2016 Finswimming World Championships

The 19th Finswimming World Championships was held in Volos, Greece at the Swimming Pool Neas Ionias “Vasilis Polymeros” from 24 to 28 July 2016.[1]

19th Finswimming World Championships
Venue	Swimming Pool Neas Ionias “Vasilis Polymeros”
Location	Volos, Greece
Dates	24–28 July
Competitors	432

Medal overview

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m surface	Mauricio Fernández (COL)	15.00 WR	Loukas Karetzopoulos (GRE)	15.24	Aleksey Kazantsev (RUS)	15.47
100 m surface	Max Poschart (GER)	34.22	Alexandre Noir (FRA)	34.48	Loukas Karetzopoulos (GRE)	34.55
200 m surface	Juan Ocampo (COL)	1:19.76	Dmitrii Zhurman (RUS)	1:20.76	Dmitrii Kokorev (RUS)	1:20.83
400 m surface	Antonios Tsourounakis (GRE)	2:58.12	Evgeny Smirnov (RUS)	2:58.85	Christos Christoforidis (GRE)	2:59.29
800 m surface	Alexey Shafigulin (RUS)	6:19.28	Christos Christoforidis (GRE)	6:21.54	Oleksandr Odynokov (UKR)	6:26.06
1500 m surface	Alexey Shafigulin (RUS)	12:15.53	Oleksandr Odynokov (UKR)	12:25.84	Davide De Ceglie (ITA)	12:36.27
50 m bi-fins	Andrey Arbuzov (RUS)	18.50	Kristijan Tomić (CRO)	18.79	Ádám Sincki (HUN)	18.87
100 m bi-fins	Dmitry Seryakov (RUS)	41.44 WR	Gergő Kosina (HUN)	41.69	Clément Becq (FRA)	42.14
200 m bi-fins	Gergő Kosina (HUN)	1:33.31 WR	You Gyeong-heon (KOR)	1:36.19	Vladimir Sidorov (RUS)	1:36.20
50 m apnea	Lee Kwan-ho (KOR)	13.85	Mauricio Fernández (COL)	14.00	Pavel Kabanov (RUS)	14.02
100 m immersion	Kim Tae-kyun (KOR)  Mauricio Fernández (COL)	31.34 WR	Not awarded		Lee Kwan-ho (KOR)	31.46
400 m immersion	Chi Cheng (CHN)	2:40.40 WR	Tong Zhenbo (CHN)	2:40.42	Denis Grubnik (UKR)	2:46.09
4×100 m surface relay	Russia Dmitrii Zhurman (35.01) Vladimir Zhuravlev (35.85) Pavel Kabanov (33.94) Dmitrii Kokorev (34.50) Aleksey Kazantsev^[a] Viacheslav Popov^[a]	2:19.30	Germany Max Poschart (34.56) Florian Kritzler (36.47) Max Lauschus (34.52) Malte Striegler (33.92)	2:19.47	Italy Cesare Fumarola (34.88) Stefano Figini (34.33) Kevin Zanardi (35.64) Andrea Nava (35.13) Giona Cristofari^[a]	2:19.98
4×200 m surface relay	Russia Dmitrii Zhurman (1:19.18) Viacheslav Popov (1:22.73) Evgeny Smirnov (1:21.74) Dmitrii Kokorev (1:20.16)	5:23.81	Italy Stefano Figini (1:21.77) Cesare Fumarola (1:22.80) Kevin Zanardi (1:20.61) Davide De Ceglie (1:19.93) Andrea Nava^[a]	5:25.11	Germany Malte Striegler (1:23.00) Max Lauschus (1:20.82) Florian Kritzler (1:21.84) Max Poschart (1:20.52) Jens Peter Ostrowski^[a] Tim Willruth^[a]	5:26.18
6 km open water	Ramírez Jiménez (COL)	27:47.33	Davide De Ceglie (ITA)	28:12.36	Roman Maletin (RUS)	28:32.52

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m surface	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	16.94 WR	Kim Ga-in (KOR)	17.44	Erica Barbon (ITA)	17.81
100 m surface	Shu Chengjing (CHN)	38.13	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	38.61	Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (RUS)  Xu Yichuan (CHN)	38.72
200 m surface	Valeria Baranovskaya (RUS)	1:26.88	Shu Chengjing (CHN)	1:28.05	Erica Barbon (ITA)	1:28.61
400 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	3:16.24	Anastasiia Antoniak (UKR)	3:16.54	Yulia Chumak (UKR)	3:18.64
800 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	6:49.27	Ievgeniia Olieynikova (UKR)	6:53.17	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	6:53.78
1500 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	13:15.05	Ievgeniia Olieynikova (UKR)	13:17.83	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	13:20.39
50 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	20.98 WR	Iryna Pikiner (UKR)	21.51	Choi Min-ji (KOR)	21.52
100 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	45.69 WR	Iryna Pikiner (UKR)	46.88	Krisztina Varga (HUN)	47.53
200 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	1:41.42 WR	Krisztina Varga (HUN)	1:45.16	Weronika Prentka (POL)	1:46.21
50 m apnea	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	15.59	Kim Ga-in (KOR)	16.04	Sofia Ktena (GRE)	16.22
100 m immersion	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	35.44	Xu Yichuan (CHN)	35.96	Liu Simin (CHN)	36.04
400 m immersion	Chen Sijia (CHN)	2:56.87 WR	Sun Yiting (CHN)	2:57.01	Shin Jee-hee (KOR)	3:00.76
4×100 m surface relay	Russia Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (39.38) Anna Ber (38.64) Alexsandra Skurlatova (38.37) Vera Ilyushina (38.15) Margarita Timofeeva^[b]	2:34.54 WR	China Shu Chenjing (39.26) Yuan Yaqi (40.75) Liu Simin (39.34) Xu Yichuan (37.12)	2:36.47	Colombia Grace Fernández (40.36) Alix Perez (39.81) Paula Aguirre (38.26) Kelly Perez (39.40) Michelle Mora^[b]	2:37.83
4×200 m surface relay	Russia Valeria Baranovskaya (1:26.33) Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (1:29.55) Alena Shiryaeva (1:30.83) Margarita Timofeeva (1:30.36) Alexsandra Skurlatova^[b] Vera Ilyushina^[b]	5:57.07	China Shu Chenjing (1:30.10) Xin Peiyao (1:32.28) Sun Yiting (1:32.68) Xu Yichuan (1:27.85)	6:02.91	Ukraine Svitlana Zhukova (1:32.90) Valentyna Rieznik (1:31.49) Kateryna Sokolovska (1:33.85) Anastasiia Antoniak (1:29.51)	6:07.75
6 km open water	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	56:43.80	Tatyana Krasnogor (UKR)	58:49.77	Loren Baron (FRA)	59:02.92

^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×2 km open water relay	Russia Alexey Shafigulin (17:42.15) Elena Kononova (20:32.53) Nadezhda Borisova (19:23.44) Dmitry Lobchenko (18:40.92)	1:16:19.04	Ukraine Roman Blagodir (18:12.28) Tatyana Krasnogor (20:05.89) Ievgeniia Olieynikova (20:05.18) Oleksandr Odynokov (19:19.59)	1:17:42.94	Greece Christos Christoforidis (17:34.84) Christos Damolis (19:39.15) Despoina Makria (20:23.79) Aikaterini Kalamaridi (20:44.71)	1:18:22.49

Medal table

  *   Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	11	2	8	21
2	China (CHN)	6	6	2	14
3	South Korea (KOR)	5	4	3	12
4	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	2	8
5	Colombia (COL)	4	1	1	6
6	Greece (GRE)*	1	2	4	7
7	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	8	4	12
9	Italy (ITA)	0	2	4	6
10	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
11	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
12	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		32	30	32	94

References

1. "Competition schedule" (PDF). volos2016.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018.

External links

• Official website
• Results