Swimming at the 1961 Summer Universiade
The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. [1]
Men’s events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m freestyle |  Keigo Shimizu (JPN) | 57.4 |  Andrzej Salamon (POL) | 57.6 | Makoto Fukui (JPN) | 57.9 |
| 400 m freestyle | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 4:30.9 |  Murray McLachlan (RSA) | 4:32.3 | Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN) | 4:35.1 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Murray McLachlan (RSA) | 18:19.8 | Matsuki Tomashiro (JPN) | 18:21.6 | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 18:23.1 |
| 100 m backstroke | Shunsuke 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 Yoshimuto (JPN) | 2:20.2 | Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS) | 2:25.5 | Hermann Lotter (FRG) | 2:28.8 |
| 4×100 m freestyle relay | Japan (JPN) | 3:48.7 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3:57.2 |  Hungary (HUN) | 3:58.1 |
| 4×100 m medley relay | Japan (JPN) | 4:17.1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4:18.5 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:21.4 |
Women’s events
| 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 |  Chris 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
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Romania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =4 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| =4 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| =4 | Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 15 | 16 | 14 | 45 | |
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