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 |
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 |
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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, 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[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 | Kazan, Russia | ||||||||
2027 | Budapest, Hungary |
All-time medal table[]
Updated after the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States | 268 | 204 | 150 | 622 |
2 | China | 146 | 106 | 74 | 326 |
3 | Russia | 105 | 73 | 62 | 240 |
4 | Australia | 89 | 97 | 75 | 261 |
5 | East Germany | 51 | 44 | 27 | 122 |
6 | Hungary | 38 | 29 | 30 | 97 |
7 | Italy | 37 | 38 | 58 | 133 |
8 | Germany | 35 | 57 | 64 | 156 |
9 | Great Britain | 29 | 23 | 45 | 97 |
10 | France | 26 | 26 | 27 | 79 |
11 | Canada | 23 | 45 | 54 | 122 |
12 | Netherlands | 17 | 35 | 29 | 81 |
13 | Soviet Union | 16 | 28 | 28 | 72 |
14 | Sweden | 15 | 18 | 17 | 50 |
15 | Brazil | 15 | 14 | 15 | 44 |
16 | Japan | 12 | 39 | 69 | 120 |
17 | South Africa | 12 | 6 | 15 | 33 |
18 | Ukraine | 10 | 11 | 25 | 46 |
19 | Spain | 9 | 35 | 26 | 70 |
20 | West Germany | 8 | 7 | 12 | 27 |
21 | Poland | 6 | 9 | 8 | 23 |
22 | Denmark | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
23 | Greece | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
24 | Zimbabwe | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
25 | Serbia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
26 | Finland | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
27 | Croatia | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
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 | 2 | 4 |
33 | Mexico | 1 | 8 | 13 | 22 |
34 | Switzerland | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
35 | Lithuania | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
36 | Norway | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
37 | Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
Malaysia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
39 | Belgium | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Costa Rica | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
North Korea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
43 | Colombia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Suriname | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
45 | New Zealand | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
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 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
56 | Argentina | 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) | 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 |
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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 |
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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
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[]
- ^ "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[]
- FINA official web site
- results Swim Rankings
Media related to World Aquatics Championships at Wikimedia Commons
- FINA World Aquatics Championships
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- Recurring sporting events established in 1973
- FINA competitions
- World championships in aquatics