Short Course World Championships 1999

Short Course World Championships 1999
Venue	Hong Kong
Participating Nations	61
Participating athletes	516
decisions	40
opening	April 1, 1999
graduation	April 4, 1999

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Australia	9	11	6th	26th
2	Japan	6th	2	1	9
3	Society. King	4th	5	4th	13
4th	Sweden	4th	4th	3	11
5	United States	3	1	0	4th
6th	Slovakia	3	0	0	3
7th	Netherlands	2	3	5	10
8th	Ukraine	2	1	1	4th
9	Cuba	2	0	0	2
10	People's Republic of China	1	3	2	6th
11	Germany	1	1	0	2
12	Russia	1	0	3	4th
13	Denmark	1	0	2	3
14th	Finland	1	0	0	1
15th	Canada	0	3	5	8th
16	South Africa	0	3	0	3
17th	Poland	0	1	2	3
18th	Italy	0	1	1	2
19th	Argentina	0	1	0	1
20th	Switzerland Spain	0	0	2	2

The Short Course World Championships in 1999 in swimming took place from 1. bis 4. April 1999 in Hong Kong instead and were from the International Swimming Federation FINA organized.

At these short course world championships, medals were awarded for the 50 m chest, 50 m back and 50 m butterfly for women and men for the first time.

Explanation of symbols

• WR - world record

Swimming men

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 21.81
2	Argentina	José Meolans	00: 21.84
3	Netherlands	Mark Veens	00: 21.88

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 47.05
2	Australia	Michael Klim	00: 47.49
3	Poland	Bartosz Kizierowski	00: 47.75

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Ian Thorpe	01: 43.28 WR
2	Australia	Michael Klim	01: 43.78
3	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband	01: 44.39

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Grant Hackett	03: 35.01 WR
2	Australia	Ian Thorpe	03: 35.64
3	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino	03: 43.68

1500 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Grant Hackett	14: 32.87
2	Society. King	Graeme Smith	14: 45.41
3	Australia	Daniel Kowalski	14: 51.44

butterfly

50 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 23.61
2	People's Republic of China	Qiang Zhang	00: 23.87
3	Netherlands	Joris Keizer	00: 23.96

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Lars Frölander	00: 51.45
2	Australia	Michael Klim	00: 51.56
3	Society. King	James Hickman	00: 51.60

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	James Hickman	01: 52.71
2	Japan	Takashi Yamamoto	01: 54.68
3	Ukraine	Denys Sylantiev	01: 55.41

move

50 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Cuba	Rodolfo Falcón	00: 24.34
2	Poland	Mariusz Siembida	00: 24.41
3	Australia	Matt Welsh	00: 24.70

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Cuba	Rodolfo Falcón	00: 52.44
2	Australia	Matt Welsh	00: 52.45
3	Poland	Mariusz Siembida	00: 53.27

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Josh Watson	01: 54.67
2	Canada	Mark Versfeld	01: 55.42
3	Russia	Serguei Ostaptchouk	01: 55.61

chest

50 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Ukraine	Dmytro Kraevskyy	00: 24.40
2	Sweden	Patrik Isaksson	00: 27.57
3	Switzerland	Remo Lütolf	00: 27.59

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Sweden	Patrik Isaksson	00: 59.69
2	Italy	Domenico Fioravanti	00: 59.88
3	Canada	Morgan boy	00: 59.93

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Philip Rogers	02: 08.72
2	Australia	Ryan Mitchell	02: 08.73
3	Russia	Dmitri Komornikov	02: 09.18

Locations

100 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Finland	Jani Sievinen	00: 54.18
2	Australia	Matthew Dunn	00: 54.77
3	Denmark	Jacob Andersen	00: 55.05

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Matthew Dunn	01: 55.81
2	Society. King	James Hickman	01: 56.51
3	Netherlands	Marcel Wouda	01: 58.63

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Matthew Dunn	04: 06.05
2	Netherlands	Marcel Wouda	04: 09.29
3	Spain	Frederik Hviid	04: 10.92

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Australia	Chris Fydler Todd Pearson Ian Thorpe Michael Klim	03: 11.21
2	Netherlands	Mark Veens Johan Kenkhuis Marcel Wouda Pieter van den Hoogenband	03: 11.57
3	Sweden	Dan Lindström Lars Frölander Mathias Ohlin Daniel Carlsson	03: 12.69

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Netherlands	Pieter vd Hoogenband Johan Kenkhuis Martijn Zuijdweg Marcel Wouda	07: 04.48
2	Society. King	Gavin Meadows Sion Brinn Paul Palmer Edward Sinclair	07: 07.20
3	Canada	Mark Johnston Brian Johns Rick Say Yannick Lupien	07: 08.02

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Australia	Matt Welsh Philip Rogers Michael Klim Chris Fydler	03: 29.88
2	Sweden	Matthias Ohlin Patrik Isaksson Daniel Carlsson Lars Frölander	03: 30.32
3	Society. King	Neill Willey Darren Mew James Hickman Sion Brinn	03: 32.25

Swimming women

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Inge De Bruijn	00: 24.35
2	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 24.57
3	Society. King	Alison Sheppard	00: 24.97

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 53.24
2	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 53.76
3	Society. King	Sue Rolph	00: 53.78

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	01: 56.11
2	People's Republic of China	Caini Qin	01: 57.26
3	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage	01: 57.46

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	Russia	Nadejda Chemezova	04: 05.23
2	People's Republic of China	Caini Qin	04: 06.34
3	Canada	Joanne Malar	04: 06.83

800 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Hua Chen	08: 20.13
2	Australia	Rachel Harris	08: 23.36
3	Switzerland	Flavia Rigamonti	08: 26.38

butterfly

50 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 26.18
2	Sweden	Anna-Karin Kammerling	00: 26.21
3	Netherlands	Inge de Bruijn	00: 26.41

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jenny Thompson	00: 57.65
2	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg	00: 57.74
3	Japan	Ayari Aoyama	00: 58.29

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	time
1	Denmark	Mette Jacobsen	02: 06.52
2	Australia	Petria Thomas	02: 06.53
3	Denmark	Sophia Skou	02: 08.29

move

50 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Sandra Völker	00: 27.63
2	Japan	Mai Nakamura	00: 27.73
3	Australia	Kellie McMillan	00: 28.29

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Mai Nakamura	00: 58.67
2	Canada	Kelly Stefanyshyn	01: 00.43
3	Canada	Erin Gammel	01: 00.49

200 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Mai Nakamura	02: 06.49
2	Society. King	Helen Don-Duncan	02: 08.18
3	Canada	Kelly Stefanyshyn	02: 09.51

chest

50 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Masami Tanaka	00: 30.80
2	South Africa	Penny Heyns	00: 30.88
3	People's Republic of China	Xue Xan	00: 31.24

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Masami Tanaka	01: 06.38
2	South Africa	Penny Heyns	01: 06.47
3	Australia	Samantha Riley	01: 07.50

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Masami Tanaka	02: 20.22 WR
2	South Africa	Penny Heyns	02: 24.27
3	People's Republic of China	Hui Qi	02: 25.05

Locations

100 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	01: 00.20
2	Australia	Lori Munz	01: 01.40
3	Russia	Oxana Werewka	01: 01.55

200 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovakia	Martina Moravcová	02: 08.55
2	Ukraine	Jana Klotschkowa	02: 10.67
3	Australia	Lori Munz	02: 11.48

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	time
1	Ukraine	Jana Klotschkowa	04: 32.32
2	Canada	Joanne Malar	04: 34.90
3	Spain	Lourdes Becerra	04: 38.44

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Society. King	Alison Sheppard Claire Huddart Karen Pickering Sue Rolph	03: 36.88
2	Netherlands	Thanar Henneken Wilma van Hofwegen Chantal Groot Inge de Bruijn	03: 39.40
3	Australia	Lori Munz Rebecca Creedy Melanie Dodd Sarah Ryan	03: 39.82

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage Louise Jöhncke Johanna Sjöberg Malin Svahnstrom	07: 51.70 WR
2	Society. King	Claire Huddart Karen Legg Nicola Jackson Karen Pickering	07: 53.98
3	Australia	Lori Munz Jacinta van Lint Rebecca Creedy Giaan Rooney	07: 55.81

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Japan	Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Sumika Minamoto	03: 57.62 WR
2	Australia	Giaan Rooney Samantha Riley Petria Thomas Lori Munz	04: 00.37
3	Sweden	Therese Alshammar Maria Ostling Johanna Sjöberg Louise Jöhncke	04: 00.84

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)