2000 FINA Short Course World Championships
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The 5th FINA
Fina
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 World Swimming Championships (25m)
were held at the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Athens, Greece
Athens
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 from 16–19 March 2000. The meet resulted in 15 world records: 2 established in the heats, 4 in the semi-finals, and 9 in the finals.

The USA emerged with most golds with 9, and 25 total medals, as they sent a strong team of university graduates. Their totals could have been higher but for backstroker Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....

’s injury. Notably, 23 countries shared in the 120 medals, as strong countries like Australia and Germany sent small teams. Canada only sent a team of six (four women and two men), who gave a very good account of themselves with four silvers and one bronze and five Canadian records.

The facility in Athens was outstanding, part of the Olympic complex built in 1990. It includes two outdoor 50 m pools and an indoor 50 m pool with seating on both sides for over 4,000. The outdoor complex was the site of the European LC Championships 1991
European LC Championships 1991
The 1991 European Aquatics Championships were held in Athens, Greece from 18–25 August. The competition, organised by the LEN, was held in the Olympic Aquatic Centre, which also hosted the swimming competition during the 2004 Summer Olympics....

 and the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events. There was a total of 937 participants from 152 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men's events:...

.

The 40-event program with three rounds (heats, semi-finals, and finals) for the 50 m events (all in one day) and the 100 m events (over two days) made it impossible for some prominent swimmers to swim their regular events. Many scratched after the first round.

Men's events

50 m freestyle Mark Foster
Mark Foster (swimmer)
Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....


21.58 Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...


21.62 Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand is a freestyle swimmer from Sweden.-Biography:His father Sture Nystrand is a Swede and his mother Smiljana Kokeza is Croatian from Split...


21.80
100 m freestyle Lars Frölander
Lars Frölander
Lars Arne Frölander is a Swedish swimmer. He grew up in Ornäs in Borlänge Municipality. He competed in 5 consecutive Olympic Games . The highlight of his career was when he won the gold in the 100 metre butterfly event at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000...


46.80 Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand is a freestyle swimmer from Sweden.-Biography:His father Sture Nystrand is a Swede and his mother Smiljana Kokeza is Croatian from Split...


47.73 Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker is a former international freestyle swimmer from the United States, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996...


47.82
200 m freestyle Bela Szabados
1:45.27 Massimiliano Rosolino
Massimiliano Rosolino
-Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...


1:45.63 Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from the United States. He swam for the USA at the 2000 Olympics.He swam for and attended the University of Arizona.-References:...


1:45.79
400 m freestyle Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from the United States. He swam for the USA at the 2000 Olympics.He swam for and attended the University of Arizona.-References:...


3:41.13 Paul Palmer
Paul Palmer (swimmer)
Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...


3:42.70 Massimiliano Rosolino
Massimiliano Rosolino
-Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...


3:43.68
1500 m freestyle Jörg Hoffmann
Jörg Hoffmann (swimmer)
Jörg Hoffmann is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...


14:47.57 Igor Chervynskyi
Igor Chervynskyi
Igor Chervynskyi is a Ukrainian swimmer who competes in the freestyle events. At the 2003 World Aquatics Championships he won a bronze medal in the 800 metres, and a silver medal in the 1500 metres.-References:*...


14:48.20 Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from the United States. He swam for the USA at the 2000 Olympics.He swam for and attended the University of Arizona.-References:...


14:51.23
50 m backstroke Neil Walker
23.99 Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....


24.24 Rodolfo Falcón
Rodolfo Falcon
Rodolfo A. Falcón Cabrera is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Cuba, and has been called the country's best swimmer ever. Since 2006, he has been the country's National Commissioner for swimming....


24.32
100 m backstroke Neil Walker
50.75
WR
Rodolfo Falcón
Rodolfo Falcon
Rodolfo A. Falcón Cabrera is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Cuba, and has been called the country's best swimmer ever. Since 2006, he has been the country's National Commissioner for swimming....


52.87 Derya Büyükuncu
Derya Büyükunçu
Derya Büyükuncu is a five-time olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey.In 2009, during the LEN Shourt Course European Championships, Buyukuncu was a finalist in 200 m backstroke. He finished in 5th place at the age of 33. -References:...


52.88
200 m backstroke Gordan Kožulj
Gordan Kožulj
Gordan Kožulj is a former backstroke swimmer from Croatia, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996....


1:53.31 Brad Bridgewater
Brad Bridgewater
Brad Michael Bridgewater is an American swimmer, who won the gold medal in men's 200 meter backstroke at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics....


1:53.87 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
Volodymyr Nikolaychuk
Volodymyr Nikolaychuk is a backstroke swimmer from Ukraine, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won a bronze and a silver medal at the 2000 European Long Course Championships in Helsinki, Finland.-References:* *...


1:55.33
50 m breaststroke
2000 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 m breaststroke
-Finals ranking:-Final:-References:...

Mark Warnecke
Mark Warnecke
Mark Warnecke is a German former breaststroke swimmer who, at age 35, won the world title in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada. That made him the oldest swimming world champion since 1971...


27.22 Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind
Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...


27.27 Oleg Lisogor
Oleg Lisogor
Oleh Lisohor is a Ukrainian swimmer.Born in Brovary, Kiev Oblast, Soviet Union , Lisogor is the former world record holder in the 50 metres breaststroke, long course, with 27.18 seconds. The record was set in Berlin on 2 August 2002...


27.30
100 m breaststroke Roman Sloudnov
Roman Sloudnov
Roman Andreyevich Sloudnov is a Russian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics...


58.57 Zhu Yi
59.99 Roman Ivanovsky
Roman Ivanovsky
Roman Ivanovsky is a retired male breaststroke swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the 4×100 metres medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He only swam in the preliminary heats, and was replaced in the final by Stanislav Lopukhov.-References:*...


1:00.05
200 m breaststroke Roman Sloudnov
Roman Sloudnov
Roman Andreyevich Sloudnov is a Russian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics...


2:07.59
WR
Terence Parkin
Terence Parkin
Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...


2:07.91 Andrei Ivanov
2:09.90
50 m butterfly Mark Foster
Mark Foster (swimmer)
Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....


23.30 Neil Walker
23.46 Muhammad Sabir
23.56
100 m butterfly Lars Frölander
Lars Frölander
Lars Arne Frölander is a Swedish swimmer. He grew up in Ornäs in Borlänge Municipality. He competed in 5 consecutive Olympic Games . The highlight of his career was when he won the gold in the 100 metre butterfly event at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000...


50.44
WR
James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...


51.53 Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...


51.84
200 m butterfly James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...


1:53.57 Shamek Pietucha
Shamek Pietucha
Shamek Pietucha is a retired butterfly swimmer born in Poland, who competed for Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics. There the resident of Calgary, Alberta started in the men's 100m and 200m butterfly. Currently, Shamek is a practicing physician in Toronto, Canada.His best result in Sydney was a...


1:54.27 Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Sergeyevich Polyakov is a butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won a bronze in the men's 200 metres butterfly event at the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.-References:* *...


1:54.47
100 m individual medley Neil Walker
52.79
WR
Jani Sievinen
Jani Sievinen
Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...


54.08 James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...


54.38
200 m individual medley Jani Sievinen
Jani Sievinen
Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...


1:56.27 James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...


1:56.86 Massimiliano Rosolino
Massimiliano Rosolino
-Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...


1:58.05
400 m individual medley Jani Sievinen
Jani Sievinen
Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...


4:09.54 Terence Parkin
Terence Parkin
Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...


4:10.56 Michael Halika
Michael Halika
Michael Halika is a former medley swimmer from Israel, who competed in three events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia as a member of the Israeli swimming team....


4:10.90
4×100 m freestyle relay
Johan Nyström
Johan Nyström (swimmer)
Johan Olof Nyström is a Swedish swimmer. He was born in Sollefteå, but grew up in Skellefteå, Västerbotten.He competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He currently holds the World Record for the 400 FR Relay short course, together with Lars Frölander, Stefan Nystrand, and Mattias...


Lars Frölander
Lars Frölander
Lars Arne Frölander is a Swedish swimmer. He grew up in Ornäs in Borlänge Municipality. He competed in 5 consecutive Olympic Games . The highlight of his career was when he won the gold in the 100 metre butterfly event at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000...


Mattias Ohlin
Mattias Ohlin
Mattias Ohlin is a former international freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Sweden, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000....


Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand
Stefan Nystrand is a freestyle swimmer from Sweden.-Biography:His father Sture Nystrand is a Swede and his mother Smiljana Kokeza is Croatian from Split...

3:09.57
WR

Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker is a former international freestyle swimmer from the United States, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996...


Josh Davis
Josh Davis (swimmer)
Joshua Clark Davis is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States who was team captain in 2000, he won five medals as a member of US Men's Relay Teams: three golds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and two silvers four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,...


Muhammad Sabir
Neil Walker
3:10.98
Mitja Zastrow
Mitja Zastrow
Mitja Kolia Zastrow is a Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf. He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association...


Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst is a 2-time Olympics swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He is the brother of fellow Olympic swimmer Sabine Herbst....


Christian Tröger
Christian Tröger
Christian-Alexander Tröger is a former swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three bronze medals as a relay member at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1992 alongside Mark Pinger, Dirk Richter, and Steffen Zesner.- References :* *...


Stephan Kunzelmann
3:13.69
4×200 m freestyle relay
Josh Davis
Josh Davis (swimmer)
Joshua Clark Davis is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States who was team captain in 2000, he won five medals as a member of US Men's Relay Teams: three golds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and two silvers four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,...


Neil Walker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker is a former international freestyle swimmer from the United States, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996...


Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from the United States. He swam for the USA at the 2000 Olympics.He swam for and attended the University of Arizona.-References:...

7:01.33
WR

Edward Sinclair
Marc Spackman
Paul Palmer
Paul Palmer (swimmer)
Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...


James Salter
James Salter (swimmer)
James Salter is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain. He trained with the City of Edinburgh Swimming Club, Scotland...

7:03.06
Denis Pimankov
Denis Pimankov
Denis Sergeyevich Pimankov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won several medals as a member of the freestyle relay team during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.-External links:* *...


Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Sergeyevich Polyakov is a butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won a bronze in the men's 200 metres butterfly event at the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.-References:* *...


Dmitri Chernychev
Andrey Kapralov
Andrey Kapralov
Andrey Nikolayevich Kapralov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the men's 200 metres freestyle event at the 2004 European Championships. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia.-References:* *...

7:05.24
4×100 m medley relay
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....


Jarrod Marrs
Jarrod Marrs
Jarrod Thomas Marrs is a retired male breaststroke swimmer from the United States. He twice competed at the Pan American Games for his native country, winning a silver medal in the men's 100 metres breaststroke in 2003...


Neil Walker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker is a former international freestyle swimmer from the United States, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996...

3:30.03
Sebastian Halgasch
Sebastian Halgasch
Sebastian Halgasch is a backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 50m Backstroke at the European SC Championships 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal...


Björn Nowakowski
Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross". A specialist in the backstroke and butterfly, especially in short course, he held the world record for the 50 m backstroke with a time of 23.27 seconds set on 31 November 2002. This was broken by Robert...


Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst is a 2-time Olympics swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He is the brother of fellow Olympic swimmer Sabine Herbst....

3:31.77
Neil Willey
Neil Willey
Neil Willey is a former international backstroke swimmer from England. He represented Great Britain twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000 . Willey won several medals in the 1990s as a member of the British short course relay teams.-References:*...


Darren Mew
Darren Mew
Darren Mew is a British swimmer specialising in breaststroke. He is a member of Ellesmere College Titans and studied sport as a student at the University of Bath...


James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...


Paul Belk
3:32.08

Legend: WR: World record; CR: World Championships record

Women's events

50 m freestyle Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...


23.59
WR
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...


24.77 Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...


24.80
100 m freestyle Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...


52.17
WR
Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...


53.14 Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...


53.88
200 m freestyle Yang Yu
1:56.06 Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...


1:56.46 Natalya Baranovskaya
Natalya Baranovskaya
Natalia Hadjiloizou is a professional Cypriot swimmer, who made her Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for Belarus....


1:57.54
400 m freestyle Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Mintenko is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 . There she was a member of the gold medal winning 4×200 m freestyle relay...


4:02.44 Yana Klochkova
Yana Klochkova
Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter...


4:04.39 Chen Hua
4:06.63
800 m freestyle Chen Hua
8:17.03 Brooke Bennett
Brooke Bennett
Brooke Marie Bennett is an American swimmer and triple Olympic champion.-1996 Summer Olympics:Bennett’s first gold medal came in the 800 meter freestyle race at the 1996 Summer Olympics...


8:19.66 Flavia Rigamonti
Flavia Rigamonti
Flavia Rigamonti is a Swiss swimmer from Sorengo. As of 2010, she holds the Swiss Records in the women's 400, 800 and 1500 freestyles.At the 2007 World Championships, she set the European Record in the women's 1500 free ....


8:21.57
50 m backstroke Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....


27.90 Marylyn Chiang
Marylyn Chiang
Marylyn Chiang is a former Canadian swimmer who won two silver medals at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece. She has held Commonwealth, US Open, NCAA and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years...


28.03 Kellie McMillan
Kellie McMillan
Kellie McMillan Snowdon is a former Australian backstroke swimmer.McMillan won back-to-back bronze in the 50m backstroke event at the 1999 and 2000 Short Course Worlds....


28.06
100 m backstroke Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...


58.66 Marylyn Chiang
Marylyn Chiang
Marylyn Chiang is a former Canadian swimmer who won two silver medals at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece. She has held Commonwealth, US Open, NCAA and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years...


59.33 Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....


59.37
200 m backstroke Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....


2:07.29 Clementine Stoney
Clementine Stoney
Clementine Stoney is a former backstroke swimmer from Australia, who competed for her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she finished in thirteenth position in the 200m Backstroke. Stoney won the silver medal in the 200m Backstroke at the 2000 FINA Short Course...


2:08.64 Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Mintenko is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 . There she was a member of the gold medal winning 4×200 m freestyle relay...


2:08.85
50 m breaststroke Sarah Poewe
Sarah Poewe
Sarah Poewe is an Olympic Breaststroke swimmer, who has swum internationally for both South Africa and Germany....


30.66 Hao Ping
31.22 Tara Kirk
Tara Kirk
Tara Kirk is a former American swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke and Olympic silver medalist. She is a former world record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke ....


31.47
100 m breaststroke Sarah Poewe
Sarah Poewe
Sarah Poewe is an Olympic Breaststroke swimmer, who has swum internationally for both South Africa and Germany....


1:06.21 Alicja Pęczak
Alicja Peczak
Alicja Pęczak is a retired breaststroke and medley swimmer from Poland, who has competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country: in 1992 and 1996. A member of AZS-AWF Gdańsk she is best known for winning several medals at the FINA Short Course World Championships.-References:*...


1:07.69 Yelena Bogomazova
1:08.27
200 m breaststroke Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown (swimmer)
Rebecca Brown is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer.Brown gained national exposure in March 1994 when, at 16 years of age, she broke Anita Nall's 200 metre breaststroke world record by 0.59 seconds in Brisbane...


2:23.41 Alicja Pęczak
Alicja Peczak
Alicja Pęczak is a retired breaststroke and medley swimmer from Poland, who has competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country: in 1992 and 1996. A member of AZS-AWF Gdańsk she is best known for winning several medals at the FINA Short Course World Championships.-References:*...


2:24.24 Brooke Hanson
Brooke Hanson
Brooke Louise Hanson OAM is a former Australian swimmer.A swimmer since the age of four, Hanson was the youngest swimmer on the Australian national team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she finished fourth in the 200 m breaststroke...


2:25.30
50 m butterfly Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...


26.13 Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Swedish swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....


26.16 Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson is a British swimmer, who won two world championships in relay events.In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay...


26.85
100 m butterfly Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...


57.67 Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg is a former international swimmer from Sweden, who won her first medal in 1997 by the European Swimming Championships in Sevilla: a bronze in the 100 m butterfly.-References:*...


57.96 Karen Campbell
58.86
200 m butterfly Mette Jacobsen
Mette Jacobsen
Mette Jacobsen is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Denmark, who competed at five consequentive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. Her final breakthrough came in 1995, when she won two titles at the European LC Championships in Vienna, Austria: in the 100 m...


2:08.10 Katrin Jaeke
2:09.42 Otylia Jędrzejczak
Otylia Jedrzejczak
Otylia Jędrzejczak is a Polish swimmer. She is the Olympic champion from Athens 2004 in the 200 metre butterfly. She finished 4th in this event in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She also swam in a third Olympiad, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In Athens 2004 she also silvered in...


2:09.61
100 m individual medley Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...


59.71 Marianne Limpert
Marianne Limpert
Marianne Louise Limpert is a former freestyle and medley swimmer who competed the Summer Olympics for Canada in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and won the silver medal in the 200m Individual Medley in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia...


1:02.00 Alenka Kejžar
Alenka Kejžar
Alenka Kejžar is an Olympic class swimmer. She was born February 15, 1979 in Kranj, Slovenia. Kejžar attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She was a Golden Key member....


1:02.24
200 m individual medley Yana Klochkova
Yana Klochkova
Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter...


2:08.97 Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...


2:08.98 Marianne Limpert
Marianne Limpert
Marianne Louise Limpert is a former freestyle and medley swimmer who competed the Summer Olympics for Canada in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and won the silver medal in the 200m Individual Medley in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia...


2:12.68
400 m individual medley Yana Klochkova
Yana Klochkova
Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter...


4:32.45 Nicole Hetzer
Nicole Hetzer
Nicole Hetzer is a retired female medley swimmer from Germany. She competed twice for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Hetzer collected several medals at international tournaments in the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially in the short course .-References:*...


4:37.92 Katie Jo Yevak
4:38.80
4×100 m freestyle relay
Louise Jöhncke
Louise Jöhncke
Louise Jöhncke is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden, who competed for her native country at two consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. Her biggest successes came on short course ; she won the world title as a member of the Swedish relay Team in the 4×200 m freestyle at the 1999 FINA...


Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...


Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Swedish swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....


Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg is a former international swimmer from Sweden, who won her first medal in 1997 by the European Swimming Championships in Sevilla: a bronze in the 100 m butterfly.-References:*...

3:35.54
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner, last name alternatively spelled as "Meissner", is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea...


Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....


Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen is a German swimmer who specializes in freestyle, who is the current holder of the world record in women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle....


Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...

3:37.31
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...


Claire Huddart
Claire Huddart
Claire Huddart is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.-References:*...


Karen Legg
Karen Legg
Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...


Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

3:37.93
4×200 m freestyle relay
Claire Huddart
Claire Huddart
Claire Huddart is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.-References:*...


Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson is a British swimmer, who won two world championships in relay events.In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay...


Karen Legg
Karen Legg
Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...


Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

7:49.11
WR

Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Mintenko is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 . There she was a member of the gold medal winning 4×200 m freestyle relay...


Brooke Bennett
Brooke Bennett
Brooke Marie Bennett is an American swimmer and triple Olympic champion.-1996 Summer Olympics:Bennett’s first gold medal came in the 800 meter freestyle race at the 1996 Summer Olympics...


Tammie Stone
Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...

7:50.59
Sun Dan
Yang Lina
Yang Lina
Yang Lina , also known as Lina Yang, was a Singaporean actress whose credits included dramas, included Samsui Women. She was often cast as conniving, plotting characters....


Li Jin
Yang Yu
7:52.70
4×100 m medley relay
Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...


Emma Igelström
Emma Igelström
Emma Igelström is a former breaststroke swimmer and European record holder from Sweden. She competed in the 2000 Olympics She quit her career because of Bulimia nervosa.-Long course :...


Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg is a former international swimmer from Sweden, who won her first medal in 1997 by the European Swimming Championships in Sevilla: a bronze in the 100 m butterfly.-References:*...


Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Swedish swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....

3:59.53
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...


Janne Schäfer
Janne Schäfer
Janne Schäfer is a former breaststroke swimmer from Germany.-External links :*...


Katrin Jäke
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner, last name alternatively spelled as "Meissner", is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea...

4:01.47
Jamie Reid
Jamie Reid (swimmer)
Jamie Reid is a female backstroke swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the women's 100m backstroke event at the 2003 Pan American Games. She is a native of Puyallup, Washington and competed for the Highlander Aquatic Club in Orlando, Florida.-References:*...


Anita Nall
Anita Nall
Nadia Anita Nall , more familiarly known as Anita Nall and now Anita Nall-Richesson since her marriage to Luke Richesson in 2002, is a U.S. Olympic medalist in competitive swimming...


Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...


Tammie Stone
4:02.51

Legend: WR: World record; CR: World Championships record

Medal table

1 9 8 8 25
2 7 3 1 11
3 5 6 2 13
4 4 4 5 13
5 2 4 0 6
6 2 2 3 7
7 2 2 2 6
8 2 1 0 3
9 2 0 5 7
10 1 2 1 4
11 1 0 3 4
12 1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
15 0 4 1 5
16 0 2 1 3
17 0 1 2 3
18 0 1 1 2
19 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
Total 40 40 40 120
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