1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 3rd FINA Short Course World Championships were held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden from April 17 – April 20, 1997.

Competing nations

Angola Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belarus Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba

Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Estonia Macedonia France Germany Great Britain Greece Hong Kong Iceland Indonesia Israel Italy

Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Peru Poland Portugal

Puerto Rico Romania Russia Singapore Slovenia Slovakia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Venezuela

Results

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela 21.80	Mark Foster Great Britain 22.03	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico 22.17
100 m freestyle	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela 47.86	Gustavo Borges Brazil 48.16	Michael Klim Australia 48.21
200 m freestyle	Gustavo Borges Brazil 1:45.45	Trent Bray New Zealand 1:45.81	Lars Conrad Germany 1:46.44
400 m freestyle	Jacob Carstensen Denmark 3:43.44	Chad Carvin USA 3:43.73	Grant Hackett Australia 3:43.83
1500 m freestyle	Grant Hackett Australia 14:39.54	Jörg Hoffmann Germany 14:40.67	Graeme Smith Great Britain 14:46.85
100 m backstroke	Neisser Bent Cuba 52.77	Brian Retterer USA 53.06	Adrian Radley Australia 53.36
200 m backstroke	Neisser Bent Cuba 1:54.21	Wei Wang China 1:54.82	Vladimir Selkov Russia 1:55.15
100 m breaststroke	Patrik Isaksson Sweden 59.99	Stanislav Lopukhov Russia 1:00.05	Jens Kruppa Germany 1.00.18
200 m breaststroke	Aleksandr Gukov Belarus 2:09.25	Andrey Korneyev Russia 2:09.28	Jens Kruppa Germany 2.10.53
100 m butterfly	Lars Frölander Sweden 51.95	Geoff Huegill Australia 51.99	Michael Klim Australia 52.02
200 m butterfly	James Hickman Great Britain 1:55.55	Denys Sylantyev Ukraine 1:55.76	Scott Goodman Australia 1:55.94
200 m individual medley	Matthew Dunn Australia 1:57.46	Christian Keller Germany 1:58.35	Ron Karnaugh USA 1:59.12
400 m individual medley	Matthew Dunn Australia 4:06.89	Xie Xufeng China 4:12.52	Christian Keller Germany 4:12.53
4×100 m  freestyle relay	Germany   3:14.08  (Lars Conrad, Christian Tröger,   Alexander Lüderitz, Aimo Heilmann)	Sweden   3:14.22  (Fredrik Letzler, Anders Holmertz,   Ola Fagerstrand, Lars Frölander)	Australia   3:14.83  (Michael Klim, Scott Logan,   Richard Upton, Jeffrey English)
4×200 m  freestyle relay	Australia   7:02.74   WR  (Michael Klim, Grant Hackett,   William Kirby, Matthew Dunn)	Sweden   7:05.61  (Anders Lyrbring, Anders Holmertz,   Lars Frölander, Fredrik Letzler)	Great Britain   7:05.81  (Paul Palmer, Andrew Clayton,   Mark Stevens, James Salter)
4×100 m  medley relay	Australia   3:30.66  WR  (Adrian Radley, Phil Rogers,   Geoff Huegill, Michael Klim)	Russia   3:32.56   ER  (Vladimir Selkov, Stanislav Lopukhov   Denis Pankratov, Roman Yegorov)	Great Britain   3:32.61  (Martin Harris, Richard Maden,   James Hickman, Mark Foster)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	Sandra Völker  Germany 24.70   ER	Jenny Thompson USA 24.78	Le Jingyi China 24.83
100 m freestyle	Jenny Thompson   USA 53.46	Sandra Völker   Germany 53.50	Le Jingyi   China 53.72
200 m freestyle	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica 1:54.17   WR	Nian Yun   China 1:56.24	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia 1:56.66
400 m freestyle	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica 4:00.03   WR	Natasha Bowron   Australia 4:05.76	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany 4:07.13
800 m freestyle	Natasha Bowron   Australia 8:26.45	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany 8:28.10	Carla Geurts   Netherlands 8:28.96
100 m backstroke	Lu Donghua   China 59.75	Chen Yan   China 1:00.14	Misty Hyman   USA 1:00.17
200 m backstroke	Chen Yan   China 2:07.50	Misty Hyman   USA 2:07.66	Lia Oberstar   USA 2:08.29
100 m breaststroke	Kristy Ellem   Australia 1:08.27	Alicja Pęczak   Poland 1:08.33	Svetlana Bondarenko   Ukraine 1:08.39
200 m breaststroke	Kristy Ellem   Australia 2:22.68	Larisa Lăcustă   Romania 2:25.60	Alicja Pęczak   Poland 2:25.62
100 m butterfly	Jenny Thompson   USA 57.79  WR	Cai Huijue   China 57.92	Misty Hyman   USA 57.95
200 m butterfly	Liu Limin   China 2:07.20	Hitomi Kashima   Japan 2:07.34	Misty Hyman   USA 2:07.54
200 m individual medley	Louise Karlsson   Sweden 2:11.19	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia 2:11.39	Sue Rolph   Great Britain 2:12.39
400 m individual medley	Emma Johnson   Australia 4:35.18	Sabine Herbst   Germany 4:36.02	Joanne Malar   Canada 4:37.46
4×100 m  freestyle relay	China   3:34.55 WR  (Le Jingyi, Chao Na,   Shan Ying, Nian Yun)	Germany   3:34.69 ER  (Simone Osygus, Antje Buschschulte,   Katrin Meißner, Sandra Völker)	Sweden   3:38.70  (Johanna Sjöberg, Louise Karlsson, Malin Svahnström, Therese Alshammar)
4×200 m  freestyle relay	China   7:51.92 WR  (Luna Wang, Nian Yun,   Chen Yan, Shan Ying)	Sweden   7:56.04  (Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, Louise Jöhncke, Malin Nilsson)	Australia   7:56.12  (Julia Greville, Natasha Bowron,   Lise Mackie, Emma Johnson)
4×100 m  medley relay	China   3:57.83  (Lu Donghua, Han Xue,   Cai Huijue, Le Jingyi)	USA   3:58.94  (Lia Oberstar, Amanda Beard,   Misty Hyman, Jenny Thompson)	Australia   4:01.55  (Meredith Smith, Kristy Ellem,   Angela Kennedy, Sarah Ryan)

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Australia	9	2	6	17
2	China	6	5	2	13
3	Sweden	3	3	1	7
4	Germany	2	5	5	12
5	United States	2	4	5	11
6	Cuba	2	0	0	2
	Costa Rica	2	0	0	2
	Venezuela	2	0	0	2
9	Great Britain	1	1	4	6
10	Brazil	1	1	0	2
11	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	Belarus	1	0	0	1
13	Russia	0	3	1	4
14	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
17	Japan	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
20	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Total		32	29	29	87

References

• HistoFINA Men
• HistoFINA Women
• swimrankings