Swimming at the 1961 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1]

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  Keigo Shimizu (JPN)57.4  Andrzej Salamon (POL)57.6  Makoto Fukui (JPN)57.9
400 m freestyle  Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN)4:30.9  Murray McLachlan (RSA)4:32.3  Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN)4:35.1
1500 m freestyle  Murray McLachlan (RSA)18:19.8  Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN)18:21.6  Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN)18:23.1
100 m backstroke  Shunsuke Fukushima (JPN)1:05.3  Vsevolod Tarasov (URS)1:05.8  Vlastimil Kreek (TCH)1:05.9
200 m breaststroke  Yuriy Funikov (URS)2:41.4  Yoshiaki Shikiishi (JPN)2:41.5  Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG)2:43.2
200 m butterfly  Haruo Yoshimuto (JPN)2:20.2  Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS)2:25.5  Hermann Lotter (FRG)2:28.8
4×100 m freestyle relay  Japan (JPN)3:48.7  Soviet Union (URS)3:57.2  Hungary (HUN)3:58.1
4×100 m medley relay  Japan (JPN)4:17.1  Czechoslovakia (TCH)4:18.5  Soviet Union (URS)4:21.4

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  Anna Karin Larsson (SWE)1:07.6  Hilda Zeier (YUG)1:07.7  Anna Ragasová (TCH)1:08.1
400 m freestyle  Hilda Zeier (YUG)5:14.4  Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz (POL)5:38.0  Ludmila Kottková (TCH)5:45.1
100 m backstroke  Larisa Viktorova (URS)1:13.6  Magdolna Dávid (HUN)1:16.1  Maria Both (ROM)1:16.7
200 m breaststroke  Sanda Iordan (ROM)2:59.6  Chris Gosden (GBR)3:00.8  Alla Kovalenko (URS)3:01.2
100 m butterfly  Valentina Pozdnyak (URS)1:13.8  Yelena Antonova (URS)
 Anna Karin Larsson (SWE)
1:16.0
4×100 m freestyle relay  Soviet Union (URS)4:39.5  Czechoslovakia (TCH)4:41.2  Poland (POL)4:52.2
4×100 m medley relay  Soviet Union (URS)5:04.5  Romania (ROM)5:12.2  Czechoslovakia (TCH)5:15.7

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Japan 62311
2 Soviet Union 54211
3 Romania 1113
=4 South Africa 1102
=4 Sweden 1102
=4 Yugoslavia 1102
7 Czechoslovakia 0246
8 Poland 0213
9 Hungary 0112
10 Great Britain 0101
11 West Germany 0022
Total 15 16 14 45

References

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