FINA World Aquatics Championships

The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for Aquatics sports: Swimming, 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-meter) pool.

The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, 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.

Events

Year	Date	Championship	Location event	# Athletes	# Events	Winner of the medal table	Second of the medal table	Third of the medal table
1973	August 31 – September 9	I	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	686	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Italy
1975	July 19 – 27	II	Cali, Colombia	682	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Hungary
1978	August 20 – 28	III	West Berlin, West Germany	828	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	Soviet Union	Canada
1982	July 29 – August 8	IV	Guayaquil, Ecuador	848	18 (m), 19 (f)	United States	East Germany	Soviet Union
1986	August 13 – 23	V	Madrid, Spain	1119	19 (m), 22 (f)	East Germany	United States	Canada
1991	January 3 – 13	VI	Perth, Australia	1142	21 (m), 24 (f)	United States	China	Hungary
1994	September 1 – 11	VII	Rome, Italy	1400	21 (m), 24 (f)	China	United States	Russia
1998	January 8 – 17	VIII	Perth, Australia	1371	26 (m), 29 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2001	July 16 – 29	IX	Fukuoka, Japan	1498	29 (m), 32 (f)	Australia	China	United States
2003	July 12 – 27	X	Barcelona, Spain	2015	29 (m), 33 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2005	July 16 – 31	XI	Montreal, Canada	1784	29 (m), 33 (f)	United States	Australia	China
2007	March 18 – April 1	XII	Melbourne, Australia	2158	29 (m), 36 (f)	United States	Russia	Australia
2009	July 17 – August 2	XIII	Rome, Italy	2556	29 (m), 36 (f)	United States	China	Russia
2011	July 16 – 31	XIV	Shanghai, China	2220	29 (m), 36 (f)	United States	China	Russia
2013	July 19 – August 4	XV	Barcelona, Spain [nb 1]	2293[2]	30 (m), 37 (f), 1 (mixed)	United States	China	Russia
2015	July 24 – August 9	XVI	Kazan, Russia[3]
2017	June 30 – July 16	XVII	Budapest, Hungary[4]
2019	TBD	XVIII	Gwangju, South Korea[5][6][7]
2021	TBD	XIX	TBD

All-time medal since 1973

Updated after the 2013 World Aquatics Championships:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	214	166	119	499
2	China	103	75	53	231
3	Russia  Soviet Union	86	79	70	235
4	Australia	73	80	56	209
5	East Germany	51	44	27	122
6	Germany  West Germany	38	59	68	165
7	Hungary	28	21	24	73
8	Italy	26	26	36	88
9	Canada	20	38	38	96
10	Netherlands	16	22	28	66
11	France	14	21	21	56
12	Great Britain	13	18	30	61
13	Brazil	10	3	9	22
14	Ukraine	9	6	12	27
15	South Africa	9	2	12	23
16	Spain	8	25	23	56
17	Sweden	8	14	13	35
18	Japan	7	31	55	93
19	Poland	6	7	6	19
20	Denmark	4	6	5	15
21	Zimbabwe	4	5	0	9
22	Greece	4	3	3	10
23	Serbia  Serbia and Montenegro	4	3	2	9
24	Finland	3	2	2	7
25	Tunisia	2	2	4	8
26	Romania	2	1	7	10
27	Yugoslavia	2	1	3	6
28	Belarus	2	1	0	3
29	South Korea	2	0	1	3
30	Switzerland	1	4	1	6
31	Mexico	1	2	9	12
32	Croatia	1	2	3	6
33	Bulgaria	1	1	4	6
34	Belgium	1	1	2	4
	Costa Rica	1	1	2	4
	Lithuania	1	1	2	4
37	Norway	1	1	1	3
38	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Suriname	1	0	0	1
40	New Zealand	0	3	5	8
41	Austria	0	3	3	6
42	Slovakia	0	3	2	5
43	Czech Republic  Czechoslovakia	0	3	1	4
44	Cuba	0	1	1	2
	Iceland	0	1	1	2
46	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
47	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
48	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1

Disciplines

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

Diving

• 1 m springboard
• 3 m springboard
• 10 m platform
• Synchronized 3 m springboard
• Synchronized 10 m platform

High diving

• 27m (men only)
• 20m (women only)

Open water swimming

• 5 km
• 10 km
• 25 km

Swimming

Synchronized swimming

(Women only)

• Solo
• Duet
• Team
• Free combination

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)

Notes

References

External links

Media related to World Aquatics Championships at Wikimedia Commons

• Swim Rankings results

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