1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date(s)	30 November – 3 December
Venue(s)	Copacabana Beach (temporary venue)
Nations participating	57
Athletes participating	350
Events	32
	← Palma de Mallorca 1993 Gothenburg 1997 →

Last updated September 19, 2024

The 2nd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was an international swimming meet held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 November until 3 December 1995.^[1] The meet featured 32 events swum in a short course (25m) pool.^[2]

Participating nations

350 swimmers participate at the meet, from 57 nations.^[3]

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	21.80	Fernando Scherer Brazil	22.08	Jiang Chengji China	22.17
100 m freestyle details	Fernando Scherer Brazil	47.97	Gustavo Borges Brazil	48.00	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	48.46
200 m freestyle details	Gustavo Borges Brazil	1:45.55	Trent Bray New Zealand	1:46.18	Michael Klim Australia	1:46.44
400 m freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski Australia	3:45.14	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	3:45.65	Malcolm Allen Australia	3:47.00
1500 m freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski Australia	14:48.51	Ian Wilson Great Britain	14:49.72	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	15:05.36
100 m backstroke details	Rodolfo Falcón Cuba	53.12	Neil Willey Great Britain	53.23	Jirka Letzin Germany	53.65
200 m backstroke details	Rodolfo Falcón Cuba	1:55.16	Chris Renaud Canada	1:55.27	Tamás Deutsch Hungary	1:56.18
100 m breaststroke details	Mark Warnecke Germany	59.89	Paul Kent New Zealand	1:00.14	Stanislav Lopukhov Russia	1.00.33
200 m breaststroke details	Wang Yiwu China	2:11.11	Ryan Mitchell Australia	2:11.46	Jean-Lionel Rey France	2.11.92
100 m butterfly details	Scott Miller Australia	52.38	Denis Pimankov Russia	52.64	Michael Klim Australia	52.80
200 m butterfly details	Scott Goodman Australia	1:54.79	Scott Miller Australia	1:56.36	Chris-Carol Bremer Germany	1:57.30
200 m individual medley details	Matthew Dunn Australia	1:56.86	Curtis Myden Canada	1:58.56	Marcin Maliński Poland	1:58.61
400 m individual medley details	Matthew Dunn Australia	4:08.02	Curtis Myden Canada	4:09.39	Marcin Maliński Poland	4:10.37
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Brazil Fernando Scherer Alexandre Massura André Cordeiro Gustavo Borges	3:12.42	Australia Brett Hawke Michael Klim Richard Upton Matthew Dunn	3:17.27	Romania Nicolae Ivan Răzvan Petcu Alexandru Ioanovici Nicolae Butacu	3:17.40
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Australia Michael Klim Matthew Dunn Malcolm Allen Daniel Kowalski	7:07.97	Germany Chris-Carol Bremer Steffen Zesner Torsten Spanneberg Jörg Hoffmann	7:13.42	Brazil Cassiano Leal Fernando Saez Teófilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges	7:13.64
4×100 m medley relay details	New Zealand Jonathan Winter Paul Kent Guy Callaghan Trent Bray	3:35.69	Australia Adrian Radley Robert van der Zant Scott Miller Michael Klim	3:36.35	Russia Sergei Sudakov Alexander Tkachev Denis Pimankov Yury Mukhin	3:36.88

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Le Jingyi China	24.62	Angela Postma Netherlands	25.10	Sandra Völker Germany	25.21
100 m freestyle details	Le Jingyi China	53.23	Chao Na China	54.52	Sandra Völker Germany	54.69
200 m freestyle details	Claudia Poll Costa Rica	1:55.42 WR	Susie O'Neill Australia	1:56.47	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	1:56.61
400 m freestyle details	Claudia Poll Costa Rica	4:05.18	Carla Geurts Netherlands	4:06.20	Sarah Hardcastle Great Britain	4:07.20
800 m freestyle details	Sarah Hardcastle Great Britain	8:26.46	Carla Geurts Netherlands	8:27.03	Ping Lio China	8:29.95
100 m breaststroke details	Samantha Riley Australia	1:05.70 WR	Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	1:07.78	Linley Frame Australia	1:08.61
200 m breaststroke details	Samantha Riley Australia	2:20.85 WR	Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine	2:24.78	Alicja Pęczak Poland	2:25.62
100 m backstroke details	Misty Hyman United States	1:00.21	Mette Jacobsen Denmark	1:00.25	Barbara Bedford United States	1:00.63
200 m backstroke details	Mette Jacobsen Denmark	2:08.18	Dagmar Hase Germany	2:09.00	Leigh Habler Australia	2:09.33
100 m butterfly details	Liu Limin China	58.68 WR	Susie O'Neill Australia	58.69	Angela Kennedy Australia	58.74
200 m butterfly details	Susie O'Neill Australia	2:06.18	Liu Limin China	2:06.51	Mette Jacobsen Denmark	2:11.07
200 m individual medley details	Elli Overton Australia	2:11.67	Martina Moravcová Slovakia	2:11.91	Louise Karlsson Sweden	2:12.38
400 m individual medley details	Joanne Malar Canada	4:36.40	Nancy Sweetnam Canada	4:37.04	Britta Vestergaard Denmark	4:37.10
4×100 m freestyle relay details	China Chao Na Shan Ying Han Xue Le Jingyi	3:37.00	Australia Melanie Dodd Sarah Ryan Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill	3:38.72	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg Louise Karlsson Linda Olofsson Louise Jöhncke	3:40.06
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Canada Marianne Limpert Shannon Shakespeare Sarah Evanetz Joanne Malar	7:58.25	Germany Dagmar Hase Kerstin Kielgass Julia Jung Franziska van Almsick	8:01.11	Australia Anna Windsor Samantha Mackie Nicole Stevenson Susie O'Neill	8:01.86
4×100 m medley relay details	Australia Elli Overton Samantha Riley Angela Kennedy Susie O'Neill	4:00.46	Canada Julie Howard Lisa Flood Jessica Amey Shannon Shakespeare	4:03.89	United States Barbara Bedford Kelli King-Bednar Misty Hyman Courtney Shealy	4:04.34

Medal standings


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	12	7	7	26
2	China (CHN)	5	2	2	9
3	Brazil (BRA)	3	2	1	6
4	Canada (CAN)	2	5	0	7
5	Costa Rica (CRC)	2	0	0	2
5	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
7	Germany (GER)	1	4	5	10
8	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	1	4
9	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	0	3
10	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	2	4
11	United States (USA)	1	0	2	3
12	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	1	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
14	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	0	2
15	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
16	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
17	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
18	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
19	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		32	32	32	96

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References

↑ FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), 1993-2008 - A story of success Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine , by Pedro Adrega. Published by FINA in 2008; retrieved 2012-03-07.
↑ HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine . ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.
↑ Participating nations list Archived 2013-02-22 at archive.today from the 1995 SC Worlds entry at SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (note: 6 nations are missing from this listing)

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[1] FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), 1993-2008 - A story of success Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine , by Pedro Adrega. Published by FINA in 2008; retrieved 2012-03-07.

[2] HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine . ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.

[3] Participating nations list Archived 2013-02-22 at archive.today from the 1995 SC Worlds entry at SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (note: 6 nations are missing from this listing)

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