Swimming at the 1979 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1979 Summer Universiade took place in Mexico City, Mexico in September 1979.^[1]

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Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Marcello Guarducci  Italy	51.88	Kirk Peppas  United States	51.91	Bruce Stahl  United States	52.32
200 m freestyle details	Bill O'Brien  United States	1:54.00	Sergey Rusin  Soviet Union	1:54.55	Keith Dickson  United States	1:54.62
400 m freestyle details	Sergey Rusin  Soviet Union	4:02.26	John Hillencamp  United States	4:05.23	Graeme Brewer  Australia	4:05.32
1500 m freestyle details	Ron Neugent  United States	16:01.87	Igor Kushpelev  Soviet Union	16:09.22	Bill O'Brien  United States	16:13.88
100 m backstroke details	Mark Kerry  Australia	57.05	Rômulo Arantes  Brazil	58.10	Mike Bottom  United States	58.55
200 m backstroke details	Kyle Miller  United States	2:07.30	Djan Madruga  Brazil	2:07.70	Ron Raikula  United States	2:07.81
100 m breaststroke details	Vladimir Fliont  Soviet Union	1:05.45	John Lundberg  United States	1:06.15	Vladimir Tarassov  Soviet Union	1:06.44
200 m breaststroke details	Vladimir Tarassov  Soviet Union	2:21.13	Timur Podmarev  Soviet Union	2:21.31	Tateki Shinya  Japan	2:25.53
100 m butterfly details	Mike Bottom  United States	55.37	James Halliburton  United States	56.15	Miloslav Rolko  Czechoslovakia	56.53
200 m butterfly details	Mikhail Gorelik  Soviet Union	2:04.50	Michael Kraus  West Germany	2:06.25	Sergei Kiselyov  Soviet Union	2:06.41
400 m individual medley details	Djan Madruga  Brazil	4:37.34	Vladimir Mikheev  Soviet Union	4:38.19	David Santos  United States	4:38.57
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Sharpe Keith Dickson Bill O'Brien John Hillencamp	7:36.03	Soviet Union (URS)	7:40.40	Italy (ITA)	7:49.20
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Lou Mangianello David Lundberg Mike Bottom Kirk Peppas	3:51.29	Soviet Union (URS)	3:52.05	West Germany (FRG)	3:55.40

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

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Amy Caulkins  United States	58.26	Sue Hinderaker  United States	58.67	Annelies Maas  Netherlands	58.71
200 m freestyle details	Annelies Maas  Netherlands	2:04.87	Bonnie Glasgow  United States	2:07.24	Maura Walsh  United States	2:08.84
400 m freestyle details	Corrina Weinkofsky  United States	4:22.88	Bonnie Glasgow  United States	4:25.92	Annelies Maas  Netherlands	4:28.03
800 m freestyle details	Margaret Brooksbank  United States	9:04.32	Annelies Maas  Netherlands	9:13.62	Cyndi McCullam  United States	9:18.28
100 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu  Romania	1:03.35	Margaret Browne  United States	1:05.63	Christine Breedy  United States	1:05.75
200 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu  Romania	2:16.20	Margaret Browne  United States	2:23.08	Christine Breedy  United States	2:25.86
100 m breaststroke details	Irena Fleissnerová  Czechoslovakia	1:14.57	Debbie Rudd  Great Britain	1:14.74	Anna Skolarczyk  Poland	1:14.94
200 m breaststroke details	Irena Fleissnerová  Czechoslovakia	2:41.00	Debbie Rudd  Great Britain	2:41.88	Anna Skolarczyk  Poland	2:42.81
100 m butterfly details	Elizabeth Rapp  United States	1:04.04	Sue Hinderaker  United States	1:04.88	Alla Gritchenkova  Soviet Union	1:05.28
200 m butterfly details	Elizabeth Rapp  United States	2:19.11	Alla Gritchenkova  Soviet Union	2:19.57	Jody Alexander  United States	2:20.38
400 m individual medley details	Janet Buchan  United States	5:06.6	Bonnie Glasgow  United States	5:08.1	Irena Fleissnerová  Czechoslovakia	5:12.8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) B.Harris Sue Hinderaker Bonnie Glasgow Amy Caulkins	3:56.75	Netherlands (NED)	3:59.16	Canada (CAN)	4:01.15
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Christine Breedy Gayle Hegel Elizabeth Rapp Amy Caulkins	4:22.8	Soviet Union (URS)	4:27.4	Netherlands (NED)	4:29.1

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	11	11	36
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	8	3	15
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	0	2	4
4	Romania (ROU)	2	0	0	2
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	3	6
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	0	3
7	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
10	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
11	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
12	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		26	26	26	78