The Swimming competition of the 25th Summer Universiade was held at the Tašmajdan Sports Centre in Belgrade, Serbia, 5–11 July 2009. All events were contested in a long course (50m) pool.^[1]

Of note, this was held just 2 weeks prior to the 2009 World Championships.

Teams from 62 countries participated in Swimming at the 2009 World University Games. They were from:^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Andrea Rolla   Italy	22.16	Boris Steimetz    France Sergey Fesikov   Russia	22.19	not awarded
100m Freestyle	Sergey Fesikov   Russia	48.43	Cameron Prosser   Australia	48.57	Jason Dunford   Kenya	48.73 NR
200m Freestyle	Sho Uchida	1:47.63	Doug Robison    USA	1:48.34	Shogo Hihara	1:48.49
400m Freestyle	Przemysław Stańczyk   Poland	3:46.72 GR	Chad La Tourette    USA	3:46.93	Federico Colbertaldo   Italy	3:47.17
800m Freestyle	Chad La Tourette    USA	7:47.24 GR	Federico Colbertaldo   Italy	7:48.58	Przemysław Stańczyk   Poland	7:53.67
1500m Freestyle	Przemysław Stańczyk   Poland	14:51.06 GR	Chad La Tourette    USA	14:53.77	Federico Colbertaldo   Italy	15:03.90
50m Backstroke	Junya Koga	24.63 GR	Ryosuke Irie	25.05	Guy Barnea   Israel	25.09
100m Backstroke	Ryosuke Irie	52.60 GR	Helge Meeuw	52.94	Junya Koga	53.50
200m Backstroke	Ryosuke Irie	1:54.13 GR	Patrick Schirk    USA	1:57.05	Kazuki Watanabe	1:58.23
50m Breaststroke	Kevin Swander    USA	27.14 GR	Felipe França Silva   Brazil	27.23	Čaba Silađi   Serbia	27.27 NR
100m Breaststroke	Igor Borysik   Ukraine	59.53 GR	Fabio Scozzoli   Italy	59.85	Hiromasa Sakimoto	59.90
200m Breaststroke	Igor Borysik   Ukraine	2:08.73 GR	Naoya Tomita	2:11.02	Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania	2:11.14
50m Butterfly	Jernej Godec   Slovenia	23.41	Jason Dunford   Kenya	23.45	Chris Brady    USA	23.56
100m Butterfly	Jason Dunford   Kenya	51.29	Chris Brady    USA	51.62	Maxim Ganikhin   Russia Michal Rubáček   Czech Republic	52.33
200m Butterfly	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:54.30 GR	Kazuya Kaneda	1:56.43	Ryusuke Sakata   Maxim Ganikhin   Russia	1:56.75
200m Individual Medley	Alex Vanderkaay    USA	1:57.58 GR	Keith Beavers    Canada	1:59.83	Yuma Kosaka	2:00.77
400m Individual Medley	Mateusz Matczak   Poland	4:12.28 GR	Alex Vanderkaay    USA	4:12.48	Yuya Horihata	4:15.26
4 × 100 m   Free Relay	USA   Will Copeland (48.39)   Chris Brady (48.22)   Eric McGinnis (49.71)   Doug Robison (48.42)	3:14.74 GR	Italy   Michele Santucci (49.95)   Nicola Cassio (48.90)   Vittorio Dinia (48.71)   Andrea Rolla (48.51)   Lorenzo Benatti	3:16.07	France   Antoine Galavtine (50.22)   Sebastien Bodet (48.44)   Kevin Trannoy (48.96)   Boris Steimetz (48.95)   Joris Hustache	3:16.57
4 × 200 m   Free Relay	Sho Uchida (1:47.81)   Shogo Hihara (1:46.72)   Yasunori Mononobe (1:48.89)   Shunsuke Kuzuhara (1:48.12)	7:11.54 GR	USA   Doug Robison (1:48.18)   Bobby Bollier (1:49.65)   Matt Patton (1:47.58)   Alex Vanderkaay (1:48.79)   Chad La Tourette	7:14.20	Canada   Ray Betuzzi (1:48.37)   Brian Johns (1:46.33)   Keith Beavers (1:50.65)   Matthew Swanston (1:51.10)   Rory Biskupski	7:16.45
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay	Ryosuke Irie (52.75)   Hiromasa Sakimoto (59.63)   Shimpei Irie (52.05)   Rammaru Harada (48.37)	3:32.80 GR	Italy   Enrico Catalano (55.08)   Fabio Scozzoli (59.68)   Rudy Goldin (52.28)   Vittorio Dinia (48.71)   Nicola Cassio   Matteo Giordano   Stefano Iacobone   Marco Sommaripa	3:35.75	France   Eric Ress (55.57)   Tony de Pellegrini (1:01.37)   Cyril Marchant (53.41)   Boris Steimetz (47.96)	3:38.31

WR – World Record; GR – Games Record

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus	24.62 GR	Dorothea Brandt	25.03	Michelle King    USA	25.10
100m Freestyle	Hannah Wilson   Hong Kong	54.35 GR	Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus	54.79	Miroslava Najdanovski   Serbia Madison Kennedy    USA	54.96
200m Freestyle	Sara Isaković   Slovenia	1:58.59	Kevyn Peterson    Canada	1:58.67	Kristen Heiss    USA	1:58.77
400m Freestyle	Kevyn Peterson    Canada	4:10.01	Kristen Heiss    USA	4:11.30	Leone Vorster   South Africa	4:13.18
800m Freestyle	Whitney Sprague    USA	8:32.71	Yumi Kida	8:34.98	Roberta Ioppi   Italy	8:40.00
1500m Freestyle	Yumi Kida	16:24.26	Whitney Sprague    USA	16:29.04	Natsumi Iwashita	16:31.68
50m Backstroke	Shiho Sakai	28.17 GR	Xu Tianlongzi	28.20	Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus	28.32
100m Backstroke	Shiho Sakai	1:00.30	Katy Murdoch    Canada	1:00.92	Eri Tabei	1:01.01
200m Backstroke	Stephanie Proud   Great Britain	2:08.91 GR	Kristen Heiss    USA	2:09.22	Tomoyo Fukuda	2:11.17
50m Breaststroke	Daria Deeva   Russia	31.55	Kim Dal-Eun   South Korea	31.57	Ewa Scieszko   Poland	31.63
100m Breaststroke	Chiara Boggiatto   Italy	1:07.15 GR	Nađa Higl   Serbia	1:07.80 NR	Hitomi Nose	1:07.87
200m Breaststroke	Rie Kaneto	2:22.32 GR	Nađa Higl   Serbia	2:24.20	Alena Alekseeva   Russia	2:25.40
50m Butterfly	Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus	25.97 GR	Cristina Maccagnola   Italy	26.52	Hong Wenwen	26.66
100m Butterfly	Hannah Wilson   Hong Kong	58.24 GR	Hong Wenwen	59.19	Ayano Kuroki	59.44
200m Butterfly	Annika Mehlhorn	2:07.35	Lyndsay DePaul    USA	2:09.89	Haruka Minamizono	2:10.01
200m Individual Medley	Ava Ohlgren    USA	2:12.07 GR	Asami Kitagawa	2:13.39	Tomoyo Fukuda	2:13.71
400m Individual Medley	Ava Ohlgren    USA	4:40.61	Lyndsay DePaul    USA	4:41.94	Svetlana Karpeeva   Russia	4:44.26
4 × 100 m   Freestyle relay	USA   Michelle King (56.42)   Madison Kennedy (54.94)   Ava Ohlgren (55.77)   Morgan Scroggy (54.68)   Chelsea Nauta	3:41.81	Yayoi Matsumoto (56.18)   Misaki Yamaguchi (55.08)   Asami Kitagawa (55.67)   Shiho Sakai (55.67)	3:42.60	Canada   Marie-Pier Ratelle (55.64)   Breanna Hendriks (55.97)   Katy Murdoch (55.58)   Seanna Mitchell (55.90)   Hayley Nell	3:43.09
4 × 200 m   Freestyle Relay	USA   Ava Ohlgren (2:01.92)   Morgan Scroggy (1:59.06)   Chelsea Nauta (2:00.07)   Kristen Heiss (1:59.44)	8:00.49	Canada   Kevyn Peterson (1:59.08)   Breanna Hendriks (1:59.01)   Seanna Mitchell (2:02.88)   Katy Murdoch (2:01.80)	8:03.67	Italy   Silvia Florio (2:02.01)   Erica Buratto (1:59.43)   Roberta Ioppi (2:01.57)   Ambra Migliori (2:03.13)	8:06.14
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay	USA   Lauren Rogers (1:02.24)   Katlin Freeman (1:05.8)   Amanda Sims (59.22)   Madison Kennedy (54.61)   Morgan Scroggy   Ava Ohlgren	4:01.90 GR	Italy   Elena Gemo (1:01.70)   Chiara Boggiatto (1:07.62)   Cristina Maccagnola (58.30)   Erica Buratto (55.13)   Maria Laura Simonetto	4:02.75	Russia   Ksenia Moskvina (1:01.31)   Daria Deeva (1:07.60)   Svetlana Fedulova (59.56)   Svetlana Karpeeva (55.42)	4:03.89

WR – World Record; GR – Games Record

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	10	12	4	26
2	Japan	10	6	14	30
3	Poland	4	0	2	6
4	Italy	2	6	4	12
5	Russia	2	1	5	8
6	Belarus	2	1	1	4
7	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2
	Slovenia	2	0	0	2
	Ukraine	2	0	0	2
10	Canada	1	4	2	7
11	Germany	1	2	0	3
12	Kenya	1	1	1	3
13	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
14	Serbia	0	2	2	4
15	China	0	2	1	3
16	France	0	1	2	3
17	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
20	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		40	41	42	123

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