2016 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 6th – December 11th, 2016
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- WFCU Centre
- SCM (25m)
- Prelims: 9:30 AM EST/Finals: 6:30 PM EST
- Start Lists/Results
- Live Stream ($)
The 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships are now in the books, with Team USA leading the final medal table. The Americans came away with 29 total medals, including 8 golds, 14 silvers, and 7 bronzes. In day 6 finals, Jacob Pebley (200 back) and Kelsi Worrell (100 fly) each contributed an individual silver medal, while Madison Kennedy (50 free) brought in a bronze. The USA then closed the meet on a golden note, winning the women’s 400 medley relay.
Hungary picked up the 2nd highest total in the gold medal category, with iron lady Katinka Hosszu earning 7 medals for her country. In addition to her golds, Hosszu contributed a pair of silvers from the 50 back and 200 free, giving her 9 of Hungary’s 11 total medals. Also bringing in medals were David Verraszto (400 IM) and Peter Bernek (400 free).
Japan finished 2nd in the total medal count, winning 15 medals throughout the course of the meet. On the final night of competition, they added individual medals courtesy of Masaki Kaneko (200 back), Shinri Shioura (100 free), and Rikako Ikee (100 fly). Their men’s 400 medley relay also contributed with a bronze.
2016 FINA Short Course World Championships Final Medal Table
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| USA | 8 | 14 | 7 | 29 |
| JPN | 2 | 2 | 11 | 15 |
| RUS | 6 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| HUN | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| AUS | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| CAN | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| ITA | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| NED | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| RSA | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GBR | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| KOR | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GER | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| JAM | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| BRA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| CHN | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| DEN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| LTU | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| POL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| FRA | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| UKR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SLO | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| BLR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dominant as ever for the US. Could have been better with a few unexpected losses/DQs.
Hosszu, what do you say about her at this point? Admittedly B+ competition but she’s just unbeatable in seemingly any event.
I still feel sad that this isn’t a truly ‘world’s best’ event. Congrats to all the competitors- you can only compete against who is there, but would have loved to see Ledecky and the Campbells and Peaty and Mcevoy/ Chalmers etc and a few others really scorch the pool.
Pretty amazing that Katinka won more individual gold medals than all of USA swimmers put together! And people still wonder why she wins swimmer of the year?!?
USA-8 gold Hungary-7. Still amazing, but you might wanna check the math
Individual 😉
I said individual gold medals. Maybe you wanna check your reading. USA didn’t win many individual gold medals.
And still no single race video on youtube. I wonder what has changed since last time.
Try searching the Facebook page “Lacorchera”, they uploaded all finals and some prelims, it’s from the Spanish broadcasting.
bobo – we don’t know what has changed since last time with race videos, but we will point out that NBC and FINA quashed any video interviews by other media at the meet. So, if they’re trying to exert that much control over even interviews in the ‘mixed zone,’ it’s not a surprise that they’re doing the same with race videos.
Why the downvotes? This is a good point. I believe you’re in France (?) but the US broadcasters are similarly making it extremely difficult to follow this event. Some network (Universal?) obviously has the rights to broadcast FINA events but has decided not to. As a result, the videos can’t be posted on Youtube and the event is never broadcast, essentially rendering it impossible to see the races. Annoying. This happens with lots of niche sports in the US, notably cycling.
Agree with Dave, & thanks to Braden & JCSF for their answers. Seems people still love to bash Bobo, often IMHO for no good reason at all. Further, NBC the other night showed almost more commercials than races. That was something else. anted to see the Canadian ladies faces during the medal ceremony but alas, NBC in its infinite wisdom found commercials more important.
Without Manaudou France couldn’t expect much more. Several 4th places could have been transformed into bronze though.
I’m disappointed about Metella. He needs to change something.
Stravius has been a great leader for that team.
Imagine both Florent and Laure in the squad
As expected a pretty good meet for the US team. Even the US B-team wins the medal table.
Medal table is based on golds.
1. USA 8 golds
2. Hungary 7 golds with 1 swimmer
3. Russia 6 golds
. . .
21. France 0 gold 2 silvers