Swimming at the 1997 Summer Universiade
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VenuesSwimming Pool of the Polo dell'Annuziata at the University of Messina
Dates24 August 1997 – 30 August 1997
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| Venues | Swimming Pool of the Polo dell'Annuziata at the University of Messina |
| Dates | 24 August 1997 – 30 August 1997 |
The swimming competition during the 1997 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIX Summer Universiade, was a long course event (50 m), and took place in Messina, on the island of Sicily, Italy from August 24 till August 30, 1997.[1][2]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m freestyle |  Nathan Rickard (AUS) | 22.50 |  Lorenzo Vismara (ITA) | 23.04 |  Brendon Dedekind (RSA) | 23.07 |
| 100 m freestyle |  Marcos Hernández (CUB) | 50.50 | Lorenzo Vismara (ITA) | 50.70 |  Christian Tröger (GER) | 50.78 |
| 200 m freestyle |  Béla Szabados (HUN) | 1:50.70 |  Scott Goldblatt (USA) | 1:51.96 | Michael Kiedel (GER) | 1:52.13 |
| 400 m freestyle |  Luiz Lima (BRA) | 3:53.91 | Béla Szabados (HUN) | 3:54.30 |  Hisato Yasui (JPN) | 3:55.05 |
| 800 m freestyle |  Igor Snitko (UKR) | 8:05.13 | Luiz Lima (BRA) | 8:06.26 | Marco Formentini (ITA) | 8:06.37 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Luiz Lima (BRA) | 15:20.83 | Marco Formentini (ITA) | 15:21.00 | Nathaniel Lewis (USA) | 15:21.15 |
| 100 m backstroke | Neisser Bent (CUB) | 55.82 | Robert Brewer (USA) | 56.22 |  Mariusz Siembida (POL) | 56.50 |
| 200 m backstroke | Emanuele Merisi (ITA) | 2:00.29 | Neisser Bent (CUB) | 2:00.37 |  Ji Sang-Jun (KOR) | 2:02.52 |
| 100 m breaststroke |  Stanislav Lopukhov (RUS) | 1:02.74 | Alexander Tkachev (RUS) | 1:02.77 | Chikara Nakashita (JPN) | 1:03.05 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Chikara Nakashita (JPN) | 2:16.35 | Scott Werner (USA) | 2:27.41 | William Byron Shefchik (USA) | 2:17.50 |
| 100 m butterfly | Denys Sylantyev (UKR) | 53.73 |  Shamek Pietucha (CAN) | 54.33 | Stephen Martyak (USA) | 54.50 |
| 200 m butterfly | Denys Sylantyev (UKR) | 1:59.67 | Jeffrey Julian (USA) | 2:00.49 | Shamek Pietucha (CAN) | 2:00.66 |
| 200 m individual medley | Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN) | 2:04.32 | Kristopher Babylon (USA) | 2:04.88 | Toshiaki Kurasawa (JPN) | 2:05.19 |
| 400 m individual medley | Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN) | 4:24.18 |  Michael Halika (ISR) | 4:24.96 | Stefano Battistelli (ITA) | 4:25.66 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | United States (USA) | 3:21.17 | Australia (AUS) | 3:23.75 |  France (FRA) | 3:23.88 |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | United States (USA) | 7:26.78 | France (FRA) | 7:28.59 | Germany (GER) | 7:31.37 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | United States (USA) | 3:41.95 | Italy (ITA) | 3:44.26 | Russia (RUS) | 3:44.98 |
