1993 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

1993 FINA World Swimming Championships
Host city	Palma de Mallorca
Country	Spain
Opening	2 December 1993
Closing	5 December 1993
	Rio de Janeiro 1995 →

The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course (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 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 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 of Brazil (100m freestyle; 400m freestyle relay), Daniel Kowalski of Australia (400m and 1500m 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 butterfly.^[1]

^ HistoFINA, Volume 3a^{[permanent dead link]}, p. 23, PDF published by FINA in 2006; retrieved 2011-06-25. (HistoFINA is FINA's self-history; Volume 3 deals with the Short Course Worlds, part "a" with the Men's events, part "b" with the women's events.)

[1] HistoFINA, Volume 3a^{[permanent dead link]}, p. 23, PDF published by FINA in 2006; retrieved 2011-06-25. (HistoFINA is FINA's self-history; Volume 3 deals with the Short Course Worlds, part "a" with the Men's events, part "b" with the women's events.)

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