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]

Competing nations

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

Angola  Argentina  Australia  Austria  Bahamas  Barbados  Belarus  Brazil  Canada  Chile  China  Colombia  Costa Rica

Croatia  Cuba  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark  Ecuador  Estonia  France  Germany  Great Britain  Greece  Hong Kong

Iceland  Indonesia  Israel  Italy  Jamaica  Japan  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Latvia  Lithuania  Luxembourg  Macedonia

Madagascar  Mexico  Netherlands  New Zealand  Norway  Peru  Poland  Portugal  Puerto Rico  Romania  Russia  Singapore

Slovakia  Slovenia  South Africa  Spain  Sweden   Switzerland  Thailand  Trinidad and Tobago  Ukraine  USA  Uzbekistan  Venezuela

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	21.80	Mark Foster   Great Britain	22.03	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	22.17
100m freestyle	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	47.86	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	48.16	Michael Klim   Australia	48.21
200m freestyle	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	1:45.45	Trent Bray   New Zealand	1:45.81	Lars Conrad   Germany	1:46.44
400m freestyle	Jacob Carstensen   Denmark	3:43.44	Chad Carvin   USA	3:43.73	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:43.83
1500m freestyle	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:39.54	Jörg Hoffmann   Germany	14:40.67	Graeme Smith   Great Britain	14:46.85
100m backstroke	Neisser Bent   Cuba	52.77	Brian Retterer   USA	53.06	Adrian Radley   Australia	53.36
200m backstroke	Neisser Bent   Cuba	1:54.21	Wang Wei   China	1:54.82	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	1:55.15
100m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson   Sweden	59.99	Stanislav Lopukhov   Russia	1:00.05	Jens Kruppa   Germany	1:00.18
200m breaststroke	Aleksandr Gukov   Belarus	2:09.25	Andrey Korneyev   Russia	2:09.28	Jens Kruppa   Germany	2.10.53
100m butterfly	Lars Frölander   Sweden	51.95	Geoff Huegill   Australia	51.99	Michael Klim   Australia	52.02
200m butterfly	James Hickman   Great Britain	1:55.55	Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine	1:55.76	Scott Goodman   Australia	1:55.94
200m I.M.	Matthew Dunn   Australia	1:57.46	Christian Keller   Germany	1:58.35	Ron Karnaugh   USA	1:59.12
400m I.M.	Matthew Dunn   Australia	4:06.89	Xie Xufeng   China	4:12.52	Christian Keller   Germany	4:12.53
4×100m  freestyle relay	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
4×200m  freestyle relay	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
4×100m  medley relay	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	Sandra Völker   Germany	24.70 ER	Jenny Thompson   USA	24.78	Le Jingyi   China	24.83
100m freestyle	Jenny Thompson   USA	53.46	Sandra Völker   Germany	53.50	Le Jingyi   China	53.72
200m freestyle	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	1:54.17 WR	Nian Yun   China	1:56.24	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	1:56.66
400m freestyle	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	4:00.03 WR	Natasha Bowron   Australia	4:05.76	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	4:07.13
800m freestyle	Natasha Bowron   Australia	8:26.45	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	8:28.10	Carla Geurts   Netherlands	8:28.96
100m backstroke	Lu Donghua   China	59.75	Chen Yan   China	1:00.14	Misty Hyman   USA	1:00.17
200m backstroke	Chen Yan   China	2:07.50	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.66	Lia Oberstar   USA	2:08.29
100m breaststroke	Kristy Ellem   Australia	1:08.27	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	1:08.33	Svetlana Bondarenko   Ukraine	1:08.39
200m breaststroke	Kristy Ellem   Australia	2:22.68	Larisa Lăcustă   Romania	2:25.60 NR	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	2:25.62
100m butterfly	Jenny Thompson   USA	57.79 WR	Cai Huijue   China	57.92	Misty Hyman   USA	57.95
200m butterfly	Liu Limin   China	2:07.20	Hitomi Kashima   Japan	2:07.34	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.54
200m I.M.	Louise Karlsson   Sweden	2:11.19	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	2:11.39	Sue Rolph   Great Britain	2:12.39
400m I.M.	Emma Johnson   Australia	4:35.18	Sabine Herbst   Germany	4:36.02	Joanne Malar   Canada	4:37.46
4×100m  freestyle relay	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
4×200m  freestyle relay	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
4×100m  medley relay	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	9	2	8	19
2	China	6	5	2	13
3	Sweden	3	3	1	7
4	Germany	2	6	5	13
5	USA	2	5	5	12
6	Cuba	2	-	-	2
6	Costa Rica	2	-	-	2
6	Venezuela	2	-	-	2
9	Great Britain	1	1	4	6
10	Brazil	1	1	-	2
11	Denmark	1	-	-	1
11	Belarus	1	-	-	1
13	Russia	-	3	1	4
14	Slovakia	-	1	1	2
14	Poland	-	1	1	2
14	Ukraine	-	1	1	2
17	Japan	-	1	-	1
17	New Zealand	-	1	-	1
17	Romania	-	1	-	1
20	Canada	-	-	1	1
20	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
20	Puerto Rico	-	-	1	1

References

1. HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) and IIIb (2008 ed). ("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, by Pedro Adrega. Published by FINA in 2008; retrieved 2012-03-07.
3. Participating Nations list for the 1997 Short Course Worlds, from SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09.

External links

• SVT's open archive (Swedish)