Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

Main article: 2009 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, Italy from Sunday 26 July – Sunday 2 August 2009. It featured 40 long course (50m) events (20 for males, 20 for females; 17 individual events and 3 relays for each gender).

Competition schedule

The evening session schedule for the 2009 Worlds was:

Date	Sunday July 26, 2009	Monday July 27, 2009	Tuesday July 28, 2009	Wednesday July 29, 2009
E v e n t s	Women's 100 fly [sf] Men's 400 free Women's 200 IM [sf] Men's 50 fly [sf] Women's 400 free Men's 100 breast [sf] Women's 4×100 freestyle Men's 4×100 freestyle	Men's 100 breast Women's 100 fly Men's 100 back [sf] Women's 100 breast [sf] Men's 50 fly Women's 100 back [sf] Men's 200 free [sf] Women's 200 IM	Men's 200 free Women's 100 back Men's 50 breast [sf] Women's 1500 free Men's 100 back Women's 200 free [sf] Men's 200 fly [sf] Women's 100 breast	Men's 100 free [sf] Women's 50 back [sf] Men's 200 fly Women's 200 free Men's 50 breast Women's 200 fly [sf] Men's 200 IM [sf] Men's 800 free
Date	Thursday July 30, 2009	Friday July 31, 2009	Saturday August 1, 2009	Sunday August 2, 2009
E v e n t s	Women's 100 free [sf] Men's 200 IM Women's 200 breast [sf] Men's 100 free Women's 200 fly Men's 200 breast [sf] Women's 50 back Men's 200 back [sf] Women's 4×200 freestyle	Women's 100 free Men's 200 back Women's 50 fly [sf] Men's 50 free [sf] Women's 200 breast Men's 100 fly [sf] Women's 200 back [sf] Men's 200 breast Men's 4×200 freestyle	Women's 50 fly Men's 50 free Women's 200 back Women's 50 breast [sf] Men's 100 fly Women's 50 free [sf] Men's 50 back [sf] Women's 800 free Women's 4×100 medley	Men's 50 back Women's 50 breast Men's 400 IM Women's 50 free Men's 1500 free Women's 400 IM Men's 4×100 medley

Note: prelims/semifinals/finals were swum in events 200 m and shorter; prelims/finals in events 400 m or longer. For prelims/semifinals/finals events, prelims and semis were held on the same day, with finals being the evening of the following day. For the 400 m events and the 800 m relays, prelims and finals were held the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m races, prelims were in the morning of one day, with finals in the evening of the next day. Preliminary sessions began at 9:00 a.m.; finals at 6:00 p.m.

Medal table

  Host nation

1	United States	10	6	6	22
2	Germany	4	4	1	9
3	China	4	2	4	10
4	Australia	3	4	9	16
5	Italy	3	0	1	4
6	Great Britain	2	3	2	7
7	Hungary	2	1	3	6
8	Serbia	2	1	0	3
8	Brazil	2	1	0	3
10	Russia	1	5	1	7
11	Japan	1	2	1	4
12	Tunisia	1	2	0	3
13	Denmark	1	1	0	2
13	Sweden	1	1	0	2
13	Zimbabwe	1	1	0	2
16	South Africa	1	0	2	3
17	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
18	France	0	3	3	6
19	Canada	0	2	1	3
20	Poland	0	1	0	1
21	Spain	0	0	3	3
22	Austria	0	0	1	1
22	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
22	Norway	0	0	1	1
22	Romania	0	0	1	1
Total		40	40	42	122

Medal winners

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	César Cielo Filho Brazil	21.08 CR	Frédérick Bousquet France	21.21	Amaury Leveaux France	21.25
100 m freestyle	César Cielo Filho Brazil	46.91 WR	Alain Bernard France	47.12	Frédérick Bousquet France	47.25
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	1:42.00 WR	Michael Phelps United States	1:43.22	Danila Izotov Russia	1:43.90
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	3:40.07 WR	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	3:41.11	Zhang Lin China	3:41.35
800 m freestyle	Zhang Lin China	7:32.12 WR	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	7:35.27	Ryan Cochrane Canada	7:41.92
1500 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	14:37.28	Ryan Cochrane Canada	14:41.38	Sun Yang China	14:46.84
50 m backstroke	Liam Tancock Great Britain	24.04 WR	Junya Koga Japan	24.24	Gerhard Zandberg South Africa	24.34
100 m backstroke	Junya Koga Japan	52.26 CR	Helge Meeuw Germany	52.54	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	52.64
200 m backstroke	Aaron Peirsol United States	1:51.92 WR	Ryosuke Irie Japan	1:52.51	Ryan Lochte United States	1:53.82
50 m breaststroke	Cameron van der Burgh South Africa	26.67 WR	Felipe França Silva Brazil	26.76	Mark Gangloff United States	26.86
100 m breaststroke	Brenton Rickard Australia	58.58 WR	Hugues Duboscq France	58.64	Cameron van der Burgh South Africa	58.95
200 m breaststroke	Dániel Gyurta Hungary	2:07.64	Eric Shanteau United States	2:07.65	Giedrius Titenis Lithuania Christian Sprenger Australia	2:07.80
50 m butterfly	Milorad Čavić Serbia	22.67 CR	Matt Targett Australia	22.73	Rafael Muñoz Spain	22.88
100 m butterfly	Michael Phelps United States	49.82 WR	Milorad Čavić Serbia	49.95	Rafael Muñoz Spain	50.41
200 m butterfly	Michael Phelps United States	1:51.51 WR	Paweł Korzeniowski Poland	1:53.23	Takeshi Matsuda Japan	1:53.32
200 m individual medley	Ryan Lochte United States	1:54.10 WR	László Cseh Hungary	1:55.24	Eric Shanteau United States	1:55.36
400 m individual medley	Ryan Lochte United States	4:07.01	Tyler Clary United States	4:07.31	László Cseh Hungary	4:07.37
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	3:09.21 CR	Russia Evgeniy Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39)	3:09.52	France Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42)	3:09.89
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	6:58.55 WR	Russia Nikita Lobintsev (1:45.10) Mikhail Polischuk (1:45.42) Danila Izotov (1:44.48) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.15)	6:59.15	Australia Kenrick Monk (1:46.00) Robert Hurley (1:46.47) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:44.82) Patrick Murphy (1:44.36)	7:01.65
4×100 m medley relay	United States Aaron Peirsol (52.19)CR Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.60)	3:27.28 WR	Germany Helge Meeuw (52.27) Hendrik Feldwehr (58.51) Benjamin Starke (50.91) Paul Biedermann (46.89)	3:28.58	Australia Ashley Delaney (53.10) Brenton Rickard (57.80) Andrew Lauterstein (50.58) Matt Targett (47.16)	3:28.64

Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Britta Steffen Germany	23.73 WR	Therese Alshammar Sweden	23.88	Cate Campbell Australia Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands	23.99
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen Germany	52.07 WR	Francesca Halsall Great Britain	52.87	Lisbeth Trickett Australia	52.93
200 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini Italy	1:52.98 WR	Allison Schmitt United States	1:54.96	Dana Vollmer United States	1:55.64
400 m freestyle	Federica Pellegrini Italy	3:59.15 WR	Joanne Jackson Great Britain	4:00.60	Rebecca Adlington Great Britain	4:00.79
800 m freestyle	Lotte Friis Denmark	8:15.92 CR	Joanne Jackson Great Britain	8:16.66	Alessia Filippi Italy	8:17.21
1500 m freestyle	Alessia Filippi Italy	15:44.93 CR	Lotte Friis Denmark	15:46.30	Camelia Potec Romania	15:55.63
50 m backstroke	Zhao Jing China	27.06 WR	Daniela Samulski Germany	27.23	Gao Chang China	27.28
100 m backstroke	Gemma Spofforth Great Britain	58.12 WR	Anastasia Zueva Russia	58.18	Emily Seebohm Australia	58.88
200 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	2:04.81 WR	Anastasia Zueva Russia	2:04.94	Elizabeth Beisel United States	2:06.39
50 m breaststroke	Yuliya Efimova Russia	30.09 WR	Rebecca Soni United States	30.11	Sarah Katsoulis Australia	30.16
100 m breaststroke	Rebecca Soni United States	1:04.93	Yuliya Efimova Russia	1:05.41	Kasey Carlson United States	1:05.75
200 m breaststroke	Nadja Higl Serbia	2:21.62	Annamay Pierse Canada	2:21.84	Mirna Jukić Austria	2:21.97
50 m butterfly	Marieke Guehrer Australia	25.48	Zhou Yafei China	25.57	Ingvild Snildal Norway	25.58
100 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	56.06 WR	Jessicah Schipper Australia	56.23	Jiao Liuyang China	56.86
200 m butterfly	Jessicah Schipper Australia	2:03.41 WR	Liu Zige China	2:03.90	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	2:04.28
200 m individual medley	Ariana Kukors United States	2:06.15 WR	Stephanie Rice Australia	2:07.03	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	2:07.46
400 m individual medley	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	4:30.31 CR	Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	4:32.12	Stephanie Rice Australia	4:32.29
4×100 m freestyle relay	Netherlands Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Frederike Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78)	3:31.72 WR	Germany Britta Steffen (52.22) WR Daniela Samulski (53.49) Petra Dallmann (53.75) Daniela Schreiber (52.37)	3:31.83	Australia Lisbeth Trickett (52.62) Marieke Guehrer (53.60) Shayne Reese (53.25) Felicity Galvez (53.54)	3:33.01
4×200 m freestyle relay	China Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	7:42.08 WR	United States Dana Vollmer (1:55.29) Lacey Nymeyer (1:57.88) Ariana Kukors (1:55.18) Allison Schmitt (1:54.21)	7:42.56	Great Britain Joanne Jackson (1:55.98) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.78) Caitlin McClatchey (1:56.42) Rebecca Adlington (1:56.33)	7:45.51
4×100 m medley relay	China Zhao Jing (58.98) Chen Huijia (1:04.12) Jiao Liuyang (56.28) Li Zhesi (52.81)	3:52.19 WR	Australia Emily Seebohm (59.40) Sarah Katsoulis (1:04.65) Jessicah Schipper (56.19) Lisbeth Trickett (52.34)	3:52.58	Germany Daniela Samulski (59.85) Sarah Poewe (1:06.81) Annika Mehlhorn (57.14) Britta Steffen (51.99)	3:55.79

Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record

Records

The following world and championship records were broken during the competition.

World records

Date	Event	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Women's 100 metre butterfly semifinal	56.44	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Men's 400 metre freestyle final	3:40.07	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 26	Women's 200 metre individual medley semifinal	2:07.03	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Women's 400 metre freestyle final	3:59.15	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay final	3:31.72	Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Frederike Heemskerk, Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
July 26	Women's 100 metre freestyle (relay final lead-off)	52.22	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 27	Men's 100 metre breaststroke final	58.58	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 27	Women's 100 metre butterfly final	56.06	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 27	Women's 200 metre individual medley final	2:06.15	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 27	Women's 100 metre backstroke semifinal	58.48	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 27	Women's 100 metre breaststroke semifinals	1:04.84	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 28	Men's 200 metre freestyle final	1:42.00	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Women's 100 metre backstroke final	58.12	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain
July 28	Men's 50 metre breaststroke semifinal	26.74	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Women's 200 metre freestyle semifinal	1:53.67	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	200 metre butterfly heats	2:04.14	Mary DeScenza	United States
July 29	Women's 50 metre backstroke semifinal	27.39	Daniela Samulski	Germany
July 29	Women's 50 metre backstroke semifinal	27.38	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 29	Men's 200 metre butterfly final	1:51.51	Michael Phelps	United States
July 29	Women's 200 metre freestyle final	1:52.98	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	Men's 50 metre breaststroke final	26.67	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 29	Men's 800 metre freestyle final	7:32.12	Zhang Lin	China
July 30	Men's 200 metre individual medley final	1:54.10	Ryan Lochte	United States
July 30	Women's 200 metre breaststroke semifinal	2:20.12	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Men's 100 metre freestyle final	46.91	César Cielo	Brazil
July 30	Women's 200 metre butterfly final	2:03.41	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 30	Men's 200 metre breaststroke semifinals	2:07.31	Christian Sprenger	Australia
July 30	Women's 50 metre backstroke final	27.06	Zhao Jing	China
July 30	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay final	7:42.08	Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwei, Liu Jing, Pang Jiaying	China
July 31	Women's 100 metre freestyle final	52.07	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 31	Men's 200 metre backstroke final	1:51.92	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Women's 50 metre butterfly semifinal	25.28	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
July 31	Women's 50 metre butterfly semifinal	25.07	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Men's 100 metre butterfly semifinal	50.01	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 31	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay final	6:58.55	Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, David Walters, Ryan Lochte	United States
August 1	Women's 200 metre backstroke final	2:04.81	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
August 1	Men's 100 metre butterfly final	49.82	Michael Phelps	United States
August 1	Men's 50 metre backstroke semifinal	24.08	Liam Tancock	Great Britain
August 1	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay final	3:52.19	Zhao Jing, Chen Huijia, Jiao Liuyang, Li Zhesi	China
August 2	Men's 50 metre backstroke final	24.04	Liam Tancock	Great Britain
August 2	Women's 50 metre breaststroke final	30.09	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 2	Women's 50 metre freestyle final	23.73	Britta Steffen	Germany
August 2	Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay final	3:27.28	Aaron Peirsol, Eric Shanteau, Michael Phelps, David Walters	United States

Championship records

Date	Event	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Women's 100 metre butterfly heats	56.76	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Women's 200 metre individual medley heats	2:08.53	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Men's 50 metre butterfly heats	22.90	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 26	Men's 50 metre butterfly heats	22.90	Rafael Munoz	Spain
July 26	Women's 400 metre freestyle heats	4:01.96	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Men's 100 metre breaststroke heats	58.98	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 26	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay heats	3:34.74	Britta Steffen, Daniela Samulski, Petra Dallmann, Daniela Schreiber	Germany
July 26	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle (relay heats lead-off)	47.39	César Cielo	Brazil
July 26	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay heats	3:11.26	César Cielo, Nicolas Oliveira, Guiherme Santos, Fernando Silva	Brazil
July 26	Men's 50 metre butterfly semifinals	22.68	Rafael Munoz	Spain
July 26	Men's 100 metre breaststroke semifinals	58.96	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 26	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle (relay final lead-off)	47.09	César Cielo	Brazil
July 26	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay final	3:09.21	Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers, Nathan Adrian	United States
July 27	Women's 100 metre backstroke heats	58.78	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain
July 27	Women's 100 metre breaststroke heats	1:05.66	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 27	Men's 100 metre backstroke heats	52.93	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain
July 27	Men's 100 metre backstroke semifinal	52.39	Junya Koga	Japan
July 27	Men's 50 metre butterfly final	22.67	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 27	Men's 200 metre freestyle semifinal	1:43.65	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Men's 50 metre breaststroke heats	26.92	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Women's 1500 metre freestyle final	15:44.93	Alessia Filippi	Italy
July 28	Men's 100 metre backstroke semifinals	52.26	Junya Koga	Japan
July 29	Women's 50 metre backstroke heats	27.65	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus
July 30	Women's 200 metre breaststroke heats	2:21.68	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Men's 200 metre breaststroke heats	2:08.55	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 30	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay heats	7:49.04	Caitlin McClatchey, Jazmin Carlin, Hannah Miley, Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain
July 30	Women's 200 metre breaststroke semifinals	2:20.93	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 30	Men's 200 metre backstroke semifinals	1:54.06	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Men's 50 metre freestyle heats	21.37	César Cielo	Brazil
July 31	Women's 50 metre butterfly heats	25.44	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Women's 200 metre backstroke heats	2:06.72	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
July 31	Women's 50 metre butterfly semifinals	25.28	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
July 31	Men's 50 metre freestyle semifinals	21.29	Duje Draganja	Croatia
July 31	Men's 50 metre freestyle semifinals	21.21	Frédérick Bousquet	France
July 31	Women's 200 metre backstroke semifinals	2:05.86	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
August 1	Women's 50 metre freestyle heats	24.24	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Women's 50 metre breaststroke heats	30.34	Kasey Carlson	United States
August 1	Women's 50 metre breaststroke heats	30.24	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 1	Men's 50 metre backstroke heats	24.49	Guilherme Guido	Brazil
August 1	Men's 50 metre freestyle final	21.08	César Cielo	Brazil
August 1	Women's 50 metre freestyle semifinals	24.08	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Women's 800 metre freestyle final	8:15.92	Lotte Friis	Denmark
August 2	Women's 400 metre individual medley final	4:30.31	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
August 2	Men's 4 × 100 metre medley (relay final lead-off)	52.19	Aaron Peirsol	United States

See also

• 2009 in swimming
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

• Omega Timing Book of Results