TheSwimming portion of the7thFINA World Aquatics Championships was held from September 5 to 11, 1994. The competition was swum in the outdoor pool at theForo Italico. The competition consisted of 32long 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  details	Alexander Popov   Russia	22.17	Gary Hall, Jr.   USA	22.44	Raimundas Mažuolis   Lithuania	22.52
100 m freestyle  details	Alexander Popov   Russia	49.12	Gary Hall, Jr.   USA	49.41	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	49.52
200 m freestyle  details	Antti Kasvio   Finland	1:47.32	Anders Holmertz   Sweden	1:48.24	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	1:48.49
400 m freestyle  details	Kieren Perkins   Australia	3:43.80 WR	Antti Kasvio   Finland	3:48.55	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	3:48.62
1500 m freestyle  details	Kieren Perkins   Australia	14:50.52	Daniel Kowalski   Australia	14:53.42	Steffen Zesner   Germany	15:09.20
100 m backstroke  details	Martin López-Zubero   Spain	55.17 CR	Jeff Rouse   USA	55.51	Tamás Deutsch   Hungary	55.69
200 m backstroke  details	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	1:57.42 CR	Martin López-Zubero   Spain	1:58.75	Royce Sharp   USA	1:58.86
100 m breaststroke  details	Norbert Rózsa   Hungary	1:01.24 CR	Károly Güttler   Hungary	1:01.44	Frédérik Deburghgraeve   Belgium	1:01.79
200 m breaststroke  details	Norbert Rózsa   Hungary	2:12.81	Eric Wunderlich   USA	2:12.87	Károly Güttler   Hungary	2:14.12
100 m butterfly  details	Rafał Szukała   Poland	53.51	Lars Frölander   Sweden	53.65	Denis Pankratov   Russia	53.68
200 m butterfly  details	Denis Pankratov   Russia	1:56.54	Danyon Loader   New Zealand	1:57.99	Chris-Carol Bremer   Germany	1:58.11
200 m I.M.  details	Jani Sievinen   Finland	1:58.16 WR	Greg Burgess   USA	2:00.86	Attila Czene   Hungary	2:01.84
400 m I.M.  details	Tom Dolan   USA	4:12.30 WR	Jani Sievinen   Finland	4:13.29	Eric Namesnik   USA	4:15.69
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay  details	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  details	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  details	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  details	Le Jingyi   China	24.51 WR	Natalya Meshcheryakova   Russia	25.10	Amy Van Dyken   USA	25.18
100 freestyle  details	Le Jingyi   China	54.01 WR	Lü Bin   China	54.15	Franziska van Almsick   Germany	54.77
200 freestyle  details	Franziska van Almsick   Germany	1:56.78 WR	Lü Bin   China	1:56.89	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	1:57.61
400 freestyle  details	Yang Aihua   China	4:09.64	Cristina Teuscher   USA	4:10.21	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	4:10.61
800 m freestyle  details	Janet Evans   USA	8:29.85	Hayley Lewis   Australia	8:29.94	Brooke Bennett   USA	8:31.30
100 backstroke  details	He Cihong   China	1:00.57 CR	Nina Zhivanevskaya   Russia	1:00.83	BJ Bedford   USA	1:01.32
200 backstroke  details	He Cihong   China	2:07.40 CR,NR	Krisztina Egerszegi   Hungary	2:09.10	Lorenza Vigarani   Italy	2:10.92
100 breaststroke  details	Samantha Riley   Australia	1:07.69 WR	Dai Guohong   China	1:09.26	Yuan Yuan   China	1:10.19
200 breaststroke  details	Samantha Riley   Australia	2:26.87 CR	Yuan Yuan   China	2:27.38	Brigitte Becue   Belgium	2:28.85
100 butterfly  details	Liu Limin   China	58.98 CR	Yun Qu   China	59.69	Susie O'Neill   Australia	1:00.11
200 butterfly  details	Liu Limin   China	2:07.25 CR	Yun Qu   China	2:07.42	Susie O'Neill   Australia	2:09.54
200 I.M.  details	Lü Bin   China	2:12.34	Allison Wagner   USA	2:14.40	Elli Overton   Australia	2:15.26
400 I.M.  details	Dai Guohong   China	4:39.14	Allison Wagner   USA	4:39.98	Kristine Quance   USA	4:42.21
4 × 100  freestyle relay  details	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  details	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  details	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

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