Short Course World Championships 1997

Short Course World Championships 1997
Venue	Gothenburg
Participating Nations	71
Participating athletes	501
decisions	32
opening	April 17, 1997
graduation	April 20, 1997

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Australia	9	2	8th	19th
2	People's Republic of China	6th	5	2	13
3	Sweden	3	3	1	7th
4th	Germany	2	6th	5	13
5	United States	2	5	6th	13
6th	Costa Rica Cuba Venezuela	2	0	0	2
9	United Kingdom	1	1	4th	6th
10	Brazil	1	1	0	2
11	Denmark Belarus	1	0	0	2
13	Russia	0	3	1	4th
14th	Poland Slovakia Ukraine	0	1	1	2
17th	Japan New Zealand Romania	0	1	0	1
20th	Canada Netherlands Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1

The Short Course World Championships in 1997 in swimming took place from 17th bis 20th April 1997 in Gothenburg held and were from the International Swimming Federation FINA organized.

Explanation of symbols

• WR - world record

Swimming men

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Venezuela	Francisco Sánchez	00: 21.80
2	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 22.03
3	Puerto Rico	Ricardo Busquets	00: 22.17

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Venezuela	Francisco Sánchez	00: 47.86
2	Brazil	Gustavo Borges	00: 48.16
3	Australia	Michael Klim	00: 48.21

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Brazil	Gustavo Borges	01: 45.45
2	New Zealand	Trent Bray	01: 45.81
3	Germany	Lars Conrad	01: 46.44

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Denmark	Jacob Carstensen	03: 43.44
2	United States	Chad Carvin	03: 43.73
3	Australia	Grant Hackett	03: 43.83

1500 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Grant Hackett	14: 39.54 WR
2	Germany	Jörg Hoffmann	14: 40.67
3	Society. King	Graeme Smith	14: 46.85

butterfly

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 51.95 WR
2	Australia	Geoff Huegill	00: 51.99
3	Australia	Michael Klim	00: 52.02

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	James Hickman	01: 55.55
2	Ukraine	Denys Sylantiev	01: 55.76
3	Australia	Scott Goodman	01: 55.94

move

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Cuba	Neisser Bent	00: 52.77 WR
2	United States	Brian Savior	00: 53.06
3	Australia	Adrian Radley	00: 53.36

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Cuba	Neisser Bent	01: 54.21
2	People's Republic of China	Wei Wang	01: 54.82
3	Russia	Vladimir Selkov	01: 55.15

chest

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Patrik Isaksson	00: 59.99
2	Russia	Stanislav Lopukhov	01: 00.05
3	Germany	Jens Kruppa	01: 00.18

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Belarus	Alexander Goukow	02: 09.25
2	Russia	Andrei Korneev	02: 09.28
3	Germany	Jens Kruppa	02: 10.53

Locations

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Matthew Dunn	01: 57.46
2	Germany	Christian Keller	01: 58.35
3	United States	Ron Karnaugh	01: 59.12

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Matthew Dunn	04: 06.89
2	People's Republic of China	Xufeng Xie	04: 12.52
3	United States	Ron Karnaugh	04: 12.53
	Germany	Christian Keller

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Germany	Lars Conrad Christian Tröger Alexander Lüderitz Aimo Heilmann	03: 14.08
2	Sweden	Fredrik Letzler Not so Holmertz Ola Fagerstrand Lars Frölander	03: 14.22
3	Australia	Michael Klim Scott Logan Richard Upton Jeffrey English	03: 14.83

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Australia	Michael Klim Grant Hackett William Kirby Matthew Dunn	07: 02.24 WR
2	Sweden	Lyrbring is different Not so Holmertz Lars Frölander Fredrick Letzler	07: 05.61
3	Society. King	Paul Palmer Andrew Clayton Mark Stevens James Salter	07: 05.81

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Australia	Adrian Radley Philip Rogers Geoff Huegill Michael Klim	03: 30.66 WR
2	Russia	Vladimir Selkov Stanislav Lopukhov Denis Pankratow Roman Egorov	03: 32.56
3	Society. King	Martin Harris Richard Maden James Hickman Mark Foster	03: 32.61

Swimming women

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 24.70
2	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 24.78
3	People's Republic of China	Le Jingyi	00: 24.83

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 53.46
2	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 53.50
3	People's Republic of China	Le Jingyi	00: 53.72

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Costa Rica	Claudia Poll	01: 54.17 WR
2	People's Republic of China	Yin Nian	01: 56.24
3	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	01: 56.66

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Costa Rica	Claudia Poll	04: 00.03 WR
2	Australia	Natasha Bowron	04: 05.76
3	Germany	Kerstin Kielgass	04: 07.13

800 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Natasha Bowron	08: 26.45
2	Germany	Kerstin Kielgass	08: 28.10
3	Netherlands	Carla Geurts	08: 26.96

butterfly

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 57.79 WR
2	People's Republic of China	Huijue Cai	00: 57.92
3	United States	Misty Hyman	00: 57.95

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Liu Limin	02: 07.20
2	Japan	Hitomi Kashima	02: 07.34
3	United States	Misty Hyman	02: 07.54

move

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Donghua Lu	00: 59.75
2	People's Republic of China	Yan Chen	01: 00.14
3	United States	Misty Hyman	01: 00.17

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Yan Chen	02: 07.50
2	United States	Misty Hyman	02: 07.66
3	United States	Lia Oberstar	02: 08.29

chest

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Kristy Ellem	01: 08.27
2	Poland	Alicja Pęczak	01: 08.33
3	Ukraine	Svetlana Bondarenko	01: 08.39

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Kristy Ellem	02: 22.68
2	Romania	Larisa Lacusta	02: 25.60
3	Poland	Alicja Pęczak	02: 25.62

Locations

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Louise Karlsson	02: 11.19
2	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	02: 11.21
3	Society. King	Sue Rolph	02: 12.39

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Emma Johnson	04: 35.18
2	Germany	Sabine Herbst	04: 36.02
3	Canada	Joanne Malar	04: 37.46

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	People's Republic of China	Le Jingyi Chao Na Ying Shan Yin Nian	03: 34.35 WR
2	Germany	Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Katrin Meissner Sandra Völker	03: 34.69
3	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg Louise Karlsson Malin Svahnstrom Therese Alshammar	03: 38.07

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	People's Republic of China	Lu Na Wang Yin Nian Yan Chen Ying Shan	07: 51.92 WR
2	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg Josefin Lillhage Louise Johncke Malin Nilsson	07: 56.04
3	Australia	Julia Greville Natasha Bowron Lise Mackie Emma Johnson	07: 56.12

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	People's Republic of China	Donghua Lu Xue Han Huijue Cai Le Jingyi	03: 57.83
2	United States	Lia Oberstar Amanda Beard Misty Hyman Jenny Thompson	03: 58.94
3	Australia	Meredith Smith Kristy Ellem Angela Kennedy Sarah Ryan	04: 01.55

See also

• Short course world championships
• Swimming world championships
• European short course championships
• European Swimming Championships

swell

• Results men (PDF file; 293 kB)
• Results women (PDF file; 385 kB)