The 6th FINA Short Course World Championships were held in Moscow, Russia on April 3–7, 2002. The event took place in the 25m-pool of the Olympiiski-complex, which also hosted the swimming event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. A record 599 swimmers from 92 countries competed at these championships, which resulted in seven world records.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	9	7	1	17
2	United States (USA)	8	9	9	26
3	Sweden (SWE)	7	2	1	10
4	Ukraine (UKR)	5	0	2	7
5	China (CHN)	3	4	5	12
6	Slovakia (SVK)	2	1	0	3
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	3	6
8	Slovenia (SVN)	1	2	2	5
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	0	3
10	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
11	Argentina (ARG)	1	1	1	3
	Canada (CAN)	1	1	1	3
13	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
14	Russia (RUS)	0	2	5	7
15	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
	Israel (ISR)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
18	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
21	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
22	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		41	41	42	124

Results

Freestyle

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	50 m	José Meolans	21.36 CR	Mark Foster	21.44	Oleksandr Volynets Alexander Popov	21.55
	100 m	Ashley Callus	46.99	José Meolans	47.09	Salim Iles	47.66
	200 m	Klete Keller	1:44.36	Gustavo Borges	1:45.67	Mark Johnston	1:45.88
	400 m	Grant Hackett	3:38.29	Květoslav Svoboda	3:41.97	Chad Carvin	3:43.55
	1500 m	Grant Hackett	14:33.94	Chris Thompson	14:39.43	Christian Minotti	14:45.41
	4 × 100 m	United States Scott Tucker Peter Marshall Jason Lezak Klete Keller	3:10.64	Sweden Eric Lafleur Stefan Nystrand Lars Frölander Mathias Ohlin	3:11.14	Russia Leonid Khokhlov Alexander Popov Denis Pimankov Andrey Kapralov Dmitriy Chernichev* Dmitriy Talepov*	3:11.24
	4 × 200 m	Australia Todd Pearson Ray Hass Leon Dunne Grant Hackett	7:00.36 CR	Russia Denis Rodkin Yuri Prilukov Ilya Nikitin Andrey Kapralov	7:05.36	United States Chad Carvin Erik Vendt Scott Tucker Klete Keller	7:08.73
Women	50 m	Therese Alshammar	24.16	Alison Sheppard	24.28	Tammie Stone	24.65
	100 m	Therese Alshammar	52.89	Martina Moravcová	52.96	Xu Yanwei	53.35
	200 m	Lindsay Benko	1:54.04 WR	Yang Yu	1:55.34	Xu Yanwei	1:55.63
	400 m	Yana Klochkova	4:01.26	Chen Hua	4:03.81	Rachel Komisarz	4:06.30
	800 m	Chen Hua	8:16.34 CR	Irina Ufimtseva	8:21.91	Flavia Rigamonti	8:23.38
	4 × 100 m	Sweden Josefin Lillhage Therese Alshammar Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling	3:35.09	Australia Sarah Ryan Petria Thomas Giaan Rooney Elka Graham	3:35.97	China Yang Yu Tang Jingzhi Zhu Yingwen Xu Yanwei	3:36.18
	4 × 200 m	China Xu Yanwei Zhu Yingwen Tang Jingzhi Yang Yu	7:46.30 WR	United States Lindsay Benko Gabrielle Rose Colleen Lanne Rachel Komisarz	7:47.55	Australia Elka Graham Petria Thomas Lori Munz Giaan Rooney	7:49.50

Backstroke

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	50 m	Matt Welsh	23.66	Peter Marshall	24.04	Toni Helbig	24.17
	100 m	Matt Welsh	51.26	Aaron Peirsol	51.71	Peter Marshall	51.84
	200 m	Aaron Peirsol	1:51.17 WR	Marko Strahija	1:53.08	Blaž Medvešek	1:53.66
Women	50 m	Jennifer Carroll	27.38 CR	Haley Cope	27.44	Diana MacManus	27.60
	100 m	Haley Cope	59.07	Ilona Hlaváčková	59.13	Diana MacManus	59.45
	200 m	Lindsay Benko	2:04.97 CR	Reiko Nakamura	2:07.30	Irina Amshennikova	2:07.71

Breaststroke

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	50 m	Oleg Lisogor	26.42	José Couto	27.22	Eduardo Fischer	27.26
	100 m	Oleg Lisogor	58.33 CR	Kosuke Kitajima	59.10	Jarno Pihlava	59.22
	200 m	Jim Piper	2:07.16 CR	David Denniston	2:07.42	Jarno Pihlava	2:07.61
Women	50 m	Emma Igelström	29.96 WR	Luo Xuejuan	30.17	Zoë Baker	30.56
	100 m	Emma Igelström	1:05.38 WR	Sarah Poewe	1:06.16	Luo Xuejuan	1:06.36
	200 m	Qi Hui	2:20.91	Emma Igelström	2:21.60	Mirna Jukić	2:21.63

Butterfly

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	50 m	Geoff Huegill	22.89 CR	Adam Pine	23.29	Mark Foster	23.36
	100 m	Geoff Huegill	50.95	Adam Pine	51.27	Igor Marchenko	51.41
	200 m	James Hickman	1:53.14	Justin Norris	1:54.07	Ioan Gherghel	1:54.16
Women	50 m	Anna-Karin Kammerling	25.55 CR	Petria Thomas	26.36	Vered Borochovski	26.38
	100 m	Martina Moravcová	57.04	Petria Thomas	57.91	Anna-Karin Kammerling	58.12
	200 m	Petria Thomas	2:05.76 CR	Yang Yu	2:06.10	Mary Descenza	2:06.17

Medley

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	100 m	Peter Mankoč	52.90	Jani Sievinen	53.78	Jakob Andersen	54.31
	200 m	Jani Sievinen	1:55.45 CR	Peter Mankoč	1:56.13	Tom Wilkens	1:57.34
	400 m	Tom Wilkens	4:04.82 CR	Brian Johns	4:06.85	Jacob Carstensen	4:08.92
	4 × 100 m	United States Aaron Peirsol David Denniston Peter Marshall Jason Lezak	3:29.00 WR	Australia Geoff Huegill Jim Piper Adam Pine Ashley Callus	3:29.35	Russia Evgueni Alechine Dmitri Komornikov Igor Marchenko Denis Pimankov	3:30.21
Women	100 m	Martina Moravcová	59.91	Gabrielle Rose	1:00.68	Alison Sheppard	1:00.88
	200 m	Yana Klochkova	2:08.82	Gabrielle Rose	2:09.77	Oxana Verevka	2:11.25
	400 m	Yana Klochkova	4:30.63	Alenka Kejžar	4:35.44	Georgina Bardach	4:36.36
	4 × 100 m	Sweden Therese Alshammar Emma Igelström Anna-Karin Kammerling Johanna Sjöberg	3:55.78 WR	United States Haley Cope Amanda Beard Rachel Komisarz Lindsay Benko	3:57.17	People's Republic of China Zhan Shu Luo Xuejuan Zheng Xi Xu Yanwei	3:57.29

External links

• Swim Rankings Results
• Full results from OmegaTiming.com.
• FINA website