Swimming at the 1961 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1]

Swimming
at the II Summer Universiade
1959
1963

Men’s events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle   Keigo Shimizu (JPN) 57.4   Andrzej Salamon (POL) 57.6   Kiyoshi Fukui (JPN) 57.9
400 m freestyle   Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) 4:30.9   Murray McLachlan (RSA) 4:32.3   Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) 4:35.1
1500 m freestyle   Murray McLachlan (RSA) 18:19.8   Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) 18:21.6   Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) 18:23.1
100 m backstroke   Shigeo Fukushima (JPN) 1:05.3   Vsevolod Tarasov (URS) 1:05.8   Vlastimil Kreek (TCH) 1:05.9
200 m breaststroke   Yuriy Funikov (URS) 2:41.4   Yoshiaki Shikiishi (JPN) 2:41.5   Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG) 2:43.2
200 m butterfly   Haruo Yoshimuta (JPN) 2:20.2   Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS) 2:25.5   Hermann Lotter (FRG) 2:28.8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   Japan (JPN)
Keigo Shimizu(57.9)
Kiyoshi Fukui(57.9)
Haruo Yoshimuta(56.2)
Tatsuo Fujimoto(56.7)
3:48.7   Soviet Union (URS) 3:57.2   Hungary (HUN) 3:58.1
4 × 100 m medley relay   Japan (JPN)
Shigeo Fukushima(1:04.4)
Yoshiaki Shikiishi(1:13.9)
Haruo Yoshimuta(1:11.9)
Tatsuo Fujimoto (56.9)
4:17.1   Czechoslovakia (TCH) 4:18.5   Soviet Union (URS) 4:21.4

Women’s events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle   Anna Karin Larsson (SWE) 1:07.6   Hilda Zeier (YUG) 1:07.7   Anna Ragasová (TCH) 1:08.1
400 m freestyle   Hilda Zeier (YUG) 5:14.4   Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz (POL) 5:38.0   Ludmila Kottková (TCH) 5:45.1
100 m backstroke   Larisa Viktorova (URS) 1:13.6   Magdolna Dávid (HUN) 1:16.1   Maria Both (ROM) 1:16.7
200 m breaststroke   Sanda Iordan (ROM) 2:59.6   Christine Gosden (GBR) 3:00.8   Alla Kovalenko (URS) 3:01.2
100 m butterfly   Valentina Pozdnyak (URS) 1:13.8   Yelena Antonova (URS)
  Anna Karin Larsson (SWE)
1:16.0
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   Soviet Union (URS) 4:39.5   Czechoslovakia (TCH) 4:41.2   Poland (POL) 4:52.2
4 × 100 m medley relay   Soviet Union (URS) 5:04.5   Romania (ROM) 5:12.2   Czechoslovakia (TCH) 5:15.7

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan (JPN)62311
2  Soviet Union (URS)54211
3  Romania (ROM)1113
4  South Africa (RSA)1102
  Sweden (SWE)1102
  Yugoslavia (YUG)1102
7  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0246
8  Poland (POL)0213
9  Hungary (HUN)0112
10  Great Britain (GBR)0101
11  West Germany (FRG)0022
Totals (11 entries)15161445

References

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