1995 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The '2nd FINA Short Course World Championships' were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from November 30 until December 3, 1995.
This event was considered a trailblazer in the aspect of the organization of major championships in Swimming. The innovation consisted in the introduction of the concept of purpose-built facilities for the event only.
Until the 1995 short course world championships, World Championships, in all pool lengths, were held at already-existing swimming pools, usually at clubs or facilities that had been built for previous sporting events. This limited the possibilities for organizers, especially in terms of making the event as attractive to the public and the media as possible.
For this event, the organizers built an outdoors, temporary swimming pool on the sands of the Copacabana beach (near the border with the neighboring Leme beach). This initiative not only added to the aesthetic aspect of the event, by associating with it the natural beauty offered by the city of Rio de Janeiro, but it also created the possibility of making available, at smaller costs and in a much faster fashion, a facility that was much larger and more modern than anything that the city had to offer at the time.
Since then, recent Swimming events, such as the 2004 Short Course World Championships, held in Indianapolis, in the United States and the 2007 Long Course Championships, held in Melbourne, Australia, used the formula developed by the organizers of the 1995 Short Course Championships, by building temporary, purpose-built facilities for their respective events — in the case of the 2004 Short Course Championships in Indianapolis, the pool was assembled on top of a Basketball court, at a local team's gymnasium, and the organizing committee made repeated references to the "eye-opening event in Rio de Janeiro in 1995" in their decision of using a Basketball facility as the basis for the swimming facilities.

Men's Events

50 m Freestyle

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Francisco Sánchez	VEN	'21.80'
Silver	Fernando Scherer	BRA	'22.08'
Bronze	Changji Jiang	CHN	'22.17'

100 m Freestyle

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Fernando Scherer	BRA	'47.97'
Silver	Gustavo Borges	BRA	'48.00'
Bronze	Francisco Sánchez	VEN	'48.46'

200 m Freestyle

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Gustavo Borges	BRA	'1:45.55'
Silver	Trent Bray	NZL	'1:46.18'
Bronze	Michael Klim	AUS	'1:46.44'

400 m Freestyle

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Daniel Kowalski	AUS	'3:45.15'
Silver	Jörg Hoffmann	GER	'3:45.65'
Bronze	Malcolm Allen	AUS	'3:47.00'

1500 m Freestyle

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Daniel Kowalski	AUS	'14:48.51'
Silver	Ian Wilson	GBR	'14:49.72'
Bronze	Jörg Hoffmann	GER	'15:05.36'

100 m Backstroke

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Rodolfo Falcon	CUB	'53.12'
Silver	Neil Willey	GBR	'53.22'
Bronze	Jirka Letzin	GER	'53.65'

200 m Backstroke

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Rodolfo Falcon	CUB	'1:55.16'
Silver	Chris Renaud	CAN	'1:55.27'
Bronze	Tamás Deutsch	HUN	'1:56.18'

100 m Breaststroke

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Mark Warnecke	GER	'59.89'
Silver	Paul Kent	NZL	'1:00.14'
Bronze	Stanislav Lopukhov	RUS	'1.00.33'

200 m Breaststroke

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Yiwu Wang	CHN	'2:11.11'
Silver	Ryan Mitchell	AUS	'2:11.46'
Bronze	Jean-Lionel Rey	FRA	'2.11.92'

100 m Butterfly

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Scott Miller	AUS	'52.38'
Silver	Denis Pimankov	RUS	'52.64'
Bronze	Michael Klim	AUS	'52.80'

200 m Butterfly

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Scott Goodman	AUS	'1:54.79'
Silver	Scott Miller	AUS	'1:56.36'
Bronze	Chris-Carol Bremer	GER	'1:57.30'

200 m Individual Medley

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Matthew Dunn	AUS	'1:56.86'
Silver	Curtis Myden	CAN	'1:58.56'
Bronze	Marcin Maliński	POL	'1:58.61'

400 m Individual Medley

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Matthew Dunn	AUS	'4:08.02'
Silver	Curtis Myden	CAN	'4:09.39'
Bronze	Marcin Maliński	POL	'4:10.37'

4×100 m Freestyle Relay

RANK	NAME ATHLETES	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Fernando Scherer / Alexandre Massura / André Cordeiro / Gustavo Borges	BRA	'3:12.42'
Silver	Brett Hawke / Michael Klim / Richard Upton / Matthew Dunn	AUS	'3:17.27'
Bronze	Ivan Nicolae / Razvan Petcu / Alexandru Ioanavici / Nicolae Butacu	ROM	'3:17.40'

4×200 m Freestyle Relay

RANK	NAME ATHLETES	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Michael Klim / Matthew Dunn / Malcolm Allen / Daniel Kowalski	AUS	'7:07.97'
Silver	Chris-Carol Bremer / Steffen Zesner / Torsten Spanneberg / Jörg Hoffmann	GER	'7:13.42'
Bronze	Cassiano Leal / Fernando Zaez / Teofilo Ferreira / Gustavo Borges	BRA	'7:13.64'

4×100 m Medley Relay

RANK	NAME ATHLETES	COUNTRY	TIME
Gold	Jonathan Winter / Paul Kent / Murray Burdan / Nicholas Tongue	NZL	'3:35.69'
Silver	Adrian Radley / Robert van der Zant / Scott Miller / Michael Klim	AUS	'3:36.35'
Bronze	Sergei Sudakov / Alexander Tkachev / Denis Pimankov / Yuri Mukhin	RUS	'3:36.88'