| Event: | Swimming |
| Games: | 1959 Summer |
| Next: | 1961 |
The swimming competition at the 1959 Summer Universiade took place in Turin, Italy.[1]
| 100 m freestyle | 57.0 | 57.7 | 58.0 | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | 4:43.8 | 4:46.5 | 4:57.9 | ||||
| 1500 m freestyle | 19:55.7 | 20:07.0 | 20:10.3 | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | 1:05.7 | 1:06.5 | 1:06.6 | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:42.9 | 2:42.9 | 2:45.1 | ||||
| 200 m butterfly | 2:21.9 | 2:25.1 | 2:25.2 | ||||
| freestyle relay | 8:53.1 | 9:07.7 | 9:08.8 | ||||
| medley relay | 4:20.4 | 4:27.6 | 4:28.5 |
| 100 m freestyle | 1:09.7 | 1:10.3 | 1:12.7 | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | 5:33.3 | 5:42.9 | 5:43.3 | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | 1:20.7 | 1:28.0 | 1:28.8 | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:59.2 | 3:08.2 | 3:21.1 | ||||
| 100 m butterfly | 1:13.9 | 1:14.6 | 1:28.1 | ||||
| freestyle relay | 4:54.9 | 5:02.9 | 5:06.4 | ||||
| medley relay | 5:25.5 | 5:32.8 | 5:47.4 |