1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course (25 meter) pool. During the championships, a total of 12 world records were broken: 10 in the women's events and 2 in men's events, both in relays.

China won the most events, ten, all in women's events. Le Jingyi won two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Dai Guohong went home with four golds and one silver. In the men's events, the USA and Australia won three events each. Tripp Schwenk of the USA garnered three golds, winning the two backstroke events and also swimming on the USA's winning medley relay team. Also winning 2 events each on the men's side were Fernando Scherer of Brazil (100 m freestyle; 400 m freestyle relay), Daniel Kowalski of Australia (400 m and 1500 m freestyles). Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at a Short Course Worlds (through 2006), while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 butterfly.

Participating nations

The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46 nations:

Results

Men's

| 50 m Freestyle   details

| Mark Foster   Great Britain || 21.84

| Hu Bin   China || 21.93

| Robert Abernethy   Australia || 21.97

| 100 m Freestyle   details

| Fernando Scherer   Brazil || 48.38

| Gustavo Borges   Brazil || 48.42

| Jon Olsen   USA || 48.49

| 200 m Freestyle   details

| Antti Kasvio   Finland || 1:45.21

| Trent Bray   New Zealand Artur Wojdat   Poland || 1:45.53

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| 400 m Freestyle   details

| Daniel Kowalski   Australia || 3:42.95

| Antti Kasvio   Finland || 3:42.98

| Paul Palmer   Great Britain || 3:45.07

| 1500 m Freestyle   details

| Daniel Kowalski   Australia || 14:42.04

| Jörg Hoffmann   Germany || 14:53.09

| Piotr Albinski   Poland || 14:53.97

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| 100 m Backstroke   details

| Tripp Schwenk   USA || 52.98

| Martin Harris   Great Britain || 53.93

| Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba || 54.00

| 200 m Backstroke   details

| Tripp Schwenk   USA || 1:54.19

| Luca Bianchi   Italy || 1:55.09

| Stefaan Maene   Belgium || 1:55.68

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| 100 m Breaststroke   details

| Phil Rogers   Australia || 59.56

| Ron Dekker   Netherlands || 59.95

| Seth Van Neerden   USA || 1:00.08

| 200 m Breaststroke   details

| Nick Gillingham   Great Britain || 2:07.91 ER

| Phil Rogers   Australia || 2:08.32

| Eric Wunderlich   USA || 2:08.49

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| 100 m Butterfly   details

| Miloš Milošević   Croatia || 52.79

| Mark Henderson   USA || 52.92

| Rafał Szukała   Poland || 52.94

| 200 m Butterfly   details

| Franck Esposito   France || 1:55.42

| Christian Keller   Germany || 1:55.75

| Chris-Carol Bremer   Germany || 1:56.86

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| 200 m I.M.   details

| Christian Keller   Germany || 1:56.80

| Fraser Walker   Great Britain || 1:58.35 NR

| Curtis Myden   Canada || 1:59.27

| 400 I.M.   details

| Curtis Myden   Canada || 4:10.41

| Serghei Mariniuc   Moldova || 4:11.96

| Petteri Lehtinen   Finland || 4:12.33

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| 4 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay   details

| Brazil   Fernando Scherer   Teófilo Ferreira   Gustavo Borges   José Carlos Souza || 3:12.11 WR

| USA   David Fox   Seth Pepper   Jon Olsen   Mark Henderson || 3:12.68

| Russia   Roman Shegolev   Vladislav Kulikov   Vladimir Predkin   Yury Mukhin || 3:15.56

| 4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay   details

| Sweden   Christer Wallin   Tommy Werner   Lars Frölander   Anders Holmertz || 7:05.92

| Germany   Christian Tröger   Christian Keller   Chris-Carol Bremer   Jörg Hoffmann || 7:08.63

| Brazil   Gustavo Borges   Teófilo Ferreira   José Carlos Souza   Cassiano Leal || 7:09.38 SA

| 4 × 100 m   Medley Relay   details

| USA   Tripp Schwenk   Seth Van Neerden   Mark Henderson   Jon Olsen || 3:32.57 WR

| Spain   Carlos Ventosa   Sergio López   Joaquín Fernández   José Maria Rojano || 3:36.92

| Great Britain   Martin Harris   Nick Gillingham   Mike Fibbens   Mark Foster || 3:37.27

Women's

| 50 m Freestyle   details

| Le Jingyi   China || 24.23 WR

| Angel Martino   USA || 24.93

| Linda Olofsson   Sweden || 25.21

| 100 m Freestyle   details

| Le Jingyi   China || 53.01 WR

| Angel Martino   USA || 53.39

| Karen Pickering   Great Britain || 54.39

| 200 m Freestyle   details

| Karen Pickering   Great Britain || 1:56.25

| Susie O'Neill   Australia || 1:57.16

| Lü Bin   China || 1:57.71

| 400 m Freestyle   details

| Janet Evans   USA || 4:05.64

| Trina Jackson   USA || 4:07.49

| Julie Majer   Australia || 4:07.91

| 800 m Freestyle   details

| Janet Evans   USA || 8:22.43

| Julie Majer   Australia || 8:26.46

| Trina Jackson   USA || 8:27.50

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| 100 m Backstroke   details

| Angel Martino   USA || 58.50 WR

| He Cihong   China || 1:00.13

| Elli Overton   Australia || 1:00.18

| 200 m Backstroke   details

| He Cihong   China || 2:06.09 WR

| Jia Yuanyuan   China || 2:07.95

| Cathleen Rund   Germany || 2:09.59

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| 100 m Breaststroke   details

| Dai Guohong   China || 1:06.58 WR

| Linley Frame   Australia || 1:07.65

| Samantha Riley   Australia || 1:07.77

| 200 m Breaststroke   details

| Dai Guohong   China || 2:21.99 WR

| Hitomi Maehara   Japan || 2:24.45

| Samantha Riley   Australia || 2:24.75

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| 100 m Butterfly   details

| Susie O'Neill   Australia || 59.19

| Liu Limin   China || 59.24

| Kristie Krueger   USA || 59.53

| 200 m Butterfly   details

| Liu Limin   China || 2:08.51

| Susie O'Neill   Australia || 2:09.08

| Petria Thomas   Australia || 2:09.40

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| 200 m I.M.   details

| Allison Wagner   USA || 2:07.79 WR

| Dai Guohong   China || 2:09.21

| Elli Overton   Australia || 2:10.51

| 400 I.M.   details

| Dai Guohong   China || 4:29.00 WR

| Allison Wagner   USA || 4:31.76

| Julie Majer   Australia || 4:37.50

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| 4 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay   details

| China   Lu Bin   Shan Ying   Jia Yuanyuan   Le Jingyi || 3:35.97 WR

| Sweden   Ellenor Svensson   Linda Olofsson   Suzanne Lööv   Louise Jöhncke || 3:39.41

| USA   Angel Martino   Sarah Perroni   Kristie Krueger   Paige Wilson || 3:40.40

| 4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay   details

| China   Shan Ying   Zhou Guanbin   Le Jingyi   Lü Bin || 7:52.45 WR

| Australia   Tammy Bruce   Elli Overton   Anna Windsor   Susie O'Neill || 7:56.52

| USA   Paige Wilson   Sarah Perroni   Trina Jackson   Janet Evans || 8:02.99

| 4 × 100 m   Medley Relay   details

| China   Le Jingyi   He Cihong   Liu Limin   Dai Guohong || 3:57.73 WR

| Australia   Elli Overton   Linley Frame   Petria Thomas   Susie O'Neill || 4:00.17

| USA   Angel Martino   Kelli King   Kristie Krueger   Sarah Perroni || 4:01.30

Medal standings

References

scmsom results
HistoFINA Men
HistoFINA Women
(ed) Arvid Carlsen Sportsboken 94-95, pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. .