2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships

The 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, or 2008 Youth Worlds, were held on July 8–13, 2008, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

The Championships were held at the Aquatics Center of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Centro Acuático Olímpico Universitario). In May 2008, this same pool hosted the swimming portion of the 2008 Mexican National Olympiad, which served as the country's selection meet for Mexico's teams to the 2008 Olympics.

The male participants had to be 18 years or younger on the 31 December 2008 (i.e. born 1990 or later). The female participants had to be 17 years or younger on the 31 December 2008 (i.e. born 1991 or later).

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	United States	9	6	6	21
2	Russia	7	2	4	13
3	New Zealand	5	0	0	5
4	Australia	4	4	2	10
5	Great Britain	4	2	2	8
6	Italy	3	5	2	10
7	Japan	3	3	6	12
8	Poland	2	1	3	6
9	Germany	1	7	1	9
10	France	1	2	2	5
11	South Africa	1	0	0	1
12	Serbia	0	3	1	4
13	Canada	0	2	6	8
14	Belarus	0	1	1	2
	Brazil	0	1	1	2
16	Greece	0	1	0	1
17	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
18	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Total		40	40	40	120

Medal summary

Boy's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boy's freestyle
50 m	Orinoco Faamausili-Banse  New Zealand	22.37 CR	Luca Dotto  Italy	22.63	Luca Leonardi  Italy	22.70
100 m	Luca Dotto  Italy	50.06 CR	Luca Leonardi  Italy	50.11	Oleg Tikhobaev  Russia	50.33
200 m	Danila Izotov  Russia	1:47.63 CR	Robert Bale  Great Britain	1:49.44	Lucien Hassdenteufel  Germany	1:49.72
400 m	Danila Izotov  Russia	3:51.81 CR	Alex di Giorgio  Italy	3:53.19	Krzysztof Pielowski  Poland	3:53.66
800 m	Heerden Herman  South Africa	8:01.77 CR	Krzystof Pielowski  Poland	8:02.02	Raoul Shaw  France	8:04.71
1500 m	Krzystof Pielowski  Poland	15:25.01 CR	Artem Podyakov  Russia	15:26.56	Raoul Shaw  France	15:31.07
Boy's backstroke
50 m	Benjamin Treffers  Australia	25.60 CR	Pavel Sankovich  Belarus	25.93	Artem Dubovskoy  Russia	26.17
100 m	Daniel Bell  New Zealand	55.32	Benjamin Treffers  Australia	55.77	Chris Walker-Hebborn  Great Britain	56.04
200 m	Kurt Basset  New Zealand	1:59.67 CR	Matthew Swanston  Canada	2:00.53	Radoslaw Kawecki  Poland	2:00.72
Boy's breaststroke
50 m	Daniel Sliwinski  Great Britain	28.37 CR	Csaba Szilágyi  Serbia	28.38	Andrea Toniato  Italy	28.40
100 m	Daniel Sliwinski  Great Britain	1:02.19 CR	Marco Koch  Germany	1:02.56	Csaba Szilágyi  Serbia	1:02.57
200 m	Alexey Zinovyev  Russia	2:14.78 CR	Marco Koch  Germany	2:15.27	Robert Holderness  Great Britain	2:15.67
Boy's butterfly
50 m	Daniel Bell  New Zealand	23.61 CR	Ivan Lenđer  Serbia	23.97	Pavel Sankovich  Belarus	24.26
100 m	Daniel Bell  New Zealand	52.52 CR	Ivan Lenđer  Serbia	52.62	Timothy Phillips  United States	52.87
200 m	Yuya Horihata  Japan	1:59.03 CR	Federico Bussolin  Italy	1:59.13	Yusuke Mori  Japan	1:59.32
Boy's individual medley
200 m	Dimitri Colupaev  Germany	2:02.28 CR	Austin Surhoff  United States	2:02.51	Yuya Horihata  Japan	2:02.99
400 m	Andrew Gemmell  United States	4:21.58	Jan-David Schepers  Germany	4:22.10	Keita Sameshima  Japan	4:29.93
Boy's relays
4×100 m freestyle	Italy Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Fabio Gimondi Luca Leonardi	3:19.09 CR	Russia Artem Lobuzov Vladimir Bryukhov Oleg Tikhobaev Danila Izotov	3:20.64	Brazil Marcos Macedo João de Lucca Renner Lima Henrique Rodrigues	3:22.81
4×200 m freestyle	Great Britain Robert Bale Thomas Parris Ryan Bennett Christopher Walker-Hebborn	7:20.18 CR	Germany Joel Ax Lucien Hassdenteufel Jan-David Schepers Dimitri Colupaev	7:20.27	Japan Kohei Masuda Yuta Takahashi Yuki Kobori Yuya Horihata	7:24.72
4×100 m medley	Great Britain Christopher Walker-Hebborn Daniel Sliwinski James Doolan Robert Bale	3:41.69 CR	Japan Takashi Iyobe Takeshi Yamada Shinri Shioura Kenta Ito	3:42.61	United States Timothy Johnson Eric Friedland Timothy Phillips Walter Rumans	3:42.79

Girl's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girl's freestyle
50 m	Elodie Schmitt  France	25.88	Hannah Riordan  Canada	25.95	Nathalie Lindborg  Sweden	26.01
100 m	Samantha Tucker  United States	55.59 CR	Silke Lippok  Germany	56.08	Megan Romano  United States	56.32
200 m	Dagny Knutson  United States	1:59.78 CR	Samantha Tucker  United States	2:00.41	Ellen Fullerton  Australia	2:01.18
400 m	Elena Sokolova  Russia	4:06.30 CR, NR	Margaux Fabre  France	4:12.44	Katie Gardocki  United States	4:13.00
800 m	Elena Sokolova  Russia	8:32.75 CR	Katie Gardocki  United States	8:37.08	Andreina Pinto  Venezuela	8:37.82
1500 m	Elena Sokolova  Russia	16:28.77 CR	Kalliopi Araouzou  Greece	16:33.68	Andreina Pinto  Venezuela	16:36.33
Girl's backstroke
50 m	Grace Loh  Australia	28.83 CR	Etiene Medeiros  Brazil	29.44	Elizabeth Pelton  United States	29.45
100 m	Grace Loh  Australia	1:02.02	Elizabeth Pelton  United States	1:02.37	Tess Simpson  Canada	1:02.96
200 m	Zuzanna Mazurek  Poland	2:12.56 CR	Elizabeth Pelton  United States	2:13.53	Karolina Urbanska  Poland	2:13.83
Girl's breaststroke
50 m	Anna Carlson  United States	31.81	Laura Sogar  United States	31.94	Amanda Reason  Canada	32.02
100 m	Samantha Marshall  Australia	1:08.72 CR	Mina Matsushima  Japan	1:08.99	Ekaterina Baklakova  Russia	1:09.06
200 m	Olga Detenyuk  Russia	2:25.19 CR	Keiko Fukudome  Japan	2:25.39	Laura Sogar  United States	2:26.41
Girl's butterfly
50 m	Silvia di Pietro  Italy	26.77 CR	Mélane Henique  France	27.09	Ellese Zallewsky  Australia	27.13
100 m	Natsuki Akiyama  Japan	59.58	Silvia di Pietro  Italy	59.60	Yui Miyamoto  Japan	1:00.05
200 m	Natsuki Akiyama  Japan	2:08.10 CR	Nina Schiffer  Germany	2:09.36	Yui Miyamoto  Japan	2:09.41
Girl's individual medley
200 m	Dagny Knutson  United States	2:12.97 CR	Ellen Fullerton  Australia	2:14.73	Victoria Andreeva  Russia	2:16.21
400 m	Dagny Knutson  United States	4:43.49 CR	Ellen Fullerton  Australia	4:45.17	Barbara Jardin  Canada	4:49.10
Girl's relays
4×100 m freestyle	United States Dagny Knutson Megan Romano Elizabeth Pelton Samantha Tucker	3:43.54 CR	Germany Silke Lippok Franziska Jansen Lisa Vitting Sina Sutter	3:46.63	Canada Hannah Riordan Hilary Bell Paige Schultz Alexandra Gabor	3:47.30
4×200 m freestyle	United States Samantha Tucker Lily Moldenhauer Dagny Knutson Elizabeth Pelton	8:04.49 CR	Great Britain Sasha Matthews Rebecca Turner Lucy Worrall Lauren Collins	8:06.52	Canada Alexandra Gabor Barbara Jardin Hilary Bell Paige Schultz	8:10.08
4×100 m medley	United States Elizabeth Pelton Laura Sogar Caroline McElhany Samantha Tucker	4:06.90 CR	Australia Grace Loh Samantha Marshall Ellese Zalewski Ellen Fullerton	4:07.59	Canada Tess Simpson Amanda Reason Kendra Chernoff Hannah Riordan	4:07.76

See also

• 2008 in swimming

External links

• Swim Rankings Results