体坛英语资讯：French joy on final day of European swimming championships_娱乐

体坛英语资讯：French joy on final day of European swimming championships

Gold medals won by Frederick Bousquet and the men's 4x100 medley relay team gave France overall top spot in the medals table the European swimming championships which closed here on Sunday.

France finished the meet with 8 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze in the pool events, ahead of Russia in second place with 7-4-1. Britain came third with 6-6-6, while hosts Hungary collected 6-4-3 to finish in fourth place. Sweden (3-3-4), Germany (2-5-2), Denmark (2-2-2), Italy (2-0-4), Norway (2-0-3), Belarus (1-1-0), Spain (1-0-3) and Poland (1-0-1) completed the top 12 in the table.

Bousquet, who set a new meet record in the 50m freestyle semifinal, won the final with a time of 21.49 seconds. Stefan Nystrand of Sweden took silver in 21.69 seconds while Bousquet's compatriot Fabien Gilot came third in 21.76 seconds.

"I came to these European Championships to win the 50 meter freestyle and I did it," Bousquet said.

In the men's 4x100 medley relay, an unstoppable French team (Camille Lacourt, Hugues Duboscq, Frederick Bousquet, Fabien Gilot) set a new championship record of 3:31.32 seconds to cap a magnificent week for French swimming.

"My obligation was to retain the lead given over to me by Lacourt, because Bousquet and Gilot already competed in the 50 meter finals this afternoon," Hugues Duboscq said. "Our entire French swimming team couldn't have dreamed of a better conclusion."

Russia (Stanislav Donets, Roman Sludnov, Evgeny Korotyshkin, Evgeny Lagunov) claimed silver in 3:33.29 seconds while the Netherlands (Nick Driebergen, Lennart Stekelenberg, Joeri Verlinden, Sebastiaan Verschuren) took bronze with a time of 3:33.99.