2022 Short Course World Championships: Full Results Report

By James Sutherland on SwimSwam

2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
• Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
• SCM (25m)
• Prize Money
• Meet Site
• Live Results

An action-packed six days of racing at the 2022 Short Course World Championships came to a close in mid-December, with 14 world records falling and numerous exciting battles having been contested in front of a raucous Australian crowd at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Center.

Now with the event done and dusted, it’s time to take a look back at the full list of medalists and see which swimmers had the most trips to the podium.

FULL MEDALISTS TABLE

Key: WR – World Record, WJ – World Junior Record, CR – Championship Record, AS – Asian Record, AF – African Record, NR – National Record, OC – Oceanian Record, AM – Americas Record

Women’s Events

Men’s Events

Mixed Events

NOTES

• 10 different swimmers won multiple individual world titles, with Maggie MacNeil, Lani Pallister and Ryan Murphy leading the way with three apiece. Murphy became the first male swimmer to sweep the backstroke events since the 50-meter event was introduced in 1999, while Pallister became the inaugural winner of the women’s 1500 free, making her the first to claim the 400/800/1500 treble.
• Six swimmers successfully defended their world titles in seven individual events: MacNeil (women’s 50 back, 100 fly), Hwang Sunwoo (men’s 200 free), Nic Fink (men’s 100 breast), Nicholas Santos (men’s 50 fly), Daiya Seto (men’s 400 IM), and Siobhan Haughey (women’s 200 free). Seto’s 400 IM was not only a repeat, but his sixth in a row, making him the first swimmer to accomplish the feat.
• Six swimmers led the way with seven medals: Kate Douglass, Emma McKeon, Torri Huske, Kyle Chalmers, Mollie O’Callaghan and Claire Curzan. With five golds and two silvers, Douglass officially sits atop the individual medal table.
• The 14 world records broken—which accounts for both the American and Australian men going under the mark in the 4×100 medley relay—is a significant uptick from the four all-time marks lowered at the 2021 championships in Abu Dhabi.
• 38 of 46 events had a faster winning time at the 2022 Worlds than they did in 2021 (not factoring in the two new additions to the schedule).
• In 13 events, the time required to simply reach the podium and win bronze in Melbourne was faster or equal to the winning time from 2021, including one relay (women’s 400 free). The men’s 100 IM was .01 off, and the women’s 400 medley relay was .02 off.
• The United States topped the final medal table with 17 gold, 13 silver and six bronze medals for a final tally of 36, with Australia, Italy and Canada also hitting double digits.

FINAL MEDAL TABLE

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	17	13	6	36
2	Australia*	13	8	5	26
3	Italy	5	6	5	16
4	Canada	3	4	7	14
5	South Africa	3	1	1	5
6	Japan	2	2	2	6
7	France	1	3	1	5
8	Netherlands	1	1	6	8
9	Hong Kong	1	1	0	2
10	Lithuania	1	0	1	2
11	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Cayman Islands	1	0	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	0	1
14	New Zealand	0	2	0	2
15	Great Britain	0	1	3	4
16	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
19	Romania	0	1	0	1
20	Sweden	0	0	3	3
21	China	0	0	2	2
	Germany	0	0	2	2
23	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		50	46	49	145

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