2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 15–19 December 2010. This swimming-only championships took place in the Dubai Sports Complex; all events were swum in a 25-meter (short-course) pool.

10th Short Course Worlds
Host city	Dubai, UAE
Date(s)	December 15–19, 2010
Venue(s)	Dubai Sports Complex
Nations participating	153
Athletes participating	780
Events	40
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FINA announced on April 9, 2006 that Dubai had defeated the only other bidder Istanbul, Turkey, 11 votes to 10, after a meeting of the FINA Bureau in Shanghai, China.

The USA topped the medal standings with a total of 25 medals. A total of 57 Championship Records, and 4 World Records were set. American Ryan Lochte and Spaniard Mireia Belmonte were named swimmers of the competition. Lochte became the first individual ever to win 7 medals at a Short Course Worlds, and became the first individual to swim a World Record since suits-rule changes went into effect in January 2010. Belmonte won a total of four medals, tied for the most with American Rebecca Soni.

Participating nations

The entry list released on the FINA website before the championships contained 153 countries.^[1]

•  Albania
•  Algeria
•  Andorra
•  Angola (2)^[2]
•  Armenia
•  Argentina
•  Australia (30)^[2]
•  Austria (7)^[2]
•  Azerbaijan
•  Bahamas (3)^[2]
•  Bahrain
•  Barbados
•  Belarus
•  Belgium
•  Benin
•  Bolivia
•  Bermuda
•  Brazil
•  Brunei
•  Bulgaria (3)^[2]
•  Burkina Faso
•  Cambodia
•  Canada (16)^[2]
•  Cayman Islands
•  Chile
•  China
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Colombia
•  Comoros
•  Republic of the Congo
•  Cook Islands
•  Costa Rica
•  Ivory Coast
•  Croatia
•  Cuba
•  Cyprus
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Djibouti
•  Dominican Republic
•  Ecuador
•  Egypt
•  El Salvador
•  Estonia (10)^[3]
•  Ethiopia
•  Faroe Islands
•  Fiji
•  Finland
•  France (21)^[2]
•  Georgia
•  Germany (11)^[2]
•  Gibraltar
•  Great Britain (2)^[2]
•  Greece
•  Guam (4)^[2]
•  Guinea
•  Guyana
•  Hong Kong
•  Honduras
•  Hungary
•  Iceland
•  Iraq
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Jamaica
•  Japan (11)^[2]
•  Jordan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kenya (12)^[2]
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Kuwait
•  Laos
•  Latvia (2)
•  Lebanon
•  Lithuania (2)^[4]
•  Luxembourg (4)^[2]
•  Macau
•  Macedonia
•  Madagascar
•  Maldives
•  Mali
•  Malta (10)^[2]
•  Marshall Islands
•  Mauritania (2)^[2]
•  Mexico (3)^[2]
•  Federated States of Micronesia
•  Moldova
•  Mongolia
•  Myanmar
•  Namibia
•  Nicaragua
•  Netherlands
•  Netherlands Antilles
•  Nepal
•  New Zealand
•  Nigeria
•  Northern Mariana Islands
•  Norway
•  Oman
•  Pakistan
•  Palestine
•  Palau
•  Panama
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Philippines
•  Poland (7)^[2]
•  Portugal
•  Russia
•  Rwanda
•  Saint Lucia
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Senegal
•  Serbia
•  Seychelles
•  Singapore
•  Slovakia
•  Slovenia
•  South Africa (16)^[2]
•  Spain
•  Sri Lanka
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Syria
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  Togo
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Tunisia
•  Turkey (9)^[2]
•  Turkmenistan
•  Uganda
•  Ukraine
•  United Arab Emirates
•  United States (36)^[2]
•  Uruguay
•  Uzbekistan
•  Venezuela (14)^[2]
•  Vietnam (2)^[2]
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Freestyle
50 free   details	César Cielo Filho   Brazil	20.51 CR,AM	Frédérick Bousquet   France	20.81	Josh Schneider   USA	20.88
100 free   details	César Cielo   Brazil	45.74 CR,SA	Fabien Gilot   France	45.97	Nikita Lobintsev   Russia	46.35
200 free   details	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:41.08 CR	Danila Izotov   Russia	1:41.70	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	1:42.02
400 free   details	Paul Biedermann   Germany	3:37.06	Nikita Lobintsev   Russia	3:37.84	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	3:38.17
1500 free   details	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	14:24.16	Mads Glæsner   Denmark	14:29.52	Gergely Gyurta   Hungary	14:31.47
Backstroke
50 back   details	Stanislav Donets   Russia	22.93 CR	Sun Xiaolei   China   and Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain	23.13	Not awarded
100 back   details	Stanislav Donets   Russia	49.07 CR	Camille Lacourt   France	49.80	Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain	50.04
200 back   details	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:46.68 CR	Tyler Clary   USA	1:49.09	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:49.69
Breaststroke
50 breast   details	Felipe França Silva   Brazil	25.95 CR	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	26.03	Aleksander Hetland   Norway	26.29
100 breast   details	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	56.80 CR	Fabio Scozzoli   Italy	57.13	Felipe França Silva   Brazil	57.39
200 breast   details	Naoya Tomita   Japan	2:03.12 CR	Dániel Gyurta   Hungary	2:03.47	Brenton Rickard   Australia	2:04.33
Butterfly
50 fly   details	Albert Subirats   Venezuela	22.40 CR	Andrii Govorov   Ukraine	22.43	Steffen Deibler   Germany	22.44
100 fly   details	Yevgeny Korotyshkin   Russia	50.23	Albert Subirats   Venezuela	50.24	Kaio Almeida   Brazil	50.33
200 fly   details	Chad le Clos   South Africa	1:51.56	Kaio Almeida   Brazil	1:51.61	László Cseh   Hungary	1:51.67
Individual Medley
100 IM   details	Ryan Lochte   USA	50.86	Markus Deibler   Germany	51.69	Sergey Fesikov   Russia	51.81
200 IM   details	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:50.08 WR	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:52.90	Tyler Clary   USA	1:53.56
400 IM   details	Ryan Lochte   USA	3:55.50 WR	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	3:57.40	Tyler Clary   USA	3:57.56
Relays
4 × 100  Free Relay   details	France  Alain Bernard (46.78)  Frédérick Bousquet (45.92)  Fabien Gilot (45.75)  Yannick Agnel (46.33)	3:04.78 CR	Russia  Yevgeny Lagunov (46.68)  Sergey Fesikov (45.87)  Nikita Lobintsev (45.79)  Danila Izotov (46.48)	3:04.82	Brazil  Nicholas Santos (47.33)  César Cielo (45.08)  Marcelo Chierighini (47.02)  Nicolas Oliveira (46.31)	3:05.74 SA
4 × 200  Free Relay   details	Russia  Nikita Lobintsev (1:42.10)  Danila Izotov (1:42.15)  Evgeny Lagunov (1:42.32)  Alexander Sukhorukov (1:42.47)	6:49.04 WR	USA  Peter Vanderkaay (1:43.83)  Ryan Lochte (1:40.48)  Garrett Weber-Gale (1:42.89)  Ricky Berens (1:42.38)	6:49.58	France  Yannick Agnel (1:41.95)  Fabien Gilot (1:42.55)  Clément Lefert (1:45.01)  Jérémy Stravius (1:43.54)	6:53.05
4 × 100  Medley Relay   details	USA  Nick Thoman (49.88)  Mike Alexandrov (56.52)  Ryan Lochte (49.17)  Garrett Weber-Gale (45.42)	3:20.99 CR	Russia  Stanislav Donets (48.95) CR  Stanislav Lakhtyukhov (57.27)  Evgeny Korotyshkin (49.39)  Nikita Lobintsev (46.00)	3:21.61	Brazil  Guilherme Guido (50.69)  Felipe França Silva (57.21)  Kaio Almeida (50.09)  César Cielo (45.13) Henrique Martins[a] Nicolas Oliveira[a] Glauber Silva[a]	3:23.12 SA

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Freestyle
50 free   details	Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands	23.37	Hinkelien Schreuder   Netherlands	23.81	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace   Bahamas	24.04
100 free   details	Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands	51.45 CR	Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands	52.18	Natalie Coughlin   USA	52.25
200 free   details	Camille Muffat   France	1:52.29 CR	Katie Hoff   USA	1:52.91	Kylie Palmer   Australia	1:52.96
400 free   details	Katie Hoff   USA	3:57.07 CR	Kylie Palmer   Australia	3:58.39	Federica Pellegrini   Italy	3:59.52
800 free   details	Erika Villaécija   Spain	8:11.61	Mireia Belmonte   Spain	8:12.48	Kate Ziegler   USA	8:12.84
Backstroke
50 back   details	Zhao Jing   China	26.27 CR	Rachel Goh   Australia	26.54	Mercedes Peris   Spain	26.80
100 back   details	Natalie Coughlin   USA	56.08 CR	Zhao Jing   China	56.18	Gao Chang   China	56.21
200 back   details	Alexianne Castel   France	2:01.67	Missy Franklin   USA	2:02.01	Zhou Yanxin   China	2:03.22
Breaststroke
50 breast   details	Rebecca Soni   USA	29.83	Leiston Pickett   Australia	29.84	Zhao Jin   China	29.90
100 breast   details	Rebecca Soni   USA	1:03.98 CR	Leisel Jones   Australia	1:04.26	Ji Liping   China	1:04.79
200 breast   details	Rebecca Soni   USA	2:16.39 CR	Sun Ye   China	2:18.09	Rikke Pedersen   Denmark	2:18.82
Butterfly
50 fly   details	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	24.87 CR	Felicity Galvez   Australia	24.90	Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark	25.24
100 fly   details	Felicity Galvez   Australia	55.43 CR	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	55.73	Dana Vollmer   USA	56.25
200 fly   details	Mireia Belmonte   Spain	2:03.59 CR	Jemma Lowe   Great Britain	2:03.94	Petra Granlund   Sweden	2:04.38
Individual Medley
100 IM   details	Ariana Kukors   USA	58.95	Kotuku Ngawati   Australia	59.27	Hinkelien Schreuder   Netherlands	59.53
200 IM   details	Mireia Belmonte   Spain	2:05.73 CR	Ye Shiwen   China	2:05.94	Ariana Kukors   USA	2:06.09
400 IM   details	Mireia Belmonte   Spain	4:24.21 CR	Ye Shiwen   China	4:24.55	Li Xuanxu   China	4:29.05
Relays
4 × 100   Free Relay   details	Netherlands   Femke Heemskerk (52.33)   Inge Dekker (52.47)   Hinkelien Schreuder (52.32)   Ranomi Kromowidjojo (51.42)	3:28.54 CR	USA   Natalie Coughlin (51.88)   Katie Hoff (52.79)   Jessica Hardy (53.03)   Dana Vollmer (51.64)	3:29.34	China   Tang Yi (52.27)   Zhu Qianwei (52.60)   Pang Jiaying (52.94)   Li Zhesi (52.00)	3:29.81
4 × 200   Free Relay   details	China   Chen Qian (1:54.73)   Tang Yi (1:53.54)   Liu Jing (1:53.59)   Zhu Qianwei (1:54.08)	7:35.94 WR	Australia   Blair Evans (1:54.87)   Jade Neilsen (1:54.87)   Kelly Stubbins (1:55.41)   Kylie Palmer (1:52.42)	7:37.57	France   Camille Muffat (1:53.17) CR   Coralie Balmy (1:53.71)   Mylène Lazare (1:56.24)   Ophélie Etienne (1:55.21)	7:38.33
4 × 100   Medley Relay   details	China   Zhao Jing (56.52)   Zhao Jin (1:04.20)   Liu Zige (55.80)   Tang Yi (51.77)	3:48.29 CR	USA   Natalie Coughlin (56.83)   Rebecca Soni (1:03.73)   Dana Vollmer (55.62)   Jessica Hardy (52.18)	3:48.36	Australia   Rachel Goh (57.39)   Leisel Jones (1:03.76)   Felicity Galvez (55.56)   Marieke Guehrer (52.17)	3:48.88

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	6	7	25
2	Russia (RUS)	4	4	2	10
3	Spain (ESP)	4	2	2	8
4	China (CHN)	3	5	6	14
5	France (FRA)	3	3	2	8
6	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	1	6
7	Brazil (BRA)	3	1	4	8
8	South Africa (RSA)	2	1	0	3
9	Australia (AUS)	1	7	3	11
10	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	2	4
11	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
13	Venezuela (VEN)	1	1	0	2
14	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
15	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	2	3
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
17	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
19	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
21	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		40	41	39	120

Highlights

For a list of day-by-day highlights from the 2010 Short Course Worlds, please see:

• 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Highlights

Records

For a list of records set at the 2010 Short Course Worlds, please see this entry:

• 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Records

Controversy

At the time of the event, Israel and the United Arab Emirates had no diplomatic relations; however, UAE officials said they would issue visas to the Israeli delegation attending the competition. As such, the Israeli delegation was eventually let into the country and were able to get to the Championships before racing actually started, but it was not without difficulties and several delays. Among the reported issue were that the Israelis were not issued visas nor were their passports stamped, and their arrival was delayed to just before competition started.^[5][6]