1993 FINA Short Course World Championships

The 1st FINA Short Course World Championships were held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from December 2 until December 5, 1993. PR China won the most gold medals, although 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; Dai Guohong 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 [ [http://www.fina.org/pdf%20files/histoFina/HistoFINA_III_a.pdf History of FINA, Volume III, part 1] , pg. 23, PDF retrieved 19 January 2006] 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.

Men's Events

50 m Freestyle

400 m Freestyle

200 m Backstroke

100 m Butterfly

400 m Individual Medley

4×100 m Medley Relay

200 m Freestyle

100 m Backstroke

200 m Breaststroke

200 m Individual Medley

4×200 m Freestyle Relay

References

* [http://www.scmsom.se/results.htm scmsom results]
* [http://www.fina.org/pdf%20files/histoFina/HistoFINA_III_a.pdf HistoFINA]
*no icon (ed) Arvid Carlsen "Sportsboken 94-95", pp. 299–300, Schibsted October 1994. ISBN 82-516-1543-7.