Swimming at the XII Summer Universiade
Dates	2 July 1983 (1983-07-02) – 7 July 1983 (1983-07-07)
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The swimming competition at the 1983 Summer Universiade took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from July 2 to July 7, 1983.^[1][2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Sergey Smiryagin  Soviet Union	50.51 CR	Tom Jager  United States	51.02	Andreas Schmidt  West Germany	51.60
200 m freestyle details	Bruce Hayes  United States	1:51.19 CR	Aleksey Filonov  Soviet Union	1:51.90	Alex Baumann  Canada	1:51.97
400 m freestyle details	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	3:49.38 CR	Bruce Hayes  United States	3:54.93	Svyatoslav Semenov  Soviet Union	3:56.57
1500 m freestyle details	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	15:02.83 CR	Svyatoslav Semenov  Soviet Union	15:28.36	Bruce Hayes  United States	15:37.97
100 m backstroke details	Mike West  Canada	56.64 CR, NR	Vladimir Shemetov  Soviet Union	56.71	Viktor Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	56.74
200 m backstroke details	Sergei Zabolotnov  Soviet Union	2:00.42 CR, NR	Vladimir Shemetov  Soviet Union	2:01.27	Mike West  Canada	2:01.63 CWR
100 m breaststroke details	Shigehiro Takahashi  Japan	1:04.13	Yuri Kis  Soviet Union	1:04.21	Peter Evans  Australia	1:04.32
200 m breaststroke details	Robertas Žulpa  Soviet Union	2:15.93 CR	Shigehiro Takahashi  Japan	2:19.72	Gennadiy Utenkov  Soviet Union	2:19.80
100 m butterfly details	Aleksey Markovsky  Soviet Union	54.65 CR	Tom Jager  United States	55.45	Tom Ponting  Canada	55.55
200 m butterfly details	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.  Soviet Union	2:00.38 CR	Philip Hubble  Great Britain	2:01.36	Anthony Mosse  New Zealand	2:02.03
200 m individual medley details	Alex Baumann  Canada	2:02.29 CR	Oleksandr Sydorenko  Soviet Union	2:04.41	Ricardo Prado  Brazil	2:05.50
400 m individual medley details	Alex Baumann  Canada	4:19.80 CR, CWR	Bruce Hayes  United States	4:26.05	Ricardo Prado  Brazil	4:26.87
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	3:21.72 CR	United States (USA) Tom Jager Chris Silva Dallas Kyle Bruce Hayes	3:21.82	Canada (CAN) Peter Szmidt Wayne Kelly	3:26.38
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	7:27.22 CR	United States (USA) Stewart Macdonald Rich Bodor Bruce Hayes Richard Saeger	7:30.18	Canada (CAN) Wayne Kelly Dave Shemilt	7:31.40
4×100 m medley relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	3:44.33 CR	Canada (CAN)	3:46.49	United States (USA)	3:46.65

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Irina Laricheva  Soviet Union	58.15	Annelies Kraus  Netherlands	58.27	Tammy Thomas  United States	58.45
200 m freestyle details	Irina Laricheva  Soviet Union	2:02.17 CR	Annelies Kraus  Netherlands	2:02.78	Irina Gerasimova  Soviet Union	2:02.84
400 m freestyle details	Irina Laricheva  Soviet Union	4:13.41 CR,NR	Marybeth Linzmeier  United States	4:15.36	Julie Daigneault  Canada	4:17.77
800 m freestyle details	Irina Laricheva  Soviet Union	8:40.31	Marybeth Linzmeier  United States	8:41.43	Julie Daigneault  Canada	8:53.52
100 m backstroke details	Larisa Gorchakova  Soviet Union	1:03.28	Carmen Bunaciu  Romania	1:03.77	Susan Walsh  United States	1:03.80
200 m backstroke details	Larisa Gorchakova  Soviet Union	2:15.37	Carmen Bunaciu  Romania	2:15.96	Susan Walsh  United States	2:16.41
100 m breaststroke details	Larisa Belokon  Soviet Union	1:12.17 CR	Ayshkute Buzelite  Soviet Union	1:13.08	Manuela Dalla Valle  Italy	1:13.90
200 m breaststroke details	Larisa Belokon  Soviet Union	2:34.02 CR	Ayshkute Buzelite  Soviet Union	2:34.58	Lisa Borsholt  Canada	2:36.22
100 m butterfly details	Susie Woodhouse  Australia	1:01.79 CR	Cinzia Savi Scarponi  Italy	1:02.31	Naoko Kume  Japan	1:02.48
200 m butterfly details	Susie Woodhouse  Australia	2:13.50 CR	Naoko Kume  Japan	2:15.02	Michelle Ford  Australia	2:15.38
200 m individual medley details	Irina Gerasimova  Soviet Union	2:18.23 CR	Cinzia Savi Scarponi  Italy	2:19.75	Vera Barker  United States	2:20.63
400 m individual medley details	Irina Gerasimova  Soviet Union	4:52.27 CR	Cinzia Savi Scarponi  Italy	4:55.77	Christi Woolger  United States	4:56.70
4×100 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	3:49.64 CR	United States (USA) E. Emery J. Williams I. Lawrence Tammy Thomas	3:50.19	Canada (CAN) Maureen New	3:54.67
4×200 m freestyle relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	8:21.78	Australia (AUS)	8:22.74	West Germany (FRG)	8:23.48
4×100 m medley relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	4:14.10 CR	United States (USA) Susan Walsh Jeanne Childs Jane Wagstaff J. Williams	4:16.29	Canada (CAN) Reema Abdo	4:22.46

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	22	8	4	34
2	Canada (CAN)	3	1	9	13
3	Australia (AUS)	2	1	2	5
4	United States (USA)	1	10	7	18
5	Japan (JPN)	1	2	1	4
6	Italy (ITA)	0	3	1	4
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	0	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
9	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	2	2
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		29	29	29	87

• Medalist Summary (Men) on GBRATHLETICS.com
• Medalist Summary (Women) on GBRATHLETICS.com