Swimming at the 1979 Summer Universiade

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The swimming competition at the 1979 Summer Universiade took place in Mexico City, Mexico in September 1979.^[1]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Marcello Guarducci Italy	51.88	Kirk Peppas United States	51.91	Bruce Stahl United States	52.32
200 m freestyle details	Bill O'Brien United States	1:54.00	Sergey Rusin Soviet Union	1:54.55	Keith Dickson United States	1:54.62
400 m freestyle details	Sergey Rusin Soviet Union	4:02.26	John Hillencamp United States	4:05.23	Graeme Brewer Australia	4:05.32
1500 m freestyle details	Ron Neugent United States	16:01.87	Igor Kushpelev Soviet Union	16:09.22	Bill O'Brien United States	16:13.88

100 m backstroke details	Mark Kerry Australia	57.05	Rômulo Arantes Brazil	58.10	Mike Bottom United States	58.55
200 m backstroke details	Kyle Miller United States	2:07.30	Djan Madruga Brazil	2:07.70	Ron Raikula United States	2:07.81

100 m breaststroke details	Vladimir Fliont Soviet Union	1:05.45	John Lundberg United States	1:06.15	Vladimir Tarassov Soviet Union	1:06.44
200 m breaststroke details	Vladimir Tarassov Soviet Union	2:21.13	Timur Podmarev Soviet Union	2:21.31	Tateki Shinya Japan	2:25.53

100 m butterfly details	Mike Bottom United States	55.37	James Halliburton United States	56.15	Miloslav Rolko Czechoslovakia	56.53
200 m butterfly details	Mikhail Gorelik Soviet Union	2:04.50	Michael Kraus West Germany	2:06.25	Sergei Kiselyov Soviet Union	2:06.41

400 m individual medley details	Djan Madruga Brazil	4:37.34	Vladimir Mikheev Soviet Union	4:38.19	David Santos United States	4:38.57

4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Sharpe Keith Dickson Bill O'Brien John Hillencamp	7:36.03	Soviet Union (URS)	7:40.40	Italy (ITA)	7:49.20
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Lou Mangianello David Lundberg Mike Bottom Kirk Peppas	3:51.29	Soviet Union (URS)	3:52.05	West Germany (FRG)	3:55.40

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Amy Caulkins United States	58.26	Sue Hinderaker United States	58.67	Annelies Maas Netherlands	58.71
200 m freestyle details	Annelies Maas Netherlands	2:04.87	Bonnie Glasgow United States	2:07.24	Maura Walsh United States	2:08.84
400 m freestyle details	Corrina Weinkofsky United States	4:22.88	Bonnie Glasgow United States	4:25.92	Annelies Maas Netherlands	4:28.03
800 m freestyle details	Margaret Brooksbank United States	9:04.32	Annelies Maas Netherlands	9:13.62	Cyndi McCullam United States	9:18.28

100 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	1:03.35	Margaret Browne United States	1:05.63	Christine Breedy United States	1:05.75
200 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	2:16.20	Margaret Browne United States	2:23.08	Christine Breedy United States	2:25.86

100 m breaststroke details	Irena Fleissnerová Czechoslovakia	1:14.57	Debbie Rudd Great Britain	1:14.74	Anna Skolarczyk Poland	1:14.94
200 m breaststroke details	Irena Fleissnerová Czechoslovakia	2:41.00	Debbie Rudd Great Britain	2:41.88	Anna Skolarczyk Poland	2:42.81

100 m butterfly details	Elizabeth Rapp United States	1:04.04	Sue Hinderaker United States	1:04.88	Alla Gritchenkova Soviet Union	1:05.28
200 m butterfly details	Elizabeth Rapp United States	2:19.11	Alla Gritchenkova Soviet Union	2:19.57	Jody Alexander United States	2:20.38

400 m individual medley details	Janet Buchan United States	5:06.6	Bonnie Glasgow United States	5:08.1	Irena Fleissnerová Czechoslovakia	5:12.8

4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) B.Harris Sue Hinderaker Bonnie Glasgow Amy Caulkins	3:56.75	Netherlands (NED)	3:59.16	Canada (CAN)	4:01.15
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Christine Breedy Gayle Hegel Elizabeth Rapp Amy Caulkins	4:22.8	Soviet Union (URS)	4:27.4	Netherlands (NED)	4:29.1

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	11	11	36
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	8	3	15
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	0	2	4
4	Romania (ROU)	2	0	0	2
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	3	6
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	0	3
7	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
7	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
10	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
11	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
12	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
12	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		26	26	26	78

References

^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine

[1] ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine

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References

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