FINA World Aquatics Championships

FINA World Aquatics Championships
FINA World Aquatics Championships
	Flag of FINA
Status	active
Genre	sporting event
Date(s)	mid-year
Frequency	biennial
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	1973
Most recent	2019
Organised by	FINA

The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events are contested in a long course (50-metre) pool.

The event was first held in 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and is now held every two years. From 1978 to 1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. Since 2001, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.

Athletes from all 209 FINA members could take part in the competition. In 2019, records were set for the most countries participating, with 192 members, and the most athletes participating, with 2,623 athletes.[1]

Championships

Year	Date	Edition	Location	Athletes	Events	Events details	Winner of the medal table	Second of the medal table	Third of the medal table
1973	31 August – 9 September	1	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	686	37	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Italy
1975	19–27 July	2	Cali, Colombia	682	37	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Hungary
1978	20–28 August	3	West Berlin, West Germany	828	37	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	Soviet Union	Canada
1982	29 July – 8 August	4	Guayaquil, Ecuador	848	37	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Soviet Union
1986	13–23 August	5	Madrid, Spain	1119	41	19 (m), 22 (f)	East Germany	United States	Canada
1991	3–13 January	6	Perth, Australia	1142	45	21 (m), 24 (f)	United States	China	Hungary
1994	1–11 September	7	Rome, Italy	1400	45	21 (m), 24 (f)	China	United States	Russia
1998	8–17 January	8	Perth, Australia	1371	55	26 (m), 29 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2001	16–29 July	9	Fukuoka, Japan	1498	61	29 (m), 32 (f)	Australia	China	United States
2003	12–27 July	10	Barcelona, Spain	2015	62	29 (m), 33 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2005	16–31 July	11	Montreal, Canada	1784	62	29 (m), 33 (f)	United States	Australia	China
2007	18 March – 1 April	12	Melbourne, Australia	2158	65	29 (m), 36 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2009	17 July – 2 August	13	Rome, Italy	2556	65	29 (m), 36 (f)	United States	China	Russia
2011	16–31 July	14	Shanghai, China	2220	65	29 (m), 36 (f), 1 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2013	19 July – 4 August	15	Barcelona, Spain[2][3][4]	2293	68	30 (m), 37 (f), 1 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2015	24 July – 9 August	16	Kazan, Russia[5]	2400	75	30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)	China	United States	Russia
2017	14–30 July	17	Budapest, Hungary[6]	2360	75	30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2019	12–28 July[7]	18	Gwangju, South Korea	2623	76	30 (m), 38 (f), 8 (mixed)	China	United States	Russia
2022	13–29 May[8]	19	Fukuoka, Japan
2023		20	Doha, Qatar
2025		21	Kazan, Russia
2027		22	Budapest, Hungary

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	268	204	150	622
2	China (CHN)	146	106	74	326
3	Russia (RUS)	105	73	62	240
4	Australia (AUS)	89	97	75	261
5	East Germany	51	44	27	122
6	Hungary (HUN)	38	29	30	97
7	Italy (ITA)	37	38	58	133
8	Germany (GER)	35	57	64	156
9	Great Britain (GBR)	29	23	45	97
10	France (FRA)	26	26	27	79
11	Canada (CAN)	23	45	54	122
12	Netherlands (NED)	17	35	29	81
13	Soviet Union	16	28	28	72
14	Sweden (SWE)	15	18	17	50
15	Brazil (BRA)	15	14	15	44
16	Japan (JPN)	12	39	69	120
17	South Africa (RSA)	12	6	15	33
18	Ukraine (UKR)	10	11	25	46
19	Spain (ESP)	9	35	26	70
20	West Germany	8	7	12	27
21	Poland (POL)	6	9	8	23
22	Denmark (DEN)	4	8	8	20
23	Greece (GRE)	4	5	5	14
24	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	4	5	0	9
25	Serbia (SRB)	4	2	1	7
26	Finland (FIN)	3	2	2	7
27	Croatia (CRO)	2	3	4	9
28	Tunisia (TUN)	2	2	4	8
29	Romania (ROU)	2	1	7	10
30	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	3	6
30	Yugoslavia	2	1	3	6
32	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	2	4
33	Mexico (MEX)	1	8	13	22
34	Switzerland (SUI)	1	5	1	7
35	Lithuania (LTU)	1	2	2	5
36	Norway (NOR)	1	2	1	4
37	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	4	6
37	Malaysia (MAS)	1	1	4	6
39	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	2	4
	Costa Rica (CRC)	1	1	2	4
	FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro	1	1	2	4
	North Korea (PRK)	1	1	2	4
43	Colombia (COL)	1	0	0	1
43	Suriname (SUR)	1	0	0	1
45	New Zealand (NZL)	0	5	6	11
46	Austria (AUT)	0	3	3	6
47	Slovakia (SVK)	0	3	2	5
48	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	0	3
49	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	1	2
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	1	2
53	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
53	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	0	1
55	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	3	3
56	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
56	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	2	2
58	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (60 nations)		1010	1017	1007	3034

Record(*). United States: 1978, (23 gold medals, 44 medals in total)

Multiple medalists

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count per type.

Rank	Athlete	Country	Gender	Discipline	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Michael Phelps	United States	M	Swimming	2001	2011	26	6	1	33
2	Svetlana Romashina	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2005	2019	21	–	–	21
3	Natalia Ishchenko	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2005	2015	19	2	–	21
4	Ryan Lochte	United States	M	Swimming	2005	2015	18	5	4	27
5	Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2011	2019	16	–	–	16
6	Katie Ledecky	United States	F	Swimming	2013	2019	15	3	–	18
7	Alla Shishkina	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2009	2019	14	–	–	14
8	Caeleb Dressel	United States	M	Swimming	2017	2019	13	2	–	15
9	Anastasia Davydova	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2001	2011	13	1	–	14
10	Alexandra Patskevich	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2009	2017	13	–	–	13

Disciplines

Except as noted below, there are male and female categories for each event.

Swimming

Distance	Free	Back	Breast	Fly	I.M.	Free relay	Medley relay	Mixed free relay	Mixed medley relay
50 m	●	●	●	●
100 m	●	●	●	●
200 m	●	●	●	●	●
400 m	●				●	●	●	●	●
800 m	●					●
1500 m	●

Diving

Men's and women's events:

1 m springboard
3 m springboard
10 m platform
synchronized 3 m springboard
synchronized 10 m platform

Mixed events added at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships:

synchronized 3 m springboard
synchronized 10 m platform
3 m springboard / 10 m platform team

High diving

27m (men only)
20m (women only)

High diving included since the 15th FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2013 in Barcelona

Open water swimming

5 km
10 km
25 km
Mixed Team

Open water swimming was first held at the 1991 FINA World Championships.

Synchronized swimming

Except for Free Combination and Highlight, all events include technical and free routines, with medals awarded separately.

Solo
Duet, including mixed pair (male-female) since the 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2015 in Kazan
Team
Free combination
Highlight since 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju

Water polo

Men's tournament
Women's tournament

Notes and references

"18th FINA World Championships: Entry List by Event" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
Originally awarded in July 2009 to Dubai, UAE. Dubai withdrew in March 2010.
PR54 - Dubai (UAE) will be the Organising City Archived 27 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine (FINA Press Release #2009-54); published by FINA on 2009-07-18, retrieved 2009-07-20.
Press Release 2013-51: Barcelona 2013: new record of participation with 181 nations in Barcelona (ESP) Archived 14 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Published by FINA on 2013-07-18; retrieved 2013-07-19.
UPDATE 1-Swimming-Celebrations as Kazan awarded 2015 world champs published by Reuters on 2011-07-15.
"Budapest (HUN) to host FINA World Championships in 2017" (Press release). FINA. 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 27 August 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
FINA.org
"New dates set for world swim championships: May 13-29, 2022". AP NEWS. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

External links

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[1] "18th FINA World Championships: Entry List by Event" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 17 November 2019.

[2] Originally awarded in July 2009 to Dubai, UAE. Dubai withdrew in March 2010.

[2013_announce-3] PR54 - Dubai (UAE) will be the Organising City Archived 27 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine (FINA Press Release #2009-54); published by FINA on 2009-07-18, retrieved 2009-07-20.

[4] Press Release 2013-51: Barcelona 2013: new record of participation with 181 nations in Barcelona (ESP) Archived 14 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Published by FINA on 2013-07-18; retrieved 2013-07-19.

[2015_announce-5] UPDATE 1-Swimming-Celebrations as Kazan awarded 2015 world champs published by Reuters on 2011-07-15.

[2017_announce-6] "Budapest (HUN) to host FINA World Championships in 2017" (Press release). FINA. 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 27 August 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-31.

[7] FINA.org

[8] "New dates set for world swim championships: May 13-29, 2022". AP NEWS. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

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