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.

1993 FINA World Swimming Championships
Host cityPalma de Mallorca
CountrySpain
Opening2 December 1993 (1993-12-02)
Closing5 December 1993 (1993-12-05)

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

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

Results

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Men's

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
50m Freestyle
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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

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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
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Janet Evans
    USA
4:05.64 Trina Jackson
    USA
4:07.49 Julie Majer
    Australia
4:07.91
800m Freestyle
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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
  Lu 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
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  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

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China (CHN)105116
2  United States (USA)76821
3  Australia (AUS)47819
4  Great Britain (GBR)3238
5  Brazil (BRA)2114
6  Germany (GER)1326
7  Finland (FIN)1113
  Sweden (SWE)1113
9  Canada (CAN)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 entries)32333196

References

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  1. ^ HistoFINA, Volume 3a[permanent dead link], 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 Archived 2009-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  • HistoFINA Men[permanent dead link]
  • HistoFINA Women[permanent dead link]
  • (in Norwegian) (ed) Arvid Carlsen Sportsboken 94-95, pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. ISBN 82-516-1543-7.