| Swimming at the II Summer Universiade | |
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The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1]
Men’s events[edit]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m freestyle |  Keigo Shimizu (JPN) |
57.4 |  Andrzej Salamon (POL) |
57.6 | Kiyoshi Fukui (JPN) |
57.9 |
| 400 m freestyle | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) |
4:30.9 |  Murray McLachlan (RSA) |
4:32.3 | Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) |
4:35.1 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Murray McLachlan (RSA) |
18:19.8 | Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) |
18:21.6 | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) |
18:23.1 |
| 100 m backstroke | Shigeo Fukushima (JPN) |
1:05.3 |  Vsevolod Tarasov (URS) |
1:05.8 |  Vlastimil Kreek (TCH) |
1:05.9 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Yuriy Funikov (URS) |
2:41.4 | Yoshiaki Shikiishi (JPN) |
2:41.5 |  Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG) |
2:43.2 |
| 200 m butterfly | Haruo Yoshimuta (JPN) |
2:20.2 | Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS) |
2:25.5 | Hermann Lotter (FRG) |
2:28.8 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Japan (JPN) Keigo Shimizu(57.9) Kiyoshi Fukui(57.9) Haruo Yoshimuta(56.2) Tatsuo Fujimoto(56.7) |
3:48.7 | Soviet Union (URS) |
3:57.2 |  Hungary (HUN) |
3:58.1 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Japan (JPN) Shigeo Fukushima(1:04.4) Yoshiaki Shikiishi(1:13.9) Haruo Yoshimuta(1:11.9) Tatsuo Fujimoto (56.9) |
4:17.1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
4:18.5 | Soviet Union (URS) |
4:21.4 |
Women’s events[edit]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m freestyle |  Anna Karin Larsson (SWE) |
1:07.6 |  Hilda Zeier (YUG) |
1:07.7 | Anna Ragasová (TCH) |
1:08.1 |
| 400 m freestyle | Hilda Zeier (YUG) |
5:14.4 | Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz (POL) |
5:38.0 | Ludmila Kottková (TCH) |
5:45.1 |
| 100 m backstroke | Larisa Viktorova (URS) |
1:13.6 | Magdolna Dávid (HUN) |
1:16.1 |  Maria Both (ROM) |
1:16.7 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Sanda Iordan (ROM) |
2:59.6 |  Christine Gosden (GBR) |
3:00.8 | Alla Kovalenko (URS) |
3:01.2 |
| 100 m butterfly | Valentina Pozdnyak (URS) |
1:13.8 | Yelena Antonova (URS) Anna Karin Larsson (SWE) |
1:16.0 | ||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Soviet Union (URS) |
4:39.5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
4:41.2 | Poland (POL) |
4:52.2 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Soviet Union (URS) |
5:04.5 | Romania (ROM) |
5:12.2 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
5:15.7 |
Medal table[edit]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (11 entries) | 15 | 16 | 14 | 45 | |
References[edit]
- ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine