1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

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]

1997 FINA World Swimming Championships
Host cityGöteborg
CountrySweden
Opening17 April 1997 (1997-04-17)
Closing20 April 1997 (1997-04-20)
Main venueScandinavium

Competing nations

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

Results

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
50m freestyle
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Francisco Sánchez
    Venezuela
21.80 Mark Foster
    Great Britain
22.03 Ricardo Busquets
    Puerto Rico
22.17
100m freestyle
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Francisco Sánchez
    Venezuela
47.86 Gustavo Borges
    Brazil
48.16 Michael Klim
    Australia
48.21
200m freestyle
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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
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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.
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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
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  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
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  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
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  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

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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
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Kristy Ellem
    Australia
2:22.68 Larisa Lăcustă
    Romania
2:25.60
NR
Alicja Pęczak
    Poland
2:25.62
100m butterfly
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Jenny Thompson
    USA
57.79
WR
Cai Huijue
    China
57.92 Misty Hyman
    USA
57.95
200m butterfly
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Liu Limin
    China
2:07.20 Hitomi Kashima
    Japan
2:07.34 Misty Hyman
    USA
2:07.54
200m I.M.
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Louise Karlsson
    Sweden
2:11.19 Martina Moravcová
    Slovakia
2:11.39 Sue Rolph
    Great Britain
2:12.39
400m I.M.
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Emma Johnson
    Australia
4:35.18 Sabine Herbst
    Germany
4:36.02 Joanne Malar
    Canada
4:37.46
4 × 100 m
 freestyle relay
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  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

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia (AUS)92819
2  China (CHN)65213
3  Sweden (SWE)3317
4  Germany (GER)26513
5  United States (USA)25512
6  Costa Rica (CRC)2002
  Cuba (CUB)2002
  Venezuela (VEN)2002
9  Great Britain (GBR)1146
10  Brazil (BRA)1102
11  Belarus (BLR)1001
  Denmark (DEN)1001
13  Russia (RUS)0314
14  Poland (POL)0112
  Slovakia (SVK)0112
  Ukraine (UKR)0112
17  Japan (JPN)0101
  New Zealand (NZL)0101
  Romania (ROM)0101
20  Canada (CAN)0011
  Netherlands (NED)0011
  Puerto Rico (PUR)0011
Totals (22 entries)32323296

References

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  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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