The 7th FINA Short Course World Championships were held at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States from October 7 through October 11, 2004.

This was the only edition of the Short Course World Championships that Michael Phelps competed in. Phelps planned to swim in six races: the 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, the individual medleys at 100 meters, 200 meters, and 400 meters, and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Phelps won gold in the 200-meter freestyle on October 7 - the only Short Course World Championships gold medal (and medal of any color) of his career - then withdrew from the rest of the meet the following day, citing a sore back.

Results

Men's freestyle

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mUnited Kingdom Mark Foster21.58Sweden Stefan Nystrand21.66Brazil Nicholas Santos United States Nick Brunelli21.71
100 mUnited States Jason Lezak47.97Algeria Salim Iles48.07Canada Rick Say48.38
200 mUnited States Michael Phelps1:43.59Canada Rick Say1:44.39United States Ryan Lochte1:44.97
400 mRussia Yuri Prilukov3:40.79United States Chad Carvin3:43.77United States Justin Mortimer3:44.70
1500 mRussia Yuri Prilukov14:39.16Italy Simone Ercoli14:53.89Romania Dragoş Coman14:56.74
4 × 100 mUnited States United States Nick Brunelli Neil Walker Nate Dusing Jason Lezak3:09.96Brazil Brazil César Cielo Thiago Pereira Christiano Santos Nicholas Santos3:12.73Canada Canada Mike Mintenko Matthew Rose Adam Sioui Rick Say3:13.62
4 × 200 mUnited States United States Ryan Lochte Chad Carvin Dan Ketchum Justin Mortimer7:03.71Australia Australia Nicholas Sprenger Andrew Mewing Brendan Huges Joshua Krogh7:03.78Brazil Brazil Rodrigo Castro Thiago Pereira Rafael Mosca Lucas Salatta7:06.64

Women's freestyle

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mNetherlands Marleen Veldhuis24.41Australia Libby Lenton24.54Sweden Therese Alshammar24.63
100 mAustralia Libby Lenton52.67Sweden Josefin Lillhage53.56Netherlands Marleen Veldhuis53.88
200 mSweden Josefin Lillhage1:56.35United States Lindsay Benko1:56.48United States Dana Vollmer1:58.05
400 mUnited States Kaitlin Sandeno4:02.01United States Sara McLarty4:04.49Japan Sachiko Yamada4:04.64
800 mJapan Sachiko Yamada8:18.21United States Kate Ziegler8:20.55Australia Melissa Gorman8:25.38
4 × 100 mUnited States United States Amanda Weir Kara Lynn Joyce Lindsay Benko Jenny Thompson3:35.07Sweden Sweden Josefin Lillhage Anna-Karin Kammerling Johanna Sjöberg Therese Alshammar3:35.83Australia Australia Libby Lenton Louise Tomlinson Danni Miatke Shayne Reese3:36.18
4 × 200 mUnited States United States Dana Vollmer Rachel Komisarz Lindsay Benko Kaitlin Sandeno7:47.72Australia Australia Libby Lenton Danni Miatke Louise Tomlinson Shayne Reese7:51.39Sweden Sweden Ida Mattsson Johanna Sjöberg Josefin Lillhage Petra Granlund7:54.39

Men's Backstroke

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mGermany Thomas Rupprath23.51Australia Matt Welsh23.60United States Peter Marshall23.93
100 mUnited States Aaron Peirsol50.72 CRAustralia Matt Welsh51.04Germany Thomas Rupprath51.20
200 mUnited States Aaron Peirsol1:50.52 WRAustralia Matt Welsh1:52.54Russia Arkady Vyatchanin1:54.20

Women's Backstroke

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mUnited States Haley Cope27.49China Gao Chang27.55Australia Sophie Edington28.17
100 mUnited States Haley Cope59.03China Gao Chang59.61Australia Sophie Edington59.64
200 mUnited States Margaret Hoelzer2:05.84Australia Tayliah Zimmer2:08.05New Zealand Melissa Ingram2:08.54

Men's Breaststroke

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mUnited States Brendan Hansen26.86Australia Brenton Rickard27.09Sweden Stefan Nystrand27.28
100 mUnited States Brendan Hansen58.45Australia Brenton Rickard58.64Kazakhstan Vladislav Polyakov59.07
200 mUnited States Brendan Hansen2:04.98 CRAustralia Brenton Rickard2:08.34Kazakhstan Vladislav Polyakov2:08.36

Women's Breaststroke

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mAustralia Brooke Hanson30.20Australia Jade Edmistone30.21United States Tara Kirk30.61
100 mAustralia Brooke Hanson1:05.36 CRAustralia Jade Edmistone1:05.97United States Tara Kirk1:06.33
200 mAustralia Brooke Hanson2:21.68United States Amanda Beard2:22.53Australia Sarah Katsoulis2:22.97

Men's Butterfly

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mUnited States Ian Crocker22.71 WRUnited Kingdom Mark Foster23.22Croatia Duje Draganja23.26
100 mUnited States Ian Crocker50.18 CRUnited Kingdom James Hickman51.13Slovenia Peter Mankoč51.66
200 mUnited Kingdom James Hickman1:53.41Romania Ioan Gherghel1:54.06China Wu Peng1:54.51

Women's Butterfly

EventGoldSilverBronze
50 mUnited States Jenny Thompson25.89Sweden Anna-Karin Kammerling26.02Australia Libby Lenton26.53
100 mSlovakia Martina Moravcová57.38United States Rachel Komisarz57.85United States Jenny Thompson58.13
200 mUnited States Kaitlin Sandeno2:06.95United States Mary Descenza2:07.79Canada Audrey Lacroix2:08.35

Men's Medley

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 mSlovenia Peter Mankoč52.66 CRGermany Thomas Rupprath53.35Brazil Thiago Pereira53.75
200 mBrazil Thiago Pereira1:55.78United States Ryan Lochte1:55.86Tunisia Oussama Mellouli1:56.23
400 mTunisia Oussama Mellouli4:07.02United Kingdom Robin Francis4:08.06United States Eric Shanteau4:08.94
4 × 100 mUnited States United States Aaron Peirsol Brendan Hansen Ian Crocker Jason Lezak3:25.09 WRAustralia Australia Matthew Welsh Brenton Rickard Andrew Richards Andrew Mewing3:29.72Russia Russia Arkady Vyatchanin Andrei Ivanov Nikolay Skvortsov Andrey Kapralov3:32.11

Women's Medley

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 mAustralia Brooke Hanson1:00.01Australia Shayne Reese1:00.92Slovakia Martina Moravcová1:00.95
200 mAustralia Brooke Hanson2:09.81Australia Lara Carroll2:10.58United States Katie Hoff2:10.61
400 mUnited States Kaitlin Sandeno4:30.12United States Katie Hoff4:33.09Australia Lara Carroll4:35.46
4 × 100 mAustralia Australia Sophie Edington Brooke Hanson Jessicah Schipper Libby Lenton3:54.95 WRUnited States United States Haley Cope Tara Kirk Jenny Thompson Kara Lynn Joyce3:55.68Sweden Sweden Therese Svendsen Sara Larsson Johanna Sjöberg Josefin Lillhage4:01.76

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1United States (USA)21101041
2Australia (AUS)715729
3Great Britain (GBR)2305
4Russia (RUS)2024
5Sweden (SWE)1449
6Brazil (BRA)1135
7Germany (GER)1113
8Japan (JPN)1012
Netherlands (NED)1012
Slovakia (SVK)1012
Slovenia (SLO)1012
Tunisia (TUN)1012
13China (CHN)0213
14Canada (CAN)0134
15Romania (ROU)0112
16Algeria (ALG)0101
Italy (ITA)0101
18Kazakhstan (KAZ)0022
19Croatia (CRO)0011
New Zealand (NZL)0011
Totals (20 entries)404041121
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