1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 3rd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were an international swimming meet organized by FINA.^[1] It was held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden April 17−20, 1997; and featured 501 swimmers from 71 nations.^[2]

1997 FINA World Swimming Championships

Host city	Gothenburg
Country	Sweden
Opening	17 April 1997 (1997-04-17)
Closing	20 April 1997 (1997-04-20)
Main venue	Scandinavium
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Main article: FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

Competing nations

The 71 nations with swimmers at the 1997 Short Course Worlds were:^[3]

•  Angola
•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Austria
•  Bahamas
•  Barbados
•  Belarus
•  Brazil
•  Canada
•  Chile
•  China
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Croatia
•  Cuba
•  Cyprus
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Ecuador
•  Estonia
•  France
•  Germany
•  Great Britain
•  Greece
• Hong Kong
•  Iceland
•  Indonesia
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Jamaica
•  Japan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Luxembourg
• Macedonia
•  Madagascar
•  Mexico
•  Netherlands
•  New Zealand
•  Norway
•  Peru
•  Poland
•  Portugal
•  Puerto Rico
•  Romania
•  Russia
•  Singapore
•  Slovakia
•  Slovenia
•  South Africa
•  Spain
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Thailand
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Ukraine
• USA
•  Uzbekistan
•  Venezuela

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle   details	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	21.80	Mark Foster   Great Britain	22.03	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	22.17
100 m freestyle   details	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	47.86	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	48.16	Michael Klim   Australia	48.21
200 m freestyle   details	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	1:45.45	Trent Bray   New Zealand	1:45.81	Lars Conrad   Germany	1:46.44
400 m freestyle   details	Jacob Carstensen   Denmark	3:43.44	Chad Carvin   USA	3:43.73	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:43.83
1500 m freestyle   details	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:39.54	Jörg Hoffmann   Germany	14:40.67	Graeme Smith   Great Britain	14:46.85
100 m backstroke   details	Neisser Bent   Cuba	52.77	Brian Retterer   USA	53.06	Adrian Radley   Australia	53.36
200 m backstroke   details	Neisser Bent   Cuba	1:54.21	Wang Wei   China	1:54.82	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	1:55.15
100 m breaststroke   details	Patrik Isaksson   Sweden	59.99	Stanislav Lopukhov   Russia	1:00.05	Jens Kruppa   Germany	1:00.18
200 m breaststroke   details	Aleksandr Gukov   Belarus	2:09.25	Andrey Korneyev   Russia	2:09.28	Jens Kruppa   Germany	2.10.53
100 m butterfly   details	Lars Frölander   Sweden	51.95	Geoff Huegill   Australia	51.99	Michael Klim   Australia	52.02
200 m butterfly   details	James Hickman   Great Britain	1:55.55	Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine	1:55.76	Scott Goodman   Australia	1:55.94
200 m I.M.   details	Matthew Dunn   Australia	1:57.46	Christian Keller   Germany	1:58.35	Ron Karnaugh   USA	1:59.12
400 m I.M.   details	Matthew Dunn   Australia	4:06.89	Xie Xufeng   China	4:12.52	Christian Keller   Germany	4:12.53
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay   details	Germany   Lars Conrad,   Christian Tröger,   Alexander Lüderitz,   Aimo Heilmann	3:14.08	Sweden   Fredrik Letzler,   Anders Holmertz,   Ola Fagerstrand,   Lars Frölander	3:14.22	Australia   Michael Klim,   Scott Logan,   Richard Upton,   Jeffrey English	3:14.83
4 × 200 m  freestyle relay   details	Australia   Michael Klim,   Grant Hackett,   William Kirby,   Matthew Dunn	7:02.74 WR	Sweden   Anders Lyrbring,   Anders Holmertz,   Lars Frölander,   Fredrik Letzler	7:05.61	Great Britain   Paul Palmer,   Andrew Clayton,   Mark Stevens,   James Salter	7:05.81
4 × 100 m  medley relay   details	Australia   Adrian Radley,   Phil Rogers,   Geoff Huegill,   Michael Klim	3:30.66 WR	Russia   Vladimir Selkov,   Stanislav Lopukhov,   Denis Pankratov,   Roman Yegorov	3:32.56 ER	Great Britain   Martin Harris,   Richard Maden,   James Hickman,   Mark Foster	3:32.61

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle   details	Sandra Völker   Germany	24.70 ER	Jenny Thompson   USA	24.78	Le Jingyi   China	24.83
100 m freestyle   details	Jenny Thompson   USA	53.46	Sandra Völker   Germany	53.50	Le Jingyi   China	53.72
200 m freestyle   details	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	1:54.17 WR	Nian Yun   China	1:56.24	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	1:56.66
400 m freestyle   details	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	4:00.03 WR	Natasha Bowron   Australia	4:05.76	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	4:07.13
800 m freestyle   details	Natasha Bowron   Australia	8:26.45	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	8:28.10	Carla Geurts   Netherlands	8:28.96
100 m backstroke   details	Lu Donghua   China	59.75	Chen Yan   China	1:00.14	Misty Hyman   USA	1:00.17
200 m backstroke   details	Chen Yan   China	2:07.50	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.66	Lia Oberstar   USA	2:08.29
100 m breaststroke   details	Kristy Ellem   Australia	1:08.27	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	1:08.33	Svitlana Bondarenko   Ukraine	1:08.39
200 m breaststroke   details	Kristy Ellem   Australia	2:22.68	Larisa Lăcustă   Romania	2:25.60 NR	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	2:25.62
100 m butterfly   details	Jenny Thompson   USA	57.79 WR	Cai Huijue   China	57.92	Misty Hyman   USA	57.95
200 m butterfly   details	Liu Limin   China	2:07.20	Hitomi Kashima   Japan	2:07.34	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.54
200 m I.M.   details	Louise Karlsson   Sweden	2:11.19	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	2:11.39	Sue Rolph   Great Britain	2:12.39
400 m I.M.   details	Emma Johnson   Australia	4:35.18	Sabine Herbst   Germany	4:36.02	Joanne Malar   Canada	4:37.46
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay   details	China   Le Jingyi,   Chao Na,   Shan Ying,   Nian Yun	3:34.55 WR	Germany   Simone Osygus,   Antje Buschschulte,   Katrin Meissner,   Sandra Völker	3:34.69 ER	Sweden   Johanna Sjöberg,   Louise Karlsson,   Malin Svahnström,   Therese Alshammar	3:38.07
4 × 200 m  freestyle relay   details	China   Wang Luna,   Nian Yun,   Chen Yan,   Shan Ying	7:51.92 WR	Sweden   Johanna Sjöberg,   Josefin Lillhage,   Louise Jöhncke,   Malin Nilsson	7:56.04	Australia   Julia Greville,   Natasha Bowron,   Lise Mackie,   Emma Johnson	7:56.12
4 × 100 m  medley relay   details	China   Lu Donghua,   Han Xue,   Cai Huijue,   Le Jingyi	3:57.83	USA   Lia Oberstar,   Amanda Beard,   Misty Hyman,   Jenny Thompson	3:58.94	Australia   Meredith Smith,   Kristy Ellem,   Angela Kennedy,   Sarah Ryan	4:01.55

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	9	2	8	19
2	China (CHN)	6	5	2	13
3	Sweden (SWE)	3	3	1	7
4	Germany (GER)	2	6	5	13
5	United States (USA)	2	5	5	12
6	Costa Rica (CRC)	2	0	0	2
	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
	Venezuela (VEN)	2	0	0	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	4	6
10	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	0	2
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
13	Russia (RUS)	0	3	1	4
14	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
17	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
20	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		32	32	32	96