The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by
FINA
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and held in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a
short course
In swimming, the term short course (abbreviated SC) is used to identify a pool that is in length. The term is also often included in meet names when conducted in a short course pool. "Short course" is the second type of pool configuration current ...
(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
Le Jingyi (; born March 19, 1975 in Shanghai) is a former swimmer from China who won the gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA.
In 1992, Le won the silver medal in the 4×100 metres freestyle rel ...
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
William Douglas "Tripp" Schwenk III (born June 17, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Schwenk represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games. At the 1992 Summer O ...
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
Fernando de Queiroz Scherer (born October 6, 1974) is a Brazilian former international swimmer. He won the bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and another bronze medal four years later in Sydney with ...
of Brazil (100m freestyle; 400m freestyle relay),
Daniel Kowalski
Daniel Steven Kowalski (born 2 July 1975) is an Australian former middle- and long-distance swimmer specialising in freestyle events. He competed in the Olympic Games in 200-, 400- and 1,500-metre individual freestyle events and in the 4 × ...
of Australia (400m and 1500m freestyles). Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at a Short Course Worlds (through 2006), while
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito (born 13 April 1971 in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône) is a former World Record holding, and four-time Olympic, butterfly swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics; and won the bronze me ...
won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 butterfly.
Participating nations
The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46 nations:
Participating nations list
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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Results
Men's
Women's
Medal standings
References
HistoFINA Men
HistoFINA Women
* (ed) Arvid Carlsen ''Sportsboken 94-95'', pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. .
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