The FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) or "Short Course Worlds" as they are sometimes known, is an international

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

competition. It is swum in a short course (25m) pool, and has been held in the years when FINA has not held its long course

World Aquatics Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...

(currently this means in even years). Unlike the

FINA World Aquatics Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...

, this championship is swimming-only (the World Championships feature all 5 Aquatics disciplines), and is contested in a short course, 25-meter pool (rather than a long course, 50-meter pool).

Editions

* Record by number of gold medals – (21 gold medals, 2004) * Record by number of total medals – (41 medals in total, 2004),

Events

There are men's and women's events in all four strokes, the individual medley, as well as in relays. There are also two mixed relays.

Men's events

Women's events

Mixed events

Medal table

Updated after the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m):

References

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