Short Course World Championships 2012

Short Course World Championships 2012
Venue	Istanbul
Participating Nations
Participating athletes
decisions	40
opening	December 12, 2012
graduation	December 16, 2012

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	United States	11	8th	8th	27
2	People's Republic of China	3	5	3	11
3	Hungary	3	4th	3	10
4th	Denmark	3	2	5	10
5	Russia	2	3	4th	9
6th	Italy	2	2	-	4th
7th	Germany	2	1	1	4th
	Japan	2	1	1	4th
9	Lithuania	2	1	-	3
10	Australia	1	5	3	9
11	United Kingdom	1	2	3	6th
12	South Africa	1	1	-	2
13	Spain	1	-	2	3
14th	Brazil	1	-	1	2
	New Zealand	1	-	1	2
	Poland	1	-	1	2
17th	Belarus	1	-	-	1
	Norway	1	-	-	1
	Ukraine	1	-	-	1
20th	Jamaica	-	2	-	2
	Slovenia	-	2	-	2
22nd	France	-	1	1	2
23	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1
	Faroe Islands	-	-	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	-	-	1	1
Total		40	40	40	120

The short course world championships in swimming 2012 took place from December 12th to 16th 2012 in Istanbul ( Turkey ) and were organized by the international swimming federation FINA .

Explanation of symbols

• WR - world record
• ER - European record
• CR - World Championship Record

Swimming men

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Russia	Vladimir Morozov	20.55
2	France	Florent Manaudou	20.88
3	United States	Antoony Ervin	20.99
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	George Bovell	21.03
5	Italy	Marco Orsi	21.23
6th	United States	Josh Schneider	21.38
7th	Ukraine	Andrij Howorov	21.44
8th	Italy	Federico Bocchia	21.58

100 m freestyle

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Russia	Vladimir Morozov	45.65
2	Australia	Tomasso D′Orsogna	46.80
3	Russia	Evgeny Laguvov	46.81
4th	Italy	Luca Dotto	46.84
5	United States	Matthew Grevers	47.05
6th	United States	James Figs	47.11
7th	Cuba	Hanser Garcia Hernandez	47.19
8th	People's Republic of China	Lu Zhiwu	47.35

200 m freestyle

Final on December 12, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	1: 41.92
2	Germany	Paul Biedermann	1: 42.07
3	United States	Conor Dwyer	1: 43.78
4th	Australia	Jarrod Killey	1: 44.04
5	Paraguay	Benjamin Brusquetti	1: 44.24
6th	New Zealand	Matthew Stanley	1: 44.55
7th	Russia	Wiatcheslav Andrusenko	1: 44.68
8th	Germany	Dimitri Colupaew	1: 45.38

400 m freestyle

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Paul Biedermann	3: 39.15
2	People's Republic of China	Hao Yun	3: 39.48
3	Denmark	Mads Glaesner	3: 40.09
4th	New Zealand	Matthew Stanley	3: 41.01
5	United States	Michael Klueh	3: 41.29
6th	Faroe Islands	Pál Joensen	3: 42.23
7th	Tunisia	Ahmed Mathlouthi	3: 42.48
8th	Denmark	Not so Lie Nielsen	3: 42.80

1500 m freestyle

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Denmark	Mads Glaesner	14: 30.01
2	Italy	Gregorio Paltrinieri	14: 31.13
3	Faroe Islands	Pál Joensen	14: 36.93
4th	Poland	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	14: 38.29
5	Australia	Matthew Levings	14: 40.05
6th	United States	Ryan Feeley	14: 40.06
7th	Japan	Yohei Takiguchi	14: 40.16
8th	Australia	Jordan Harrison	14: 43.62

butterfly

50 m butterfly

Final on December 15, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Brazil	Nicholas Santos	22.22 CR
2	South Africa	Chad le Clos	22.26
3	United States	Thomas Shields	22.46
4th	France	Frédérik Bousquet	22.61
5	People's Republic of China	Wu Peng	22.78
6th	Ukraine	Andrii Goworow	22.85
7th	Netherlands	Joeri Verlinden	22.90
8th	Slovenia	Peter Mankoč	22.94

100 m butterfly

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	South Africa	Chad le Clos	42.82 CR
2	United States	Thomas Shields	49.54
3	United States	Ryan Lochte	49.59
4th	Netherlands	Joeri Verlinden	50.45
5	Poland	Konrad Czerniak	50.54
6th	Spain	Rafael Muñoz Pérez	50.76
	Russia	Nikolay Skwortsow
8th	Hungary	László Cseh	50.93

200 m butterfly

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Kazuya Kaneda	1: 51.01 CR
2	Hungary	László Cseh	1: 51.66
3	Russia	Nikolay Skwortsow	1: 52.33
4th	Japan	Yuki Kobori	1: 53.14
5	Netherlands	Joeri Verlinden	1: 53.49
6th	United States	Robert Bollier	1: 53.85
7th	Australia	Grant Irvine	1: 54.11
8th	Poland	Michal Poprawa	1: 54.20

move

50 m back

Final on December 15, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Robert Hurley	23.04
2	United States	Matthew Grevers	23.17
3	Russia	Stanislaw Donets	23.19
4th	Brazil	Guilherme Guido	23.25
5	Australia	Ashley Delaney	23.42
6th	People's Republic of China	Sun Xiaolei	23.43
7th	Brazil	Daniel Orzechowski	23.47
8th	Turkey	Iskender Baslakov	23.49

100 m back

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Matthew Grevers	48.89
2	Russia	Stanislaw Donets	49.91
3	Brazil	Guilherme Guido	50.50
4th	Australia	Ashley Delaney	50.61
5	Australia	Robert Hurley	50.63
6th	Poland	Radosław Kawęcki	50.75
7th	Turkey	Iskender Baslakov	50.76
8th	Germany	Christian servant	51.27

200 m back

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Poland	Radosław Kawęcki	1: 48.48
2	United States	Ryan Lochte	1: 48.50
3	United States	Ryan Murphy	1: 48.86
4th	Japan	Kosuke Hagino	1: 51.00
5	Hungary	Peter Bernek	1: 51.24
6th	Australia	Ashley Delaney	1.51.51
7th	Australia	Travis Mahoney	1: 52.09
8th	Germany	Christian servant	1: 52.48

chest

50 m chest

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Norway	Aleksander Hetland	26.30
2	Slovenia	Damir Dugonjic	26.32
3	France	Florent Manaudou	26.33
4th	Brazil	João Gomes Junior	26.50
5	South Africa	Giulio Zorzi	26.64
6th	Brazil	Felipe Lima	26.68
7th	United States	Kevin Cordes	26.79
8th	Russia	Sergei Geibel	26.87

100 m chest

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Italy	Fabio Scozzoli	57.10
2	Slovenia	Damir Dugonjic	57.32
3	United States	Kevin Cordes	57.83
4th	Estonia	Martti Aljand	57.85
5	United States	Mihail Alexandrov	57.86
6th	Russia	Viatscheslav Sinkewich	57.88
7th	Japan	Akihiro Yamaguchi	58.26
8th	Brazil	Felipe Lima	58.73

200 m chest

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Hungary	Daniel Gyurta	2: 01.35
2	United Kingdom	Michael Jamieson	2: 03.00
3	Russia	Viatcheslav Sinkewich	2: 03.08
4th	Japan	Akihiro Yamaguchi	2: 03.23
5	United Kingdom	Andrew Willis	2: 03.29
6th	United States	Christopher Burckle	2: 03.58
7th	Germany	Marco Koch	2: 03.68
8th	Japan	Yukihiro Takahashi	2: 04.92

Locations

100 m layers

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	51.21 (HF 50.71 WR )
2	Australia	Kenneth To	51.38
3	Trinidad and Tobago	George Bovell	51.66
4th	Slovenia	Peter Mankoč	52.51
5	Sweden	Simon Sjödin	52.63
6th	United States	Conor Dwyer	52.83
7th	Japan	Takuro Fujii	53.11
8th	Japan	Daiya Seto	53.15

200 m layers

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	1: 49.63 WR
2	Japan	Daiya Seto	1: 52.80
3	Hungary	László Cseh	1: 52.89
4th	Australia	Kenneth To	1: 53.42
5	United States	Conor Dwyer	1: 53.99
6th	Japan	Kosuke Hagino	1.54.08
7th	Portugal	Diogo Carvalho	1: 55.63
8th	Sweden	Simon Sjödin	1: 56.31

400 m layers

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Japan	Daiya Seto	3: 59.15
2	Hungary	László Cseh	4: 00.50
3	Hungary	Dávid Verrasztó	4: 02.87
4th	Japan	Kosuke Hagino	4: 04.13
5	Israel	Gal Nevo	4: 04.29
6th	Denmark	Chris Christensen	4: 06.81
7th	United States	Michael Weiss	4: 07.67
8th	Portugal	Diogo Carvalho	4: 09.95

Seasons

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

Final on December 12, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Anthony Ervin Ryan Lochte James Figs Matthew Grevers	3: 06.40
2	Italy	Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Michele Santucci Filippo Magnini	3: 07.07
3	Australia	Tommaso D'Orsogna Kyle Richardson Travis Mahoney Kenneth To	3: 07.27
4th	Russia		3: 08.01
5	Japan		3: 09.15
6th	Brazil		3: 10.72
7th	People's Republic of China		3: 12.66
8th	Turkey		3: 13.73

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte Conor Dwyer Michael Klueh Matthew Mclean	6: 51.40
2	Australia	Tommaso D'Orsogna Jarrod Killey Kyle Richardson Robert Hurley	6: 52.29
3	Germany	Paul Biedermann Dimitri Colupaev Christoph Fildebrandt Yannick Lebherz	6: 53.22
4th	Russia		6: 56.97
5	Italy		6: 59.22
6th	Japan		7: 00.79
7th	United Kingdom		7: 05.73
8th	Brazil		DSQ

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Matthew Grevers Kevin Cordes Thomas Shields Ryan Lochte	3: 21.03
2	Russia	Stanislaw Donets Viatcheslav Sinkevich Nikolay Skwortsow Vladimir Morozov	3: 22.86
3	Australia	Robert Hurley Kenneth To Grant Irvine Tommaso D'Orsogna	3: 24.77
4th	Brazil		3: 25.73
5	People's Republic of China		3: 27.44
6th	Japan		3: 27.48
7th	Hungary		DSQ
8th	Italy		DSQ

Swimming women

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Belarus	Aljaksandra Herassimenja	23.64
2	United Kingdom	Francesca Halsall	23.87
3	Denmark	Jeanette Ottesen Gray	24.00
4th	Germany	Britta Steffen	24.04
5	Australia	Marieke Guehrer	24.36
6th	United States	Christine Magnuson	24.42
7th	Russia	Svetlana Kniaginina	24.58
8th	Brazil	Flavia Cazziolato	24.83

100 m freestyle

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Germany	Britta Steffen	52.31
2	United States	Megan Romano	52.48
3	People's Republic of China	Tang Yi	52.73
4th	Germany	Daniela Schreiber	53.05
5	Australia	Angie Bainbridge	53.09
6th	Sweden	Michelle Coleman	53.45
7th	United States	Jessica Hardy	53.52
8th	Sweden	Louise Hansson	53.65

200 m freestyle

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Allison Schmitt	1: 53.59
2	Hungary	Katinka Hosszú	1: 54.31
3	Spain	Melanie Costa	1: 54.45
4th	Australia	Angie Bainbridge	1: 54.66
5	Russia	Veronika Popova	1: 54.68
6th	Japan	Haruda Ueda	1: 55.05
7th	Hungary	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	1: 55.13
8th	New Zealand	Lauren Boyle	1: 57.27

400 m freestyle

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Spain	Melanie Costa	4: 01.18
2	United States	Chloe Sutton	4: 01.20
3	New Zealand	Lauren Boyle	4: 01.24
4th	Russia	Elena Sokolova	4: 01.49
5	United Kingdom	Jazmin Carlin	4: 02.45
6th	Australia	Angie Bainbridge	4: 04.07
7th	People's Republic of China	Zhou Lili	4: 04.87
8th	Spain	Erika Villaécija	4: 05.78

800 m freestyle

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	New Zealand	Lauren Boyle	8: 08.62
2	Denmark	Lotte Friis	8: 10.99
3	United States	Chloe Sutton	8: 15.53
4th	United Kingdom	Hannah Miley	8: 16.09
5	Spain	Erika Villaécija	8: 16.90
6th	United States	Rebecca Mann	8: 19.27
7th	People's Republic of China	Xu Danlu	8: 22.88
8th	United Kingdom	Eleanor Faulkner	8: 22.96

butterfly

50 m butterfly

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Lu Ying	25.14
2	People's Republic of China	Jiao Liuyang	25.23
3	Denmark	Jeanette Ottesen Gray	25.55
4th	Canada	Noemi Thomas	25.60
5	United States	Christine Magnuson	25.70
6th	United States	Claire Donahue	25.88
7th	Poland	Anna Dowgiert	25.90
8th	Estonia	Triin Aljand	26.01

100 m butterfly

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Italy	Ilaria Bianchi	56.13
2	People's Republic of China	Liu Zige	56.58
3	United Kingdom	Jemma Lowe	56.66
4th	Canada	Noemi Thomas	56.92
5	United States	Claire Donahue	57.00
6th	United States	Kathleen Hersey	57.35
7th	Italy	Silvia Di Pietro	58.14
8th	Brazil	Daynara De Paula	59.64

200 m butterfly

Final on December 12, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Hungary	Katinka Hosszú	2: 02.20 CR
2	People's Republic of China	Jiao Liuyang	2: 02.28
3	United Kingdom	Jemma Lowe	2: 03.19
4th	People's Republic of China	Liu Zige	2: 03.99
5	United States	Kathleen Hersey	2: 05.90
6th	Canada	Katerine Savard	2: 06.56
7th	Japan	Kona Fujita	2: 06.57
8th	Japan	Nao Kobayashi	2: 08.95

move

50 m back

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Zhao Jing	25.95 CR
2	United States	Olivia Smoliga	26.13
3	Poland	Aleksandra Urbańczyk	26.50
4th	United Kingdom	Georgia Davies	26.56
5	Czech Republic	Simona Baumrtová	26.61
6th	Australia	Rachel Goh	26.91
7th	Brazil	Fabiola Molina	26.97
8th	Australia	Grace Loh	27.45

100 m back

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Olivia Smoglia	56.64
2	Denmark	Mie Østergaard Nielsen	57.07
3	Czech Republic	Simona Baumrtová	57.18
4th	Australia	Rachel Goh	57.31
5	United Kingdom	Georgia Davies	57.32
6th	Australia	Grace Loh	57.34
7th	Ukraine	Daryna Sewina	57.67
8th	Spain	Duane Da Rocha Marce	58.14

200 m back

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Ukraine	Daryna Sewina	2: 02.24
2	United States	Bonnie Brandon	2: 03.19
3	Spain	Duane Da Rocha Marce	2: 04.15
4th	Japan	Marie Kamimura	2: 04.22
5	United Kingdom	Elizabeth Simmonds	2: 04.55
6th	New Zealand	Melissa Ingram	2: 05.45
7th	Czech Republic	Simona Baumrtová	2: 05.49
8th	Slovenia	Anja Carman	2: 05.62

chest

50 m chest

Final on December 13, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Lithuania	Rūta Meilutytė	29.44 ER
2	Jamaica	Alia Atkinson	29.67
3	Australia	Sarah Katsoulis	29.94
4th	Denmark	Rikke Møller Pedersen	30.00
5	United States	Jessica Hardy	30.01
6th	Czech Republic	Petra Chocova	30.10
7th	Sweden	Rebecca Ejdervik	30.12
8th	People's Republic of China	Zhao Jin	30.43

100 m chest

Final on December 15, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Lithuania	Rūta Meilutytė	1: 03.52 ER
2	Jamaica	Alia Atkinson	1: 03.80
3	Denmark	Rikke Møller Pedersen	1: 04.05
4th	Australia	Sarah Katsoulis	1: 05.01
5	United States	Jesscia Hardy	1: 05.08
6th	Sweden	Jennie Johansson	1: 05.62
7th	Sweden	Rebecca Ejdervik	1: 06.07
8th	Czech Republic	Petra Chocova	1: 06.12

200 m chest

Final on December 16, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Denmark	Rikke Møller Pedersen	2: 16.08 ER
2	United States	Laura Even	2: 16.93
3	Japan	Kanako Watanabe	2: 19.39
4th	Russia	Maria Temnikova	2: 19.76
5	United States	Andrea Kropp	2: 20.08
6th	Canada	Martha McCabe	2: 20.70
7th	Canada	Tera van Beilen	2: 21.11
8th	Jamaica	Alia Atkinson	2: 21.64

Locations

100 m layers

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	Hungary	Katinka Hosszú	58.49 CR
2	Lithuania	Rūta Meilutytė	58.79
3	People's Republic of China	Zhao Jing	58.80
4th	Jamaica	Alia Atkinson	58.85
5	Belarus	Aljaksandra Herassimenja	58.94
6th	United Kingdom	Sophie Allen	59.03
7th	Hungary	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	59.41
8th	Germany	Theresa Michalak	59.68

200 m layers

Final on December 15, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	People's Republic of China	Ye Shiwen	2: 04.64 CR
2	Hungary	Katinka Hosszú	2: 04.72
3	United Kingdom	Hannah Miley	2: 07.12
4th	Hungary	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	2: 07.36
5	United States	Madeline Dirado	2: 07.77
6th	United States	Melanie Margalis	2: 08.63
7th	United Kingdom	Sophie Allen	2: 09.16
8th	Ukraine	Ganna Dzerkal	2: 11.66

400 m layers

Final on December 12, 2012

space	country	athlete	time
1	United Kingdom	Hannah Miley	4: 23.14 CR
2	People's Republic of China	Ye Shiwen	4: 23.33
3	Hungary	Katinka Hosszú	4: 25.95
4th	Hungary	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	4: 26.99
5	United States	Madeline Dirado	4: 28.55
6th	Japan	Miho Takahashi	4: 31.55
7th	Japan	Emu Higuchi	4: 35.95
8th	Czech Republic	Barbora Závadová	4: 37.30

Seasons

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

Final on December 15, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Megan Romano Jessica Hardy Lia Neal Alison Schmitt	3: 31.01
2	Australia	Angie Bainbridge Marieke Guehrer Brianna Throsell Sally Foster	3: 32.90
3	Denmark	Mie Østergaard Nielsen Pernille flower Kelly Rasmussen Jeanette Ottesen Gray	3: 33.51
4th	People's Republic of China		3: 36.22
5	Russia		3: 36.72
6th	Brazil		3: 37.05
7th	Japan		3: 37.91
8th	United Kingdom		3: 38.23

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

Final on December 12, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Megan Romano Chelsea Chenault Shannon Vreeland Allison Schmitt	7: 39.25
2	Russia	Veronika Popova Elena Sokolova Daria Belyakina Ksenia Yuskowa	7: 42.77
3	People's Republic of China	Qiu Yuhan Pang Jiaying Guo Junjun Tang Yi	7: 43.26
4th	Hungary		7: 44.70
5	United Kingdom		7: 45.85
6th	Italy		7: 46.01
7th	Denmark		7: 47.04
8th	Japan		7: 51.96

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

Final on December 14, 2012

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Denmark	Mie Østergaard Nielsen Rikke Møller Pedersen Jeanette Ottesen Gray Pernille flower	3: 49.87
2	Australia	Rachel Goh Sarah Katsoulis Marieke Guehrer Angie Bainbridge	3: 50.88
3	United States	Olivia Smoglia Jessica Hardy Claire Donahue Megan Romano	3: 51.43
4th	United Kingdom		3: 51.85
5	People's Republic of China		3: 52.53
6th	Japan		3: 54.73
7th	Italy		3: 56.12
8th	Germany		3: 56.85

Web links

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