Host city | Palma de Mallorca |
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Country | Spain |
Opening | 2 December 1993 |
Closing | 5 December 1993 |
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[edit]
The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46[2] nations:[3]
Algeria
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Macedonia
Moldova
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Trinidad & Tobago
Ukraine
Uruguay
USA
Yugoslavia
Results[edit]
Men's[edit]
Women's[edit]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
50m Freestyle details |
Le Jingyi ![]() |
24.23 WR |
Angel Martino ![]() |
24.93 | Linda Olofsson ![]() |
25.21 |
100m Freestyle details |
Le Jingyi ![]() |
53.01 WR |
Angel Martino ![]() |
53.39 | Karen Pickering ![]() |
54.39 |
200m Freestyle details |
Karen Pickering ![]() |
1:56.25 | Susie O'Neill ![]() |
1:57.16 | Lü Bin ![]() |
1:57.71 |
400m Freestyle details |
Janet Evans ![]() |
4:05.64 | Trina Jackson ![]() |
4:07.49 | Julie Majer ![]() |
4:07.91 |
800m Freestyle details |
Janet Evans ![]() |
8:22.43 | Julie Majer ![]() |
8:26.46 | Trina Jackson ![]() |
8:27.50 |
100m Backstroke details |
Angel Martino ![]() |
58.50 WR |
He Cihong ![]() |
1:00.13 | Elli Overton ![]() |
1:00.18 |
200m Backstroke details |
He Cihong ![]() |
2:06.09 WR |
Jia Yuanyuan ![]() |
2:07.95 | Cathleen Rund ![]() |
2:09.59 |
100m Breaststroke details |
Dai Guohong ![]() |
1:06.58 WR |
Linley Frame ![]() |
1:07.65 | Samantha Riley ![]() |
1:07.77 |
200m Breaststroke details |
Dai Guohong ![]() |
2:21.99 WR |
Hitomi Maehara ![]() |
2:24.45 | Samantha Riley ![]() |
2:24.75 |
100m Butterfly details |
Susie O'Neill ![]() |
59.19 | Liu Limin ![]() |
59.24 | Kristie Krueger ![]() |
59.53 |
200m Butterfly details |
Liu Limin ![]() |
2:08.51 | Susie O'Neill ![]() |
2:09.08 | Petria Thomas ![]() |
2:09.40 |
200m I.M. details |
Allison Wagner ![]() |
2:07.79 WR |
Dai Guohong ![]() |
2:09.21 | Elli Overton ![]() |
2:10.51 |
400 I.M. details |
Dai Guohong ![]() |
4:29.00 WR |
Allison Wagner ![]() |
4:31.76 | Julie Majer ![]() |
4:37.50 |
4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() Lu Bin Shan Ying Jia Yuanyuan Le Jingyi |
3:35.97 WR |
![]() Ellenor Svensson Linda Olofsson Suzanne Lööv Louise Jöhncke |
3:39.41 | ![]() Angel Martino Sarah Perroni Kristie Krueger Paige Wilson |
3:40.40 |
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() Shan Ying Zhou Guanbin Le Jingyi Lü Bin |
7:52.45 WR |
![]() Tammy Bruce Elli Overton Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill |
7:56.52 | ![]() Paige Wilson Sarah Perroni Trina Jackson Janet Evans |
8:02.99 |
4 × 100 m Medley Relay details |
![]() Le Jingyi He Cihong Liu Limin Dai Guohong |
3:57.73 WR |
![]() Elli Overton Linley Frame Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill |
4:00.17 | ![]() Angel Martino Kelli King Kristie Krueger Sarah Perroni |
4:01.30 |
Medal standings[edit]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 10 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
2 | ![]() | 7 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
10 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
13 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
19 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (21 entries) | 32 | 33 | 31 | 96 |
References[edit]
- ^ 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.)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.