List of FINA Athletes of the Year

The FINA Athletes of the Year, awarded by Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) and FINA Aquatics World Magazine, are a set of awards given in five categories: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming. The award was inaugurated in 2010.

Swimming

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	Ryan Lochte	United States
2011	Missy Franklin	United States	Ryan Lochte (2)	United States
2012	Missy Franklin (2)	United States	Michael Phelps	United States
2013	Katie Ledecky	United States	Ryan Lochte (3)	United States
2014	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	Chad le Clos	South Africa
2015	Katinka Hosszú (2)	Hungary	Mitch Larkin	Australia
2016	Katinka Hosszú (3)	Hungary	Michael Phelps (2)	United States
2017	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	Caeleb Dressel	United States

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2015	Katie Ledecky	United States	Adam Peaty	United Kingdom
2016	Katie Ledecky (2)	United States	Adam Peaty (2)	United Kingdom

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010	Elizabeth Armstrong	United States	Vanja Udovičić	Serbia
2011	Alexandra Asimaki	Greece	Filip Filipović	Serbia
2012	Maggie Steffens	United States	Josip Pavić	Croatia
2013	Jennifer Pareja	Spain	Dénes Varga	Hungary
2014	Maggie Steffens (2)	United States	Filip Filipović (2)	Serbia
Year	Female team winner		Male team winner
2015	United States		Serbia
2016	United States (2)		Serbia (2)
2016	United States (3)		Croatia

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010	Chen Ruolin	China	Patrick Hausding	Germany
2011	Wu Minxia	China	Qiu Bo	China
2012	Wu Minxia (2)	China	Ilya Zakharov	Russia
2013	He Zi	China	He Chong	China
2014	Liu Huixia	China	Cao Yuan	China
2015	Shi Tingmao	China	He Chao	China
2016	Shi Tingmao (2)	China	Chen Aisen	China
2017	Shi Tingmao (3)	China	Thomas Daley	United Kingdom

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2013	Cesilie Carlton	United States	Orlando Duque	Colombia
2014	Rachelle Simpson	United States	Orlando Duque (2)	Colombia
2015	Rachelle Simpson (2)	United States	Gary Hunt	United Kingdom
2016	Lysanne Richard	Canada	Gary Hunt (2)	United Kingdom

Year	Winner	Nationality
2010	Natalia Ishchenko	Russia
2011	Natalia Ishchenko (2) Svetlana Romashina	Russia Russia
2012	Natalia Ishchenko (3)	Russia
2013	Svetlana Romashina (2)	Russia
2014	Huang Xuechen	China

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2015	Svetlana Romashina (3)	Russia	Aleksandr Maltsev Bill May	Russia United States
2016	Natalia Ishchenko (4) Svetlana Romashina (4)	Russia Russia

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010	Ana Marcela Cunha	Brazil	Valerio Cleri	Italy
2011	Keri-Anne Payne	United Kingdom	Thomas Lurz	Germany
2012	Éva Risztov	Hungary	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia
2013	Poliana Okimoto	Brazil	Thomas Lurz (2)	Germany
2014	Ana Marcela Cunha (2)	Brazil	Allan do Carmo	Brazil
2015	Ana Marcela Cunha (3)	Brazil	Jordan Wilimovsky	United States
2016	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	Ferry Weertman	Netherlands

FINA Elects the Best in 2010 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2011-12-10.
FINA selected this year’s best in the five disciplines (2011) from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2011-12-10.
PR 1 - ATHLETES OF THE YEAR 2012 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2013-01-04.
ATHLETES OF THE YEAR 2013 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2014-01-06.

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