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BARCELONA, Spain, August 4. AMERICAN universities are very proud of the results their swimmers are posting this week at the world championships, judging by the flood of emails I have received this week from sports information directors.<\/p>\n
A few schools even let the media know that their swimmers were excited about a 30th place finish, because it was their swimmer’s first world championships. But the most emails came from the top schools that couldn’t resist bragging about the medals their athletes were wearing around their necks.<\/p>\n
Counting the open water competition, the California Golden Bears won the meet with 20 medals. Missy Franklin’s six golds certainly helped the tally, but seven other Bears scored medals to give Cal a big victory.<\/p>\n
Southern Cal and Florida emerged in a tie for second in the medal count, bringing back eight medals each. Georgia and Texas each scored seven medals in a tie for fourth.<\/p>\n
Below, the medal tally by school:<\/p>\n
Auburn:
\nFred Bousquet: 50 fly (bronze)
\nGeorge Bovell: 50 free (bronze)
\nCesar Cielo: 50 fly (gold), 50 free (gold)
\nMicah Lawrence: 200 breast (bronze)<\/p>\n
Berkeley:
\nNathan Adrian: 400 free relay (silver), 100 free (bronze)
\nLauren Boyle: 400 free (bronze), 1500 free (bronze), 800 free (bronze)
\nNatalie Coughlin: 400 free relay (gold)
\nAnthony Ervin: 400 free relay (silver)
\nMissy Franklin: 400 free relay (gold), 100 back (gold), 200 free (gold), 800 free relay (gold), 200 back (gold), 400 medley relay (gold)
\nJessica Hardy: 100 breast (bronze), 50 breast (bronze), 400 medley relay (gold)
\nElizabeth Pelton: 400 free relay (gold), 400 medley relay (gold)
\nDana Vollmer: 100 fly (bronze), 400 medley relay (gold)<\/p>\n
Florida:
\nElizabeth Beisel: 400 IM (bronze)
\nConor Dwyer: 400 free relay (silver), 200 free (silver), 800 free relay (gold)
\nRyan Lochte: 400 free relay (silver), 200 IM (gold), 200 back (gold), 800 free relay (gold)<\/p>\n
Georgia:
\nChase Kalisz: 400 IM (silver)
\nJordan Mattern: 800 free relay (gold)
\nMegan Romano: 400 free relay (gold), 400 medley relay (gold)
\nShannon Vreeland: 400 free relay (gold), 800 free relay (gold), 400 medley relay (gold)<\/p>\n
Michigan:
\nTyler Clary: 200 back (bronze)
\nCharlie Houchin: 800 free relay (gold)
\nConnor Jaeger: 400 free (bronze)<\/p>\n
Minnesota:
\nDavid Plummer: 100 back (silver)<\/p>\n
Northwestern:
\nMatt Grevers: 100 back (gold), 50 back (silver)<\/p>\n
Stanford:
\nMaya DiRado: 800 free relay (gold)
\nEugene Godsoe: 50 fly (silver)<\/p>\n
Texas:
\nRicky Berens: 400 free relay (silver), 800 free relay (gold)
\nKarlee Bispo: 800 free relay (gold)
\nJimmy Feigen: 400 free relay (silver), 100 free silver (silver)
\nMichael Klueh: 800 free relay (gold)
\nMichael McBroom: 800 free (silver)<\/p>\n
Texas A&M:
\nBreeja Larson: 400 medley relay (gold)<\/p>\n
USC:
\nHaley Anderson: 5K (gold)
\nChelsea Chenault: 800 free relay (gold)
\nKatinka Hosszu: 200 IM (gold), 200 fly (bronze), 400 IM (gold)
\nOus Mellouli: 5K (gold)
\nVlad Morozov: 400 free relay (bronze), 50 free (silver)<\/p>\n
Virginia:
\nMatt McLean: 800 free relay (gold)<\/p>\n
Western Kentucky:
\nClaire Donahue: 400 medley relay (gold)<\/p>\n
Yale:
\nEva Fabian: 25K (bronze)<\/p>\n
No surprise here. The United States not only won the team trophy, but the team medal count, taking home more than twice the medals of the Australians. They also collected more than twice the gold medals of China and picked up more bronze medals than any other. The only column they couldn’t win was the silver medal tally, where they were second to the Aussies.<\/p>\n
The top five:<\/p>\n
USA, 29 medals: 13 gold, 8 silver, 8 bronze<\/p>\n
Australia, 13 medals: 3 gold, 10 silver, 0 bronze<\/p>\n
China, 9 medals: 5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze<\/p>\n
France, 9 medals: 4 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze<\/p>\n
Russia, 8 medals: 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze<\/p>\n
A well-oiled machine. This marked my first time at a world championships, and I can’t give enough praise to the organizing committee. First, the meet was run like clockwork, with every day except tonight ending as scheduled. The volunteers — hundreds of them! — were standing at every door making sure I didn’t go where I wasn’t allowed, guiding athletes through the arena and handing out pages of results to those of us who needed them. I’m sure it’s not an easy event to plan, but Barcelona made it look like they do this sort of thing every day. It doesn’t hurt that they hosted this competition in 2003 and the Olympics in 1992. I’m sure the world will be back to Barca very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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