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1993 FINA World Swimming Championships
Host city	Palma de Mallorca
Country	Spain
Opening	2 December 1993
Closing	5 December 1993
	Rio de Janeiro 1995 →

The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course (25 meter) pool. During the championships, a total of 12 world records were broken: 10 in the women's events and 2 in men's events, both in relays.

China won the most events, ten, all in women's events. Le Jingyi won two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Dai Guohong went home with four golds and one silver. In the men's events, the USA and Australia won three events each. Tripp Schwenk of the USA garnered three golds, winning the two backstroke events and also swimming on the USA's winning medley relay team. Also winning 2 events each on the men's side were Fernando Scherer of Brazil (100m freestyle; 400m freestyle relay), Daniel Kowalski of Australia (400m and 1500m freestyles). Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at a Short Course Worlds (through 2006), while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 butterfly.^[1]

Participating nations

The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46^[2] nations:^[3]

Results

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle details	Mark Foster Great Britain	21.84	Hu Bin China	21.93	Robert Abernethy Australia	21.97
100m Freestyle details	Fernando Scherer Brazil	48.38	Gustavo Borges Brazil	48.42	Jon Olsen USA	48.49
200m Freestyle details	Antti Kasvio Finland	1:45.21	Trent Bray New Zealand Artur Wojdat Poland	1:45.53	not awarded
400m Freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski Australia	3:42.95	Antti Kasvio Finland	3:42.98	Paul Palmer Great Britain	3:45.07
1500m Freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski Australia	14:42.04	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	14:53.09	Piotr Albinski Poland	14:53.97

100m Backstroke details	Tripp Schwenk USA	52.98	Martin Harris Great Britain	53.93	Rodolfo Falcón Cuba	54.00
200m Backstroke details	Tripp Schwenk USA	1:54.19	Luca Bianchi Italy	1:55.09	Stefaan Maene Belgium	1:55.68

100m Breaststroke details	Phil Rogers Australia	59.56	Ron Dekker Netherlands	59.95	Seth Van Neerden USA	1:00.08
200m Breaststroke details	Nick Gillingham Great Britain	2:07.91 ER	Phil Rogers Australia	2:08.32	Eric Wunderlich USA	2:08.49

100m Butterfly details	Miloš Milošević Croatia	52.79	Mark Henderson USA	52.92	Rafał Szukała Poland	52.94
200m Butterfly details	Franck Esposito France	1:55.42	Christian Keller Germany	1:55.75	Chris-Carol Bremer Germany	1:56.86

200m I.M. details	Christian Keller Germany	1:56.80	Fraser Walker Great Britain	1:58.35 NR	Curtis Myden Canada	1:59.27
400 I.M. details	Curtis Myden Canada	4:10.41	Serghei Mariniuc Moldova	4:11.96	Petteri Lehtinen Finland	4:12.33

4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay details	Brazil Fernando Scherer Teófilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges José Carlos Souza	3:12.11 WR	USA David Fox Seth Pepper Jon Olsen Mark Henderson	3:12.68	Russia Roman Shegolev Vladislav Kulikov Vladimir Predkin Yury Mukhin	3:15.56
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay details	Sweden Christer Wallin Tommy Werner Lars Frölander Anders Holmertz	7:05.92	Germany Christian Tröger Christian Keller Chris-Carol Bremer Jörg Hoffmann	7:08.63	Brazil Gustavo Borges Teófilo Ferreira José Carlos Souza Cassiano Leal	7:09.38 SA
4 × 100 m Medley Relay details	USA Tripp Schwenk Seth Van Neerden Mark Henderson Jon Olsen	3:32.57 WR	Spain Carlos Ventosa Sergio López Joaquín Fernández José Maria Rojano	3:36.92	Great Britain Martin Harris Nick Gillingham Mike Fibbens Mark Foster	3:37.27

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle details	Le Jingyi China	24.23 WR	Angel Martino USA	24.93	Linda Olofsson Sweden	25.21
100m Freestyle details	Le Jingyi China	53.01 WR	Angel Martino USA	53.39	Karen Pickering Great Britain	54.39
200m Freestyle details	Karen Pickering Great Britain	1:56.25	Susie O'Neill Australia	1:57.16	Lü Bin China	1:57.71
400m Freestyle details	Janet Evans USA	4:05.64	Trina Jackson USA	4:07.49	Julie Majer Australia	4:07.91
800m Freestyle details	Janet Evans USA	8:22.43	Julie Majer Australia	8:26.46	Trina Jackson USA	8:27.50

100m Backstroke details	Angel Martino USA	58.50 WR	He Cihong China	1:00.13	Elli Overton Australia	1:00.18
200m Backstroke details	He Cihong China	2:06.09 WR	Jia Yuanyuan China	2:07.95	Cathleen Rund Germany	2:09.59

100m Breaststroke details	Dai Guohong China	1:06.58 WR	Linley Frame Australia	1:07.65	Samantha Riley Australia	1:07.77
200m Breaststroke details	Dai Guohong China	2:21.99 WR	Hitomi Maehara Japan	2:24.45	Samantha Riley Australia	2:24.75

100m Butterfly details	Susie O'Neill Australia	59.19	Liu Limin China	59.24	Kristie Krueger USA	59.53
200m Butterfly details	Liu Limin China	2:08.51	Susie O'Neill Australia	2:09.08	Petria Thomas Australia	2:09.40

200m I.M. details	Allison Wagner USA	2:07.79 WR	Dai Guohong China	2:09.21	Elli Overton Australia	2:10.51
400 I.M. details	Dai Guohong China	4:29.00 WR	Allison Wagner USA	4:31.76	Julie Majer Australia	4:37.50

4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay details	China Lu Bin Shan Ying Jia Yuanyuan Le Jingyi	3:35.97 WR	Sweden Ellenor Svensson Linda Olofsson Suzanne Lööv Louise Jöhncke	3:39.41	USA Angel Martino Sarah Perroni Kristie Krueger Paige Wilson	3:40.40
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay details	China Shan Ying Zhou Guanbin Le Jingyi Lü Bin	7:52.45 WR	Australia Tammy Bruce Elli Overton Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill	7:56.52	USA Paige Wilson Sarah Perroni Trina Jackson Janet Evans	8:02.99
4 × 100 m Medley Relay details	China Le Jingyi He Cihong Liu Limin Dai Guohong	3:57.73 WR	Australia Elli Overton Linley Frame Petria Thomas Susie O'Neill	4:00.17	USA Angel Martino Kelli King Kristie Krueger Sarah Perroni	4:01.30

Medal standings


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	10	5	1	16
2	United States (USA)	7	6	8	21
3	Australia (AUS)	4	7	8	19
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	2	3	8
5	Brazil (BRA)	2	1	1	4
6	Germany (GER)	1	3	2	6
7	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
9	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
10	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
10	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
12	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
13	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
19	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		32	33	31	96

References

^ HistoFINA, Volume 3a^{[permanent dead link‍]}, p. 23, PDF published by FINA in 2006; retrieved 2011-06-25. (HistoFINA is FINA's self-history; Volume 3 deals with the Short Course Worlds, part "a" with the Men's events, part "b" with the women's events.)
^ 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.
^ Participating nations list Archived 2012-09-12 at archive.today for the 1993 Short Course Worlds, published by SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (NOTE: FINA states that 46 nations were present, however, SwimRanking's list has 45.)

scmsom results Archived 2009-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
HistoFINA Men^{[permanent dead link‍]}
HistoFINA Women^{[permanent dead link‍]}
(in Norwegian) (ed) Arvid Carlsen Sportsboken 94-95, pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. ISBN 82-516-1543-7.

[1] HistoFINA, Volume 3a^{[permanent dead link‍]}, p. 23, PDF published by FINA in 2006; retrieved 2011-06-25. (HistoFINA is FINA's self-history; Volume 3 deals with the Short Course Worlds, part "a" with the Men's events, part "b" with the women's events.)

[2] 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.

[3] Participating nations list Archived 2012-09-12 at archive.today for the 1993 Short Course Worlds, published by SwimRankings.net; retrieved 2012-03-09. (NOTE: FINA states that 46 nations were present, however, SwimRanking's list has 45.)

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1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)