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1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Host city Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date(s)30 November – 3 December
Venue(s) Copacabana Beach (temporary venue)
Nations participating57
Athletes participating350
Events32

The 2nd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was an international swimming meet held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 November until 3 December 1995. [1] The meet featured 32 events swum in a short course (25m) pool. [2]

The United States did poorly, as the meet dates fell in the middle (rather than the end) of the USA's annual competition season (particularly the college season), the USA had just hosted the 1995 Pan Pacs, and the USA would host the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Participating nations

350 swimmers participate at the meet, from 57 nations. [3]

Results

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle details Francisco Sánchez
  Venezuela
21.80 Fernando Scherer
  Brazil
22.08 Jiang Chengji
  China
22.17
100 m freestyle details Fernando Scherer
  Brazil
47.97 Gustavo Borges
  Brazil
48.00 Francisco Sánchez
  Venezuela
48.46
200 m freestyle details Gustavo Borges
  Brazil
1:45.55 Trent Bray
  New Zealand
1:46.18 Michael Klim
  Australia
1:46.44
400 m freestyle details Daniel Kowalski
  Australia
3:45.14 Jörg Hoffmann
  Germany
3:45.65 Malcolm Allen
  Australia
3:47.00
1500 m freestyle details Daniel Kowalski
  Australia
14:48.51 Ian Wilson
  Great Britain
14:49.72 Jörg Hoffmann
  Germany
15:05.36
100 m backstroke details Rodolfo Falcón
  Cuba
53.12 Neil Willey
  Great Britain
53.23 Jirka Letzin
  Germany
53.65
200 m backstroke details Rodolfo Falcón
  Cuba
1:55.16 Chris Renaud
  Canada
1:55.27 Tamás Deutsch
  Hungary
1:56.18
100 m breaststroke details Mark Warnecke
  Germany
59.89 Paul Kent
  New Zealand
1:00.14 Stanislav Lopukhov
  Russia
1.00.33
200 m breaststroke details Wang Yiwu
  China
2:11.11 Ryan Mitchell
  Australia
2:11.46 Jean-Lionel Rey
  France
2.11.92
100 m butterfly details Scott Miller
  Australia
52.38 Denis Pimankov
  Russia
52.64 Michael Klim
  Australia
52.80
200 m butterfly details Scott Goodman
  Australia
1:54.79 Scott Miller
  Australia
1:56.36 Chris-Carol Bremer
  Germany
1:57.30
200 m individual medley details Matthew Dunn
  Australia
1:56.86 Curtis Myden
  Canada
1:58.56 Marcin Maliński
  Poland
1:58.61
400 m individual medley details Matthew Dunn
  Australia
4:08.02 Curtis Myden
  Canada
4:09.39 Marcin Maliński
  Poland
4:10.37
4×100 m freestyle relay details   Brazil
Fernando Scherer
Alexandre Massura
André Cordeiro
Gustavo Borges
3:12.42   Australia
Brett Hawke
Michael Klim
Richard Upton
Matthew Dunn
3:17.27   Romania
Nicolae Ivan
Răzvan Petcu
Alexandru Ioanovici
Nicolae Butacu
3:17.40
4×200 m freestyle relay details   Australia
Michael Klim
Matthew Dunn
Malcolm Allen
Daniel Kowalski
7:07.97   Germany
Chris-Carol Bremer
Steffen Zesner
Torsten Spanneberg
Jörg Hoffmann
7:13.42   Brazil
Cassiano Leal
Fernando Saez
Teófilo Ferreira
Gustavo Borges
7:13.64
4×100 m medley relay details   New Zealand
Jonathan Winter
Paul Kent
Guy Callaghan
Trent Bray
3:35.69   Australia
Adrian Radley
Robert van der Zant
Scott Miller
Michael Klim
3:36.35   Russia
Sergei Sudakov
Alexander Tkachev
Denis Pimankov
Yury Mukhin
3:36.88

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle details Le Jingyi
  China
24.62 Angela Postma
  Netherlands
25.10 Sandra Völker
  Germany
25.21
100 m freestyle details Le Jingyi
  China
53.23 Chao Na
  China
54.52 Sandra Völker
  Germany
54.69
200 m freestyle details Claudia Poll
  Costa Rica
1:55.42 WR Susie O'Neill
  Australia
1:56.47 Martina Moravcová
  Slovakia
1:56.61
400 m freestyle details Claudia Poll
  Costa Rica
4:05.18 Carla Geurts
  Netherlands
4:06.20 Sarah Hardcastle
  Great Britain
4:07.20
800 m freestyle details Sarah Hardcastle
  Great Britain
8:26.46 Carla Geurts
  Netherlands
8:27.03 Ping Lio
  China
8:29.95
100 m breaststroke details Samantha Riley
  Australia
1:05.70 WR Svitlana Bondarenko
  Ukraine
1:07.78 Linley Frame
  Australia
1:08.61
200 m breaststroke details Samantha Riley
  Australia
2:20.85 WR Svitlana Bondarenko
  Ukraine
2:24.78 Alicja Pęczak
  Poland
2:25.62
100 m backstroke details Misty Hyman
  United States
1:00.21 Mette Jacobsen
  Denmark
1:00.25 Barbara Bedford
  United States
1:00.63
200 m backstroke details Mette Jacobsen
  Denmark
2:08.18 Dagmar Hase
  Germany
2:09.00 Leigh Habler
  Australia
2:09.33
100 m butterfly details Liu Limin
  China
58.68 WR Susie O'Neill
  Australia
58.69 Angela Kennedy
  Australia
58.74
200 m butterfly details Susie O'Neill
  Australia
2:06.18 Liu Limin
  China
2:06.51 Mette Jacobsen
  Denmark
2:11.07
200 m individual medley details Elli Overton
  Australia
2:11.67 Martina Moravcová
  Slovakia
2:11.91 Louise Karlsson
  Sweden
2:12.38
400 m individual medley details Joanne Malar
  Canada
4:36.40 Nancy Sweetnam
  Canada
4:37.04 Britta Vestergaard
  Denmark
4:37.10
4×100 m freestyle relay details   China
Chao Na
Shan Ying
Han Xue
Le Jingyi
3:37.00   Australia
Melanie Dodd
Sarah Ryan
Anna Windsor
Susie O'Neill
3:38.72   Sweden
Johanna Sjöberg
Louise Karlsson
Linda Olofsson
Louise Jöhncke
3:40.06
4×200 m freestyle relay details   Canada
Marianne Limpert
Shannon Shakespeare
Sarah Evanetz
Joanne Malar
7:58.25   Germany
Dagmar Hase
Kerstin Kielgass
Julia Jung
Franziska van Almsick
8:01.11   Australia
Anna Windsor
Samantha Mackie
Nicole Stevenson
Susie O'Neill
8:01.86
4×100 m medley relay details   Australia
Elli Overton
Samantha Riley
Angela Kennedy
Susie O'Neill
4:00.46   Canada
Julie Howard
Lisa Flood
Jessica Amey
Shannon Shakespeare
4:03.89   United States
Barbara Bedford
Kelli King-Bednar
Misty Hyman
Courtney Shealy
4:04.34

Medal standings

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia (AUS)127726
2  China (CHN)5229
3  Brazil (BRA)3216
4  Canada (CAN)2507
5  Costa Rica (CRC)2002
  Cuba (CUB)2002
7  Germany (GER)14510
8  Great Britain (GBR)1214
9  New Zealand (NZL)1203
10  Denmark (DEN)1124
11  United States (USA)1023
12  Venezuela (VEN)1012
13  Netherlands (NED)0303
14  Ukraine (UKR)0202
15  Russia (RUS)0123
16  Slovakia (SVK)0112
17  Poland (POL)0033
18  Sweden (SWE)0022
19  France (FRA)0011
  Hungary (HUN)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (21 entries)32323296

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Participating nations list Archived 2013-02-22 at archive.today from the 1995 SC Worlds entry at SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (note: 6 nations are missing from this listing)