Swimming Records, 2000-2001: Water Polo

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

The 9th FINA World Championships in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo held in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16-29, 2001. Note that (WR) indicates world record and (CR) indicates championship meet record.

Final Medal Leaders

		G	S	B	Total
1	United States	9	9	8	26
2	Australia	13	3	3	19
3	Germany	3	6	6	15
4	Netherlands	3	4	0	7
	China	2	2	3	7
	Great Britain	1	2	4	7
7	Italy	2	2	2	6
	Sweden	1	3	2	6
	Russia	1	2	3	6
10	Ukraine	3	1	0	4
	Romania	1	1	2	4
	Japan	0	0	4	4

MEN

Event		Time
50m free	Anthony Ervin, USA	22.09
100m free	Anthony Ervin, USA	48.33	CR
200m free	Ian Thorpe, AUS	1:44.06	WR
400m free	Ian Thorpe, AUS	3:40.17	WR
800m free	Ian Thorpe, AUS	7:39.16	WR
1500m free	Grant Hackett, AUS	14:34.56	WR
50m back	Randall Bal, USA	25.34
100m back	Matt Welsh, AUS	54.31	CR
200m back	Aaron Peirsol, USA	1:57.13	CR
50m breast	Oleg Lisogor, UKR	27.52
100m breast	Roman Sloudnov, RUS	1:00.16
200m breast	Brendan Hansen, USA	2:10.69	CR
50m fly	Geoff Huegill, AUS	23.50
100m fly	Lars Frolander, SWE	52.10	CR
200m fly	Michael Phelps, USA	1:54.58	WR
200m I.M.	Massimiliano Rosolino, ITA	1:59.71
400m I.M.	Alessio Boggiatto, ITA	4:13.15

Men's Relays

Event		Time
4x100m free	Australia (Klim, Callus, Pearson, Thorpe)	3:14.10	CR
4x200m free	Australia (Hackett, Klim, Kirby, Thorpe)	7:04.66	WR
4x100m medley	Australia (Welsh, Harrison, Huegill, Thorpe)	3:35.35	CR

WOMEN

Event		Time
50m free	Inge de Bruijn, NED	24.47
100m free	Inge de Bruijn, NED	54.18
200m free	Giaan Rooney, AUS	1:58.57
400m free	Yana Klochkova, UKR	4:07.30
800m free	Hannah Stockbauer, GER	8:24.66
1500m free	Hannah Stockbauer, GER	16:01.02
50m back	Haley Cope, USA	28.51
100m back	Natalie Coughlin, USA	1:00.37
200m back	Diana Iuliana Mocanu, ROM	2:09.94
50m breast	Xuejuan Luo, CHN	30.84
100m breast	Xuejuan Luo, CHN	1:07.18	CR
200m breast	Agnes Kovacs, HUN	2:24.90	CR
50m fly	Inge de Bruijn, NED	25.90
100m fly	Petria Thomas, AUS	58.27	CR
200m fly	Petria Thomas, AUS	2:06.73	CR
200m I.M.	Maggie Bowen, USA	2:11.93
400m I.M.	Yana Klochkova, UKR	4:36.98

Women's Relays

Event		Time
4x100m free	Germany (Dallmann, Buschschulte, Meissmer, Volker)	3:39.58
4x200m free	Great Britain (Jackson, Belton, Legg, Pickering)	7:58.69
4x100m medley	Australia (Calub, Jones, Thomas, Ryan)	4:01.50	CR

Diving

Men

Event		Points
1-meter Springboard	Wang Feng, CHN	444.03
3-meter Springboard	Dmitri Sautin, RUS	725.82
10-meter Platform	Tian Liang, CHN	688.77
3-meter Springboard (Synchronized)	Peng Bo & Wang Kenan, CHN	342.63
10-meter Platform (Synchronized)	Tian Liang & Hu Jia, CHN	361.41

Women

Event		Points
1-meter Springboard	Blythe Hartley, CAN	300.81
3-meter Springboard	Guo Jingjing, CHN	596.67
10-meter Platform	Xu Mian, CHN	532.65
3-meter Springboard (Synchronized)	Wu Minxia & Guo Jingjing, CHN	347.31
10-meter Platform (Synchronized)	Duan Qing & Sang Xue, CHN	329.94

Synchronized Swimming

Event		Points
Solo	Olga Brousnikina, RUS	99.434
Duet	Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda, JPN	98.910
Team	Russia	98.917

Water Polo

Men's Final: Spain 4	Yugoslavia 2
Women's Final: Italy 7	Hungary 3

Swimming

World, Olympic and American Records

Swimming Records, 2000-2001 2001 International Swimming Records

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