2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

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Host city| Manchester, United Kingdom
Date(s)| 9–13 April 2008
Venue(s)| Manchester Arena

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Main article: FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 9th FINA Swimming World Championships (25 m) were held at the Manchester Arena, in Manchester, United Kingdom 9–13 April 2008.

The United States topped the medal table with 10 gold medals, though host team Great Britain took home the most medals (24).

## Medal summary

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### Key

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* WR \- World record
* ER \- European record
* CR \- Championship record

### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Freestyle
Men's 50 m
details | Duje Draganja
Croatia | 20.81
WR | Mark Foster
Great Britain | 21.31  | Gerhard Zandberg
South Africa | 21.33
Men's 100 m  | Nathan Adrian
United States | 46.67
CR | Filippo Magnini
Italy | 46.70  | Duje Draganja
Croatia | 46.83
Men's 200 m  | Kenrick Monk
Australia | 1:43.46  | Kirk Palmer
Australia | 1:43.50  | Massimiliano Rosolino
Italy | 1:44.23
Men's 400 m  | Yury Prilukov
Russia | 3:37.35
ER | Massimiliano Rosolino
Italy | 3:39.60  | Robert Renwick
Great Britain | 3:40.22
Men's 1500 m  | Yury Prilukov
Russia | 14:22.98
CR | David Davies
Great Britain | 14:36.30  | Mateusz Sawrymowicz
Poland | 14:43.37
Backstroke
Men's 50 m  | Peter Marshall
United States | 23.49  | Liam Tancock
Great Britain | 23.53  | Ashley Delaney
Australia | 23.57
Men's 100 m  | Liam Tancock
Great Britain | 50.14
ER | Randall Bal
United States | 50.42  | Stanislav Donets
Russia | 50.53
Men's 200 m  | Markus Rogan
Austria | 1:47.84
WR | Ryan Lochte
United States | 1:47.91  | Stanislav Donets
Russia | 1:50.45
Breaststroke
Men's 50 m  | Oleg Lisogor
Ukraine | 26.46  | Mark Gangloff
United States | 26.54  | Cameron van der Burgh
South Africa | 26.67
Men's 100 m  | Igor Borysik
Ukraine | 57.74
CR | Cameron van der Burgh
South Africa | 57.92  | Oleg Lisogor
Ukraine | 58.08
Men's 200 m  | Kristopher Gilchrist
Great Britain | 2:06.18  | Igor Borysik
Ukraine | 2:06.21  | William Diering
South Africa | 2:06.85
Butterfly
Men's 50 m  | Adam Pine
Australia | 22.78  | Sergiy Breus
Ukraine | 22.86
ER | Evgeny Korotyshkin
Russia | 22.94
Men's 100 m  | Peter Mankoč
Slovenia | 50.04
CR | Adam Pine
Australia | 50.54  | Nikolay Skvortsov
Russia | 50.78
Men's 200 m  | Moss Burmester
New Zealand | 1:51.05
CR | Nikolay Skvortsov
Russia | 1:51.83  | Paweł Korzeniowski
Poland | 1:52.25
Individual medley
Men's 100 m  | Ryan Lochte
United States | 51.15
WR | Peter Mankoč
Slovenia | 52.21
ER | Liam Tancock
Great Britain | 52.22
Men's 200 m  | Ryan Lochte
United States | 1:51.56
WR | Liam Tancock
Great Britain | 1:53.10  | James Goddard
Great Britain | 1:55.15
Men's 400 m  | Ryan Lochte
United States | 4:03.21  | Robert Margalis
United States | 4:03.74  | Ioannis Drymonakos
Greece | 4:05.11
Freestyle relay
Men's 4 × 100 m  |  United States
Ryan Lochte
Bryan Lundquist
Nathan Adrian
Doug Van Wie | 3:08.44
WR |  Netherlands
Robert Lijesen
Bas van Velthoven
Mitja Zastrow
Robin van Aggele | 3:09.18
ER |  Sweden
Petter Stymne
Stefan Nystrand
Lars Frölander
Marcus Piehl | 3:10.04
Men's 4 × 200 m  |  Australia
Kirk Palmer
Grant Brits
Nicholas Sprenger
Kenrick Monk | 6:55.65
CR |  Great Britain
Robert Renwick
David Carry
Andrew Hunter
Ross Davenport | 6:56.52
ER |  Italy
Emiliano Brembilla
Massimiliano Rosolino
Nicola Cassio
Filippo Magnini | 6:58.39
Medley relay
Men's 4 × 100 m  |  Russia
Stanislav Donets
Sergey Geybel
Evgeny Korotyshkin
Alexander Sukhorukov | 3:24.29
WR |  United States
Randall Bal
Mark Gangloff
Ryan Lochte
Nathan Adrian | 3:24.38  |  New Zealand
Daniel Bell
Glenn Snyders
Corney Swanepoel
Cameron Gibson | 3:27.15

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Freestyle
Women's 50 m  | Marleen Veldhuis
Netherlands | 23.25
WR | Hinkelien Schreuder
Netherlands | 23.83  | Francesca Halsall
Great Britain | 24.11
Women's 100 m  | Marleen Veldhuis
Netherlands | 52.17
=CR | Francesca Halsall
Great Britain | 52.79  | Hanna-Maria Seppälä
Finland | 52.94
Women's 200 m  | Kylie Palmer
Australia | 1:54.41  | Femke Heemskerk
Netherlands | 1:54.65  | Caitlin McClatchey
Great Britain | 1:55.15
Women's 400 m  | Kylie Palmer
Australia | 3:59.23
CR | Camelia Potec
Romania | 4:01.06  | Joanne Jackson
Great Britain | 4:01.11
Women's 800 m  | Rebecca Adlington
Great Britain | 8:08.25
ER, CR | Kylie Palmer
Australia | 8:12.32  | Erika Villaécija García
Spain | 8:13.93
Backstroke
Women's 50 m  | Sanja Jovanović
Croatia | 26.37
WR | Gao Chang
China | 26.70  | Kateryna Zubkova
Ukraine | 26.81
Women's 100 m  | Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe | 57.10
CR | Kateryna Zubkova
Ukraine | 57.15
ER | Sanja Jovanović
Croatia | 57.80
Women's 200 m  | Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe | 2:00.91
WR | Elizabeth Simmonds
Great Britain | 2:02.60
ER | Margaret Hoelzer
United States | 2:03.85
Breaststroke
Women's 50 m  | Jessica Hardy
United States | 29.58
WR | Kate Haywood
Great Britain
Sarah Katsoulis
Australia | 30.35  |

Women's 100 m  | Jessica Hardy
United States | 1:04.22
CR | Jade Edmistone
Australia | 1:04.93  | Suzaan van Biljon
South Africa | 1:05.38
Women's 200 m  | Suzaan van Biljon
South Africa | 2:18.73
CR | Sally Foster
Australia | 2:20.11  | Yuliya Yefimova
Russia | 2:20.48
Butterfly
Women's 50 m  | Felicity Galvez
Australia | 25.32
WR | Hinkelien Schreuder
Netherlands | 25.40  | Inge Dekker
Netherlands | 25.60
Women's 100 m  | Felicity Galvez
Australia | 55.89
WR | Rachel Komisarz
United States | 56.32  | Jemma Lowe
Great Britain | 56.84
Women's 200 m  | Mary Descenza
United States | 2:04.27
CR | Felicity Galvez
Australia | 2:04.90  | Jessica Dickons
Great Britain | 2:05.09
Individual medley
Women's 100 m  | Shayne Reese
Australia | 59.58  | Hanna-Maria Seppälä
Finland | 59.62
ER | Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe | 59.77
Women's 200 m  | Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe | 2:06.13
WR | Mireia Belmonte García
Spain | 2:07.47
ER | Hannah Miley
Great Britain | 2:08.79
Women's 400 m  | Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe | 4:26.52
WR | Hannah Miley
Great Britain | 4:27.27
ER | Mireia Belmonte García
Spain | 4:27.55
Freestyle relay
Women's 4 × 100 m  |  Netherlands
Hinkelien Schreuder
Femke Heemskerk
Inge Dekker
Marleen Veldhuis | 3:29.42
WR |  Australia
Alice Mills
Shayne Reese
Kelly Stubbins
Angie Bainbridge | 3:32.00  |  Great Britain
Francesca Halsall
Caitlin McClatchey
Julia Beckett
Melanie Marshall | 3:32.88
Women's 4 × 200 m  |  Netherlands
Inge Dekker
Femke Heemskerk
Marleen Veldhuis
Ranomi Kromowidjojo | 7:38.90
WR |  Great Britain
Joanne Jackson
Melanie Marshall
Caitlin McClatchey
Rebecca Adlington | 7:38.96  |  Australia
Bronte Barratt
Angie Bainbridge
Kelly Stubbins
Kylie Palmer | 7:39.01
Medley relay
Women's 4 × 100 m  |  United States
Margaret Hoelzer
Jessica Hardy
Rachel Komisarz
Kara Denby | 3:51.36
WR |  Australia
Rachel Goh
Sarah Katsoulis
Felicity Galvez
Alice Mills | 3:52.01  |  Great Britain
Elizabeth Simmonds
Kate Haywood
Jemma Lowe
Francesca Halsall | 3:53.02

## Medals table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 10| 6| 1| 17
2|  Australia (AUS)| 8| 9| 2| 19
3|  Netherlands (NED)| 4| 4| 1| 9
4|  Zimbabwe (ZIM)| 4| 0| 1| 5
5|  Great Britain (GBR)| 3| 10| 11| 24
6|  Russia (RUS)| 3| 1| 5| 9
7|  Ukraine (UKR)| 2| 3| 2| 7
8|  Croatia (CRO)| 2| 0| 2| 4
9|  South Africa (RSA)| 1| 1| 4| 6
10|  Slovenia (SLO)| 1| 1| 0| 2
11|  New Zealand (NZL)| 1| 0| 1| 2
12|  Austria (AUT)| 1| 0| 0| 1
13|  Italy (ITA)| 0| 2| 2| 4
14|  Spain (ESP)| 0| 1| 2| 3
15|  Finland (FIN)| 0| 1| 1| 2
16|  China (CHN)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Romania (ROM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
18|  Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 2| 2
19|  Greece (GRE)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (20 entries)| 40| 41| 39| 120

## See also

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* 2008 in swimming

## References

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* FINA event webpages
* Official event website
* Results from Omega Timing

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