| Field | Value |
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| name | 7th World Swimming Championships (25 m) |
| image | Indianapolis2004.jpg |
| imagesize | 170px |
| hostcity | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| dates | October 7–11, 2004 |
| venues | Conseco Fieldhouse |
| previous | [2002 Moscow](2002-fina-world-swimming-championships-25-m) |
| next | [2006 Shanghai](2006-fina-world-swimming-championships-25-m) |
The 7th FINA Short Course World Championships were held at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States from October 7 through October 11, 2004.
This was the only edition of the Short Course World Championships that Michael Phelps competed in. Phelps planned to swim in six races: the 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, the individual medleys at 100 meters, 200 meters, and 400 meters, and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Phelps won gold in the 200-meter freestyle on October 7 - the only Short Course World Championships gold medal (and medal of any color) of his career - then withdrew from the rest of the meet the following day, citing a sore back.
Results
Men's freestyle
| 4 × 200 m | United States United States |
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| Ryan Lochte |
| Chad Carvin |
| Dan Ketchum |
| Justin Mortimer | 7:03.71 | Australia Australia |
| Nicholas Sprenger |
| Andrew Mewing |
| Brendan Huges |
| Joshua Krogh | 7:03.78 | Brazil Brazil |
| Rodrigo Castro |
| Thiago Pereira |
| Rafael Mosca |
| Lucas Salatta | 7:06.64 |
Women's freestyle
| 4 × 200 m | United States United States |
|---|
| Dana Vollmer |
| Rachel Komisarz |
| Lindsay Benko |
| Kaitlin Sandeno | 7:47.72 | Australia Australia |
| Libby Lenton |
| Danni Miatke |
| Louise Tomlinson |
| Shayne Reese | 7:51.39 | Sweden Sweden |
| Ida Mattsson |
| Johanna Sjöberg |
| Josefin Lillhage |
| Petra Granlund | 7:54.39 |
Men's Backstroke
| 200 m | United States Aaron Peirsol | 1:50.52 WR | Australia Matt Welsh | 1:52.54 | Russia Arkady Vyatchanin | 1:54.20 |
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Women's Backstroke
| 200 m | United States Margaret Hoelzer | 2:05.84 | Australia Tayliah Zimmer | 2:08.05 | New Zealand Melissa Ingram | 2:08.54 |
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Men's Breaststroke
| 200 m | United States Brendan Hansen | 2:04.98 CR | Australia Brenton Rickard | 2:08.34 | Kazakhstan Vladislav Polyakov | 2:08.36 |
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Women's Breaststroke
| 200 m | Australia Brooke Hanson | 2:21.68 | United States Amanda Beard | 2:22.53 | Australia Sarah Katsoulis | 2:22.97 |
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Men's Butterfly
| 200 m | United Kingdom James Hickman | 1:53.41 | Romania Ioan Gherghel | 1:54.06 | China Wu Peng | 1:54.51 |
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Women's Butterfly
| 200 m | United States Kaitlin Sandeno | 2:06.95 | United States Mary Descenza | 2:07.79 | Canada Audrey Lacroix | 2:08.35 |
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Men's Medley
| 4 × 100 m | United States United States |
|---|
| Aaron Peirsol |
| Brendan Hansen |
| Ian Crocker |
| Jason Lezak | 3:25.09 WR | Australia Australia |
| Matthew Welsh |
| Brenton Rickard |
| Andrew Richards |
| Andrew Mewing | 3:29.72 | Russia Russia |
| Arkady Vyatchanin |
| Andrei Ivanov |
| Nikolay Skvortsov |
| Andrey Kapralov | 3:32.11 |
Women's Medley
| 4 × 100 m | Australia Australia |
|---|
| Sophie Edington |
| Brooke Hanson |
| Jessicah Schipper |
| Libby Lenton | 3:54.95 WR | United_States United States |
| Haley Cope |
| Tara Kirk |
| Jenny Thompson |
| Kara Lynn Joyce | 3:55.68 | Sweden Sweden |
| Therese Svendsen |
| Sara Larsson |
| Johanna Sjöberg |
| Josefin Lillhage | 4:01.76 |