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1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
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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.[1]
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Participating nations
The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46[2] nations:[3]
Algeria
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Macedonia
Moldova
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Trinidad & Tobago
Ukraine
Uruguay
USA
Yugoslavia
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Results
Men's
Women's
Medal standings
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References
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