Swimming at the XVI Summer Universiade
Venues	Ponds Forge
Dates	15 July 1991 (1991-07-15) – 21 July 1991 (1991-07-21)
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The swimming competition at the 1991 Summer Universiade took place in Sheffield, Great Britain from July 15 to July 21, 1991.^[1][2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Stéphan Caron  France	22.97	Robert Pufleb  Germany	23.15	Krzysztof Cwalina  Poland Eric Hansen  United States	23.20
100 m freestyle details	Stéphan Caron  France	49.72	Axel Hickmann  Germany	50.81	Robert Pufleb  Germany	51.19
200 m freestyle details	Stéphan Caron  France	1:50.24	Artur Wojdat  Poland	1:50.69	Turlough O'Hare  Canada	1:51.22
400 m freestyle details	Artur Wojdat  Poland	3:52.55	Peter Wright  United States	3:54.47	Vladimir Belov  Soviet Union	3:55.11
1500 m freestyle details	Ian Wilson  Great Britain	15:15.30	Jeffrey Ong  Malaysia	15:23.61 NR	Christopher Bowie  Canada	15:31.87
100 m backstroke details	Deke Botsford  Canada	56.40	Tripp Schwenk  United States	56.70	Scott Johnson  United States	56.78
200 m backstroke details	Tripp Schwenk  United States	2:00.38	Kevin Draxinger  Canada	2:00.92	Dmitriy Haritonov  Soviet Union	2:01.73
100 m breaststroke details	Brian Pajer  United States	1:03.21	Chen Jianhong  China	1:03.59	Leif Heg  United States	1:04.20
200 m breaststroke details	Gary O'Toole  Ireland	2:16.75	Ty Richardson  United States	2:17.42	Preston Staats  United States	2:18.92
100 m butterfly details	Shen Jianqiang  China	54.25	Andrey Kozirev  Soviet Union	54.78	Dan Kutler  United States	54.84
200 m butterfly details	Ray Carey  United States	1:58.36	Brian Gunn  United States	1:59.48	Kunio Sugimoto  Japan	2:03.01
200 m individual medley details	Greg Burgess  United States	2:03.90	Matt Stahlman  United States	2:04.67	Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan	2:04.71
400 m individual medley details	Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan	4:23.10 NR	Greg Burgess  United States	4:24.53	Brent Harding  Australia	4:26.20
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Keith Anderson Josh Davis Eric Hansen Alyn Towne	3:22.73	France (FRA)	3:23.48	Germany (GER)	3:23.61
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	7:23.28	United States (USA) Josh Davis Vince Giambalvo Dan Kanner Greg Larson	7:24.54	Canada (CAN)	7:32.89
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Eric Hansen Dan Kutler Brian Pajer Tripp Schwenk	3:44.33	Germany (GER)	3:44.65	Soviet Union (URS)	3:45.76

Legend: CR – Championship record; NR – National record

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Yang Wenyi  China	25.92 CR	Zhuang Yong  China	26.10	Jenifer Boyd  United States	26.14
100 m freestyle details	Zhuang Yong  China	56.28	Wang Xiaohong  China	56.87	Andrea Nugent  Canada	57.31
200 m freestyle details	Karen Kraemer  United States	2:02.23	Patricia Noall  Canada	2:02.99	Natalia Trefilova  Soviet Union	2:03.68
400 m freestyle details	Patricia Noall  Canada	4:16.74	Jana Shamarova  Soviet Union	4:17.15	Sionainn Marcoux  United States	4:18.03
800 m freestyle details	Francesca Ferrarini  Italy	8:43.55	Marie-Pierre Wirth  France	8:47.98	Sionainn Marcoux  United States	8:48.53
100 m backstroke details	Barbara Bedford  United States	1:02.08 CR	Kristina Stinson  United States	1:03.70	Niecia Freeman  Australia	1:04.47
200 m backstroke details	Lin Li  China	2:15.12	Laura Savarino  Italy	2:16.54	Kristina Stinson  United States	2:16.65
100 m breaststroke details	Guylaine Cloutier  Canada	1:10.93	Yelena Volkova  Soviet Union	1:11.19	Katherine Hedman  United States	1:11.98
200 m breaststroke details	Svetlana Kuzmina  Soviet Union	2:31.60	Lin Li  China	2:31.72	Yelena Volkova  Soviet Union	2:32.03
100 m butterfly details	Wang Xiaohong  China	1:00.00	Qian Hong  China	1:00.21	Kristin Stoudt  United States	1:02.69
200 m butterfly details	Wang Xiaohong  China	2:10.76	Yumiko Ichioka  Japan	2:14.30	Mojca Cater  Canada	2:15.57
200 m individual medley details	Lin Li  China	2:14.22 CR	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:18.84	Marie-Pierre Wirth  France	2:20.83
400 m individual medley details	Lin Li  China	4:42.58 CR	Sheila Taormina  United States	4:52.10	Patricia Noall  Canada	4:52.17
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	China (CHN)	3:46.41 CR	United States (USA) Dyne Burrell Grace Cornelius Melanie Morgan Julie Sommer	3:47.48	Canada (CAN)	3:49.73
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	8:14.48	United States (USA) Dyne Burrell Karen Kraemer Sionainn Marcoux Amy Ward	8:14.54	Canada (CAN)	8:28.20
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Barbara Bedford Katherine Hedman Melanie Morgan Kristin Stoudt	4:11.70	Canada (CAN)	4:15.25	Soviet Union (URS)	4:17.32

Legend: CR – Championship record; NR – National record

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	11	11	31
2	China (CHN)	9	5	0	14
3	Canada (CAN)	3	3	8	14
4	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	6	12
5	France (FRA)	3	2	1	6
6	Poland (POL)	1	2	1	4
7	Japan (JPN)	1	1	2	4
8	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
11	Germany (GER)	0	3	2	5
12	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
13	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 entries)		32	32	33	97

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