Swimming at the 1979 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1979 Summer Universiade took place in Mexico City, Mexico in September 1979.[1]

Swimming
at the X Summer Universiade
1977
1981

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
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Marcello Guarducci
  Italy
51.88 Kirk Peppas
  United States
51.91 Bruce Stahl
  United States
52.32
200 m freestyle
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Bill O'Brien
  United States
1:54.00 Sergey Rusin
  Soviet Union
1:54.55 Keith Dickson
  United States
1:54.62
400 m freestyle
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Sergey Rusin
  Soviet Union
4:02.26 John Hillencamp
  United States
4:05.23 Graeme Brewer
  Australia
4:05.32
1500 m freestyle
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Ron Neugent
  United States
16:01.87 Igor Kushpelev
  Soviet Union
16:09.22 Bill O'Brien
  United States
16:13.88
100 m backstroke
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Mark Kerry
  Australia
57.05 Rômulo Arantes
  Brazil
58.10 Mike Bottom
  United States
58.55
200 m backstroke
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Kyle Miller
  United States
2:07.30 Djan Madruga
  Brazil
2:07.70 Ron Raikula
  United States
2:07.81
100 m breaststroke
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Vladimir Fliont
  Soviet Union
1:05.45 John Lundberg
  United States
1:06.15 Vladimir Tarassov
  Soviet Union
1:06.44
200 m breaststroke
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Vladimir Tarassov
  Soviet Union
2:21.13 Timur Podmarev
  Soviet Union
2:21.31 Tateki Shinya
  Japan
2:25.53
100 m butterfly
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Mike Bottom
  United States
55.37 James Halliburton
  United States
56.15 Miloslav Rolko
  Czechoslovakia
56.53
200 m butterfly
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Mikhail Gorelik
  Soviet Union
2:04.50 Michael Kraus
  West Germany
2:06.25 Sergei Kiselyov
  Soviet Union
2:06.41
400 m individual medley
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Djan Madruga
  Brazil
4:37.34 Vladimir Mikheev
  Soviet Union
4:38.19 David Santos
  United States
4:38.57
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
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  United States (USA)
Sharpe
Keith Dickson
Bill O'Brien
John Hillencamp
7:36.03   Soviet Union (URS) 7:40.40   Italy (ITA) 7:49.20
4 × 100 m medley relay
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  United States (USA)
Lou Mangianello
David Lundberg
Mike Bottom
Kirk Peppas
3:51.29   Soviet Union (URS) 3:52.05   West Germany (FRG) 3:55.40

Legend: CRChampionship record; CWRCommonwealth record; NR – National record

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
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Amy Caulkins
  United States
58.26 Sue Hinderaker
  United States
58.67 Annelies Maas
  Netherlands
58.71
200 m freestyle
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Annelies Maas
  Netherlands
2:04.87 Bonnie Glasgow
  United States
2:07.24 Maura Walsh
  United States
2:08.84
400 m freestyle
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Corrina Weinkofsky
  United States
4:22.88 Bonnie Glasgow
  United States
4:25.92 Annelies Maas
  Netherlands
4:28.03
800 m freestyle
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Margaret Brooksbank
  United States
9:04.32 Annelies Maas
  Netherlands
9:13.62 Cyndi McCullam
  United States
9:18.28
100 m backstroke
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Carmen Bunaciu
  Romania
1:03.35 Margaret Browne
  United States
1:05.63 Christine Breedy
  United States
1:05.75
200 m backstroke
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Carmen Bunaciu
  Romania
2:16.20 Margaret Browne
  United States
2:23.08 Christine Breedy
  United States
2:25.86
100 m breaststroke
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Irena Fleissnerová
  Czechoslovakia
1:14.57 Debbie Rudd
  Great Britain
1:14.74 Anna Skolarczyk
  Poland
1:14.94
200 m breaststroke
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Irena Fleissnerová
  Czechoslovakia
2:41.00 Debbie Rudd
  Great Britain
2:41.88 Anna Skolarczyk
  Poland
2:42.81
100 m butterfly
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Elizabeth Rapp
  United States
1:04.04 Sue Hinderaker
  United States
1:04.88 Alla Gritchenkova
  Soviet Union
1:05.28
200 m butterfly
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Elizabeth Rapp
  United States
2:19.11 Alla Gritchenkova
  Soviet Union
2:19.57 Jody Alexander
  United States
2:20.38
400 m individual medley
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Janet Buchan
  United States
5:06.6 Bonnie Glasgow
  United States
5:08.1 Irena Fleissnerová
  Czechoslovakia
5:12.8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
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  United States (USA)
B.Harris
Sue Hinderaker
Bonnie Glasgow
Amy Caulkins
3:56.75   Netherlands (NED) 3:59.16   Canada (CAN) 4:01.15
4 × 100 m medley relay
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  United States (USA)
Christine Breedy
Gayle Hegel
Elizabeth Rapp
Amy Caulkins
4:22.8   Soviet Union (URS) 4:27.4   Netherlands (NED) 4:29.1

Legend: CRChampionship record; CWRCommonwealth record; NR – National record

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)14111136
2  Soviet Union (URS)48315
3  Czechoslovakia (TCH)2024
4  Romania (ROU)2002
5  Netherlands (NED)1236
6  Brazil (BRA)1203
7  Australia (AUS)1012
  Italy (ITA)1012
9  Great Britain (GBR)0202
10  West Germany (FRG)0112
11  Poland (POL)0022
12  Canada (CAN)0011
  Japan (JPN)0011
Totals (13 entries)26262678

References

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