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]

Participating nations

The 1993 SC Worlds featured 313 swimmers from 46^[2] nations:^[3]

Results

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle   details	Mark Foster   Great Britain	21.84	Hu Bin   China	21.93	Robert Abernethy   Australia	21.97
100m Freestyle   details	Fernando Scherer   Brazil	48.38	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	48.42	Jon Olsen   USA	48.49
200m Freestyle   details	Antti Kasvio   Finland	1:45.21	Trent Bray   New Zealand Artur Wojdat   Poland	1:45.53	not awarded
400m Freestyle   details	Daniel Kowalski   Australia	3:42.95	Antti Kasvio   Finland	3:42.98	Paul Palmer   Great Britain	3:45.07
1500m Freestyle   details	Daniel Kowalski   Australia	14:42.04	Jörg Hoffmann   Germany	14:53.09	Piotr Albinski   Poland	14:53.97
100m Backstroke   details	Tripp Schwenk   USA	52.98	Martin Harris   Great Britain	53.93	Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba	54.00
200m Backstroke   details	Tripp Schwenk   USA	1:54.19	Luca Bianchi   Italy	1:55.09	Stefaan Maene   Belgium	1:55.68
100m Breaststroke   details	Phil Rogers   Australia	59.56	Ron Dekker   Netherlands	59.95	Seth Van Neerden   USA	1:00.08
200m Breaststroke   details	Nick Gillingham   Great Britain	2:07.91 ER	Phil Rogers   Australia	2:08.32	Eric Wunderlich   USA	2:08.49
100m Butterfly   details	Miloš Milošević   Croatia	52.79	Mark Henderson   USA	52.92	Rafał Szukała   Poland	52.94
200m Butterfly   details	Franck Esposito   France	1:55.42	Christian Keller   Germany	1:55.75	Chris-Carol Bremer   Germany	1:56.86
200m I.M.   details	Christian Keller   Germany	1:56.80	Fraser Walker   Great Britain	1:58.35 NR	Curtis Myden   Canada	1:59.27
400 I.M.   details	Curtis Myden   Canada	4:10.41	Serghei Mariniuc   Moldova	4:11.96	Petteri Lehtinen   Finland	4:12.33
4 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay   details	Brazil   Fernando Scherer   Teófilo Ferreira   Gustavo Borges   José Carlos Souza	3:12.11 WR	USA   David Fox   Seth Pepper   Jon Olsen   Mark Henderson	3:12.68	Russia   Roman Shegolev   Vladislav Kulikov   Vladimir Predkin   Yury Mukhin	3:15.56
4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay   details	Sweden   Christer Wallin   Tommy Werner   Lars Frölander   Anders Holmertz	7:05.92	Germany   Christian Tröger   Christian Keller   Chris-Carol Bremer   Jörg Hoffmann	7:08.63	Brazil   Gustavo Borges   Teófilo Ferreira   José Carlos Souza   Cassiano Leal	7:09.38 SA
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay   details	USA   Tripp Schwenk   Seth Van Neerden   Mark Henderson   Jon Olsen	3:32.57 WR	Spain   Carlos Ventosa   Sergio López   Joaquín Fernández   José Maria Rojano	3:36.92	Great Britain   Martin Harris   Nick Gillingham   Mike Fibbens   Mark Foster	3:37.27

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle   details	Le Jingyi   China	24.23 WR	Angel Martino   USA	24.93	Linda Olofsson   Sweden	25.21
100m Freestyle   details	Le Jingyi   China	53.01 WR	Angel Martino   USA	53.39	Karen Pickering   Great Britain	54.39
200m Freestyle   details	Karen Pickering   Great Britain	1:56.25	Susie O'Neill   Australia	1:57.16	Lü Bin   China	1:57.71
400m Freestyle   details	Janet Evans   USA	4:05.64	Trina Jackson   USA	4:07.49	Julie Majer   Australia	4:07.91
800m Freestyle   details	Janet Evans   USA	8:22.43	Julie Majer   Australia	8:26.46	Trina Jackson   USA	8:27.50
100m Backstroke   details	Angel Martino   USA	58.50 WR	He Cihong   China	1:00.13	Elli Overton   Australia	1:00.18
200m Backstroke   details	He Cihong   China	2:06.09 WR	Jia Yuanyuan   China	2:07.95	Cathleen Rund   Germany	2:09.59
100m Breaststroke   details	Dai Guohong   China	1:06.58 WR	Linley Frame   Australia	1:07.65	Samantha Riley   Australia	1:07.77
200m Breaststroke   details	Dai Guohong   China	2:21.99 WR	Hitomi Maehara   Japan	2:24.45	Samantha Riley   Australia	2:24.75
100m Butterfly   details	Susie O'Neill   Australia	59.19	Liu Limin   China	59.24	Kristie Krueger   USA	59.53
200m Butterfly   details	Liu Limin   China	2:08.51	Susie O'Neill   Australia	2:09.08	Petria Thomas   Australia	2:09.40
200m I.M.   details	Allison Wagner   USA	2:07.79 WR	Dai Guohong   China	2:09.21	Elli Overton   Australia	2:10.51
400 I.M.   details	Dai Guohong   China	4:29.00 WR	Allison Wagner   USA	4:31.76	Julie Majer   Australia	4:37.50
4 × 100 m   Freestyle Relay   details	China   Lu Bin   Shan Ying   Jia Yuanyuan   Le Jingyi	3:35.97 WR	Sweden   Ellenor Svensson   Linda Olofsson   Suzanne Lööv   Louise Jöhncke	3:39.41	USA   Angel Martino   Sarah Perroni   Kristie Krueger   Paige Wilson	3:40.40
4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay   details	China   Shan Ying   Zhou Guanbin   Le Jingyi   Lü Bin	7:52.45 WR	Australia   Tammy Bruce   Elli Overton   Anna Windsor   Susie O'Neill	7:56.52	USA   Paige Wilson   Sarah Perroni   Trina Jackson   Janet Evans	8:02.99
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay   details	China   Le Jingyi   He Cihong   Liu Limin   Dai Guohong	3:57.73 WR	Australia   Elli Overton   Linley Frame   Petria Thomas   Susie O'Neill	4:00.17	USA   Angel Martino   Kelli King   Kristie Krueger   Sarah Perroni	4:01.30

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	10	5	1	16
2	United States (USA)	7	6	8	21
3	Australia (AUS)	4	7	8	19
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	2	3	8
5	Brazil (BRA)	2	1	1	4
6	Germany (GER)	1	3	2	6
7	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
9	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
10	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
12	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
13	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
19	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		32	33	31	96