1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 M)
The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organizd by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2-5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course (25m) pool. During the championships, a total of 12 world records were broken: 10 in the women's events and 2 in men's relays.
China won the most gold event, at 10, although all 10 came in the women's events. Le Jingyi Won two individual and three relay events to travel home with five golds; Guohong Dai went home with four golds and one silver. In the men's events, the USA and Australia won three event each. Tripp Schwenk (USA) enjoyed a garnered 3 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 of Brazil (100 freestyle; 400 Freestyle Relay), Daniel Kowalski of Australia (400 and 1500 freestyles). Belgium and Moldova won their only medals at a Short Course Worlds (through 2006), while Franck Esposito won France's only gold to date when he won the 200 breaststroke.
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