2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 7th FINA Short Course World Championships were held at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States from October 7 through October 11, 2004.

7th World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Host city	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Date(s)	October 7–11, 2004
Venue(s)	Conseco Fieldhouse
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This was the only edition of the Short Course World Championships that Michael Phelps competed in.^[1] Phelps planned to swim in six races: the 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, the individual medleys at 100 meters, 200 meters, and 400 meters, and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.^[2] Phelps won gold in the 200-meter freestyle on October 7 - the only Short Course World Championships gold medal (and medal of any color) of his career - then withdrew from the rest of the meet the following day, citing a sore back.^[3]

Results

Men's Freestyle

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Mark Foster	21.58	Stefan Nystrand	21.66	Nicholas Santos Nick Brunelli	21.71
100 m	Jason Lezak	47.97	Salim Iles	48.07	Rick Say	48.38
200 m	Michael Phelps	1:43.59	Rick Say	1:44.39	Ryan Lochte	1:44.97
400 m	Yuri Prilukov	3:40.79	Chad Carvin	3:43.77	Justin Mortimer	3:44.70
1500 m	Yuri Prilukov	14:39.16	Simone Ercoli	14:53.89	Dragoş Coman	14:56.74
4 × 100 m	United States Nick Brunelli Neil Walker Nate Dusing Jason Lezak	3:09.96	Brazil César Cielo Thiago Pereira Christiano Santos Nicholas Santos	3:12.73	Canada Mike Mintenko Matthew Rose Adam Sioui Rick Say	3:13.62
4 × 200 m	United States Ryan Lochte Chad Carvin Dan Ketchum Justin Mortimer	7:03.71	Australia Nicholas Sprenger Andrew Mewing Brendan Huges Joshua Krogh	7:03.78	Brazil Rodrigo Castro Thiago Pereira Rafael Mosca Lucas Salatta	7:06.64

Women's Freestyle

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Marleen Veldhuis	24.41	Libby Lenton	24.54	Therese Alshammar	24.63
100 m	Libby Lenton	52.67	Josefin Lillhage	53.56	Marleen Veldhuis	53.88
200 m	Josefin Lillhage	1:56.35	Lindsay Benko	1:56.48	Dana Vollmer	1:58.05
400 m	Kaitlin Sandeno	4:02.01	Sara McLarty	4:04.49	Sachiko Yamada	4:04.64
800 m	Sachiko Yamada	8:18.21	Kate Ziegler	8:20.55	Melissa Gorman	8:25.38
4 × 100 m	United States Amanda Weir Kara Lynn Joyce Lindsay Benko Jenny Thompson	3:35.07	Sweden Josefin Lillhage Anna-Karin Kammerling Johanna Sjöberg Therese Alshammar	3:35.83	Australia Libby Lenton Louise Tomlinson Danni Miatke Shayne Reese	3:36.18
4 × 200 m	United States Dana Vollmer Rachel Komisarz Lindsay Benko Kaitlin Sandeno	7:47.72	Australia Libby Lenton Danni Miatke Louise Tomlinson Shayne Reese	7:51.39	Sweden Ida Mattsson Johanna Sjöberg Josefin Lillhage Petra Granlund	7:54.39

Men's Backstroke

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Thomas Rupprath	23.51	Matt Welsh	23.60	Peter Marshall	23.93
100 m	Aaron Peirsol	50.72 CR	Matt Welsh	51.04	Thomas Rupprath	51.20
200 m	Aaron Peirsol	1:50.52 WR	Matt Welsh	1:52.54	Arkady Vyatchanin	1:54.20

Women's Backstroke

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Haley Cope	27.49	Gao Chang	27.55	Sophie Edington	28.17
100 m	Haley Cope	59.03	Gao Chang	59.61	Sophie Edington	59.64
200 m	Margaret Hoelzer	2:05.84	Tayliah Zimmer	2:08.05	Melissa Ingram	2:08.54

Men's Breaststroke

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Brendan Hansen	26.86	Brenton Rickard	27.09	Stefan Nystrand	27.28
100 m	Brendan Hansen	58.45	Brenton Rickard	58.64	Vladislav Polyakov	59.07
200 m	Brendan Hansen	2:04.98 CR	Brenton Rickard	2:08.34	Vladislav Polyakov	2:08.36

Women's Breaststroke

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Brooke Hanson	30.20	Jade Edmistone	30.21	Tara Kirk	30.61
100 m	Brooke Hanson	1:05.36 CR	Jade Edmistone	1:05.97	Tara Kirk	1:06.33
200 m	Brooke Hanson	2:21.68	Amanda Beard	2:22.53	Sarah Katsoulis	2:22.97

Men's Butterfly

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Ian Crocker	22.71 WR	Mark Foster	23.22	Duje Draganja	23.26
100 m	Ian Crocker	50.18 CR	James Hickman	51.13	Peter Mankoč	51.66
200 m	James Hickman	1:53.41	Ioan Gherghel	1:54.06	Wu Peng	1:54.51

Women's Butterfly

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Jenny Thompson	25.89	Anna-Karin Kammerling	26.02	Libby Lenton	26.53
100 m	Martina Moravcová	57.38	Rachel Komisarz	57.85	Jenny Thompson	58.13
200 m	Kaitlin Sandeno	2:06.95	Mary Descenza	2:07.79	Audrey Lacroix	2:08.35

Men's Medley

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Peter Mankoč	52.66 CR	Thomas Rupprath	53.35	Thiago Pereira	53.75
200 m	Thiago Pereira	1:55.78	Ryan Lochte	1:55.86	Oussama Mellouli	1:56.23
400 m	Oussama Mellouli	4:07.02	Robin Francis	4:08.06	Eric Shanteau	4:08.94
4 × 100 m	United States Aaron Peirsol Brendan Hansen Ian Crocker Jason Lezak	3:25.09 WR	Australia Matthew Welsh Brenton Rickard Andrew Richards Andrew Mewing	3:29.72	Russia Arkady Vyatchanin Andrei Ivanov Nikolay Skvortsov Andrey Kapralov	3:32.11

Women's Medley

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Brooke Hanson	1:00.01	Shayne Reese	1:00.92	Martina Moravcová	1:00.95
200 m	Brooke Hanson	2:09.81	Lara Carroll	2:10.58	Katie Hoff	2:10.61
400 m	Kaitlin Sandeno	4:30.12	Katie Hoff	4:33.09	Lara Carroll	4:35.46
4 × 100 m	Australia Sophie Edington Brooke Hanson Jessicah Schipper Libby Lenton	3:54.95 WR	United States Haley Cope Tara Kirk Jenny Thompson Kara Lynn Joyce	3:55.68	Sweden Therese Svendsen Sara Larsson Johanna Sjöberg Josefin Lillhage	4:01.76

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	21	10	10	41
2	Australia (AUS)	7	15	7	29
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	0	5
4	Russia (RUS)	2	0	2	4
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	4	4	9
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	3	5
7	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
8	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	1	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
	Tunisia (TUN)	1	0	1	2
13	China (CHN)	0	2	1	3
14	Canada (CAN)	0	1	3	4
15	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
16	Algeria (ALG)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
18	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	2	2
19	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		40	40	41	121