# 1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

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. The meet featured 32 events swum in a short course (25m) pool.
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.
* Argentina
* Australia
* Barbados
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* Chile
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* Estonia
* France
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Hungary
* Italy
* Jamaica
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Macedonia
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Peru
* Poland
* Portugal
* Puerto Rico
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia & Montenegro
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* South Africa
* Spain
* Sweden
* Trinidad & Tobago
* Ukraine
* Uruguay
* USA
* Venezuela

## Results
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 |
| 5 | 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 |
| 19 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (21 entries) | Totals (21 entries) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 96 |