2016 Finswimming World Championships

19th Finswimming World Championships
Venue	Swimming Pool Neas Ionias “Vasilis Polymeros”
Location	Volos, Greece
Dates	24–28 July
Competitors	432

The 19th Finswimming World Championships was held in Volos, Greece at the Swimming Pool Neas Ionias “Vasilis Polymeros” from 24 to 28 July 2016.

Medal overview

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m surface	Mauricio Fernández (COL)	15.00 WR	Loukas Karetzopoulos (GRE)	15.24	Aleksey Kazantsev (RUS)	15.47
100 m surface	Max Poschart (GER)	34.22	Alexandre Noir (FRA)	34.48	Loukas Karetzopoulos (GRE)	34.55
200 m surface	Juan Ocampo (COL)	1:19.76	Dmitrii Zhurman (RUS)	1:20.76	Dmitrii Kokorev (RUS)	1:20.83
400 m surface	Antonios Tsourounakis (GRE)	2:58.12	Evgeny Smirnov (RUS)	2:58.85	Christos Christoforidis (GRE)	2:59.29
800 m surface	Alexey Shafigulin (RUS)	6:19.28	Christos Christoforidis (GRE)	6:21.54	Oleksandr Odynokov (UKR)	6:26.06
1500 m surface	Alexey Shafigulin (RUS)	12:15.53	Oleksandr Odynokov (UKR)	12:25.84	Davide De Ceglie (ITA)	12:36.27
50 m bi-fins	Andrey Arbuzov (RUS)	18.50	Kristijan Tomić (CRO)	18.79	Ádám Sincki (HUN)	18.87
100 m bi-fins	Dmitry Seryakov (RUS)	41.44 WR	Gergő Kosina (HUN)	41.69	Clément Becq (FRA)	42.14
200 m bi-fins	Gergő Kosina (HUN)	1:33.31 WR	You Gyeong-heon (KOR)	1:36.19	Vladimir Sidorov (RUS)	1:36.20
50 m apnea	Lee Kwan-ho (KOR)	13.85	Mauricio Fernández (COL)	14.00	Pavel Kabanov (RUS)	14.02
100 m immersion	Kim Tae-kyun (KOR) Mauricio Fernández (COL)	31.34 WR	Not awarded		Lee Kwan-ho (KOR)	31.46
400 m immersion	Chi Cheng (CHN)	2:40.40 WR	Tong Zhenbo (CHN)	2:40.42	Denis Grubnik (UKR)	2:46.09
4×100 m surface relay	Russia Dmitrii Zhurman (35.01) Vladimir Zhuravlev (35.85) Pavel Kabanov (33.94) Dmitrii Kokorev (34.50) Aleksey Kazantsev[a] Viacheslav Popov[a]	2:19.30	Germany Max Poschart (34.56) Florian Kritzler (36.47) Max Lauschus (34.52) Malte Striegler (33.92)	2:19.47	Italy Cesare Fumarola (34.88) Stefano Figini (34.33) Kevin Zanardi (35.64) Andrea Nava (35.13) Giona Cristofari[a]	2:19.98
4×200 m surface relay	Russia Dmitrii Zhurman (1:19.18) Viacheslav Popov (1:22.73) Evgeny Smirnov (1:21.74) Dmitrii Kokorev (1:20.16)	5:23.81	Italy Stefano Figini (1:21.77) Cesare Fumarola (1:22.80) Kevin Zanardi (1:20.61) Davide De Ceglie (1:19.93) Andrea Nava[a]	5:25.11	Germany Malte Striegler (1:23.00) Max Lauschus (1:20.82) Florian Kritzler (1:21.84) Max Poschart (1:20.52) Jens Peter Ostrowski[a] Tim Willruth[a]	5:26.18
6 km open water	Ramírez Jiménez (COL)	27:47.33	Davide De Ceglie (ITA)	28:12.36	Roman Maletin (RUS)	28:32.52

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m surface	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	16.94 WR	Kim Ga-in (KOR)	17.44	Erica Barbon (ITA)	17.81
100 m surface	Shu Chengjing (CHN)	38.13	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	38.61	Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (RUS) Xu Yichuan (CHN)	38.72
200 m surface	Valeria Baranovskaya (RUS)	1:26.88	Shu Chengjing (CHN)	1:28.05	Erica Barbon (ITA)	1:28.61
400 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	3:16.24	Anastasiia Antoniak (UKR)	3:16.54	Yulia Chumak (UKR)	3:18.64
800 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	6:49.27	Ievgeniia Olieynikova (UKR)	6:53.17	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	6:53.78
1500 m surface	Sun Yiting (CHN)	13:15.05	Ievgeniia Olieynikova (UKR)	13:17.83	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	13:20.39
50 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	20.98 WR	Iryna Pikiner (UKR)	21.51	Choi Min-ji (KOR)	21.52
100 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	45.69 WR	Iryna Pikiner (UKR)	46.88	Krisztina Varga (HUN)	47.53
200 m bi-fins	Petra Senánszky (HUN)	1:41.42 WR	Krisztina Varga (HUN)	1:45.16	Weronika Prentka (POL)	1:46.21
50 m apnea	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	15.59	Kim Ga-in (KOR)	16.04	Sofia Ktena (GRE)	16.22
100 m immersion	Jang Ye-sol (KOR)	35.44	Xu Yichuan (CHN)	35.96	Liu Simin (CHN)	36.04
400 m immersion	Chen Sijia (CHN)	2:56.87 WR	Sun Yiting (CHN)	2:57.01	Shin Jee-hee (KOR)	3:00.76
4×100 m surface relay	Russia Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (39.38) Anna Ber (38.64) Alexsandra Skurlatova (38.37) Vera Ilyushina (38.15) Margarita Timofeeva[b]	2:34.54 WR	China Shu Chenjing (39.26) Yuan Yaqi (40.75) Liu Simin (39.34) Xu Yichuan (37.12)	2:36.47	Colombia Grace Fernández (40.36) Alix Perez (39.81) Paula Aguirre (38.26) Kelly Perez (39.40) Michelle Mora[b]	2:37.83
4×200 m surface relay	Russia Valeria Baranovskaya (1:26.33) Ekaterina Mikhailushkina (1:29.55) Alena Shiryaeva (1:30.83) Margarita Timofeeva (1:30.36) Alexsandra Skurlatova[b] Vera Ilyushina[b]	5:57.07	China Shu Chenjing (1:30.10) Xin Peiyao (1:32.28) Sun Yiting (1:32.68) Xu Yichuan (1:27.85)	6:02.91	Ukraine Svitlana Zhukova (1:32.90) Valentyna Rieznik (1:31.49) Kateryna Sokolovska (1:33.85) Anastasiia Antoniak (1:29.51)	6:07.75
6 km open water	Nadezhda Borisova (RUS)	56:43.80	Tatyana Krasnogor (UKR)	58:49.77	Loren Baron (FRA)	59:02.92

^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×2 km open water relay	Russia Alexey Shafigulin (17:42.15) Elena Kononova (20:32.53) Nadezhda Borisova (19:23.44) Dmitry Lobchenko (18:40.92)	1:16:19.04	Ukraine Roman Blagodir (18:12.28) Tatyana Krasnogor (20:05.89) Ievgeniia Olieynikova (20:05.18) Oleksandr Odynokov (19:19.59)	1:17:42.94	Greece Christos Christoforidis (17:34.84) Christos Damolis (19:39.15) Despoina Makria (20:23.79) Aikaterini Kalamaridi (20:44.71)	1:18:22.49

Medal table

  *   Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	11	2	8	21
2	China (CHN)	6	6	2	14
3	South Korea (KOR)	5	4	3	12
4	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	2	8
5	Colombia (COL)	4	1	1	6
6	Greece (GRE)*	1	2	4	7
7	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	8	4	12
9	Italy (ITA)	0	2	4	6
10	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
11	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
12	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		32	30	32	94

External links

• Official website
• Results