore, the 400 m individual medley and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay were introduced. In women's swimming, the 400 m individual medley was introduced.

  *   Host nation (East Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	6	5	5	16
2	East Germany*	5	5	7	17
3	Soviet Union	4	4	3	11
4	Great Britain	2	5	2	9
5	France	2	1	0	3
6	Hungary	2	0	3	5
7	Sweden	1	2	2	5
8	Austria	1	0	0	1
9	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		23	24	22	69

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT)	147.21	Hans-Dieter Pophal (GDR)	145.70	Boris Polulyakh (URS)	145.20
10 m platform	Brian Phelps (GBR)	150.81	Rolf Sperling (GDR)	148.24	Gennadiy Galkin (URS)	143.18

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Ingrid Krämer (GDR)	153.57	Christiane Lanzke (GDR)	137.78	Natalya Kuznetsova (URS)	133.78
10 m platform	Ingrid Krämer (GDR)	107.96	Ninel Krutova (URS)	95.92	Gabriele Schöpe (GDR)	90.88

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Alain Gottvallès (FRA)	55.0	Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE)	55.5	Ron Kroon (NED)	55.5
400 m freestyle	Johan Bontekoe (NED)	4:25.6	Hans Rosendahl (SWE)	4:25.8	Frank Wiegand (GDR)	4:26.8
1500 m freestyle	József Katona (HUN)	17:49.5	Miguel Torres (ESP)	17:55.6	Richard Campion (GBR)	17:59.8
200 m backstroke	Leonid Barbier (URS)	2:16.6	Wolfgang Wagner (GDR)	2:17.9	József Csikány (HUN)	2:18.5
200 m breaststroke	Georgy Prokopenko (URS)	2:32.8	Ivan Karetnikov (URS)	2:33.2	Rob van Empel (NED)	2:38.1
200 m butterfly	Valentin Kuzmin (URS)	2:14.2	Brian Jenkins (GBR)	2:15.6	Wolfgang Sieber (GDR)	2:18.0
400 m individual medley	Gennady Androsov (URS)	5:01.3	Jan Jiskoot (NED)	5:05.5	Jürgen Bachmann (GDR)	5:05.9
4×100 m freestyle relay	France Alain Gottvallès Jean-Pascal Curtillet Robert Christophe Gérard Gropaiz	3:43.7	Great Britain Bob McGregor John Martin-Dye Peter Kendrew Stanley Clarke	3:44.7	Sweden Bengt-Olof Nordvall Jan Lundin Mats Svensson Per-Ola Lindberg	3:45.0
4×200 m freestyle relay	Sweden Hans Rosendahl Per-Ola Lindberg Mats Svensson Lars-Erik Bengtsson	8:18.4	France Gérard Gropaiz Alain Gottvallès Jean-Pascal Curtillet Robert Christophe	8:20.4	East Germany Joachim Herbst Martin Klink Frank Wiegand Volker Frischke	8:24.6
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Jürgen Dietze Egon Henninger Horst-Günter Gregor Frank Wiegand	4:09.0	Soviet Union Veliko Siymar Leonid Kolesnikov Valentin Kuzmin Viktor Konoplyov	4:10.3	Netherlands Jan Weeteling Wieger Mensonides Jan Jiskoot Ron Kroon	4:10.9

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Heidi Pechstein (GDR)	1:03.3	Diana Wilkinson (GBR)	1:03.3	Ineke Tigelaar (NED)	1:03.3
400 m freestyle	Adrie Lasterie (NED)	4:52.4	Ineke Tigelaar (NED)	4:57.3	Elisabeth Ljunggren (SWE)	4:58.1
100 m backstroke	Ria van Velsen (NED)	1:10.5	Corrie Winkel (NED)	1:10.7	Veronika Holletz (GDR)	1:11.3
200 m breaststroke	Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)	2:50.2	Klenie Bimolt (NED)	2:51.2	Ursula Küper (GDR)	2:52.2
100 m butterfly	Ada Kok (NED)	1:09.0	Ute Noack (GDR)	1:10.0	Marianne Heemskerk (NED)	1:10.3
400 m individual medley	Adrie Lasterie (NED)	5:27.8	Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)	5:32.3	Márta Egerváry (HUN)	5:33.3
4×100 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Cocky Gastelaars Adrie Lasterie Erica Terpstra Ineke Tigelaar	4:15.1	Great Britain Linda Amos Adrienne Brenner Jennifer Thompson Diana Wilkinson	4:16.3	Hungary Maria Frank Zsuzsa Kovács Csilla Dobai-madarász Katalin Takacs	4:17.5
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany Ingrid Schmidt Barbara Göbel Ute Noack Heidi Pechstein	4:40.1	Netherlands Ria van Velsen Klenie Bimolt Ada Kok Ineke Tigelaar	4:42.9	Great Britain Linda Ludgrove Anita Lonsbrough Mary-Anne Cotterill Diana Wilkinson	4:46.2

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's competition	Hungary	Soviet Union  Yugoslavia	none

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