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.
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[]
The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46[2] nations:[3]
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Results[]
Men's[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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50m Freestyle details |
Mark Foster ![]() |
21.84 | Hu Bin ![]() |
21.93 | Robert Abernethy ![]() |
21.97 |
100m Freestyle details |
Fernando Scherer ![]() |
48.38 | Gustavo Borges ![]() |
48.42 | Jon Olsen ![]() |
48.49 |
200m Freestyle details |
Antti Kasvio ![]() |
1:45.21 | Trent Bray ![]() Artur Wojdat ![]() |
1:45.53 | not awarded | |
400m Freestyle details |
Daniel Kowalski ![]() |
3:42.95 | Antti Kasvio ![]() |
3:42.98 | Paul Palmer ![]() |
3:45.07 |
1500m Freestyle details |
Daniel Kowalski ![]() |
14:42.04 | Jörg Hoffmann ![]() |
14:53.09 | Piotr Albinski ![]() |
14:53.97 |
100m Backstroke details |
Tripp Schwenk ![]() |
52.98 | Martin Harris ![]() |
53.93 | Rodolfo Falcón ![]() |
54.00 |
200m Backstroke details |
Tripp Schwenk ![]() |
1:54.19 | ![]() |
1:55.09 | Stefaan Maene ![]() |
1:55.68 |
100m Breaststroke details |
Phil Rogers ![]() |
59.56 | Ron Dekker ![]() |
59.95 | Seth Van Neerden ![]() |
1:00.08 |
200m Breaststroke details |
Nick Gillingham ![]() |
2:07.91 ER |
Phil Rogers ![]() |
2:08.32 | Eric Wunderlich ![]() |
2:08.49 |
100m Butterfly details |
Miloš Milošević ![]() |
52.79 | Mark Henderson ![]() |
52.92 | Rafał Szukała ![]() |
52.94 |
200m Butterfly details |
Franck Esposito ![]() |
1:55.42 | Christian Keller ![]() |
1:55.75 | Chris-Carol Bremer ![]() |
1:56.86 |
200m I.M. details |
Christian Keller ![]() |
1:56.80 | Fraser Walker ![]() |
1:58.35 NR |
Curtis Myden ![]() |
1:59.27 |
400 I.M. details |
Curtis Myden ![]() |
4:10.41 | Serghei Mariniuc ![]() |
4:11.96 | Petteri Lehtinen ![]() |
4:12.33 |
4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() Fernando Scherer Teófilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges José Carlos Souza |
3:12.11 WR |
![]() David Fox Jon Olsen Mark Henderson |
3:12.68 | ![]() Roman Shegolev Vladislav Kulikov Vladimir Predkin Yury Mukhin |
3:15.56 |
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() Christer Wallin Tommy Werner Lars Frölander Anders Holmertz |
7:05.92 | ![]() Christian Tröger Christian Keller Chris-Carol Bremer Jörg Hoffmann |
7:08.63 | ![]() Gustavo Borges Teófilo Ferreira José Carlos Souza Cassiano Leal |
7:09.38 SA |
4 × 100 m Medley Relay details |
![]() Tripp Schwenk Seth Van Neerden Mark Henderson Jon Olsen |
3:32.57 WR |
![]() Carlos Ventosa Sergio López Joaquín Fernández |
3:36.92 | ![]() Martin Harris Nick Gillingham Mike Fibbens Mark Foster |
3:37.27 |
Women's[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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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 | ![]() |
4:07.91 |
800m Freestyle details |
Janet Evans ![]() |
8:22.43 | ![]() |
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 |
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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 |
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2:24.45 | Samantha Riley ![]() |
2:24.75 |
100m Butterfly details |
Susie O'Neill ![]() |
59.19 | LIU Limin ![]() |
59.24 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
4:37.50 |
4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() Lü Bin SHAN Ying LE Jingyi |
3:35.97 WR |
![]() Ellenor Svensson Linda Olofsson Louise Jöhncke |
3:39.41 | ![]() Angel Martino |
3:40.40 |
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay details |
![]() SHAN Ying LE Jingyi Lü Bin |
7:52.45 WR |
![]() Tammy Bruce Elli Overton Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill |
7:56.52 | ![]() 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 |
4:01.30 |
Medal standings[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 10 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
2 | ![]() | 7 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 9 | 8 | 21 |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 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 nations) | 32 | 33 | 31 | 96 |
References[]
- ^ 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
- 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.
- FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships
- 1993 in swimming
- 1993 in Spanish sport
- International aquatics competitions hosted by Spain
- Swimming competitions in Spain
- December 1993 sports events in Europe
- Sport in Palma de Mallorca