2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships

The I FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, more commonly referred to within the swimming community as the 2006 Youth Worlds, were held August 22–27, 2006, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first time the event was held.

The meet took place at the Parque Aquático Júlio de Lamare, a traditional Brazilian pool, which the next year would host the water polo competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games. The meet was contested in a 50 m pool (i.e. "long course meters").

The participants had to be 17 years or younger on the 31 December 2006 (i.e. born 1989 or later).

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Italy	9	6	2	17
2	United States	5	1	8	14
3	France	4	2	3	9
4	Russia	3	10	4	17
5	China	3	2	3	8
6	Poland	3	1	0	4
7	Spain	2	2	1	5
8	Germany	2	1	3	6
9	Belgium	2	1	0	3
10	Brazil	1	3	1	5
11	Romania	1	2	0	3
12	Serbia	1	1	0	2
	New Zealand	1	1	0	2
14	Austria	1	0	2	3
	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
16	Belarus	1	0	0	1
17	South Africa	0	3	6	9
18	Great Britain	0	2	2	4
19	Malaysia	0	2	0	2
20	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Panama	0	0	1	1
Total		40	40	40	120

Medal summary

Boy's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boy's freestyle
50 m	Yoris Grandjean  Belgium	22.74 CR	Sergey Fesikov  Russia	22.92	Wesley Gilchrist  South Africa	23.19
100 m	Yoris Grandjean  Belgium	50.32 CR	Sergey Fesikov  Russia	50.84	Michele Santucci  Italy	51.24
200 m	Cesare Sciocchetti  Italy	1:51.97 =CR	Yoris Grandjean  Belgium	1:52.20	Scott Flowers  United States	1:52.23
400 m	Mateusz Matczak  Poland	3:54.99	Cesare Sciocchetti  Italy	3:56.49	Juan Luis Rodriguez  Spain	3:56.68
800 m	Maciej Hreniak  Poland	8:04.84 CR	Juan Luis Rodriguez  Spain	8:06.92	Davide Sitti  Italy	8:09.67
1500 m	Maciej Hreniak  Poland	15:28.42	Juan Luis Rodriguez  Spain	15:32.83	Ian Rowe  United States	15:33.97
Boy's backstroke
50 m	Leonardo Guedes  Brazil	26.26 CR	Damiano Lestingi  Italy	26.52	Garth Tune  South Africa	26.57
100 m	Damiano Lestingi  Italy	55.74 CR	Leonardo Guedes  Brazil	56.43	Matthew Thompson  United States	57.42
200 m	Cory Chitwood  United States	2:00.68 CR	Damiano Lestingi  Italy	2:00.84	Scott Flowers  United States	2:01.66
Boy's breaststroke
50 m	Mattia Pesce  Italy	28.43 CR	Csaba Szilágyi  Serbia	29.05	Édgar Crespo  Panama	29.13
100 m	Edoardo Giorgetti  Italy	1:02.31 CR	Mattia Pesce  Italy	1:02.65	Mikhael Ermolaev  Russia	1:03.46
200 m	Edoardo Giorgetti  Italy	2:15.44	Luca Pizzini  Italy	2:15.56	Giedrius Titenis  Lithuania	2:16.57
Boy's butterfly
50 m	Yauheni Lazuka  Belarus	24.56 CR	Cândido Silva Junior  Brazil	24.91	Kirill Chibisov  Russia	24.94
100 m	Ivan Lenđer  Serbia	54.31 CR	Daniel Bego  Malaysia	54.40	Kirill Chibisov  Russia	54.63
200 m	Dinko Jukić  Austria	2:01.64 CR	Daniel Bego  Malaysia	2:02.13	Marco Camargo  Ecuador	2:04.41
Boy's individual medley
200 m	Scott Flowers  United States	2:03.62 CR	Xavier Mohammed  Great Britain	2:04.69	Denys Dubrov  Ukraine	2:04.70
400 m	Scott Flowers  United States	4:21.33 CR	Mateusz Matczak  Poland	4:23.42	Dinko Jukić  Austria	4:24.39
Boy's relays
4 × 100 m freestyle	Italy Marco Pellizzon Damiano Lestingi Michele Santucci Cesare Sciocchetti	3:26.84 CR	Russia Mikhail Polischuk Dmitri Chechulin Anton Anchin Sergey Fesikov	3:27.36	South Africa Graeme Moore Jay-Cee Thomson Garth Tune Wesley Gilchrist	3:29.52
4 × 200 m freestyle	Italy Filippo Barbacini Manuel Vicenzi Damiano Lastingi Cesare Sciocchetti	7:32.23 CR	Brazil Alan Silva João de Lucca José Rezende Neto Marcelo Monteiro	7:37.36	South Africa Riaan Schoeman Jay-Cee Thomson Morne Boshoff Wesley Gilchrist	7:40.97
4 × 100 m medley	Italy Damiano Lestingi Edoardo Giorgetii Marco Pellizzon Michele Santucci	3:44.22 CR	Russia Anton Anchin Mikhael Ermolaev Kirill Chibisov Sergey Fesikov	3:44.28	Brazil Leonardo Guedes Mauricio Pereira Filho Frederico Castro Alan Silva	3:50.23

Girl's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girl's freestyle
50 m	Daniela Schreiber  Germany	25.55 CR	Ionela Cozma  Romania	25.61	Camille Muffat  France	25.71
100 m	Daniela Schreiber  Germany	55.59 CR	Ionela Cozma  Romania	55.96	Camille Muffat  France	56.47
200 m	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne  France	2:00.44 CR	Tang Yi  China	2:01.26	Leah Gingrich  United States	2:02.04
400 m	Mireia Belmonte García  Spain	4:14.29 CR	Jessica Rodriguez  United States	4:14.45	Leah Gingrich  United States	4:14.49
800 m	Ionela Cozma  Romania	8:38.91 CR	Wendy Trott  South Africa	8:40.69	Anastasia Ivanenko  Russia	8:40.81
1500 m	Aurélie Muller  France	16:35.32 CR	Anastasia Ivanenko  Russia	16:40.99	Wendy Trott  South Africa	16:41.36
Girl's backstroke
50 m	Zhou Yanxin  China	29.49 CR	Emily Thomas  New Zealand	29.58	Christin Zenner  Germany	29.61
100 m	Natalie Wiegersma  New Zealand	1:02.41 CR	Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia	1:02.83	Zhou Yanxin  China	1:03.10
200 m	Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia	2:15.27 CR	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne  France	2:16.49	Chen Wen  China	2:17.01
Girl's breaststroke
50 m	Wang Qun  China	32.21	Vitalina Simonova  Russia	32.63	Zhao Jin  China	32.65
100 m	Wang Qun  China	1:09.21 CR	Vitalina Simonova  Russia	1:09.35	Caitlin Leverenz  United States	1:09.94
200 m	Vitalina Simonova  Russia	2:26.58 CR	Wang Qun  China	2:28.41	Caitlin Leverenz  United States	2:28.57
Girl's butterfly
50 m	Lyubov Korol  Ukraine	27.38	Ilaria Bianchi  Italy	27.45	Lena Celina Hiller  Germany	27.48
100 m	Ilaria Bianchi  Italy	59.57 CR	Keri-Leigh Shaw  South Africa	1:00.25	Jemma Lowe  Great Britain	1:00.31
200 m	Cartnell Kalisz  United States	2:12.34	Jemma Lowe  Great Britain	2:13.52	Nina Dittrich  Austria	2:13.92
Girl's individual medley
200 m	Caitlin Leverenz  United States	2:14.45 CR	Camille Muffat  France	2:15.29	Wang Qun  China	2:18.13
400 m	Mireia Belmonte García  Spain	4:47.38 CR	Anastasia Ivanenko  Russia	4:50.27	Bianca Meyer  South Africa	4:51.86
Girl's relays
4 × 100 m freestyle	France Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne Justine Lignot Roxane Devillers Favreau Camille Muffat	3:46.73 CR	Germany Sophie-Luise Dietrich Lena Celina Hiller Jenny Lahl Daniela Schreiber	3:46.99	Ukraine Olga Danylyuk Lyubov Korol Mariya Yatsenko Darya Stepanyuk	3:49.42
4 × 200 m freestyle	France Faureau Devillers Nathalie Hedin Justine Lignot Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	8:12.38 CR	Russia Anastasia Aksenova Olga Shulgina Victoria Malyutina Anastasia Ivanenko	8:16.62	Germany Daniela Schreiber Lena Celina Hiller Antje Mahn Sophie-Luise Dietrich	8:17.74
4 × 100 m medley	Russia Anastasia Zuyeva Vitalina Simonova Anastasia Aksenova Olga Shulgina	4:10.88 CR	South Africa Karin Prinsloo Yolana du Plesis Keri-Leigh Shaw Christy Lategan	4:11.39	Great Britain Georgia Davies Alexandra Warren Jemma Lowe Rachael George	4:13.15

References

• Official Results by Omega Timing
• Swim Rankings Results