1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course (25 meter) pool. During the championships, a total of 12 world records were broken: 10 in the women's events and 2 in men's events, both in relays.

China won the most events, ten, all in women's events. Le Jingyi won two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Dai Guohong went home with four golds and one silver. In the men's events, the USA and Australia won three events each. Tripp Schwenk of the USA garnered three golds, winning the two backstroke events and also swimming on the USA's winning medley relay team. Also winning 2 events each on the men's side were Fernando Scherer of Brazil (100m freestyle; 400m freestyle relay), Daniel Kowalski of Australia (400m and 1500m freestyles). Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at a Short Course Worlds (through 2006), while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 butterfly.[1]

Participating nations

The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46[2] nations:[3]


Results

Men's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50m Freestyle
  details
Mark Foster
  Great Britain
21.84 Hu Bin
  China
21.93 Robert Abernethy
  Australia
21.97
100m Freestyle
  details
Fernando Scherer
  Brazil
48.38 Gustavo Borges
  Brazil
48.42 Jon Olsen
  USA
48.49
200m Freestyle
  details
Antti Kasvio
  Finland
1:45.21 Trent Bray
  New Zealand

Artur Wojdat
  Poland
1:45.53   not awarded
400m Freestyle
  details
Daniel Kowalski
  Australia
3:42.95 Antti Kasvio
  Finland
3:42.98 Paul Palmer
  Great Britain
3:45.07
1500m Freestyle
  details
Daniel Kowalski
  Australia
14:42.04 Jörg Hoffmann
  Germany
14:53.09 Piotr Albinski
  Poland
14:53.97
100m Backstroke
  details
Tripp Schwenk
  USA
52.98 Martin Harris
  Great Britain
53.93 Rodolfo Falcón
  Cuba
54.00
200m Backstroke
  details
Tripp Schwenk
  USA
1:54.19 Luca Bianchi
  Italy
1:55.09 Stefaan Maene
  Belgium
1:55.68
100m Breaststroke
  details
Phil Rogers
  Australia
59.56 Ron Dekker
  Netherlands
59.95 Seth Van Neerden
  USA
1:00.08
200m Breaststroke
  details
Nick Gillingham
  Great Britain
2:07.91
ER
Phil Rogers
  Australia
2:08.32 Eric Wunderlich
  USA
2:08.49
100m Butterfly
  details
Miloš Milošević
  Croatia
52.79 Mark Henderson
  USA
52.92 Rafał Szukała
  Poland
52.94
200m Butterfly
  details
Franck Esposito
  France
1:55.42 Christian Keller
  Germany
1:55.75 Chris-Carol Bremer
  Germany
1:56.86
200m I.M.
  details
Christian Keller
  Germany
1:56.80 Fraser Walker
  Great Britain
1:58.35
NR
Curtis Myden
  Canada
1:59.27
400 I.M.
  details
Curtis Myden
  Canada
4:10.41 Serghei Mariniuc
  Moldova
4:11.96 Petteri Lehtinen
  Finland
4:12.33
4 × 100 m
  Freestyle Relay
  details
Brazil
  Fernando Scherer
  Teófilo Ferreira
  Gustavo Borges
  José Carlos Souza
3:12.11
WR
USA
  David Fox
  Seth Pepper
  Jon Olsen
  Mark Henderson
3:12.68 Russia
  Roman Shegolev
  Vladislav Kulikov
  Vladimir Predkin
  Yury Mukhin
3:15.56
4 × 200 m
  Freestyle Relay
  details
Sweden
  Christer Wallin
  Tommy Werner
  Lars Frölander
  Anders Holmertz
7:05.92 Germany
  Christian Tröger
  Christian Keller
  Chris-Carol Bremer
  Jörg Hoffmann
7:08.63 Brazil
  Gustavo Borges
  Teófilo Ferreira
  José Carlos Souza
  Cassiano Leal
7:09.38
SA
4 × 100 m
  Medley Relay
  details
USA
  Tripp Schwenk
  Seth Van Neerden
  Mark Henderson
  Jon Olsen
3:32.57
WR
Spain
  Carlos Ventosa
  Sergio López
  Joaquín Fernández
  José Maria Rojano
3:36.92 Great Britain
  Martin Harris
  Nick Gillingham
  Mike Fibbens
  Mark Foster
3:37.27

Women's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50m Freestyle
  details
LE Jingyi
  China
24.23
WR
Angel Martino
  USA
24.93 Linda Olofsson
  Sweden
25.21
100m Freestyle
  details
LE Jingyi
  China
53.01
WR
Angel Martino
  USA
53.39 Karen Pickering
  Great Britain
54.39
200m Freestyle
  details
Karen Pickering
  Great Britain
1:56.25 Susie O'Neill
  Australia
1:57.16 Lü Bin
  China
1:57.71
400m Freestyle
  details
Janet Evans
  USA
4:05.64 Trina Jackson
  USA
4:07.49 Julie Majer
  Australia
4:07.91
800m Freestyle
  details
Janet Evans
  USA
8:22.43 Julie Majer
  Australia
8:26.46 Trina Jackson
  USA
8:27.50
100m Backstroke
  details
Angel Martino
  USA
58.50
WR
He Cihong
  China
1:00.13 Elli Overton
  Australia
1:00.18
200m Backstroke
  details
He Cihong
  China
2:06.09
WR
Jia Yuanyuan
  China
2:07.95 Cathleen Rund
  Germany
2:09.59
100m Breaststroke
  details
DAI Guohong
  China
1:06.58
WR
Linley Frame
  Australia
1:07.65 Samantha Riley
  Australia
1:07.77
200m Breaststroke
  details
DAI Guohong
  China
2:21.99
WR
Hitomi Maehara
  Japan
2:24.45 Samantha Riley
  Australia
2:24.75
100m Butterfly
  details
Susie O'Neill
  Australia
59.19 LIU Limin
  China
59.24 Kristie Krueger
  USA
59.53
200m Butterfly
  details
LIU Limin
  China
2:08.51 Susie O'Neill
  Australia
2:09.08 Petria Thomas
  Australia
2:09.40
200m I.M.
  details
Allison Wagner
  USA
2:07.79
WR
DAI Guohong
  China
2:09.21 Elli Overton
  Australia
2:10.51
400 I.M.
  details
DAI Guohong
  China
4:29.00
WR
Allison Wagner
  USA
4:31.76 Julie Majer
  Australia
4:37.50
4 × 100 m
  Freestyle Relay
  details
China
  Lü Bin
  SHAN Ying
  Jia Yuanyuan
  LE Jingyi
3:35.97
WR
Sweden
  Ellenor Svensson
  Linda Olofsson
  Suzanne Lööv
  Louise Jöhncke
3:39.41 USA
  Angel Martino
  Sarah Perroni
  Kristie Krueger
  Paige Wilson
3:40.40
4 × 200 m
  Freestyle Relay
  details
China
  SHAN Ying
  ZHOU Guanbin
  LE Jingyi
  Lü Bin
7:52.45
WR
Australia
  Tammy Bruce
  Elli Overton
  Anna Windsor
  Susie O'Neill
7:56.52 USA
  Paige Wilson
  Sarah Perroni
  Trina Jackson
  Janet Evans
8:02.99
4 × 100 m
  Medley Relay
  details
China
  LE Jingyi
  HE Cihong
  LIU Limin
  DAI Guohong
3:57.73
WR
Australia
  Elli Overton
  Linley Frame
  Petria Thomas
  Susie O'Neill
4:00.17 USA
  Angel Martino
  Kelli King
  Kristie Krueger
  Sarah Perroni
4:01.30

Medal standings

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)104115
2 United States (USA)76821
3 Australia (AUS)49821
4 Great Britain (GBR)3238
5 Brazil (BRA)2114
6 Germany (GER)1326
7 Finland (FIN)1113
8 Canada (CAN)1012
 Sweden (SWE)1012
10 Croatia (CRO)1001
 France (FRA)1001
12 Poland (POL)0123
13 Italy (ITA)0101
 Japan (JPN)0101
 Moldova (MDA)0101
 Netherlands (NED)0101
 New Zealand (NZL)0101
 Spain (ESP)0101
19 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Cuba (CUB)0011
 Russia (RUS)0011
Totals (21 nations)32333196


References

  1. HistoFINA, Volume 3a, p. 23, PDF published by FINA in 2006; retrieved 2011-06-25. (HistoFINA is FINA's self-history; Volume 3 deals with the Short Course Worlds, part "a" with the Men's events, part "b" with the women's events.)
  2. FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), 1993-2008 - A story of success Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, by Pedro Adrega. Published by FINA in 2008; retrieved 2012-03-07.
  3. Participating nations list Archived 2012-09-12 at Archive.today for the 1993 Short Course Worlds, published by SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (NOTE: FINA states that 46 nations were present, however, SwimRanking's list has 45.)
  • scmsom results
  • HistoFINA Men
  • HistoFINA Women
  • (in Norwegian) (ed) Arvid Carlsen Sportsboken 94-95, pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. ISBN 82-516-1543-7.
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