2008 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships

The 2nd FINA World Junior 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		9	6	6	21
2	Template:Flagu	7	2	4	13
3	Template:Flagu	5	0	0	5
4	Template:Flagu	4	4	2	10
5	Template:GBR2	4	2	2	8
6	Template:Flagu	3	5	2	10
7	Template:Flagu	3	3	6	12
8	Template:Flagu	2	1	3	6
9	Template:Flagu	1	7	1	9
10	Template:Flagu	1	2	2	5
11	Template:Flagu	1	0	0	1
12		0	3	1	4
13	Template:Flagu	0	2	6	8
14		0	1	1	2
	Template:Flagu	0	1	1	2
16		0	1	0	1
17		0	0	2	2
18	Template:Flagu	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 Template:Flagu	22.37 CR	Luca Dotto Template:Flagu	22.63	Luca Leonardi Template:Flagu	22.70
100 m	Luca Dotto Template:Flagu	50.06 CR	Luca Leonardi Template:Flagu	50.11	Oleg Tikhobaev Template:Flagu	50.33
200 m	Danila Izotov Template:Flagu	1:47.63 CR	Robert Bale Template:GBR2	1:49.44	Lucien Hassdenteufel Template:Flagu	1:49.72
400 m	Danila Izotov Template:Flagu	3:51.81 CR	Alex di Giorgio Template:Flagu	3:53.19	Krzysztof Pielowski Template:Flagu	3:53.66
800 m	Heerden Herman Template:Flagu	8:01.77 CR	Krzystof Pielowski Template:Flagu	8:02.02	Raoul Shaw Template:Flagu	8:04.71
1500 m	Krzystof Pielowski Template:Flagu	15:25.01 CR	Artem Podyakov Template:Flagu	15:26.56	Raoul Shaw Template:Flagu	15:31.07
Boy's backstroke
50 m	Benjamin Treffers Template:Flagu	25.60 CR	Pavel Sankovich	25.93	Artem Dubovskoy Template:Flagu	26.17
100 m	Daniel Bell Template:Flagu	55.32	Benjamin Treffers Template:Flagu	55.77	Chris Walker-Hebborn Template:GBR2	56.04
200 m	Kurt Basset Template:Flagu	1:59.67 CR	Matthew Swanston Template:Flagu	2:00.53	Radosław Kawęcki Template:Flagu	2:00.72
Boy's breaststroke
50 m	Daniel Sliwinski Template:GBR2	28.37 CR	Csaba Szilágyi	28.38	Andrea Toniato Template:Flagu	28.40
100 m	Daniel Sliwinski Template:GBR2	1:02.19 CR	Marco Koch Template:Flagu	1:02.56	Csaba Szilágyi	1:02.57
200 m	Alexey Zinovyev Template:Flagu	2:14.78 CR	Marco Koch Template:Flagu	2:15.27	Robert Holderness Template:GBR2	2:15.67
Boy's butterfly
50 m	Daniel Bell Template:Flagu	23.61 CR	Ivan Lenđer	23.97	Pavel Sankovich	24.26
100 m	Daniel Bell Template:Flagu	52.52 CR	Ivan Lenđer	52.62	Timothy Phillips Template:Flagu	52.87
200 m	Yuya Horihata Template:Flagu	1:59.03 CR	Federico Bussolin Template:Flagu	1:59.13	Yusuke Mori Template:Flagu	1:59.32
Boy's individual medley
200 m	Dimitri Colupaev Template:Flagu	2:02.28 CR	Austin Surhoff Template:Flagu	2:02.51	Yuya Horihata Template:Flagu	2:02.99
400 m	Andrew Gemmell Template:Flagu	4:21.58	Jan-David Schepers Template:Flagu	4:22.10	Keita Sameshima Template:Flagu	4:29.93
Boy's relays
4 × 100 m freestyle	Template:Flagu Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Fabio Gimondi Luca Leonardi	3:19.09 CR	Template:Flagu Artem Lobuzov Vladimir Bryukhov Oleg Tikhobaev Danila Izotov	3:20.64	Template:Flagu Marcos Macedo João de Lucca Renner Lima Henrique Rodrigues	3:22.81
4 × 200 m freestyle	Template:GBR2 Robert Bale Thomas Parris Ryan Bennett Christopher Walker-Hebborn	7:20.18 CR	Template:Flagu Joel Ax Lucien Hassdenteufel Jan-David Schepers Dimitri Colupaev	7:20.27	Template:Flagu Kohei Masuda Yuta Takahashi Yuki Kobori Yuya Horihata	7:24.72
4 × 100 m medley	Template:GBR2 Christopher Walker-Hebborn Daniel Sliwinski James Doolan Robert Bale	3:41.69 CR	Template:Flagu Takashi Iyobe Takeshi Yamada Shinri Shioura Kenta Ito	3:42.61	Template:Flagu 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 Template:Flagu	25.88	Hannah Riordan Template:Flagu	25.95	Nathalie Lindborg Template:Flagu	26.01
100 m	Samantha Tucker Template:Flagu	55.59 CR	Silke Lippok Template:Flagu	56.08	Megan Romano Template:Flagu	56.32
200 m	Dagny Knutson Template:Flagu	1:59.78 CR	Samantha Tucker Template:Flagu	2:00.41	Ellen Fullerton Template:Flagu	2:01.18
400 m	Elena Sokolova Template:Flagu	4:06.30 CR, NR	Margaux Fabre Template:Flagu	4:12.44	Katie Gardocki Template:Flagu	4:13.00
800 m	Elena Sokolova Template:Flagu	8:32.75 CR	Katie Gardocki Template:Flagu	8:37.08	Andreina Pinto	8:37.82
1500 m	Elena Sokolova Template:Flagu	16:28.77 CR	Kalliopi Araouzou	16:33.68	Andreina Pinto	16:36.33
Girl's backstroke
50 m	Grace Loh Template:Flagu	28.83 CR	Etiene Medeiros Template:Flagu	29.44	Elizabeth Pelton Template:Flagu	29.45
100 m	Grace Loh Template:Flagu	1:02.02	Elizabeth Pelton Template:Flagu	1:02.37	Tess Simpson Template:Flagu	1:02.96
200 m	Zuzanna Mazurek Template:Flagu	2:12.56 CR	Elizabeth Pelton Template:Flagu	2:13.53	Karolina Urbanska Template:Flagu	2:13.83
Girl's breaststroke
50 m	Anna Carlson Template:Flagu	31.81	Laura Sogar Template:Flagu	31.94	Amanda Reason Template:Flagu	32.02
100 m	Samantha Marshall Template:Flagu	1:08.72 CR	Mina Matsushima Template:Flagu	1:08.99	Ekaterina Baklakova Template:Flagu	1:09.06
200 m	Olga Detenyuk Template:Flagu	2:25.19 CR	Keiko Fukudome Template:Flagu	2:25.39	Laura Sogar Template:Flagu	2:26.41
Girl's butterfly
50 m	Silvia di Pietro Template:Flagu	26.77 CR	Mélanie Henique Template:Flagu	27.09	Ellese Zallewsky Template:Flagu	27.13
100 m	Natsuki Akiyama Template:Flagu	59.58	Silvia di Pietro Template:Flagu	59.60	Yui Miyamoto Template:Flagu	1:00.05
200 m	Natsuki Akiyama Template:Flagu	2:08.10 CR	Nina Schiffer Template:Flagu	2:09.36	Yui Miyamoto Template:Flagu	2:09.41
Girl's individual medley
200 m	Dagny Knutson Template:Flagu	2:12.97 CR	Ellen Fullerton Template:Flagu	2:14.73	Victoria Andreeva Template:Flagu	2:16.21
400 m	Dagny Knutson Template:Flagu	4:43.49 CR	Ellen Fullerton Template:Flagu	4:45.17	Barbara Jardin Template:Flagu	4:49.10
Girl's relays
4 × 100 m freestyle	Template:Flagu Dagny Knutson Megan Romano Elizabeth Pelton Samantha Tucker	3:43.54 CR	Template:Flagu Silke Lippok Franziska Jansen Lisa Vitting Sina Sutter	3:46.63	Template:Flagu Hannah Riordan Hilary Bell Paige Schultz Alexandra Gabor	3:47.30
4 × 200 m freestyle	Template:Flagu Samantha Tucker Lily Moldenhauer Dagny Knutson Elizabeth Pelton	8:04.49 CR	Template:GBR2 Sasha Matthews Rebecca Turner Lucy Worrall Lauren Collins	8:06.52	Template:Flagu Alexandra Gabor Barbara Jardin Hilary Bell Paige Schultz	8:10.08
4 × 100 m medley	Template:Flagu Elizabeth Pelton Laura Sogar Caroline McElhany Samantha Tucker	4:06.90 CR	Template:Flagu Grace Loh Samantha Marshall Ellese Zalewski Ellen Fullerton	4:07.59	Template:Flagu Tess Simpson Amanda Reason Kendra Chernoff Hannah Riordan	4:07.76

See also

• 2008 in swimming

External links

• Swim Rankings Results