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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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
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
Japan (JPN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (13 entries)| 26| 26| 26| 78

## References

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* Medalist Summary (Men) on GBRATHLETICS.com
* Medalist Summary (Women) on GBRATHLETICS.com

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

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