1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

1997 FINA World Swimming Championships
Host city	Göteborg
Country	Sweden
Opening	17 April 1997
Closing	20 April 1997
Main venue	Scandinavium
	← Rio de Janeiro 1995 Hong Kong,China 1999 →

The 3rd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were an international swimming meet organized by FINA.^[1] It was held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden April 17−20, 1997; and featured 501 swimmers from 71 nations.^[2]

Competing nations

The 71 nations with swimmers at the 1997 Short Course Worlds were:^[3]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	21.80	Mark Foster Great Britain	22.03	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	22.17
100m freestyle details	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	47.86	Gustavo Borges Brazil	48.16	Michael Klim Australia	48.21
200m freestyle details	Gustavo Borges Brazil	1:45.45	Trent Bray New Zealand	1:45.81	Lars Conrad Germany	1:46.44
400m freestyle details	Jacob Carstensen Denmark	3:43.44	Chad Carvin USA	3:43.73	Grant Hackett Australia	3:43.83
1500m freestyle details	Grant Hackett Australia	14:39.54	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	14:40.67	Graeme Smith Great Britain	14:46.85

100m backstroke details	Neisser Bent Cuba	52.77	Brian Retterer USA	53.06	Adrian Radley Australia	53.36
200m backstroke details	Neisser Bent Cuba	1:54.21	Wang Wei China	1:54.82	Vladimir Selkov Russia	1:55.15

100m breaststroke details	Patrik Isaksson Sweden	59.99	Stanislav Lopukhov Russia	1:00.05	Jens Kruppa Germany	1:00.18
200m breaststroke details	Aleksandr Gukov Belarus	2:09.25	Andrey Korneyev Russia	2:09.28	Jens Kruppa Germany	2.10.53

100m butterfly details	Lars Frölander Sweden	51.95	Geoff Huegill Australia	51.99	Michael Klim Australia	52.02
200m butterfly details	James Hickman Great Britain	1:55.55	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine	1:55.76	Scott Goodman Australia	1:55.94

200m I.M. details	Matthew Dunn Australia	1:57.46	Christian Keller Germany	1:58.35	Ron Karnaugh USA	1:59.12
400m I.M. details	Matthew Dunn Australia	4:06.89	Xie Xufeng China	4:12.52	Christian Keller Germany	4:12.53

4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Germany Lars Conrad, Christian Tröger, Alexander Lüderitz, Aimo Heilmann	3:14.08	Sweden Fredrik Letzler, Anders Holmertz, Ola Fagerstrand, Lars Frölander	3:14.22	Australia Michael Klim, Scott Logan, Richard Upton, Jeffrey English	3:14.83
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Australia Michael Klim, Grant Hackett, William Kirby, Matthew Dunn	7:02.74 WR	Sweden Anders Lyrbring, Anders Holmertz, Lars Frölander, Fredrik Letzler	7:05.61	Great Britain Paul Palmer, Andrew Clayton, Mark Stevens, James Salter	7:05.81
4 × 100 m medley relay details	Australia Adrian Radley, Phil Rogers, Geoff Huegill, Michael Klim	3:30.66 WR	Russia Vladimir Selkov, Stanislav Lopukhov, Denis Pankratov, Roman Yegorov	3:32.56 ER	Great Britain Martin Harris, Richard Maden, James Hickman, Mark Foster	3:32.61

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Sandra Völker Germany	24.70 ER	Jenny Thompson USA	24.78	Le Jingyi China	24.83
100m freestyle details	Jenny Thompson USA	53.46	Sandra Völker Germany	53.50	Le Jingyi China	53.72
200m freestyle details	Claudia Poll Costa Rica	1:54.17 WR	Nian Yun China	1:56.24	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	1:56.66
400m freestyle details	Claudia Poll Costa Rica	4:00.03 WR	Natasha Bowron Australia	4:05.76	Kerstin Kielgass Germany	4:07.13
800m freestyle details	Natasha Bowron Australia	8:26.45	Kerstin Kielgass Germany	8:28.10	Carla Geurts Netherlands	8:28.96

100m backstroke details	Lu Donghua China	59.75	Chen Yan China	1:00.14	Misty Hyman USA	1:00.17
200m backstroke details	Chen Yan China	2:07.50	Misty Hyman USA	2:07.66	Lia Oberstar USA	2:08.29

100m breaststroke details	Kristy Ellem Australia	1:08.27	Alicja Pęczak Poland	1:08.33	Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	1:08.39
200m breaststroke details	Kristy Ellem Australia	2:22.68	Larisa Lăcustă Romania	2:25.60 NR	Alicja Pęczak Poland	2:25.62

100m butterfly details	Jenny Thompson USA	57.79 WR	Cai Huijue China	57.92	Misty Hyman USA	57.95
200m butterfly details	Liu Limin China	2:07.20	Hitomi Kashima Japan	2:07.34	Misty Hyman USA	2:07.54

200m I.M. details	Louise Karlsson Sweden	2:11.19	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	2:11.39	Sue Rolph Great Britain	2:12.39
400m I.M. details	Emma Johnson Australia	4:35.18	Sabine Herbst Germany	4:36.02	Joanne Malar Canada	4:37.46

4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	China Le Jingyi, Chao Na, Shan Ying, Nian Yun	3:34.55 WR	Germany Simone Osygus, Antje Buschschulte, Katrin Meissner, Sandra Völker	3:34.69 ER	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg, Louise Karlsson, Malin Svahnström, Therese Alshammar	3:38.07
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	China Wang Luna, Nian Yun, Chen Yan, Shan Ying	7:51.92 WR	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, Louise Jöhncke, Malin Nilsson	7:56.04	Australia Julia Greville, Natasha Bowron, Lise Mackie, Emma Johnson	7:56.12
4 × 100 m medley relay details	China Lu Donghua, Han Xue, Cai Huijue, Le Jingyi	3:57.83	USA Lia Oberstar, Amanda Beard, Misty Hyman, Jenny Thompson	3:58.94	Australia Meredith Smith, Kristy Ellem, Angela Kennedy, Sarah Ryan	4:01.55

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	9	2	8	19
2	China (CHN)	6	5	2	13
3	Sweden (SWE)	3	3	1	7
4	Germany (GER)	2	6	5	13
5	United States (USA)	2	5	5	12
6	Costa Rica (CRC)	2	0	0	2
	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
	Venezuela (VEN)	2	0	0	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	4	6
10	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	0	2
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
11	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
13	Russia (RUS)	0	3	1	4
14	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
17	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
20	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		32	32	32	96

References

^ HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.
^ 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 2010-06-15 at the Wayback Machine for the 1997 Short Course Worlds, from SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09.

External links

SVT's open archive (in Swedish)

[1] HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.

[2] 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.

[3] Participating Nations list Archived 2010-06-15 at the Wayback Machine for the 1997 Short Course Worlds, from SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09.

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