Swimming at the 1970 Summer Universiade

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The swimming competition at the 1970 Summer Universiade took place in Turin, Italy in August 1970.^[1]

Men's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Frank Heckl United States	53.2	Dan Frawley United States	53.4	Leonid Ilyichov Soviet Union	53.9
400 m freestyle details	Andy Strenk United States	4:12.1	Steve Genter United States	4:13.6	Vladimir Bure Soviet Union	4:17.9
1500 m freestyle details	Andy Strenk United States	16:43.1	Steve Genter United States	17:01.1	Władysław Wojtakajtis Poland	17:34.9

100 m backstroke details	Mitch Ivey United States	59.4	Charlie Campbell United States	59.5	Mike Richards Great Britain	1:01.7
200 m backstroke details	Mitch Ivey United States	2:09.3	Charlie Campbell United States	2:09.6	Mike Richards Great Britain	2:15.0

100 m breaststroke details	Nikolai Pankin Soviet Union	1:07.1	Nobutaka Taguchi Japan	1:07.5	Mike Dirksen United States	1:08.6
200 m breaststroke details	Rick Colella United States	2:25.5	Nikolai Pankin Soviet Union	2:28.4	Nobutaka Taguchi Japan	2:29.4

100 m butterfly details	John Ferris United States	57.5	Jerry Heidenreich United States	57.7	Yasuo Takada Japan	59.2
200 m butterfly details	John Ferris United States	2:07.8	Yasuo Takada Japan	2:09.2	Ken Weinfeld United States	2:10.2

400 m individual medley details	Steve Power United States	4:46.1	Rick Colella United States	4:48.8	Reinhard Merkel West Germany	4:56.5

4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Don Havens Jim McConica Dave O'Mallay Frank Heckl	3:33.3	Soviet Union (URS)	3:36.1	Great Britain (GBR)	3:45.8
4×200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Andy Strenk Dave O'Mallay Jim McConica Frank Heckl	7:53.7	Soviet Union (URS)	8:08.0	Great Britain (GBR)	8:26.0
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Mitch Ivey Ken Shilling John Ferris Frank Heckl	3:59.9	Soviet Union (URS)	4:03.9	Japan (JPN)	4:05.8

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Women's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Mirjana Šegrt Yugoslavia	1:00.9	Marsha McCuen United States	1:01.1	Laura Fritz United States	1:02.1
400 m freestyle details	Evelyn Kossner United States	4:43.7	Kathy Thomas United States	4:49.9	Sandra Smith Canada	4:53.9

100 m backstroke details	Kaye Hall United States	1:07.3	Lynn Skrifvars United States	1:11.0	Soviet Athlete Soviet Union	1:11.4

100 m breaststroke details	Galina Stepanova Soviet Union	1:16.7	Alla Grebennikova Soviet Union	1:18.1	Linda Kurtz United States	1:18.9
200 m breaststroke details	Galina Stepanova Soviet Union	2:45.4	Linda Kurtz United States	2:49.4	Alla Grebennikova Soviet Union	2:49.6

100 m butterfly details	Lynn Colella United States Mirjana Šegrt Yugoslavia	1:06.0	Not Awarded		Ellie Daniel United States	1:06.9

200 m individual medley details	Lynn Colella United States	2:31.4	Lidiya Milenina Soviet Union	2:32.1	Kathy Thomas United States	2:34.5

4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Marsha McCuen Benoit Kaye Hall Laura Fritz	4:09.5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	4:20.2	Great Britain (GBR)	4:21.6
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Kaye Hall Linda Kurtz Lynn Colella Marsha McCuen	4:35.1	Soviet Union (URS)	4:41.6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	4:43.3

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

Medal table edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	18	11	6	35
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	7	4	14
3	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	1	1	4
4	Japan (JPN)	0	2	3	5
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	5	5
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		23	21	22	66

References edit

^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine

[1] ISHOF list with all medalists in Universiade history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine

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