Swimming at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 7th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held from September 5 to 11, 1994. The competition was swum in the outdoor pool at the Foro Italico. The competition consisted of 32 long course events: 16 for males and females each,^[1] 26 individual events and 6 relays in total. Events by stroke were:

• freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (females), and 1500 (males);
• backstroke: 100 and 200;
• breaststroke: 100 and 200;
• butterfly: 100 and 200;
• individual medley (I.M.): 200 and 400;
• relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free, and 4 × 100 medley.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Alexander Popov   Russia	22.17	Gary Hall, Jr.   USA	22.44	Raimundas Mažuolis   Lithuania	22.52
100 m freestyle	Alexander Popov   Russia	49.12	Gary Hall, Jr.   USA	49.41	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	49.52
200 m freestyle	Antti Kasvio   Finland	1:47.32	Anders Holmertz   Sweden	1:48.24	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	1:48.49
400 m freestyle	Kieren Perkins   Australia	3:43.80 WR	Antti Kasvio   Finland	3:48.55	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	3:48.62
1500 m freestyle	Kieren Perkins   Australia	14:50.52	Daniel Kowalski   Australia	14:53.42	Steffen Zesner   Germany	15:09.20
100 m backstroke	Martin López-Zubero   Spain	55.17 CR	Jeff Rouse   USA	55.51	Tamás Deutsch   Hungary	55.69
200 m backstroke	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	1:57.42 CR	Martin López-Zubero   Spain	1:58.75	Royce Sharp   USA	1:58.86
100 m breaststroke	Norbert Rózsa   Hungary	1:01.24 CR	Károly Güttler   Hungary	1:01.44	Frédérik Deburghgraeve   Belgium	1:01.79
200 m breaststroke	Norbert Rózsa   Hungary	2:12.81	Eric Wunderlich   USA	2:12.87	Károly Güttler   Hungary	2:14.12
100 m butterfly	Rafał Szukała   Poland	53.51	Lars Frölander   Sweden	53.65	Denis Pankratov   Russia	53.68
200 m butterfly	Denis Pankratov   Russia	1:56.54	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	1:57.99	Chris-Carol Bremer   Germany	1:58.11
200 m I.M.	Jani Sievinen   Finland	1:58.16 WR	Greg Burgess   USA	2:00.86	Attila Czene   Hungary	2:01.84
400 m I.M.	Tom Dolan   USA	4:12.30 WR	Jani Sievinen   Finland	4:13.29	Eric Namesnik   USA	4:15.69
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay	USA   Jon Olsen   Josh Davis   Ugur Taner   Gary Hall, Jr.	3:16.90 CR	Russia   Roman Shegolev   Vladimir Predkin   Vladimir Pyshnenko   Alexander Popov	3:18.12	Brazil   Fernando Scherer   Teófilo Ferreira   André Teixeira   Gustavo Borges	3:19.35
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	Sweden   Christer Wallin   Tommy Werner   Lars Frölander   Anders Holmertz	7:17.74	Russia   Yury Mukhin   Roman Shegolev   Vladimir Pyshnenko   Denis Pankratov	7:18.13	Germany   Andreas Szigat   Christian Keller   Oliver Lampe   Steffen Zesner	7:19.10
4 × 100 m   medley relay	USA   Jeff Rouse   Eric Wunderlich   Mark Henderson   Gary Hall, Jr.	3:37.74 CR	Russia   Vladimir Selkov   Vasili Ivanov   Denis Pankratov   Alexander Popov	3:38.28	Hungary   Tamás Deutsch   Norbert Rózsa   Péter Horváth   Attila Czene	3:39.47

Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Le Jingyi   China	24.51 WR	Natalya Meshcheryakova   Russia	25.10	Amy Van Dyken   USA	25.18
100 freestyle	Le Jingyi   China	54.01 WR	Lü Bin   China	54.15	Franziska van Almsick   Germany	54.77
200 freestyle	Franziska van Almsick   Germany	1:56.78 WR	Lü Bin   China	1:56.89	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	1:57.61
400 freestyle	Yang Aihua   China	4:09.64	Cristina Teuscher   USA	4:10.21	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	4:10.61
800 m freestyle	Janet Evans   USA	8:29.85	Hayley Lewis   Australia	8:29.94	Brooke Bennett   USA	8:31.30
100 backstroke	He Cihong   China	1:00.57 CR	Nina Zhivanevskaya   Russia	1:00.83	BJ Bedford   USA	1:01.32
200 backstroke	He Cihong   China	2:07.40 CR, NR	Krisztina Egerszegi   Hungary	2:09.10	Lorenza Vigarani   Italy	2:10.92
100 breaststroke	Samantha Riley   Australia	1:07.69 WR	Dai Guohong   China	1:09.26	Yuan Yuan   China	1:10.19
200 breaststroke	Samantha Riley   Australia	2:26.87 CR	Yuan Yuan   China	2:27.38	Brigitte Becue   Belgium	2:28.85
100 butterfly	Liu Limin   China	58.98 CR	Yun Qu   China	59.69	Susie O'Neill   Australia	1:00.11
200 butterfly	Liu Limin   China	2:07.25 CR	Yun Qu   China	2:07.42	Susie O'Neill   Australia	2:09.54
200 I.M.	Lü Bin   China	2:12.34	Allison Wagner   USA	2:14.40	Elli Overton   Australia	2:15.26
400 I.M.	Dai Guohong   China	4:39.14	Allison Wagner   USA	4:39.98	Kristine Quance   USA	4:42.21
4 × 100  freestyle relay	China   Le Ying   Shan Ying   Lü Bin   Le Jingyi	3:37.91 WR	USA   Angel Martino   Nicole Haislett   Amy Van Dyken   Jenny Thompson	3:41.50	Germany   Franziska van Almsick   Katrin Meissner   Kerstin Kielgass   Daniela Hunger	3:42.94
4 × 200  freestyle relay	China   Le Ying   Yang Aihua   Lü Bin   Zhou Ouanbin	7:57.96 CR	Germany   Franziska van Almsick   Julia Jung   Kerstin Kielgass   Dagmar Hase	8:01.37	USA   Cristina Teuscher   Nicole Haislett   Janet Evans   Jenny Thompson	8:03.16
4 × 100  medley relay	China   He Cihong   Dai Guohong   Liu Limin   Le Jingyi	4:01.67 WR	USA   Lea Loveless   Kristine Quance   Amy Van Dyken   Jenny Thompson	4:06.53	Russia   Nina Zhivanevskaya   Olga Prokhorova   Svetlana Pozdeeva   Natalya Meshcheryakova	4:06.70

Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	12	6	1	19
2	United States (USA)	4	10	7	21
3	Russia (RUS)	4	5	2	11
4	Australia (AUS)	4	2	3	9
5	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	4	8
6	Finland (FIN)	2	2	0	4
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	0	3
8	Germany (GER)	1	1	5	7
9	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
10	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	2	3
12	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	2	2
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	0	2	2
15	Italy (ITA)*	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		32	32	32	96