Swimming at the 1970 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1970 Summer Universiade took place in Turin, Italy in August 1970.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Frank Heckl  United States	53.2	Dan Frawley  United States	53.4	Leonid Ilyichov  Soviet Union	53.9
400 m freestyle	Andy Strenk  United States	4:12.1	Steve Genter  United States	4:13.6	Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union	4:17.9
1500 m freestyle	Andy Strenk  United States	16:43.1	Steve Genter  United States	17:01.1	Wladyslaw Wojtakajtis  Poland	17:34.9
100 m backstroke	Mitch Ivey  United States	59.4	Charlie Campbell  United States	59.5	Mike Richards  Great Britain	1:01.7
200 m backstroke	Mitch Ivey  United States	2:09.3	Charlie Campbell  United States	2:09.6	Mike Richards  Great Britain	2:15.0
100 m breaststroke	Nikolai Pankin  Soviet Union	1:07.1	Nobutaka Taguchi  Japan	1:07.5	Mike Dirksen  United States	1:08.6
200 m breaststroke	Rick Colella  United States	2:25.5	Nikolai Pankin  Soviet Union	2:28.4	Nobutaka Taguchi  Japan	2:29.4
100 m butterfly	John Ferris  United States	57.5	Jerry Heidenreich  United States	57.7	Yasuo Takada  Japan	59.2
200 m butterfly	John Ferris  United States	2:07.8	Yasuo Takada  Japan	2:09.2	Ken Weinfeld  United States	2:10.2
400 m individual medley	Steve Power  United States	4:46.1	Rick Colella  United States	4:48.8	Reinhard Merkel  West Germany	4:56.5
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Don Havens Jim McConica Dave O’Mallay Frank Heckl	3:33.3	Soviet Union (URS)	3:36.1	Great Britain (GBR)	3:45.8
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Andy Strenk Dave O’Malley Jim McConica Frank Heckl	7:53.7	Soviet Union (URS)	8:08.0	Great Britain (GBR)	8:26.0
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Mitch Ivey Ken Shilling John Ferris Frank Heckl	3:59.9	Soviet Union (URS)	4:03.9	Japan (JPN)	4:05.8

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

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Mirjana Šegrt  Yugoslavia	1:00.9	Marsha McCuen  United States	1:01.1	Laura Fritz  United States	1:02.1
400 m freestyle	Evelyn Kossner  United States	4:43.7	Kathy Thomas  United States	4:49.9	Sandra Smith  Canada	4:53.9
100 m backstroke	Kaye Hall  United States	1:07.3	Lynn Skrifvars  United States	1:11.0
100 m breaststroke	Galina Stepanova  Soviet Union	1:16.7	Alla Grebennikova  Soviet Union	1:18.1	Linda Kurtz  United States	1:18.9
200 m breaststroke	Galina Stepanova  Soviet Union	2:45.4	Linda Kurtz  United States	2:49.4	Alla Grebennikova  Soviet Union	2:49.6
100 m butterfly	Lynn Colella  United States Mirjana Šegrt  Yugoslavia	1:06.0	Not Awarded		Ellie Daniel  United States	1:06.9
200 m individual medley	Lynn Colella  United States	2:31.4	Lidiya Milenina  Soviet Union	2:32.1	Kathy Thomas  United States	2:34.5
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Marsha McCuen Benoit Kaye Hall Laura Fritz	4:09.5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	4:20.2	Great Britain (GBR)	4:21.6
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Kaye Hall Linda Kurtz Lynn Colella Marsha McCuen	4:35.1	Soviet Union (URS)	4:41.6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	4:43.3

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

References

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