2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) were held in Istanbul, Turkey on 12–16 December 2012. This swimming-only championships took place in the Sinan Erdem Dome; all events were swum in a 25-meter (short-course) pool.

11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Date(s)	12–16 December 2012
Venue(s)	Sinan Erdem Dome
Nations participating	161
Athletes participating	958
Events	40
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The United States topped the medal standings with a total of 27 medals and had the most gold medals with 11. A total of 18 championship records were set and 2 world records (both set by American Ryan Lochte) broken. Lochte and Hungarian Katinka Hosszú were named the best male and female swimmers of the competition.^[1] Lochte finished the meet with 8 total medals (breaking his previous record of 7 set in 2010) and Hosszú had 5 total medals.

Bidding process

FINA announced on 12 April 2008 that Istanbul had defeated the only other bidder Vienna, Austria after a meeting of the FINA Bureau in Manchester, UK.

Venue

The events took place at the Sinan Erdem Dome, which has a seating capacity of 22,500.^[2]

Events

The swimming competition featured races in a short-course (25 m) pool in 40 events (20 for males, 20 for females; 17 individual events and 3 relays for each gender). Prelim events were held in the morning session and semi-finals/final in the evening session.

• Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (women), and 1500 (men);
• Backstroke: 50, 100, and 200;
• Breaststroke: 50, 100, and 200;
• Butterfly: 50, 100, and 200;
• Individual medley: 100, 200, and 400;
• Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley

Schedule

Date	Morning session Preliminary heats (10:00 EET)	Evening session Semi-finals and finals (19:00 EET)
Wednesday 12 December	Men's 200 freestyle Women's 50 breaststroke Men's 100 backstroke Women's 200 butterfly Men's 100 breaststroke Women's 100 backstroke Men's 100 butterfly Women's 400 medley Men's 4 × 100 freestyle Women's 4 × 200 freestyle	Men's 200 freestyle (final) Women's 50 breaststroke (semi-finals) Men's 100 backstroke (semi-finals) Women's 200 butterfly (final) Men's 100 breaststroke (semi-finals) Women's 100 backstroke (semi-finals) Men's 100 butterfly (semi-finals) Women's 400 medley (final) Men's 4 × 100 freestyle (final) Women's 4 × 200 freestyle (final)
Thursday 13 December	Women's 100 freestyle Men's 400 medley Women's 50 butterfly Men's 50 freestyle Women's 100 medley Men's 4 × 200 freestyle Women's 800 freestyle (slower heats)	Women's 100 freestyle (semi-finals) Men's 400 medley (final) Women's 50 breaststroke (final) Men's 100 backstroke (final) Women's 50 butterfly (semi-finals) Men's 50 freestyle (semi-finals) Women's 100 backstroke (final) Men's 100 breaststroke (final) Women's 100 medley (semi-finals) Men's 100 butterfly (final) Women's 800 freestyle (final) Men's 4 × 200 freestyle (final)
Friday 14 December	Men's 50 backstroke Women's 200 backstroke Men's 50 butterfly Women's 100 breaststroke Men's 400 freestyle Men's 200 medley Women's 400 freestyle Men's 200 breaststroke Women's 4 × 100 medley	Men's 50 backstroke (semi-finals) Women's 100 freestyle (final) Men's 50 butterfly (semi-finals) Women's 200 backstroke (final) Men's 200 breaststroke (final) Women's 50 butterfly (final) Men's 400 freestyle (final) Women's 100 breaststroke (semi-finals) Women's 400 freestyle (final) Men's 50 freestyle (final) Men's 100 medley (final) Men's 200 medley (final) Women's 4 × 100 medley (final)
Saturday 15 December	Women's 50 backstroke Men's 100 freestyle Women's 100 butterfly Men's 100 medley Women's 50 freestyle Women's 200 medley Men's 50 breaststroke Women's 4 × 100 freestyle	Women's 100 breaststroke (final) Men's 50 backstroke (final) Women's 50 backstroke (semi-finals) Men's 100 freestyle(semi-finals) Women's 50 freestyle (semi-finals) Men's 50 butterfly (final) Women's 100 butterfly(semi-finals) Men's 100 medley (semi-finals) Women's 200 medley (final) Men's 50 breaststroke(semi-finals) Women's 4 × 100 freestyle (final)
Sunday 16 December	Men's 200 backstroke Women's 200 breaststroke Men's 200 butterfly Women's 200 freestyle Men's 4 × 100 medley Men's 1500 freestyle (slower heats)	Men's 100 freestyle (final) Women's 50 backstroke (final) Men's 200 backstroke (final) Women's 200 breaststroke (final) Men's 100 medley (final) Women's 100 butterfly (final) Men's 50 breaststroke (final) Women's 50 freestyle (final) Men's 200 butterfly (final) Men's 1500 freestyle (final) Women's 200 freestyle (final) Men's 4 × 100 medley (final)

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	8	8	27
2	China (CHN)	3	5	3	11
3	Hungary (HUN)	3	4	3	10
4	Denmark (DEN)	3	2	4	9
5	Russia (RUS)	2	3	4	9
6	Italy (ITA)	2	2	0	4
7	Germany (GER)	2	1	1	4
	Japan (JPN)	2	1	1	4
9	Lithuania (LTU)	2	1	0	3
10	Australia (AUS)	1	5	3	9
11	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	3	6
12	South Africa (RSA)	1	1	0	2
13	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	2	3
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	2	3
15	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
17	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
20	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia (SVN)	0	2	0	2
22	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Faroe Islands (FRO)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		40	40	40	120

Changes in medal standings

In June 2013, Danish swimmer Mads Glæsner was stripped by FINA of a gold and bronze medal from the 400- and 1500-meter freestyle after testing positive for levomethamphetamine.^[3]

In January 2014 the Court of Arbitration for Sport partially overturned FINA's ruling and returned the gold medal in 1500 m freestyle.^[4]

List of changes in medal standings

Ruling date	Event	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
17 June 2013	Men's 400 metre freestyle	Denmark			−1	−1
		New Zealand			+1	+1
17 June 2013	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	Denmark	−1			−1
		Italy	+1	−1		0
		Faroe Islands		+1	−1	0
		Poland			+1	+1
31 January 2014	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	Denmark	+1			+1
		Italy	-1	+1		0
		Faroe Islands		-1	+1	0
		Poland			-1	-1

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Freestyle
50 m freestyle   details	Vladimir Morozov   Russia	20.55 NR	Florent Manaudou   France	20.88	Anthony Ervin   United States	20.99
100 m freestyle   details	Vladimir Morozov   Russia	45.65	Tommaso D'Orsogna   Australia	46.80	Yevgeny Lagunov   Russia	46.81
200 m freestyle   details	Ryan Lochte   United States	1:41.92	Paul Biedermann   Germany	1:42.07	Conor Dwyer   United States	1:43.78
400 m freestyle   details	Paul Biedermann   Germany	3:39.15	Hao Yun   China	3:39.48	Matthew Stanley   New Zealand	3:41.01
1500 m freestyle   details	Mads Glæsner   Denmark	14:30.01	Gregorio Paltrinieri   Italy	14:31.13	Pál Joensen   Faroe Islands	14:36.93
Backstroke
50 m backstroke   details	Robert Hurley   Australia	23.04	Matt Grevers   United States	23.17	Stanislav Donets   Russia	23.19
100 m backstroke   details	Matt Grevers   United States	49.89	Stanislav Donets   Russia	49.91	Guilherme Guido   Brazil	50.50
200 m backstroke   details	Radosław Kawęcki   Poland	1:48.48	Ryan Lochte   United States	1:48.50	Ryan Murphy   United States	1:48.86
Breaststroke
50 m breaststroke   details	Aleksander Hetland   Norway	26.30	Damir Dugonjič   Slovenia	26.32	Florent Manaudou   France	26.33
100 m breaststroke   details	Fabio Scozzoli   Italy	57.10	Damir Dugonjič   Slovenia	57.32	Kevin Cordes   United States	57.83
200 m breaststroke   details	Dániel Gyurta   Hungary	2:01.35 CR	Michael Jamieson   Great Britain	2:03.00	Viatcheslav Sinkevich   Russia	2:03.08
Butterfly
50 m butterfly   details	Nicholas Santos   Brazil	22.22 CR	Chad le Clos   South Africa	22.26	Tom Shields   United States	22.46 NR
100 butterfly   details	Chad le Clos   South Africa	48.82 CR, AF	Tom Shields   United States	49.54	Ryan Lochte   United States	49.59
200 m butterfly   details	Kazuya Kaneda   Japan	1:51.01 CR	László Cseh   Hungary	1:51.66	Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia	1:52.33
Individual medley
100 m individual medley   details	Ryan Lochte   United States	51.21	Kenneth To   Australia	51.38	George Bovell   Trinidad and Tobago	51.66
200 m individual medley   details	Ryan Lochte   United States	1:49.63 WR	Daiya Seto   Japan	1:52.80	László Cseh   Hungary	1:52.89
400 m individual medley   details	Daiya Seto   Japan	3:59.15 AS	László Cseh   Hungary	4:00.50	Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary	4:02.87
Relays
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   details	United States  Anthony Ervin (47.28)  Ryan Lochte (45.64)  Jimmy Feigen (47.25)  Matt Grevers (46.23) Garrett Weber-Gale[a] Tyler Reed[a]	3:06.40	Italy  Luca Dotto (46.84)  Marco Orsi (45.94)  Michele Santucci (47.46)  Filippo Magnini (46.83)	3:07.07	Australia  Tommaso D'Orsogna (46.68)  Kyle Richardson (46.92)  Travis Mahoney (47.32)  Kenneth To (46.35)	3:07.27
4 × 200 m freestyle relay   details	United States  Ryan Lochte (1:41.17)  Conor Dwyer (1:43.04)  Michael Klueh (1:43.04)  Matt McLean (1:43.99) Garrett Weber-Gale[a] Michael Weiss[a]	6:51.40	Australia  Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:42.49)  Jarrod Killey (1:42.82)  Kyle Richardson (1:44.59)  Robert Hurley (1:42.39) Travis Mahoney[a]	6:52.29	Germany  Paul Biedermann (1:41.93)  Dimitri Colupaev (1:42.96)  Christoph Fildebrandt (1:45.40)  Yannick Lebherz (1:42.93)	6:53.22
4 × 100 m medley relay   details	United States  Matt Grevers (50.00)  Kevin Cordes (57.15)  Tom Shields (48.66)  Ryan Lochte (45.22) Ryan Murphy[a] Mihail Alexandrov[a] Anthony Ervin[a]	3:21.03	Russia  Stanislav Donets (50.10)  Viatcheslav Sinkevich (57.54)  Nikolay Skvortsov (50.27)  Vladimir Morozov (44.95) Viacheslav Prudnikov[a] Yevgeny Lagunov[a]	3:22.86	Australia  Robert Hurley (50.44)  Kenneth To (57.44)  Grant Irvine (50.75)  Tommaso D'Orsogna (46.14) Kyle Richardson[a]	3:24.77

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

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Freestyle
50 m freestyle   details	Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus	23.64	Francesca Halsall   Great Britain	23.87	Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark	24.00
100 m freestyle   details	Britta Steffen   Germany	52.31	Megan Romano   United States	52.48	Tang Yi   China	52.73
200 m freestyle   details	Allison Schmitt   United States	1:53.59	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	1:54.31	Melanie Costa   Spain	1:54.45
400 m freestyle   details	Melanie Costa   Spain	4:01.18	Chloe Sutton   United States	4:01.20	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	4:01.24
800 m freestyle   details	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	8:08.62 OC	Lotte Friis   Denmark	8:10.99	Chloe Sutton   United States	8:15.53
Backstroke
50 m backstroke   details	Zhao Jing   China	25.95 CR	Olivia Smoliga   United States	26.13 NR	Aleksandra Urbanczyk   Poland	26.50
100 m backstroke   details	Olivia Smoliga   United States	56.64	Mie Nielsen   Denmark	57.07 NR	Simona Baumrtová   Czech Republic	57.18 NR
200 m backstroke   details	Daryna Zevina   Ukraine	2:02.24	Bonnie Brandon   United States	2:03.19	Duane Da Rocha   Spain	2:04.15
Breaststroke
50 m breaststroke   details	Rūta Meilutytė   Lithuania	29.44 CR, ER	Alia Atkinson   Jamaica	29.67 NR	Sarah Katsoulis   Australia	29.94
100 m breaststroke   details	Rūta Meilutytė   Lithuania	1:03.52 CR, ER	Alia Atkinson   Jamaica	1:03.80 NR	Rikke Møller Pedersen   Denmark	1:04.05
200 m breaststroke   details	Rikke Møller Pedersen   Denmark	2:16.08 CR	Laura Sogar   United States	2:16.93	Kanako Watanabe   Japan	2:19.39
Butterfly
50 m butterfly   details	Lu Ying   China	25.14	Jiao Liuyang   China	25.23	Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark	25.55
100 butterfly   details	Ilaria Bianchi   Italy	56.13	Liu Zige   China	56.58	Jemma Lowe   Great Britain	56.66
200 m butterfly   details	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	2:02.20 CR, ER	Jiao Liuyang   China	2:02.28	Jemma Lowe   Great Britain	2:03.19
Individual medley
100 m individual medley   details	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	58.49 CR	Rūta Meilutytė   Lithuania	58.79 NR	Zhao Jing   China	58.80
200 m individual medley   details	Ye Shiwen   China	2:04.64 CR	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	2:04.72	Hannah Miley   Great Britain	2:07.12
400 m individual medley   details	Hannah Miley   Great Britain	4:23.14 CR, ER	Ye Shiwen   China	4:23.33 AS	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	4:25.95
Relays
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   details	United States  Megan Romano (52.86)  Jessica Hardy (53.32)  Lia Neal (52.44)  Allison Schmitt (52.39) Shannon Vreeland[b] Olivia Smoliga[b]	3:31.01	Australia  Angie Bainbridge (53.04)  Marieke Guehrer (52.32)  Brianna Throssell (54.19)  Sally Foster (53.35)	3:32.90	Denmark  Mie Nielsen (53.07)  Pernille Blume (53.61)  Kelly Rasmussen (54.59)  Jeanette Ottesen (52.24)	3:33.51
4 × 200 m freestyle relay   details	United States  Megan Romano (1:56.03)  Chelsea Chenault (1:54.78)  Shannon Vreeland (1:55.43)  Allison Schmitt (1:53.01) Jasmine Tosky[b]	7:39.25	Russia  Veronika Popova (1:55.36)  Elena Sokolova (1:55.61)  Daria Belyakina (1:55.73)  Ksenia Yuskova (1:56.07)	7:42.77	China  Qiu Yuhan (1:57.30)  Pang Jiaying (1:56.72)  Guo Junjun (1:55.91)  Tang Yi (1:53.33) Wang Fei[b]	7:43.26
4 × 100 m medley relay   details	Denmark  Mie Nielsen (56.73)  Rikke Møller Pedersen (1:03.48)  Jeanette Ottesen (56.49)  Pernille Blume (53.17)	3:49.87	Australia  Rachel Goh (58.16)  Sarah Katsoulis (1:03.89)  Marieke Guehrer (56.36)  Angie Bainbridge (52.47) Grace Loh[b] Samantha Marshall[b] Brianna Throssell[b] Sally Foster[b]	3:50.88	United States  Olivia Smoliga (57.25)  Jessica Hardy (1:04.61)  Claire Donahue (57.67)  Megan Romano (51.90) Laura Sogar[b] Christine Magnuson[b] Lia Neal[b]	3:51.43

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

Championship and world records broken

Men

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record	Day
Men's 100 m freestyle[c]	12 December	Final	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	45.52	CR	1
Men's 100 m butterfly	13 December	Final	Chad le Clos	South Africa	48.82	CR	2
Men's 50 m butterfly	14 December	Heats	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.40	=CR	3
Men's 50 m butterfly	14 December	Semifinal	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.23	CR	3
Men's 200 m breaststroke	14 December	Final	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:01.35	CR	3
Men's 200 m medley	14 December	Final	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:49.63	WR	3
Men's 50 m butterfly	15 December	Final	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.22	CR	4
Men's 100 m medley	15 December	Semifinal	Ryan Lochte	United States	50.71	WR	4
Men's 200 m butterfly	16 December	Final	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1:51.01	CR	5

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record	Day
Women's 50 m breaststroke	12 December	Heats	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.56	CR	1
Women's 50 m breaststroke	12 December	Semifinal	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.51	CR	1
Women's 200 m butterfly	12 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:02.20	CR	1
Women's 400 m medley	12 December	Final	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	4:23.14	CR	1
Women's 50 m breaststroke	13 December	Final	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.44	CR	2
Women's 100 m medley	14 December	Final	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	58.49	CR	3
Women's 100 m breaststroke	15 December	Final	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:03.52	CR	4
Women's 50 m backstroke	15 December	Semifinal	Zhao Jing	China	26.11	CR	4
Women's 200 m medley	15 December	Final	Ye Shiwen	China	2:04.64	CR	4
Women's 50 m backstroke	16 December	Final	Zhao Jing	China	25.95	CR	5
Women's 200 m breaststroke	16 December	Final	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.08	CR	5

• All world records (WR) are subsequently championship records (CR).

^c Morozov broke the championship record in the 100 m freestyle as the lead-off leg in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

Broadcasting rights

• Europe – Eurosport
• Finland – Yle
• Hungary – M2; Kossuth Rádió^[5]
• Lithuania – LRT televizija^[6]
• Turkey – TRT SPOR

Participating nations

161 nations entered the competition. Ecuador, currently suspended by FINA due to government interference, participated under the FINA flag.^[7] Venezuela later withdrew.

•  Albania (3)
•  Algeria (1)
•  Andorra (3)
•  Angola (4)^[8]
•  Argentina (8)
•  Armenia (3)
•  Aruba (3)
•  Australia (19)^[9]
•  Austria (4)^[10]
•  Azerbaijan (4)
•  Bahrain (5)
•  Bangladesh (3)
•  Barbados (4)
•  Belarus (7)
•  Belgium (1)^[11]
•  Benin (2)
•  Bolivia (3)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Botswana (6)
•  Brazil (22)^[12]
•  Brunei (4)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Burkina Faso (3)
•  Burundi (3)
•  Cambodia (3)
•  Cameroon (3)
•  Canada (13)^[13]
•  China (36)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Chile (2)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Comoros (3)
•  Cook Islands (3)
•  Costa Rica (3)
•  Ivory Coast (3)
•  Croatia (6)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Cyprus (3)
•  Czech Republic (7)^[14]
•  Denmark (12)
•  Djibouti (2)
•  Dominican Republic (3)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (3)
• Ecuador (2)
•  El Salvador (3)
•  Estonia (6)^[15]
•  Faroe Islands (2)
•  Fiji (3)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (9)
•  Georgia (3)
•  Germany (12)^[16]
•  Ghana (5)
•  Gibraltar (5)
•  United Kingdom (19)^[13]
•  Greece (3)
•  Grenada (3)
•  Guam (4)
•  Guatemala (3)
•  Guinea (3)
•  Guyana (3)
•  Honduras (3)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  Hungary (15)^[17]
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (9)
•  Indonesia (4)
•  Iran (2)
•  Iraq (3)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (26)^[18]
•  Jamaica (2)
•  Japan (29)
•  Jordan (3)
•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Kenya (7)
•  Kuwait (3)
•  Kyrgyzstan (6)
•  Laos (3)
•  Latvia (3)^[19]
•  Libya (1)
•  Liechtenstein (2)
•  Lithuania (6)^[20]
•  Lesotho (2)
•  Luxembourg (3)
•  Macau (9)
• Macedonia (3)
•  Madagascar (3)
•  Mali (3)
•  Maldives (3)
•  Marshall Islands (3)
•  Mauritius (4)
•  Mexico (4)
•  Malta (7)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Mongolia (3)
•  Mozambique (3)
•  Myanmar (3)
•  Namibia (4)
•  Nepal (3)
•  Netherlands (4)
•  New Zealand (6)^[21]
•  Nicaragua (3)
•  Niger (2)
•  Nigeria (3)
•  Northern Mariana Islands (3)
•  North Korea (3)
•  Norway (2)
•  Pakistan (6)
•  Palau (3)
•  Palestine (3)
•  Panama (3)
•  Papua New Guinea (4)
•  Paraguay (6)
•  Peru (10)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Poland (13)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (6)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (28)
•  Rwanda (3)
•  Saint Lucia (3)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6)
•  Samoa (3)
•  Senegal (3)
•  Serbia (2)
•  Seychelles (4)
•  Sierra Leone (5)
•  Singapore (9)
•  Slovakia (5)
•  Slovenia (10)
•  South Africa (19)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Spain (7)
•  Sri Lanka (3)^[22]
•  Sudan (4)
•  Syria (3)
•  Sweden (11)
•  Switzerland (5)^[23]
•  Tajikistan (3)
•  Tanzania (4)
•  Thailand (3)
•  Togo (3)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (3)^[24]
•  Tunisia (2)
•  Turkey (26) (host)
•  Turkmenistan (9)
•  Uganda (4)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United Arab Emirates (3)
•  United States (43)^[25]
•  Uruguay (4)
•  Uzbekistan (4)
•  Vietnam (3)
•  Zambia (3)
•  Zimbabwe (2)

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