The swimming competition at the 1977 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	12	7	5	24
2	Canada	4	5	4	13
3	West Germany	2	2	4	8
4	Hungary	2	1	1	4
5	Soviet Union	1	6	5	12
6	Brazil	1	0	0	1
7	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
8	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		22	22	22	66

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	John Ebuna  United States	52.05	Andy Coan  United States	52.12	Klaus Steinbach  West Germany	52.27
400 m freestyle details	Dick Hannula Jr.  United States	4:02.17	Vladimir Mikheyev  Soviet Union	4:03.78	Igor Kushpelev  Soviet Union	4:03.93
1500 m freestyle details	John Weston  United States	15:46.94	Igor Kushpelev  Soviet Union	15:59.80	Kyle Ditzler  United States	16:10.87
100 m backstroke details	Rômulo Arantes  Brazil	58.45	Jim Ballard  United States	58.75	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	58.79
200 m backstroke details	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	2:05.60	Bruce Hardcastle  United States	2:06.52	Jim Ballard  United States	2:07.67
100 m breaststroke details	Graham Smith  Canada	1:05.17	Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain	1:06.04	Giorgio Lalle  Italy	1:06.34
200 m breaststroke details	Graham Smith  Canada	2:23.43	Vladimir Dementyev  Soviet Union	2:24.10	Aigars Kudis  Soviet Union	2:24.73
100 m butterfly details	Mike Curington  United States	55.58	Dan Thompson  Canada	57.05	John van Buren  Canada	57.12
200 m butterfly details	Michael Kraus  West Germany	2:02.81	Andrey Avtushenko  Soviet Union	2:03.73	Bruce Rogers  Canada	2:05.24
400 m individual medley details	András Hargitay  Hungary	4:32.91	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	4:34.19	Andy Ritchie  Canada	4:35.30
4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Andy Coan Doug Lambert Mike Curington John Ebuna	3:31.49	West Germany (FRG)	3:31.75	Soviet Union (URS)	3:33.24
4×200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) John Weston Mike Curington John Ebuna Dick Hannula Jr.	7:41.20	Soviet Union (URS)	7:42.55	West Germany (FRG)	7:48.27
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Jim Ballard Lance Michaelis Mike Curington John Ebuna	3:51.67	Canada (CAN)	3:53.67	Soviet Union (URS)	3:54.34

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Jutta Weber  West Germany	57.80	Sue Hinderaker  United States	58.93	Beth Harrell  United States	59.05
400 m freestyle details	Bonnie Glasgow  United States	4:16.50	Liz McKinnon  Canada	4:24.04	Wendy Weinberg  United States	4:27.75
100 m backstroke details	Klavdiya Studenikova  Soviet Union	1:06.68	Meg McCully  United States	1:07.25	Yelena Rusanova  Soviet Union	1:08.54
100 m breaststroke details	Marion Stuart  Canada	1:15.60	Amy Tasnady  United States	1:16.66	Anna Skolarczyk  Poland	1:16.83
200 m breaststroke details	Anne Gagnon  Canada	2:43.7	Anne Merklinger  Canada	2:44.60	Amy Tasnady  United States	2:44.69
100 m butterfly details	Sue Hinderaker  United States	1:03.63	Gudrun Beckmann  West Germany	1:03.84	Anca Miclaus  Romania	1:04.61
200 m individual medley details	Bonnie Glasgow  United States	2:20.66	Jennie Franks  United States	2:23.82	Danielle Balla  Canada	2:27.22
4×100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Shawn Houghton Bonny Brown Beth Harrell Sue Hinderaker	3:53.70	Canada (CAN)	4:01.02	West Germany (FRG)	4:03.23
4×100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Meg McCully Amy Tasnady Beth Harrell Sue Hinderaker	4:29.78	Soviet Union (URS)	4:31.27	West Germany (FRG)	4:46.63

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

• Medalist Summary (Men) on GBRATHLETICS.com
• Medalist Summary (Women) on GBRATHLETICS.com

• "World University Games". New York Times. 28 August 1977. Retrieved 17 December 2021.