Swimming at the 1961 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[1]

Men’s events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Keigo Shimizu (JPN)	57.4	Andrzej Salamon (POL)	57.6	Makoto Fukui (JPN)	57.9
400 m freestyle	Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN)	4:30.9	Murray McLachlan (RSA)	4:32.3	Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN)	4:35.1
1500 m freestyle	Murray McLachlan (RSA)	18:19.8	Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN)	18:21.6	Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN)	18:23.1
100 m backstroke	Shunsuke Fukushima (JPN)	1:05.3	Vsevolod Tarasov (URS)	1:05.8	Vlastimil Kreek (TCH)	1:05.9
200 m breaststroke	Yuriy Funikov (URS)	2:41.4	Yoshiaki Shikiishi (JPN)	2:41.5	Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG)	2:43.2
200 m butterfly	Haruo Yoshimuto (JPN)	2:20.2	Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS)	2:25.5	Hermann Lotter (FRG)	2:28.8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Japan (JPN)	3:48.7	Soviet Union (URS)	3:57.2	Hungary (HUN)	3:58.1
4 × 100 m medley relay	Japan (JPN)	4:17.1	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	4:18.5	Soviet Union (URS)	4:21.4

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Anna Karin Larsson (SWE)	1:07.6	Hilda Zeier (YUG)	1:07.7	Anna Ragasová (TCH)	1:08.1
400 m freestyle	Hilda Zeier (YUG)	5:14.4	Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz (POL)	5:38.0	Ludmila Kottková (TCH)	5:45.1
100 m backstroke	Larisa Viktorova (URS)	1:13.6	Magdolna Dávid (HUN)	1:16.1	Maria Both (ROM)	1:16.7
200 m breaststroke	Sanda Iordan (ROM)	2:59.6	Chris Gosden (GBR)	3:00.8	Alla Kovalenko (URS)	3:01.2
100 m butterfly	Valentina Pozdnyak (URS)	1:13.8	Yelena Antonova (URS) Anna Karin Larsson (SWE)	1:16.0
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union (URS)	4:39.5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	4:41.2	Poland (POL)	4:52.2
4 × 100 m medley relay	Soviet Union (URS)	5:04.5	Romania (ROM)	5:12.2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	5:15.7

Total		15	16	14	45
1	Japan	6	2	3	11
2	Soviet Union	5	4	2	11
3	Romania	1	1	1	3
=4	South Africa	1	1	0	2
=4	Sweden	1	1	0	2
=4	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia	0	2	4	6
8	Poland	0	2	1	3
9	Hungary	0	1	1	2
10	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
11	West Germany	0	0	2	2