2022 Short Course World Championships: U.S. Finishes On Top Of Overall Medal Table

2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
• Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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The 2022 Short Course World Championships concluded tonight from Melbourne, Australia but not before the United States topped the overall medal table.

The U.S. ended the 6-day competition with 36 total medals, including 17 golds, 13 silvers, and 6 bronze

That gave the stars n’ stripes the edge over host nation Australia which settled for the runner-up spot with 27 total medals comprised of 13 golds, 8 silvers and 5 bronze.

Italy rounded out the top 3 nations, albeit a ways back, owning 13 medals with 5 of them gold. That is the second-straight edition in which Italy has finished 3rd in the Short Course Worlds medals table (last year it was behind Australia and the US). That is a marked improvement from 2018, where Italy was 13th in the medals table and had no victories. In fact, before 2021, Italy had not finished in the top 10 since the 2012 meet, where 2 gold medals got them into 6th place (there was a diverse spread of winners that year).

Night six saw the U.S. take gold in the men’s 50m breast, courtesy of Nic Fink, while Ryan Murphy sealed his backstroke trifecta with a victory in the 200m distance.

On the relay front, both the U.S. men’s and women’s 4x100m medley relays topped the podium, with both clocking new World Records to boot. The Americans tied with Australia in the 4×100 medley relay, with both receiving the $25,000 World Record bonus.

Canadian Maggie MacNeil also received a World Record bonus thanks to the 54.05 that she swam in the 100 meter fly. That took more than half-a-second off the old World Record set by American Kelsi Dahlia during the 2021 ISL season.

Day 6 Winners:

• Women’s 100 fly – Maggie MacNeil, Canada, 54.05 (World Record)
• Men’s 100 fly – Chad le Clos, South Africa, 48.59
• Women’s 50 breast – Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania, 28.50
• Men’s 50 breast – Nic Fink, USA, 25.38 (American Record)
• Women’s 200 back – Kaylee McKeown, Australia, 1:59.26
• Men’s 200 back – Ryan Murphy, USA, 1:47.41
• Women’s 200 free – Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong, 1:51.65
• Men’s 200 free – Hwang Sunwoo, South Korea, 1:39.72 (Asian Record)
• Women’s 400 medley relay – USA (Claire Curzan, Lilly King, Torri Huske, Kate Douglass), 3:44.35 (World Record)
• Men’s 400 medley relay – TIE (3:18.98 World Records)
  • USA (Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Trenton Julian, Kieran Smith)
  • Australia (Isaac Cooper, Joshua Yong, Matthew Temple, Kyle Chalmers)

Comparing medal totals from 2021 to this year, the United States repeated as medal table champions. Although the nation beat their overall total of 30 pieces of hardware from Abu Dhabi, they significantly increased their gold medal haul. Last year the U.S. collected 9 gold medals while this time around they were well into the double digits with a total of 17 – almost double.

One important note from this year’s edition is the fact that neither Russia nor Belarus was able to compete. In 2021, the Russian Swimming Federation (RSF) finished 4th with 15 medals, including 4 golds while Belarus finished 15th with 1 gold medal.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	17	13	6	36
2	Australia*	13	8	5	26
3	Italy	5	6	5	16
4	Canada	3	4	7	14
5	South Africa	3	1	1	5
6	Japan	2	2	2	6
7	France	1	3	1	5
8	Netherlands	1	1	6	8
9	Hong Kong	1	1	0	2
10	Lithuania	1	0	1	2
11	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Cayman Islands	1	0	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	0	1
14	New Zealand	0	2	0	2
15	Great Britain	0	1	3	4
16	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
19	Romania	0	1	0	1
20	Sweden	0	0	3	3
21	China	0	0	2	2
	Germany	0	0	2	2
23	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		50	46	49	145