The 5th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were held at the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Athens, Greece from 16 to 19 March 2000. 15 world records were set.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Mark Foster  Great Britain	21.58	Brendon Dedekind  South Africa	21.62	Stefan Nystrand  Sweden	21.80
100 m freestyle	Lars Frölander  Sweden	46.80	Stefan Nystrand  Sweden	47.73	Scott Tucker  United States	47.82
200 m freestyle	Bela Szabados  Hungary	1:45.27	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:45.63	Chad Carvin  United States	1:45.79
400 m freestyle	Chad Carvin  United States	3:41.13	Paul Palmer  Great Britain	3:42.70	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	3:43.68
1500 m freestyle	Jörg Hoffmann  Germany	14:47.57	Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine	14:48.20	Chad Carvin  United States	14:51.23
50 m backstroke	Neil Walker  United States	23.99	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	24.24	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	24.32
100 m backstroke	Neil Walker  United States	50.75 WR	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	52.87	Derya Büyükuncu  Turkey	52.88
200 m backstroke	Gordan Kožulj  Croatia	1:53.31	Brad Bridgewater  United States	1:53.87	Volodymyr Nikolaychuk  Ukraine	1:55.33
50 m breaststroke	Mark Warnecke  Germany	27.22	Brendon Dedekind  South Africa	27.27	Oleg Lisogor  Ukraine	27.30
100 m breaststroke	Roman Sloudnov  Russia	58.57	Zhu Yi  China	59.99	Roman Ivanovsky  Russia	1:00.05
200 m breaststroke	Roman Sloudnov  Russia	2:07.59 WR	Terence Parkin  South Africa	2:07.91	Andrei Ivanov  Russia	2:09.90
50 m butterfly	Mark Foster  Great Britain	23.30	Neil Walker  United States	23.46	Sabir Muhammad  United States	23.56
100 m butterfly	Lars Frölander  Sweden	50.44 WR	James Hickman  Great Britain	51.53	Denys Sylantyev  Ukraine	51.84
200 m butterfly	James Hickman  Great Britain	1:53.57	Shamek Pietucha  Canada	1:54.27	Anatoly Polyakov  Russia	1:54.47
100 m individual medley	Neil Walker  United States	52.79 WR	Jani Sievinen  Finland	54.08	James Hickman  Great Britain	54.38
200 m individual medley	Jani Sievinen  Finland	1:56.27	James Hickman  Great Britain	1:56.86	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	1:58.05
400 m individual medley	Jani Sievinen  Finland	4:09.54	Terence Parkin  South Africa	4:10.56	Michael Halika  Israel	4:10.90
4×100 m freestyle relay	Sweden Johan Nyström Lars Frölander Mattias Ohlin Stefan Nystrand	3:09.57 WR	United States Scott Tucker Josh Davis Sabir Muhammad Neil Walker	3:10.98	Germany Mitja Zastrow Stefan Herbst Christian Tröger Stephan Kunzelmann	3:13.69
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States Josh Davis Neil Walker Scott Tucker Chad Carvin	7:01.33 WR	Great Britain Edward Sinclair Marc Spackman Paul Palmer James Salter	7:03.06	Russia Denis Pimankov Anatoly Polyakov Dmitri Chernychev Andrey Kapralov	7:05.24
4×100 m medley relay	United States Lenny Krayzelburg Jarrod Marrs Neil Walker Scott Tucker	3:30.03	Germany Sebastian Halgasch Björn Nowakowski Thomas Rupprath Stefan Herbst	3:31.77	Great Britain Neil Willey Darren Mew James Hickman Paul Belk	3:32.08

Legend: WR: World record; CR: World Championships record

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Therese Alshammar  Sweden	23.59 WR	Sandra Völker  Germany	24.77	Alison Sheppard  Great Britain	24.80
100 m freestyle	Therese Alshammar  Sweden	52.17 WR	Jenny Thompson  United States	53.14	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	53.88
200 m freestyle	Yang Yu  China	1:56.06	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	1:56.46	Natalya Baranovskaya  Belarus	1:57.54
400 m freestyle	Lindsay Benko  United States	4:02.44	Yana Klochkova  Ukraine	4:04.39	Chen Hua  China	4:06.63
800 m freestyle	Chen Hua  China	8:17.03	Brooke Bennett  United States	8:19.66	Flavia Rigamonti  Switzerland	8:21.57
50 m backstroke	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	27.90	Marylyn Chiang  Canada	28.03	Kellie McMillan  Australia	28.06
100 m backstroke	Sandra Völker  Germany	58.66	Marylyn Chiang  Canada	59.33	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	59.37
200 m backstroke	Antje Buschschulte  Germany	2:07.29	Clementine Stoney  Australia	2:08.64	Lindsay Benko  United States	2:08.85
50 m breaststroke	Sarah Poewe  South Africa	30.66	Hao Ping  China	31.22	Tara Kirk  United States	31.47
100 m breaststroke	Sarah Poewe  South Africa	1:06.21	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	1:07.69	Yelena Bogomazova  Russia	1:08.27
200 m breaststroke	Rebecca Brown  Australia	2:23.41	Alicja Pęczak  Poland	2:24.24	Brooke Hanson  Australia	2:25.30
50 m butterfly	Jenny Thompson  United States	26.13	Anna-Karin Kammerling  Sweden	26.16	Nicola Jackson  Great Britain	26.85
100 m butterfly	Jenny Thompson  United States	57.67	Johanna Sjöberg  Sweden	57.96	Karen Campbell  United States	58.86
200 m butterfly	Mette Jacobsen  Denmark	2:08.10	Katrin Jaeke  Germany	2:09.42	Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland	2:09.61
100 m individual medley	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	59.71	Marianne Limpert  Canada	1:02.00	Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia	1:02.24
200 m individual medley	Yana Klochkova  Ukraine	2:08.97	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	2:08.98	Marianne Limpert  Canada	2:12.68
400 m individual medley	Yana Klochkova  Ukraine	4:32.45	Nicole Hetzer  Germany	4:37.92	Katie Jo Yevak  United States	4:38.80
4×100 m freestyle relay	Sweden Louise Jöhncke Therese Alshammar Anna-Karin Kammerling Johanna Sjöberg	3:35.54	Germany Katrin Meissner Antje Buschschulte Britta Steffen Sandra Völker	3:37.31	Great Britain Alison Sheppard Claire Huddart Karen Legg Karen Pickering	3:37.93
4×200 m freestyle relay	Great Britain Claire Huddart Nicola Jackson Karen Legg Karen Pickering	7:49.11 WR	United States Lindsay Benko Brooke Bennett Tammie Stone Jenny Thompson	7:50.59	China Sun Dan Yang Lina Li Jin Yang Yu	7:52.70
4×100 m medley relay	Sweden Therese Alshammar Emma Igelström Johanna Sjöberg Anna-Karin Kammerling	3:59.53	Germany Sandra Völker Janne Schäfer Katrin Jäke Katrin Meissner	4:01.47	United States Jamie Reid Anita Nall Jenny Thompson Tammie Stone	4:02.51

Legend: WR: World record; CR: World Championships record

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	7	8	24
2	Sweden (SWE)	7	3	1	11
3	Germany (GER)	5	6	2	13
4	Great Britain (GBR)	4	4	6	14
5	South Africa (RSA)	2	4	0	6
6	Ukraine (UKR)	2	2	3	7
7	China (CHN)	2	2	2	6
8	Finland (FIN)	2	1	0	3
9	Russia (RUS)	2	0	5	7
10	Slovakia (SVK)	1	2	1	4
11	Australia (AUS)	1	1	2	4
12	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
15	Canada (CAN)	0	4	1	5
16	Poland (POL)	0	2	1	3
17	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
18	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
19	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		40	40	40	120

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