Swimming at the 1973 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1973 Summer Universiade took place in Moscow, USSR in August 1973.^[1]

Swimming at the VII Summer Universiade
Venues	Lenin Stadium Pool
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Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union	52.03	Kenneth Knox  United States	52.90	Dean Anderson  United States	53.31
400 m freestyle details	Jack Tingley  United States	4:02.87	Aleksandr Samsonov  Soviet Union	4:12.09	José Namorado  Brazil	4:12.74
1500 m freestyle details	Jack Tingley  United States	16:02.20	Anton Van Klooster  Netherlands	16:30.03	Jim McConica  United States	16:37.79
100 m backstroke details	David Johnson  United States	59.94	Igor Potyakin  Soviet Union	1:00.59	Erik Fish  Canada	1:00.67
200 m backstroke details	David Johnson  United States	2:10.53	Steve Furniss  United States	2:12.72	John Hawes  Canada	2:13.93
100 m breaststroke details	Nikolai Pankin  Soviet Union	1:06.67	Igor Tcherdakov  Soviet Union	1:07.19	Mark Chatfield  United States	1:07.74
200 m breaststroke details	Nikolai Pankin  Soviet Union	2:23.81	Igor Tcherdakov  Soviet Union	2:24.06	Felipe Muñoz  Mexico	2:27.89
100 m butterfly details	Allan Poucher  United States	56.36	Byron MacDonald  Canada	57.17	Pat O'Connor  United States	57.77
200 m butterfly details	Allen Poucher  United States	2:05.67	Folkert Meeuw  West Germany	2:06.53	Viktor Sharygin  Soviet Union	2:09.00
400 m individual medley details	Sergei Zacharov  Soviet Union	4:37.96	Steve Furniss  United States	4:39.54	Lee Engstrand  United States	4:40.13
4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Mark Elliot Elliot Tietre Dean Anderson Kenneth Knox	-	Soviet Union (URS)	-	West Germany (FRG)	-
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	7:43.28	United States (USA) Mark Elliot Elliot Reeder Jack Tingley Steve Furniss	7:43.61	Brazil (BRA) José Namorado José Aranha James Huxley Adams Alfredo Machado	8:02.06
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) David Johnson Mark Chatfield Allan Poucher Kenneth Knox	3:55.15	Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.07	West Germany (FRG)	4:02.65

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Sally Tuttle  United States	1:00.33	Jutta Weber  West Germany	1:00.59	Heidi Reineck  West Germany	1:00.82
400 m freestyle details	Ann Simmons  United States	4:28.80	Jill Strong  United States	4:39.15	Nadezhda Matyukhina  Soviet Union	4:41.56
100 m backstroke details	Mary Feldman  United States	1:07.04	Elizabeth Tullis  United States	1:07.38	Benedicte Duprez  France	1:09.65
100 m breaststroke details	Lyubov Rusanova  Soviet Union	1:15.54	Catherine Carr  United States	1:15.60	Galina Stepanova  Soviet Union	1:17.03
200 m breaststroke details	Catherine Carr  United States	2:42.30	Lyudmila Porubayko  Soviet Union	2:42.68	Robyn Farrell  Australia	2:48.49
100 m butterfly details	Irene Arden  United States	1:06.05	Cathy Corcione  United States	1:07.34	Alexandra Meerzon  Soviet Union	1:07.46
200 m individual medley details	Susie Atwood  United States	2:26.38	Catherine Carr  United States	2:28.65	Birutė Užkuraitytė  Soviet Union	2:29.30
4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Cathy Corcione Elizabeth Tullis Eadie Wetsel Sally Tuttle	4:01.04	Soviet Union (URS)	4:07.83	West Germany (FRG)	4:10.41
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Elizabeth Tullis Catherine Carr Irene Arden Sally Tuttle	4:29.78	Soviet Union (URS)	4:31.27	West Germany (FRG)	4:46.63

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	16	9	5	30
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	9	5	20
3	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	5	7
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
5	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
6	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		22	22	22	66