FINA World Aquatics Championships

FINA World Aquatics Championships
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Status	active
Genre	sporting event
Date(s)	mid-year
Frequency	biennial
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	1973 (1973)
Most recent	2017
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, synchronized 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, 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. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.

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)	United States	China	Russia
2013	19 July – 4 August	15	Barcelona, Spain[1][2][3]	2293	68	30 (m), 37 (f), 1 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2015	24 July – 9 August	16	Kazan, Russia[4]	2400	75	30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)	China	United States	Russia
2017	14–30 July	17	Budapest, Hungary[5]	2360	75	30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2019	12–28 July[6]	18	Gwangju, South Korea
2021	16 July – 1 August	19	Fukuoka, Japan
2023	6–22 October	20	Doha, Qatar

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	253	193	140	586
2	China	130	95	71	296
3	Russia	93	62	55	210
4	Australia	82	88	68	238
5	East Germany	51	44	27	122
6	Italy	33	32	53	118
7	Hungary	33	29	30	92
8	Germany	32	55	61	148
9	France	25	23	24	72
10	Great Britain	25	21	39	85
11	Canada	21	43	47	111
12	Netherlands	17	34	29	80
13	Soviet Union	16	28	28	72
14	Sweden	14	16	15	45
15	Brazil	13	11	13	37
16	South Africa	11	5	13	29
17	Japan	10	37	63	110
18	Spain	9	31	25	65
19	Ukraine	9	10	20	39
20	West Germany	8	7	12	27
21	Poland	6	9	8	23
22	Denmark	4	8	8	20
23	Zimbabwe	4	5	0	9
24	Greece	4	4	5	13
25	Serbia	4	2	1	7
26	Finland	3	2	2	7
27	Croatia	2	3	3	8
28	Tunisia	2	2	4	8
29	Romania	2	1	7	10
30	Belarus	2	1	3	6
	Yugoslavia	2	1	3	6
32	South Korea	2	0	1	3
33	Mexico	1	6	9	16
34	Switzerland	1	4	1	6
35	Lithuania	1	2	2	5
36	Bulgaria	1	1	4	6
37	Belgium	1	1	2	4
	Costa Rica	1	1	2	4
	North Korea	1	1	2	4
	Yugoslavia /  Serbia and Montenegro	1	1	2	4
41	Norway	1	1	1	3
42	Malaysia	1	0	4	5
43	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Suriname	1	0	0	1
45	New Zealand	0	5	5	10
46	Austria	0	3	3	6
47	Slovakia	0	3	2	5
48	Czech Republic	0	3	0	3
49	Cuba	0	1	1	2
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
	Iceland	0	1	1	2
	Jamaica	0	1	1	2
53	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
55	Argentina	0	0	2	2
	Egypt	0	0	2	2
	Singapore	0	0	2	2
58	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (60 nations)		934	940	930	2804

• 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	Natalia Ishchenko	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2005	2015	19	2	-	21
3	Ryan Lochte	United States	M	Swimming	2005	2015	18	5	4	27
4	Svetlana Romashina	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2005	2015	18	-	-	18
5	Katie Ledecky	United States	F	Swimming	2013	2017	14	1	-	15
6	Anastasia Davydova	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2001	2011	13	1	-	14
7	Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2011	2017	13	-	-	13
	Alexandra Patskevich	Russia	F	Synchronised swimming	2009	2017	13	-	-	13
9	Missy Franklin	United States	F	Swimming	2011	2015	11	2	3	16
10	Ian Thorpe	Australia	M	Swimming	1998	2003	11	1	1	13

Disciplines

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

See also

• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
• Major achievements in swimming by nation

Notes and references

External links

• FINA official web site
• results Swim Rankings

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