The swimming competition at the 1981 Summer Universiade took place in Bucharest, Romania.ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history

Men's events

100 m freestyle 51.39 51.86 52.06200 m freestyle 1:52.62 GR 1:52.92 1:53.00400 m freestyle 3:58.08 3:58.54 4:00.951500 m freestyle 15:22.25 GR 15:40.62 15:48.70100 m backstroke 58.09 58.19 58.24200 m backstroke 2:03.65 2:03.73 2:05.37 100 m breaststroke 1:04.33 1:05.06 1:05.41200 m breaststroke 2:19.42 GR 2:21.47 2:23.62100 m butterfly 55.41Not awarded 56.29200 m butterfly 2:01.86 2:04.75 2:04.85200 m individual medley 2:06.34 GR 2:08.37 2:09.48400 m individual medley 4:25.53 4:31.65 4:32.164×100 m freestyle relayJerry SpencerAndy SchmidtPaul GoodridgeKris Kirschner 3:27.84Yuri PrisekinAlexey FilonovAleksey MarkovskySerhiy Krasyuk 3:28.09Jorge FernandesMarcus MattioliRonald MenezesDjan Madruga 3:32.424×200 m freestyle relay 7:33.96 GRAndy SchmidtJimmy LeeB. McCarthyKris Kirschner 7:34.11 7:38.324×100 m medley relaySergei ZabolotnovArsens MiskarovsSergei KiselyovSerhiy Krasyuk 3:48.75Dave WilsonNicholas NevidBob PlacakKris Kirschner 3:49.55Rômulo ArantesLuiz CarvalhoMarcus MattioliJorge Fernandes 3:55.10 Legend:

Women's events

100 m freestyle 57.17 58.28 58.65200 m freestyle 2:03.97 GR 2:04.58 2:05.38400 m freestyle 4:15.26 4:15.50 4:21.01800 m freestyle 8:37.50 GR 8:45.01 8:46.57100 m backstroke 1:02.47 GR 1:04.53 1:04.74200 m backstroke 2:13.21 2:19.02 2:19.11 100 m breaststroke 1:14.20 1:14.48 1:14.54200 m breaststroke 2:35.85 GR 2:38.64 2:41.66100 m butterfly 1:01.91 GR 1:02.43 1:02.98200 m butterfly 2:15.71 2:15.97 2:17.52200 m individual medley 2:20.43 GR 2:20.81 2:24.17400 m individual medley 4:55.45 GR 5:03.78 5:07.494×100 m freestyle relayAnnie LettCarol BorgmannBarbara MajorJill Sterkel 3:55.05Irina LarichevaOlga EliseevaIrina OrliukOlga Klevakina 3:57.64Kelly NeuberLeslie BrafieldSylvie KennedyValerie Whyte 4:00.594×100 m medley relayKim CarlislePatricia WatersJill SterkelBarbara Major 4:18.84Carmen BunaciuBrigitte PrassMariana ParaschivIrinel Pănulescu 4:22.14Irina OrliukLina KačiušytėOlga KlevakinaIrina Laricheva 4:25.96 Legend:

Men's 100 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kris Kirschner 51.39 Serhiy Krasyuk 51.86 Jorge Fernandes 52.06 4 Jerry Spencer 52.17 5 Yuri Prisekin 52.38 6 Gerd Kohlat 53.63 7 Per-Alvar Magnusson 53.71 8 Graeme Brewer 53.73

Men's 200 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Andy Schmidt 1:52.62 GR Jorge Fernandes 1:52.92 Djan Madruga 1:53.00 4 Yuri Logvin 1:53.01 5 Yuri Prisekin 1:53.93 6 Daniel Machek 1:54.93 7 Dennis Corcoran 1:55.82 8 Hiroshi Sakamoto 1:56.39

Men's 400 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Daniel Machek 3:58.08 Djan Madruga 3:58.54 Sergey Kalashnikov 4:00.95 4 Graeme Brewer 4:04.03 5 James Lee 4:04.95 6 Ron McKeon 4:05.85 7 Eugene Gyorfi 4:08.71 8 Marcelo Jucá 4:08.88

Men's 1500 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Aleksandr Chayev 15:22.25 GR Sergey Kalashnikov 15:40.62 Monte Brown 15:48.70 4 Marcelo Jucá 15:57.80 5 Eugene Gyorfi 16:04.58 6 Robert Bylis 16:09.41 7 Hiroaki Kaneko 16:11.22 8 Tizoc Guemez 16:31.89

Men's 100 m backstroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergei Zabolotnov 58.09 Vladimir Dolgov 58.19 Rômulo Arantes 58.24 4 Dave Wilson 58.69 5 Zbigniew Januszkiewicz 59.56 6 Clay Britt 59.63 7 Miloslav Rolko 59.76 8 Hidetoshi Takahashi 1:00.01

Men's 200 m backstroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergei Zabolotnov 2:03.65 Djan Madruga 2:03.73 Zbigniew Januszkiewicz 2:05.37 4 Vladimir Dolgov 2:05.97 5 Hidetoshi Takahashi 2:07.07 6 James Fowler 2:09.10 7 Josef Kuf 2:09.40 8 Mihai Mandache 2:10.12

Men's 100 m breaststroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Nicholas Nevid 1:04.33 Peter Lang 1:05.06 Arsens Miskarovs 1:05.41 4 Robert Jackson 1:05.70 5 Wang Lin 1:06.09 6 Aleksandr Fedorovsky 1:06.13 7 Marco Veilleux 1:06.64 8 Tatsuo Abe 1:07.72

Men's 200 m breaststroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Arsens Miskarovs 2:19.42 GR Nicholas Nevid 2:21.47 Aleksandr Fedorovsky 2:23.62 4 Wang Lin 2:24.39 5 Asao Aoki 2:25.24 6 Marco Veilleux 2:25.49

Men's 100 m butterfly Rank Name Nationality Time Notes William Paulus 55.41 Robert Placak 55.41 Sergei Kiselyov 56.29 4 Kenji Izumi 57.07 5 Per-Alvar Magnusson 57.70 6 Marcus Mattioli 57.71 7 Luo Zhaoying 57.79 7 Levente Mady 57.79

Men's 200 m butterfly Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergey Fesenko, Sr. 2:01.86 Levente Mady 2:04.75 Sergei Kiselyov 2:04.85 4 Yoshinobu Shidara 2:05.04 5 Shinsuke Kayama 2:05.14 6 Juan Carlos Fontoura 2:06.16 7 Gérard de Kort 2:07.27 8 Flavius Vişan 2:09.41

Men's 200 m individual medley Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergey Fesenko, Sr. 2:06.34 GR Aleksey Markovsky 2:08.34 Alan Swanston 2:09.48 4 Dawei Feng 2:10.24 5 Bob Rives 2:10.99 6 Dave Town 2:11.34 7 Kozo Tatsumi 2:11.57 8 Stefan Mitu 2:12.08

Men's 400 m individual medley Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergey Fesenko, Sr. 4:25.53 Peter Dobson 4:31.65 Daniel Machek 4:32.16 4 Monte Brown 4:38.08 5 Kozo Tatsumi 4:39.36 6 Tizoc Guemez 4:39.43 7 Gérard de Kort 4:42.19 8 Jeffrey Riddle 4:42.59

Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes Jerry SpencerAndy SchmidtPaul GoodridgeKris Kirschner 3:27.84 Yuri PrisekinAlexey FilonovAleksey MarkovskySerhiy Krasyuk 3:28.09 Jorge FernandesMarcus MattioliRonald MenezesDjan Madruga 3:32.42 4 3:33.54 5 3:35.96 6 3:37.75 7 3:39.17 8 3:45.83

Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes 7:33.96 GR Andy SchmidtJimmy LeeB. McCarthyKris Kirschner 7:34.11 7:38.32 4 7:39.88 5 7:49.08 6 7:52.96 7 7:53.78 8 7:59.43

Men's 4×100 m medley relay Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes Sergey ZabolotnovArsens MiskarovsSergei KiselyovSerhiy Krasyuk 3:48.75 Dave WilsonNicholas NevidRobert PlacakKris Kirchner 3:49.55 Rômulo ArantesLuiz CarvalhoMarcus MattioliJorge Fernandes 3:55.10 4 3:56.18 5 3:56.48 6 3:59.79 7 4:03.15 8 4:07.29

Women's 100 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jill Sterkel 57.17 Barbara Major 58.28 Olga Klevakina 58.65 4 Kelly Neuber 59.38 5 Carole Amoric 59.51 6 Radosveta Chinkova 1:00.05 7 Olga Eliseeva 1:00.06 8 Kateřina Machková 1:00.72

Women's 200 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jill Sterkel 2:03.97 Olga Klevakina 2:04.58 Irina Laricheva 2:05.38 4 Tracy Spalding 2:05.58 5 Véronique Stéphan 2:07.67 6 Kelly Neuber 2:09.04 7 Leslie Brafield 2:09.32 8 Iwona Wejksza 2:10.51

Women's 400 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kim Linehan 4:15.26 Irina Laricheva 4:15.50 Sherri Hanna 4:21.01 4 Renata Janik 4:31.46 5 Leslie Brafield 4:34.07 6 Carmen Mihăilă 4:37.94 7 Kelly Neuber 4:39.98 8 Xu Yan 4:40.79

Women's 800 m freestyle Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kim Linehan 8:37.50 GR Irina Laricheva 8:45.01 Sherri Hanna 8:46.57 4 Renata Janik 9:19.83 5 Carmen Mihăilă 9:24.22 6 Xu Yan 9:34.01 7 Anna Michalak 9:41.18 8 Alejandra Colin 10:00.89

Women's 100 m backstroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Carmen Bunaciu 1:02.47 GR Kim Carlisle 1:04.53 Susan Walsh 1:04.74 4 Irina Orliuk 1:06.21 5 Valerie Whyte 1:07.32 6 Heike John 1:07.51 7 Daphne Demuth 1:08.91 8 Lisa Dixon 1:09.29

Women's 200 m backstroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Carmen Bunaciu 2:13.21 Kim Carlisle 2:19.02 Susan Walsh 2:19.11 4 Irina Orliuk 2:19.92 5 Daphne Demuth 2:22.13 6 Lisa Dixon 2:24.26 7 Mihăilescu 2:26.17 8 Valerie Whyte 2:29.92

Women's 100 m breaststroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Angelika Knipping 1:14.20 Liang Weifen 1:14.48 Lina Kačiušytė 1:14.54 4 Hong Shad 1:14.82 5 Brigitte Prass 1:14.86 6 Patricia Waters 1:15.47 7 Christine Seidl 1:15.72 8 Irena Fleissnerová 1:16.13

Women's 200 m breaststroke Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Lina Kačiušytė 2:35.85 GR Irena Fleissnerová 2:38.64 Cindy Tuttle 2:41.66 4 Diane Johnson 2:42.09 5 Brigitte Prass 2:44.49 6 Joanne Chevalier 2:45.94 7 Claire Lemaire 2:46.78 8 Ma Guadalupe 2:48.58

Women's 100 m butterfly Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jill Sterkel 1:01.91 GR Carol Borgmann 1:02.42 Carmen Bunaciu 1:02.98 4 Susie Woodhouse 1:03.17 5 Valerie Whyte 1:05.88 6 Lisa Burnes 1:05.94 7 Susan Jenner 1:05.98 8 Hansie Geijssen 1:06.32

Women's 200 m butterfly Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kim Karlisle 2:15.71 Susie Woodhouse 2:15.97 Mayumi Yokoyama 2:17.52 4 Lisa Burnes 2:18.27 5 Malgorzata Rozycka 2:21.89 6 Susan Jenner 2:22.56 7 Gizella Szlavitsek 2:23.42 8 Valerie Whyte 2:25.76

Women's 200 m individual medley Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kim Carlisle 2:20.43 GR Olga Klevakina 2:20.81 Barbara Selter 2:24.17 4 Diane Johnson 2:24.63 5 Irinel Pănulescu 2:25.51 6 Mariana Paraschiv 2:25.84 7 Lisa Dixon 2:26.55 8 Katy Archer 2:27.48

Women's 400 m individual medley Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mayumi Yokoyama 4:55.45 GR Irinel Pănulescu 5:03.78 Malgorzata Rozycka 5:07.49 4 Mariana Paraschiv 5:12.58 Anne Tweedy 4:57.68 DSQ Lisa Dixon 5:05.74 DSQ Barbara Selter 5:06.56 DSQ Daphne Demuth DNS

Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes Annie LettCarol BorgmannBarbara MajorJill Sterkel 3:55.05 Irina LarichevaOlga EliseevaIrina OrliukOlga Klevakina 3:57.64 Kelly NeuberLeslie BrafieldSylvie KennedyValerie Whyte 4:00.59 4 4:01.43 5 4:02.97 6 4:10.47 7 4:13.91

Women's 4×100 m medley relay Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes Kim CarlislePatricia WatersJill SterkelBarbara Major 4:18.84 Carmen BunaciuBrigitte PrassMariana ParaschivIrinel Pănulescu 4:22.14 Irina OrliukLina KačiušytėOlga KlevakinaIrina Laricheva 4:25.96 4 4:33.06 5 4:33.25 6 4:37.94 7 4:41.52

Medal table

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