1993 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The '1st FINA Short Course World Championships' were held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from December 2 till December 5, 1993. PR China won the most gold medals, though all of their ten came in the women's events, with Jingyi Le winning two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Guohong Dai went home with four golds and one silver despite swimming only one relay. In the men's events, USA and Australia won three gold medals each; Tripp Schwenk enjoyed a bite of all three American golds, winning the two backstroke events and also winning as a part of the medley team. Fernando Scherer of Brazil (100 m freestyle and short freestyle relay) and Australian Daniel Kowalski (400 and 1500 m) both won two gold medals.
Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at the short course world championships for men^[1]as of 2006, while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 metre breaststroke.
During the championship, a total of 12 world records were broken, of which ten came in the women's events, and the two men's records to be broken were both relay records.

Contents

Results

Freestyle

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Butterfly

Medley

Final Medal Table

References

Results

Freestyle

M/V	Event	'Gold'	'Time'	'Silver'	'Time'	'Bronze'	'Time'
Men	50 m	Mark Foster	21.84	Bin Hu	21.93	Robert Abernethy	21.97
	100 m	Fernando Scherer	48.38	Gustavo Borges	48.42	Jon Olsen	48.49
	200 m	Antti Kasvio	1:45.21	Trent Bray Artur Wojdat	1:45.53
	400 m	Daniel Kowalski	3:42.95	Antti Kasvio	3:42.98	Paul Palmer	3:45.07
	1500 m	Daniel Kowalski	14:42.04	Jörg Hoffmann	14:53.09	Piotr Albinski	14:53.97
	4x100 m	Fernando Scherer Teofilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges José Carlos Souza	3:12.11 WR		3:12.68		3:15.56
	4x200 m	Christer Wallin Tommy Werner Lars Frölander Anders Holmertz	7:05.92		7:08.63		7:09.36
Women	50 m	Jingyi Le	24.23 WR	Angel Martino	24.93	Linda Olofsson	25.21
	100 m	Jingyi Le	53.01 WR	Angel Martino	53.30	Karen Pickering	54.39
	200 m	Karen Pickering	1:56.25	Susie O'Neill	1:57.16	Bin Lu	1:57.71
	400 m	Janet Evans	4:05.64	Trina Jackson	4:07.49	Julie Majer	4:07.91
	800m	Janet Evans	8:22.43	Julie Majer	8:26.46	Trina Jackson	8:27.50
	4x100 m	Bin Lu Ying Shan Yuanyuan Jia Jingyi Le	3:35.97 WR		3:39.41		3:40.40
	4x200 m	Ying Shan Guanbin Zhou Jingyi Je Bin Lu	7:52.45		7:56.52		8:02.99

Backstroke

M/V	Event	'Gold'	'Time'	'Silver'	'Time'	'Bronze'	'Time'
Men	100 m	Tripp Schwenk	52.98	Martin Harris	53.93	Rodolfo Falcon	54.00
	200 m	Tripp Schwenk	1:54.19	Luca Bianchi	1:55.09	Stefaan Maene	1:54.88
Women	100 m	Angel Martino	58.50 WR	Cihong He	1:00.13	Elli Overton	1:00.18
	200 m	Cihong He	2:06.09 WR	Yuanyuan Jia	2:07.95	Cathleen Rund	2:09.59

Breaststroke

M/V	Event	'Gold'	'Time'	'Silver'	'Time'	'Bronze'	'Time'
Men	100 m	Phil Rogers	59.56	Ron Dekker	59.95	Seth Van Neerden	1:00.08
	200 m	Nick Gillingham	2:07.91 ER	Phil Rogers	2:08.32	Eric Wunderlich	2:08.49
Women	100 m	Guohong Dai	1:06.58 WR	Linley Frame	1:07.65	Samantha Riley	1:07.77
	200 m	Guohong Dai	2:21.99 WR	Hitomi Maehara	2:24.45	Samantha Riley	2:24.75

Butterfly

M/V	Event	'Gold'	'Time'	'Silver'	'Time'	'Bronze'	'Time'
Men	100 m	Milos Milosevic	52.79	Mark Henderson	52.92	Rafał Szukała	52.94
	200 m	Franck Esposito	1:55.42	Christian Keller	1:55.75	Chris-Carol Bremer	1:56.86
Women	100 m	Susie O'Neill	59.19	Limin Liu	59.24	Kristie Krueger	59.53
	200 m	Limin Liu	2:08.51	Susie O'Neill	2:09.08	Petria Thomas	2:09.40

Medley

M/V	Event	'Gold'	'Time'	'Silver'	'Time'	'Bronze'	'Time'
Men	200 m	Christian Keller	1:56.80	Fraser Walker	1:58.35	Curtis Myden	1:59.27
	400 m	Curtis Myden	4:10.41	Sergey Mariniux	4:11.96	Petteri Lehtinen	4:12.30
	4x100 m	Tripp Schwenk Eric Wunderlich Mark Henderson Jon Olsen	3:32.57 WR		3:36.92		3:37.27
Women	200 m	Allison Wagner	2:07.79 WR	Guohong Dai	2:09.21	Elli Overton	2:10.51
	400 m	Guohong Dai	4:29.00 WR	Allison Wagner	4:31.76	Julie Majer	4:37.50
	4x100 m	Jingyi Le Chihong He Limin Liu Guohong Dai	3:57.73 WR		4:00.17		4:01.30

Final Medal Table

RANK	PARTICIPATING NATION	Gold GOLD	Silver SILVER	Bronze BRONZE	TOTAL
1.	China	10	4	1	'15'
2.	United States	7	6	8	'21'
3.	Australia	4	9	8	'21'
4.	Great Britain	3	2	3	'8'
5.	Brazil	2	1	1	'4'
6.	Germany	1	3	2	'6'
7.	Finland	1	1	1	'3'
8.	Canada	1	0	1	'2'
	Sweden	1	0	1	'2'
10.	Croatia	1	0	0	'1'
	France	1	0	0	'1'
12.	Poland	0	1	2	'3'
13.	Italy	0	1	0	'1'
	Japan	0	1	0	'1'
	Moldova	0	1	0	'1'
	Netherlands	0	1	0	'1'
	New Zealand	0	1	0	'1'
	Spain	0	1	0	'1'
19.	Belgium	0	0	1	'1'
	Cuba	0	0	1	'1'
	Russia	0	0	1	'1'
	'TOTALS'	'32'	'32'	'32'	'96'

References

1. History of FINA, Volume III, part 1, pg. 23, PDF retrieved 19 January 2006


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