The3rd FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were an internationalswimming meet organized byFINA.^[1] It was held at theScandinavium inGothenburg, Sweden April 17−20, 1997; and featured 501 swimmers from 71 nations.^[2]

The 71 nations with swimmers at the 1997 Short Course Worlds were:^[3]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle  details	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	21.80	Mark Foster   Great Britain	22.03	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	22.17
100 m freestyle  details	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	47.86	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	48.16	Michael Klim   Australia	48.21
200 m freestyle  details	Gustavo Borges   Brazil	1:45.45	Trent Bray   New Zealand	1:45.81	Lars Conrad   Germany	1:46.44
400 m freestyle  details	Jacob Carstensen   Denmark	3:43.44	Chad Carvin   USA	3:43.73	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:43.83
1500 m freestyle  details	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:39.54	Jörg Hoffmann   Germany	14:40.67	Graeme Smith   Great Britain	14:46.85
100 m backstroke  details	Neisser Bent   Cuba	52.77	Brian Retterer   USA	53.06	Adrian Radley   Australia	53.36
200 m backstroke  details	Neisser Bent   Cuba	1:54.21	Wang Wei   China	1:54.82	Vladimir Selkov   Russia	1:55.15
100 m breaststroke  details	Patrik Isaksson   Sweden	59.99	Stanislav Lopukhov   Russia	1:00.05	Jens Kruppa   Germany	1:00.18
200 m breaststroke  details	Aleksandr Gukov   Belarus	2:09.25	Andrey Korneyev   Russia	2:09.28	Jens Kruppa   Germany	2.10.53
100 m butterfly  details	Lars Frölander   Sweden	51.95	Geoff Huegill   Australia	51.99	Michael Klim   Australia	52.02
200 m butterfly  details	James Hickman   Great Britain	1:55.55	Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine	1:55.76	Scott Goodman   Australia	1:55.94
200 m I.M.  details	Matthew Dunn   Australia	1:57.46	Christian Keller   Germany	1:58.35	Ron Karnaugh   USA	1:59.12
400 m I.M.  details	Matthew Dunn   Australia	4:06.89	Xie Xufeng   China	4:12.52	Christian Keller   Germany	4:12.53
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay  details	Germany  Lars Conrad,  Christian Tröger,  Alexander Lüderitz,  Aimo Heilmann	3:14.08	Sweden  Fredrik Letzler,  Anders Holmertz,  Ola Fagerstrand,  Lars Frölander	3:14.22	Australia  Michael Klim,  Scott Logan,  Richard Upton,  Jeffrey English	3:14.83
4 × 200 m  freestyle relay  details	Australia  Michael Klim,  Grant Hackett,  William Kirby,  Matthew Dunn	7:02.74 WR	Sweden  Anders Lyrbring,  Anders Holmertz,  Lars Frölander,  Fredrik Letzler	7:05.61	Great Britain  Paul Palmer,  Andrew Clayton,  Mark Stevens,  James Salter	7:05.81
4 × 100 m  medley relay  details	Australia  Adrian Radley,  Phil Rogers,  Geoff Huegill,  Michael Klim	3:30.66 WR	Russia  Vladimir Selkov,  Stanislav Lopukhov,  Denis Pankratov,  Roman Yegorov	3:32.56 ER	Great Britain  Martin Harris,  Richard Maden,  James Hickman,  Mark Foster	3:32.61

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle  details	Sandra Völker   Germany	24.70 ER	Jenny Thompson   USA	24.78	Le Jingyi   China	24.83
100 m freestyle  details	Jenny Thompson   USA	53.46	Sandra Völker   Germany	53.50	Le Jingyi   China	53.72
200 m freestyle  details	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	1:54.17 WR	Nian Yun   China	1:56.24	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	1:56.66
400 m freestyle  details	Claudia Poll   Costa Rica	4:00.03 WR	Natasha Bowron   Australia	4:05.76	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	4:07.13
800 m freestyle  details	Natasha Bowron   Australia	8:26.45	Kerstin Kielgass   Germany	8:28.10	Carla Geurts   Netherlands	8:28.96
100 m backstroke  details	Lu Donghua   China	59.75	Chen Yan   China	1:00.14	Misty Hyman   USA	1:00.17
200 m backstroke  details	Chen Yan   China	2:07.50	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.66	Lia Oberstar   USA	2:08.29
100 m breaststroke  details	Kristy Ellem   Australia	1:08.27	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	1:08.33	Svitlana Bondarenko   Ukraine	1:08.39
200 m breaststroke  details	Kristy Ellem   Australia	2:22.68	Larisa Lăcustă   Romania	2:25.60 NR	Alicja Pęczak   Poland	2:25.62
100 m butterfly  details	Jenny Thompson   USA	57.79 WR	Cai Huijue   China	57.92	Misty Hyman   USA	57.95
200 m butterfly  details	Liu Limin   China	2:07.20	Hitomi Kashima   Japan	2:07.34	Misty Hyman   USA	2:07.54
200 m I.M.  details	Louise Karlsson   Sweden	2:11.19	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	2:11.39	Sue Rolph   Great Britain	2:12.39
400 m I.M.  details	Emma Johnson   Australia	4:35.18	Sabine Herbst   Germany	4:36.02	Joanne Malar   Canada	4:37.46
4 × 100 m  freestyle relay  details	China  Le Jingyi,  Chao Na,  Shan Ying,  Nian Yun	3:34.55 WR	Germany  Simone Osygus,  Antje Buschschulte,  Katrin Meissner,  Sandra Völker	3:34.69 ER	Sweden  Johanna Sjöberg,  Louise Karlsson,  Malin Svahnström,  Therese Alshammar	3:38.07
4 × 200 m  freestyle relay  details	China  Wang Luna,  Nian Yun,  Chen Yan,  Shan Ying	7:51.92 WR	Sweden  Johanna Sjöberg,  Josefin Lillhage,  Louise Jöhncke,  Malin Nilsson	7:56.04	Australia  Julia Greville,  Natasha Bowron,  Lise Mackie,  Emma Johnson	7:56.12
4 × 100 m  medley relay  details	China  Lu Donghua,  Han Xue,  Cai Huijue,  Le Jingyi	3:57.83	USA  Lia Oberstar,  Amanda Beard,  Misty Hyman,  Jenny Thompson	3:58.94	Australia  Meredith Smith,  Kristy Ellem,  Angela Kennedy,  Sarah Ryan	4:01.55

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	9	2	8	19
2	China (CHN)	6	5	2	13
3	Sweden (SWE)	3	3	1	7
4	Germany (GER)	2	6	5	13
5	United States (USA)	2	5	5	12
6	Costa Rica (CRC)	2	0	0	2
	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
	Venezuela (VEN)	2	0	0	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	4	6
10	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	0	2
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
13	Russia (RUS)	0	3	1	4
14	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
17	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
20	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		32	32	32	96

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