1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 1st FINA Short Course World Championships were held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from December 2 till December 5, 1993. PR China won the most gold medals, though all of their ten came in the women's events, with Jingyi Le winning two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Guohong Dai went home with four golds and one silver despite swimming only one relay. In the men's events, USA and Australia won three gold medals each; Tripp Schwenk enjoyed a bite of all three American golds, winning the two backstroke events and also winning as a part of the medley team. Fernando Scherer of Brazil (100 m freestyle and short freestyle relay) and Australian Daniel Kowalski (400 and 1500 m) both won two gold medals.

Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at the short course world championships for men^[1]as of 2006, while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 metre breaststroke.

During the championship, a total of 12 world records were broken, of which ten came in the women's events, and the two men's records to be broken were both relay records.

Results

Freestyle

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	50 m	Mark Foster	21.84	Bin Hu	21.93	Robert Abernethy	21.97
	100 m	Fernando Scherer	48.38	Gustavo Borges	48.42	Jon Olsen	48.49
	200 m	Antti Kasvio	1:45.21	Trent Bray Artur Wojdat	1:45.53
	400 m	Daniel Kowalski	3:42.95	Antti Kasvio	3:42.98	Paul Palmer	3:45.07
	1500 m	Daniel Kowalski	14:42.04	Jörg Hoffmann	14:53.09	Piotr Albinski	14:53.97
	4x100 m	Brazil Fernando Scherer Teofilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges José Carlos Souza	3:12.11 WR	United States	3:12.68	Russia	3:15.56
	4x200 m	Sweden Christer Wallin Tommy Werner Lars Frölander Anders Holmertz	7:05.92	Germany	7:08.63	Brazil	7:09.36
Women	50 m	Jingyi Le	24.23 WR	Angel Martino	24.93	Linda Olofsson	25.21
	100 m	Jingyi Le	53.01 WR	Angel Martino	53.30	Karen Pickering	54.39
	200 m	Karen Pickering	1:56.25	Susan O'Neill	1:57.16	Bin Lu	1:57.71
	400 m	Janet Evans	4:05.64	Trina Jackson	4:07.49	Julie Majer	4:07.91
	800m	Janet Evans	8:22.43	Julie Majer	8:26.46	Trina Jackson	8:27.50
	4x100 m	People's Republic of China Bin Lu Ying Shan Yuanyuan Jia Jingyi Le	3:35.97 WR	Sweden	3:39.41	United States	3:40.40
	4x200 m	People's Republic of China Ying Shan Guanbin Zhou Jingyi Je Bin Lu	7:52.45	Australia	7:56.52	United States	8:02.99

Backstroke

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	100 m	Tripp Schwenk	52.98	Martin Harris	53.93	Rodolfo Falcon	54.00
Men	200 m	Tripp Schwenk	1:54.19	Luca Bianchi	1:55.09	Stefaan Maene	1:54.88
Women	100 m	Angel Martino	58.50 WR	Cihong He	1:00.13	Elli Overton	1:00.18
Women	200 m	Cihong He	2:06.09 WR	Yuanyuan Jia	2:07.95	Cathleen Rund	2:09.59

Breaststroke

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	100 m	Phil Rogers	59.56	Ron Dekker	59.95	Seth Van Neerden	1:00.08
Men	200 m	Nick Gillingham	2:07.91 ER	Phil Rogers	2:08.32	Eric Wunderlich	2:08.49
Women	100 m	Guohong Dai	1:06.58 WR	Linley Frame	1:07.65	Samantha Riley	1:07.77
Women	200 m	Guohong Dai	2:21.99 WR	Hitomi Maehara	2:24.45	Samantha Riley	2:24.75

Butterfly

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	100 m	Milos Milosevic	52.79	Mark Henderson	52.92	Rafał Szukała	52.94
Men	200 m	Franck Esposito	1:55.42	Christian Keller	1:55.75	Chris-Carol Bremer	1:56.86
Women	100 m	Susan O'Neill	59.19	Limin Liu	59.24	Kristie Krueger	59.53
Women	200 m	Limin Liu	2:08.51	Susan O'Neill	2:09.08	Petria Thomas	2:09.40

Medley

M/V	Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Men	200 m	Christian Keller	1:56.80	Fraser Walker	1:58.35	Curtis Myden	1:59.27
	400 m	Curtis Myden	4:10.41	Sergey Mariniux	4:11.96	Petteri Lehtinen	4:12.30
	4x100 m	United States Tripp Schwenk Eric Wunderlich Mark Henderson Jon Olsen	3:32.57 WR	Spain	3:36.92	United Kingdom	3:37.27
Women	200 m	Allison Wagner	2:07.79 WR	Guohong Dai	2:09.21	Elli Overton	2:10.51
	400 m	Guohong Dai	4:29.00 WR	Allison Wagner	4:31.76	Julie Majer	4:37.50
	4x100 m	People's Republic of China Jingyi Le Chihong He Limin Liu Guohong Dai	3:57.73 WR	Australia	4:00.17	United States	4:01.30

Final Medal Table

RANK	PARTICIPATING NATION	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1.	China	10	4	1	15
2.	United States	7	6	8	21
3.	Australia	4	9	8	21
4.	Great Britain	3	2	3	8
5.	Brazil	2	1	1	4
6.	Germany	1	3	2	6
7.	Finland	1	1	1	3
8.	Canada	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
10.	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
12.	Poland	0	1	2	3
13.	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Moldova	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
19.	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	TOTALS	32	32	32	96