The 2nd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was an international swimming meet held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 November until 3 December 1995.^[1] The meet featured 32 events swum in a short course (25m) pool.^[2]

The United States did poorly, as the meet dates fell in the middle (rather than the end) of the USA's annual competition season (particularly the college season), the USA had just hosted the 1995 Pan Pacs, and the USA would host the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Participating nations

350 swimmers participate at the meet, from 57 nations.^[3]

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Francisco Sánchez  Venezuela	21.80	Fernando Scherer  Brazil	22.08	Jiang Chengji  China	22.17
100 m freestyle details	Fernando Scherer  Brazil	47.97	Gustavo Borges  Brazil	48.00	Francisco Sánchez  Venezuela	48.46
200 m freestyle details	Gustavo Borges  Brazil	1:45.55	Trent Bray  New Zealand	1:46.18	Michael Klim  Australia	1:46.44
400 m freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	3:45.14	Jörg Hoffmann  Germany	3:45.65	Malcolm Allen  Australia	3:47.00
1500 m freestyle details	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	14:48.51	Ian Wilson  Great Britain	14:49.72	Jörg Hoffmann  Germany	15:05.36
100 m backstroke details	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	53.12	Neil Willey  Great Britain	53.23	Jirka Letzin  Germany	53.65
200 m backstroke details	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	1:55.16	Chris Renaud  Canada	1:55.27	Tamás Deutsch  Hungary	1:56.18
100 m breaststroke details	Mark Warnecke  Germany	59.89	Paul Kent  New Zealand	1:00.14	Stanislav Lopukhov  Russia	1.00.33
200 m breaststroke details	Wang Yiwu  China	2:11.11	Ryan Mitchell  Australia	2:11.46	Jean-Lionel Rey  France	2.11.92
100 m butterfly details	Scott Miller  Australia	52.38	Denis Pimankov  Russia	52.64	Michael Klim  Australia	52.80
200 m butterfly details	Scott Goodman  Australia	1:54.79	Scott Miller  Australia	1:56.36	Chris-Carol Bremer  Germany	1:57.30
200 m individual medley details	Matthew Dunn  Australia	1:56.86	Curtis Myden  Canada	1:58.56	Marcin Maliński  Poland	1:58.61
400 m individual medley details	Matthew Dunn  Australia	4:08.02	Curtis Myden  Canada	4:09.39	Marcin Maliński  Poland	4:10.37
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Brazil Fernando Scherer Alexandre Massura André Cordeiro Gustavo Borges	3:12.42	Australia Brett Hawke Michael Klim Richard Upton Matthew Dunn	3:17.27	Romania Nicolae Ivan Răzvan Petcu Alexandru Ioanovici Nicolae Butacu	3:17.40
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Australia Michael Klim Matthew Dunn Malcolm Allen Daniel Kowalski	7:07.97	Germany Chris-Carol Bremer Steffen Zesner Torsten Spanneberg Jörg Hoffmann	7:13.42	Brazil Cassiano Leal Fernando Saez Teófilo Ferreira Gustavo Borges	7:13.64
4×100 m medley relay details	New Zealand Jonathan Winter Paul Kent Guy Callaghan Trent Bray	3:35.69	Australia Adrian Radley Robert van der Zant Scott Miller Michael Klim	3:36.35	Russia Sergei Sudakov Alexander Tkachev Denis Pimankov Yury Mukhin	3:36.88

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Le Jingyi  China	24.62	Angela Postma  Netherlands	25.10	Sandra Völker  Germany	25.21
100 m freestyle details	Le Jingyi  China	53.23	Chao Na  China	54.52	Sandra Völker  Germany	54.69
200 m freestyle details	Claudia Poll  Costa Rica	1:55.42 WR	Susie O'Neill  Australia	1:56.47	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:56.61
400 m freestyle details	Claudia Poll  Costa Rica	4:05.18	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	4:06.20	Sarah Hardcastle  Great Britain	4:07.20
800 m freestyle details	Sarah Hardcastle  Great Britain	8:26.46	Carla Geurts  Netherlands	8:27.03	Ping Lio  China	8:29.95
100 m breaststroke details	Samantha Riley  Australia	1:05.70 WR	Svitlana Bondarenko  Ukraine	1:07.78	Linley Frame  Australia	1:08.61
200 m breaststroke details	Samantha Riley  Australia	2:20.85 WR	Svitlana Bondarenko  Ukraine	2:24.78	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:25.62
100 m backstroke details	Misty Hyman  United States	1:00.21	Mette Jacobsen  Denmark	1:00.25	Barbara Bedford  United States	1:00.63
200 m backstroke details	Mette Jacobsen  Denmark	2:08.18	Dagmar Hase  Germany	2:09.00	Leigh Habler  Australia	2:09.33
100 m butterfly details	Liu Limin  China	58.68 WR	Susie O'Neill  Australia	58.69	Angela Kennedy  Australia	58.74
200 m butterfly details	Susie O'Neill  Australia	2:06.18	Liu Limin  China	2:06.51	Mette Jacobsen  Denmark	2:11.07
200 m individual medley details	Elli Overton  Australia	2:11.67	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	2:11.91	Louise Karlsson  Sweden	2:12.38
400 m individual medley details	Joanne Malar  Canada	4:36.40	Nancy Sweetnam  Canada	4:37.04	Britta Vestergaard  Denmark	4:37.10
4×100 m freestyle relay details	China Chao Na Shan Ying Han Xue Le Jingyi	3:37.00	Australia Melanie Dodd Sarah Ryan Anna Windsor Susie O'Neill	3:38.72	Sweden Johanna Sjöberg Louise Karlsson Linda Olofsson Louise Jöhncke	3:40.06
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Canada Marianne Limpert Shannon Shakespeare Sarah Evanetz Joanne Malar	7:58.25	Germany Dagmar Hase Kerstin Kielgass Julia Jung Franziska van Almsick	8:01.11	Australia Anna Windsor Samantha Mackie Nicole Stevenson Susie O'Neill	8:01.86
4×100 m medley relay details	Australia Elli Overton Samantha Riley Angela Kennedy Susie O'Neill	4:00.46	Canada Julie Howard Lisa Flood Jessica Amey Shannon Shakespeare	4:03.89	United States Barbara Bedford Kelli King-Bednar Misty Hyman Courtney Shealy	4:04.34

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	12	7	7	26
2	China (CHN)	5	2	2	9
3	Brazil (BRA)	3	2	1	6
4	Canada (CAN)	2	5	0	7
5	Costa Rica (CRC)	2	0	0	2
	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
7	Germany (GER)	1	4	5	10
8	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	1	4
9	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	0	3
10	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	2	4
11	United States (USA)	1	0	2	3
12	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	1	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
14	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	0	2
15	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
16	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
17	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
18	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
19	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		32	32	32	96