The 1926 LEN European Aquatics Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary between 18 and 26 August 1926. At these inaugural championships, only men were allowed to compete.

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	4	12
2	Sweden	2	3	3	8
3	Hungary*	2	2	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	0	1
5	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	9	27

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard details	Arthur Mund  Germany	186.42	Josef Lechnir  Germany	173.52	Július Balász  Czechoslovakia	164.72
Platform details	Hans Luber  Germany	112.84	Helge Öberg  Sweden	107.60	Albert Knight  Great Britain	101.60

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	István Bárány  Hungary	1:01.0	Arne Borg  Sweden	1:01.1	Georg Werner  Sweden	1:03.6
400 m freestyle details	Arne Borg  Sweden	5:14.2	Herbert Heinrich  Germany	5:21.4	Friedrich Berges  Germany	5:25.6
1500 m freestyle details	Arne Borg  Sweden	21:29.2	Friedrich Berges  Germany	22:08.2	Joachim Rademacher  Germany	22:19.8
100 m backstroke details	Gustav Fröhlich  Germany	1:16.0	Károly Bartha  Hungary	1:16.0	Eskil Lundahl  Sweden	1:16.1
200 m breaststroke details	Erich Rademacher  Germany	2:52.6	Louis Van Parijs  Belgium	2:54.8	Wilhelm Prasse  Germany	3:00.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Germany August Heitmann Joachim Rademacher Friedrich Berger Herbert Heinrich	9:57.2	Hungary Zoltan Bitskey András Wanié Géza Szigritz István Bárány	10:03.4	Sweden Åke Borg Arne Borg Eskil Lundahl Georg Werner	10:06.8

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's water polo details	Hungary	Sweden	Germany

• List of European Championships records in swimming