Swimming at the 1981 Summer Universiade

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The swimming competition at the 1981 Summer Universiade took place in Bucharest, Romania.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Kris Kirschner United States	51.39	Serhiy Krasyuk Soviet Union	51.86	Jorge Fernandes Brazil	52.06
200 m freestyle details	Andy Schmidt United States	1:52.62 GR	Jorge Fernandes Brazil	1:52.92	Djan Madruga Brazil	1:53.00
400 m freestyle details	Daniel Machek Czechoslovakia	3:58.08	Djan Madruga Brazil	3:58.54	Sergey Kalashnikov Soviet Union	4:00.95
1500 m freestyle details	Aleksandr Chayev Soviet Union	15:22.25 GR	Sergey Kalashnikov Soviet Union	15:40.62	Monte Brown United States	15:48.70

100 m backstroke details	Sergei Zabolotnov Soviet Union	58.09	Vladimir Dolgov Soviet Union	58.19	Rômulo Arantes Brazil	58.24
200 m backstroke details	Sergei Zabolotnov Soviet Union	2:03.65	Djan Madruga Brazil	2:03.73	Zbigniew Januszkiewicz Poland	2:05.37

100 m breaststroke details	Nicholas Nevid United States	1:04.33	Peter Lang West Germany	1:05.06	Arsens Miskarovs Soviet Union	1:05.41
200 m breaststroke details	Arsens Miskarovs Soviet Union	2:19.42 GR	Nicholas Nevid United States	2:21.47	Aleksandr Fedorovsky Soviet Union	2:23.62

100 m butterfly details	William Paulus United States Robert Placak United States	55.41	Not awarded		Sergei Kiselyov Soviet Union	56.29
200 m butterfly details	Sergey Fesenko, Sr. Soviet Union	2:01.86	Levente Mady Canada	2:04.75	Sergei Kiselyov Soviet Union	2:04.85

200 m individual medley details	Sergey Fesenko, Sr. Soviet Union	2:06.34 GR	Aleksey Markovsky Soviet Union	2:08.37	Alan Swanston Canada	2:09.48
400 m individual medley details	Sergey Fesenko, Sr. Soviet Union	4:25.53	Peter Dobson Canada	4:31.65	Daniel Machek Czechoslovakia	4:32.16

4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Jerry Spencer Andy Schmidt Paul Goodridge Kris Kirschner	3:27.84	Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Prisekin Alexey Filonov Aleksey Markovsky Serhiy Krasyuk	3:28.09	Brazil (BRA) Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Ronald Menezes Djan Madruga	3:32.42
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	7:33.96 GR	United States (USA) Andy Schmidt Jimmy Lee B. McCarthy Kris Kirschner	7:34.11	Brazil (BRA)	7:38.32
4×100 m medley relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Zabolotnov Arsens Miskarovs Sergei Kiselyov Serhiy Krasyuk	3:48.75	United States (USA) Dave Wilson Nicholas Nevid Bob Placak Kris Kirschner	3:49.55	Brazil (BRA) Rômulo Arantes Luiz Carvalho Marcus Mattioli Jorge Fernandes	3:55.10

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Jill Sterkel United States	57.17	Barbara Major United States	58.28	Olga Klevakina Soviet Union	58.65
200 m freestyle details	Jill Sterkel United States	2:03.97 GR	Olga Klevakina Soviet Union	2:04.58	Irina Laricheva Soviet Union	2:05.38
400 m freestyle details	Kim Linehan United States	4:15.26	Irina Laricheva Soviet Union	4:15.50	Sherri Hanna United States	4:21.01
800 m freestyle details	Kim Linehan United States	8:37.50 GR	Irina Laricheva Soviet Union	8:45.01	Sherri Hanna United States	8:46.57

100 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	1:02.47 GR	Kim Carlisle United States	1:04.53	Susan Walsh United States	1:04.74
200 m backstroke details	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	2:13.21	Kim Carlisle United States	2:19.02	Susan Walsh United States	2:19.11

100 m breaststroke details	Angelika Knipping West Germany	1:14.20	Liang Weifen China	1:14.48	Lina Kačiušytė Soviet Union	1:14.54
200 m breaststroke details	Lina Kačiušytė Soviet Union	2:35.85 GR	Irena Fleissnerová Czechoslovakia	2:38.64	Cindy Tuttle United States	2:41.66

100 m butterfly details	Jill Sterkel United States	1:01.91 GR	Carol Borgmann United States	1:02.43	Carmen Bunaciu Romania	1:02.98
200 m butterfly details	Kim Carlisle United States	2:15.71	Susie Woodhouse Australia	2:15.97	Mayumi Yokoyama United States	2:17.52

200 m individual medley details	Kim Carlisle United States	2:20.43 GR	Olga Klevakina Soviet Union	2:20.81	Barbara Selter West Germany	2:24.17
400 m individual medley details	Mayumi Yokoyama United States	4:55.45 GR	Irinel Panulescu Romania	5:03.78	Malgorzata Rozycka Poland	5:07.49

4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Annie Lett Carol Borgmann Barbara Major Jill Sterkel	3:55.05	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Laricheva Olga Eliseeva Irina Orliuk Olga Klevakina	3:57.64	Canada (CAN) Kelly Neuber Leslie Brafield Sylvie Kennedy Valerie Whyte	4:00.59
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Kim Carlisle Patricia Waters Jill Sterkel Barbara Major	4:18.84	Romania (ROM) Carmen Bunaciu Brigitte Prass Mariana Paraschiv Irinel Pănulescu	4:22.14	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Orliuk Lina Kačiušytė Olga Klevakina Irina Laricheva	4:25.96

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Men's 100 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kris Kirschner	United States	51.39
	Serhiy Krasyuk	Soviet Union	51.86
	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	52.06
4	Jerry Spencer	United States	52.17
5	Yuri Prisekin	Soviet Union	52.38
6	Gerd Kohlat	West Germany	53.63
7	Per-Alvar Magnusson	Sweden	53.71
8	Graeme Brewer	Australia	53.73

Men's 200 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Andy Schmidt	United States	1:52.62	GR
	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	1:52.92
	Djan Madruga	Brazil	1:53.00
4	Yuri Logvin	Soviet Union	1:53.01
5	Yuri Prisekin	Soviet Union	1:53.93
6	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	1:54.93
7	Dennis Corcoran	Canada	1:55.82
8	Hiroshi Sakamoto	Japan	1:56.39

Men's 400 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	3:58.08
	Djan Madruga	Brazil	3:58.54
	Sergey Kalashnikov	Soviet Union	4:00.95
4	Graeme Brewer	Australia	4:04.03
5	James Lee	United States	4:04.95
6	Ron McKeon	Australia	4:05.85
7	Eugene Gyorfi	Canada	4:08.71
8	Marcelo Jucá	Brazil	4:08.88

Men's 1500 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aleksandr Chayev	Soviet Union	15:22.25	GR
	Sergey Kalashnikov	Soviet Union	15:40.62
	Monte Brown	United States	15:48.70
4	Marcelo Jucá	Brazil	15:57.80
5	Eugene Gyorfi	Canada	16:04.58
6	Robert Bylis	Canada	16:09.41
7	Hiroaki Kaneko	Japan	16:11.22
8	Tizoc Guemez	Mexico	16:31.89

Men's 100 m backstroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Sergei Zabolotnov	Soviet Union	58.09
	Vladimir Dolgov	Soviet Union	58.19
	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	58.24
4	Dave Wilson	United States	58.69
5	Zbigniew Januszkiewicz	Poland	59.56
6	Clay Britt	United States	59.63
7	Miloslav Rolko	Czechoslovakia	59.76
8	Hidetoshi Takahashi	Japan	1:00.01

Men's 200 m backstroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Sergei Zabolotnov	Soviet Union	2:03.65
	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:03.73
	Zbigniew Januszkiewicz	Poland	2:05.37
4	Vladimir Dolgov	Soviet Union	2:05.97
5	Hidetoshi Takahashi	Japan	2:07.07
6	James Fowler	United States	2:09.10
7	Josef Kuf	Czechoslovakia	2:09.40
8	Mihai Mandache	Romania	2:10.12

Men's 100 m breaststroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Nicholas Nevid	United States	1:04.33
	Peter Lang	West Germany	1:05.06
	Arsens Miskarovs	Soviet Union	1:05.41
4	Robert Jackson	United States	1:05.70
5	Wang Lin	China	1:06.09
6	Aleksandr Fedorovsky	Soviet Union	1:06.13
7	Marco Veilleux	Canada	1:06.64
8	Tatsuo Abe	Japan	1:07.72

Men's 200 m breaststroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Arsens Miskarovs	Soviet Union	2:19.42	GR
	Nicholas Nevid	United States	2:21.47
	Aleksandr Fedorovsky	Soviet Union	2:23.62
4	Wang Lin	China	2:24.39
5	Asao Aoki	Japan	2:25.24
6	Marco Veilleux	Canada	2:25.49

Men's 100 m butterfly

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	William Paulus	United States	55.41
	Robert Placak	United States	55.41
	Sergei Kiselyov	Soviet Union	56.29
4	Kenji Izumi	Japan	57.07
5	Per-Alvar Magnusson	Sweden	57.70
6	Marcus Mattioli	Brazil	57.71
7	Luo Zhaoying	China	57.79
7	Levente Mady	Canada	57.79

Men's 200 m butterfly

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.	Soviet Union	2:01.86
	Levente Mady	Canada	2:04.75
	Sergei Kiselyov	Soviet Union	2:04.85
4	Yoshinobu Shidara	Japan	2:05.04
5	Shinsuke Kayama	Japan	2:05.14
6	Juan Carlos Fontoura	Brazil	2:06.16
7	Gérard de Kort	Netherlands	2:07.27
8	Flavius Vişan	Romania	2:09.41

Men's 200 m individual medley

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.	Soviet Union	2:06.34	GR
	Aleksey Markovsky	Soviet Union	2:08.34
	Alan Swanston	Canada	2:09.48
4	Dawei Feng	China	2:10.24
5	Bob Rives	United States	2:10.99
6	Dave Town	Canada	2:11.34
7	Kozo Tatsumi	Japan	2:11.57
8	Stefan Mitu	Romania	2:12.08

Men's 400 m individual medley

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.	Soviet Union	4:25.53
	Peter Dobson	Canada	4:31.65
	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	4:32.16
4	Monte Brown	United States	4:38.08
5	Kozo Tatsumi	Japan	4:39.36
6	Tizoc Guemez	Mexico	4:39.43
7	Gérard de Kort	Netherlands	4:42.19
8	Jeffrey Riddle	Canada	4:42.59

Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	United States	Jerry Spencer Andy Schmidt Paul Goodridge Kris Kirschner	3:27.84
	Soviet Union	Yuri Prisekin Alexey Filonov Aleksey Markovsky Serhiy Krasyuk	3:28.09
	Brazil	Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Ronald Menezes Djan Madruga	3:32.42
4	Canada		3:33.54
5	Japan		3:35.96
6	Romania		3:37.75
7	Czechoslovakia		3:39.17
8	Poland		3:45.83

Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Soviet Union		7:33.96	GR
	United States	Andy Schmidt Jimmy Lee B. McCarthy Kris Kirschner	7:34.11
	Brazil		7:38.32
4	Canada		7:39.88
5	Czechoslovakia		7:49.08
6	Japan		7:52.96
7	Romania		7:53.78
8	Bulgaria		7:59.43

Men's 4×100 m medley relay

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	Soviet Union	Sergey Zabolotnov Arsens Miskarovs Sergei Kiselyov Serhiy Krasyuk	3:48.75
	United States	Dave Wilson Nicholas Nevid Robert Placak Kris Kirchner	3:49.55
	Brazil	Rômulo Arantes Luiz Carvalho Marcus Mattioli Jorge Fernandes	3:55.10
4	Japan		3:56.18
5	China		3:56.48
6	Canada		3:59.79
7	Romania		4:03.15
8	Poland		4:07.29

Women's 100 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Jill Sterkel	United States	57.17
	Barbara Major	United States	58.28
	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	58.65
4	Kelly Neuber	Canada	59.38
5	Carole Amoric	France	59.51
6	Radosveta Chinkova	Bulgaria	1:00.05
7	Olga Eliseeva	Soviet Union	1:00.06
8	Kateřina Machková	Czechoslovakia	1:00.72

Women's 200 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Jill Sterkel	United States	2:03.97
	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	2:04.58
	Irina Laricheva	Soviet Union	2:05.38
4	Tracy Spalding	United States	2:05.58
5	Véronique Stéphan	France	2:07.67
6	Kelly Neuber	Canada	2:09.04
7	Leslie Brafield	Canada	2:09.32
8	Iwona Wejksza	Poland	2:10.51

Women's 400 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kim Linehan	United States	4:15.26
	Irina Laricheva	Soviet Union	4:15.50
	Sherri Hanna	United States	4:21.01
4	Renata Janik	Poland	4:31.46
5	Leslie Brafield	Canada	4:34.07
6	Carmen Mihăilă	Romania	4:37.94
7	Kelly Neuber	Canada	4:39.98
8	Xu Yan	China	4:40.79

Women's 800 m freestyle

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kim Linehan	United States	8:37.50	GR
	Irina Laricheva	Soviet Union	8:45.01
	Sherri Hanna	United States	8:46.57
4	Renata Janik	Poland	9:19.83
5	Carmen Mihăilă	Romania	9:24.22
6	Xu Yan	China	9:34.01
7	Anna Michalak	Poland	9:41.18
8	Alejandra Colin	Mexico	10:00.89

Women's 100 m backstroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	1:02.47	GR
	Kim Carlisle	United States	1:04.53
	Susan Walsh	United States	1:04.74
4	Irina Orliuk	Soviet Union	1:06.21
5	Valerie Whyte	Canada	1:07.32
6	Heike John	West Germany	1:07.51
7	Daphne Demuth	Netherlands	1:08.91
8	Lisa Dixon	Canada	1:09.29

Women's 200 m backstroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	2:13.21
	Kim Carlisle	United States	2:19.02
	Susan Walsh	United States	2:19.11
4	Irina Orliuk	Soviet Union	2:19.92
5	Daphne Demuth	Netherlands	2:22.13
6	Lisa Dixon	Canada	2:24.26
7	Mihăilescu	Romania	2:26.17
8	Valerie Whyte	Canada	2:29.92

Women's 100 m breaststroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Angelika Knipping	West Germany	1:14.20
	Liang Weifen	China	1:14.48
	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	1:14.54
4	Hong Shad	China	1:14.82
5	Brigitte Prass	Romania	1:14.86
6	Patricia Waters	United States	1:15.47
7	Christine Seidl	Romania	1:15.72
8	Irena Fleissnerová	Czechoslovakia	1:16.13

Women's 200 m breaststroke

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	2:35.85	GR
	Irena Fleissnerová	Czechoslovakia	2:38.64
	Cindy Tuttle	United States	2:41.66
4	Diane Johnson	United States	2:42.09
5	Brigitte Prass	Romania	2:44.49
6	Joanne Chevalier	Canada	2:45.94
7	Claire Lemaire	France	2:46.78
8	Ma Guadalupe	Mexico	2:48.58

Women's 100 m butterfly

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jill Sterkel	United States	1:01.91	GR
	Carol Borgmann	United States	1:02.42
	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	1:02.98
4	Susie Woodhouse	Australia	1:03.17
5	Valerie Whyte	Canada	1:05.88
6	Lisa Burnes	Australia	1:05.94
7	Susan Jenner	United Kingdom	1:05.98
8	Hansie Geijssen	Netherlands	1:06.32

Women's 200 m butterfly

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kim Karlisle	United States	2:15.71
	Susie Woodhouse	Australia	2:15.97
	Mayumi Yokoyama	United States	2:17.52
4	Lisa Burnes	Australia	2:18.27
5	Malgorzata Rozycka	Poland	2:21.89
6	Susan Jenner	United Kingdom	2:22.56
7	Gizella Szlavitsek	Hungary	2:23.42
8	Valerie Whyte	Canada	2:25.76

Women's 200 m individual medley

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kim Carlisle	United States	2:20.43	GR
	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	2:20.81
	Barbara Selter	West Germany	2:24.17
4	Diane Johnson	United States	2:24.63
5	Irinel Pănulescu	Romania	2:25.51
6	Mariana Paraschiv	Romania	2:25.84
7	Lisa Dixon	Canada	2:26.55
8	Katy Archer	United Kingdom	2:27.48

Women's 400 m individual medley

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mayumi Yokoyama	United States	4:55.45	GR
	Irinel Pănulescu	Romania	5:03.78
	Malgorzata Rozycka	Poland	5:07.49
4	Mariana Paraschiv	Romania	5:12.58
	Anne Tweedy	United States	4:57.68	DSQ
	Lisa Dixon	Canada	5:05.74	DSQ
	Barbara Selter	West Germany	5:06.56	DSQ
	Daphne Demuth	Netherlands	DNS

Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	United States	Annie Lett Carol Borgmann Barbara Major Jill Sterkel	3:55.05
	Soviet Union	Irina Laricheva Olga Eliseeva Irina Orliuk Olga Klevakina	3:57.64
	Canada	Kelly Neuber Leslie Brafield Sylvie Kennedy Valerie Whyte	4:00.59
4	France		4:01.43
5	Romania		4:02.97
6	Poland		4:10.47
7	United Kingdom		4:13.91

Women's 4×100 m medley relay

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	United States	Kim Carlisle Patricia Waters Jill Sterkel Barbara Major	4:18.84
	Romania	Carmen Bunaciu Brigitte Prass Mariana Paraschiv Irinel Pănulescu	4:22.14
	Soviet Union	Irina Orliuk Lina Kačiušytė Olga Klevakina Irina Laricheva	4:25.96
4	France		4:33.06
5	Canada		4:33.25
6	Poland		4:37.94
7	United Kingdom		4:41.52

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	16	7	7	30
2	Soviet Union (URS)	10	10	9	29
3	Romania (ROU)	2	2	1	5
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
6	Brazil (BRA)	0	3	6	9
7	Canada (CAN)	0	2	2	4
8	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
8	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
10	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (10 entries)		30	28	29	87

References

^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ "1981 Summer Universiade results". Hutchinson News. July 25, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
^ "1981 Summer Universiade results 2". Hutchinson News. July 29, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
^ "1981 Summer Universiade results 3". Hutchinson News. July 30, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
^ "Alle turntitels voor Roemenië" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 24 July 1981. p. 8.
^ "Fessenko snel op wisselslag" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 28 July 1981. p. 8.
^ "Final results". United Press International. 22 July 1981.
^ "Final results 2". United Press International. 25 July 1981.
^ "Final results 3". United Press International. 26 July 1981.

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

[2] "1981 Summer Universiade results". Hutchinson News. July 25, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.

[3] "1981 Summer Universiade results 2". Hutchinson News. July 29, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.

[4] "1981 Summer Universiade results 3". Hutchinson News. July 30, 1981. Retrieved July 6, 2020.

[5] "Alle turntitels voor Roemenië" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 24 July 1981. p. 8.

[6] "Fessenko snel op wisselslag" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 28 July 1981. p. 8.

[7] "Final results". United Press International. 22 July 1981.

[8] "Final results 2". United Press International. 25 July 1981.

[9] "Final results 3". United Press International. 26 July 1981.

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