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The World Aquatics Championships (known as the FINA World Championships until 2022) are the World Championships for six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. The championships are staged by World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA (Fédération internationale de natation), the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports. The championships are World Aquatics' largest and main event traditionally held biennially every odd year, with all six of the aquatic disciplines contested every championships.
The championships were first staged in 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, with competitions held in swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo.[1] In 1991 open water swimming was added to the championships as a fifth discipline.[2] In 2013 high diving was added to the championships as a sixth discipline.[3] In 2017 the synchronised swimming discipline was renamed to artistic swimming.[4]
Prior to the 9th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka in 2001, the championships had been staged at various intervals of two to four years. From 2001 to 2019 the championships were held biennially in odd years. Due to interruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions, host venues withdrawing from hosting championships and World Aquatics' withdrawing the rights to host championships, the championships will be staged in every year from 2022 to 2025 until resuming to biennial from 2025 onwards.
The World Open Water Swimming Championships (also known as 'Open Water Worlds') is part of the World Aquatics Championships. Additional standalone editions of the Open Water Championships were also held in the even years from 2000 to 2010. The World Masters Championships (also known as 'Masters Worlds) is open to athletes 25 years and above (30+ years in water polo) in each aquatics discipline excluding high diving and has been held as part of the World Aquatics Championships since 2015. Prior to this, the Masters Championship was held separately, biennially in even years.
Athletes from all current 208 World Aquatics member federations are eligible to compete at the championships, along with athletes considered 'Neutral Independent Athletes' under the rules of World Aquatics and athletes from the 'World Aquatics Refugee Team'. The 2019 championships set the record for the most athletes participating (2,623).[5] At the recent 2024 championships participated athletes from record 199 nations: 197 member federations, 1 suspended member federation and Athlete Refugee Team.
Member federations referred to as winners, second, and third, in the table below, are the top three nation's listed on the medal tally based on the standard method of ranking (being total gold medals, followed by total silver medals, and then total bronze medals).
* Record by number of gold medals – United States (23 gold medals, 1978) and China (23 gold medals, 2024) ** Record by number of total medals – United States (49 medals in total, 2022)
^"Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
^"Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
^"Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
^"Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
^"18th FINA World Championships: Entry List by Event" (PDF). Omega Timing. (PDF) from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
^ ab"World Aquatics Championships 2025 awarded to Singapore". World Aquatics. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
^"Beijing announced as World Aquatics Championships 2029 host". World Aquatics. 11 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
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FINA World Swimming Championships redirects here For the short course swimming only championships which uses a 25 metre pool see FINA World Swimming Championships 25 m The World Aquatics Championships known as the FINA World Championships until 2022 are the World Championships for six aquatic disciplines swimming diving high diving open water swimming artistic swimming and water polo The championships are staged by World Aquatics formerly known as FINA Federation internationale de natation the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee IOC for administering international competitions in water sports The championships are World Aquatics largest and main event traditionally held biennially every odd year with all six of the aquatic disciplines contested every championships World Aquatics ChampionshipsStatusActiveGenreGlobal Sporting EventDate s Two Weeks usually mid year FrequencyUsually BiennialLocation s Various Host CitiesYears active50 yearsInaugurated1973 1973 Most recentDoha 2024Previous eventFukuoka 2023Next eventSingapore 2025ActivitySwimming Diving Water Polo Artistic Swimming Open Water Swimming High DivingOrganised byWorld AquaticsEditions21 including 2024 Websiteworldaquatics com2024 World Aquatics ChampionshipsThe championships were first staged in 1973 in Belgrade Yugoslavia with competitions held in swimming diving synchronised swimming and water polo 1 In 1991 open water swimming was added to the championships as a fifth discipline 2 In 2013 high diving was added to the championships as a sixth discipline 3 In 2017 the synchronised swimming discipline was renamed to artistic swimming 4 Prior to the 9th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka in 2001 the championships had been staged at various intervals of two to four years From 2001 to 2019 the championships were held biennially in odd years Due to interruptions from the COVID 19 pandemic travel restrictions host venues withdrawing from hosting championships and World Aquatics withdrawing the rights to host championships the championships will be staged in every year from 2022 to 2025 until resuming to biennial from 2025 onwards The World Open Water Swimming Championships also known as Open Water Worlds is part of the World Aquatics Championships Additional standalone editions of the Open Water Championships were also held in the even years from 2000 to 2010 The World Masters Championships also known as Masters Worlds is open to athletes 25 years and above 30 years in water polo in each aquatics discipline excluding high diving and has been held as part of the World Aquatics Championships since 2015 Prior to this the Masters Championship was held separately biennially in even years Athletes from all current 208 World Aquatics member federations are eligible to compete at the championships along with athletes considered Neutral Independent Athletes under the rules of World Aquatics and athletes from the World Aquatics Refugee Team The 2019 championships set the record for the most athletes participating 2 623 5 At the recent 2024 championships participated athletes from record 199 nations 197 member federations 1 suspended member federation and Athlete Refugee Team Contents 1 Championships 2 All time medal table 3 Multiple gold medalists 4 Disciplines events amp medalists 4 1 Swimming since 1973 4 2 Diving since 1973 4 3 Artistic swimming since 1973 4 4 Water polo since 1973 4 5 Open water swimming since 1991 4 6 High diving since 2013 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksChampionships editMember federations referred to as winners second and third in the table below are the top three nation s listed on the medal tally based on the standard method of ranking being total gold medals followed by total silver medals and then total bronze medals Year Dates Edition Location Nations Athletes Events Events Details Winner Second Third Most Medals1973 31 August 9 September 1 nbsp Belgrade Yugoslavia 47 686 37 18 M 19 W nbsp United States nbsp East Germany nbsp Italy nbsp United States1975 19 27 July 2 nbsp Cali Colombia 39 682 37 18 M 19 W nbsp United States nbsp East Germany nbsp Hungary nbsp United States1978 20 28 August 3 nbsp West Berlin West Germany 49 828 37 18 M 19 W nbsp United States nbsp Soviet Union nbsp Canada nbsp United States1982 29 July 8 August 4 nbsp Guayaquil Ecuador 52 848 37 18 M 19 W nbsp United States nbsp East Germany nbsp Soviet Union nbsp United States1986 13 23 August 5 nbsp Madrid Spain 34 1 119 41 19 M 22 W nbsp East Germany nbsp United States nbsp Canada nbsp United States1991 3 13 January 6 nbsp Perth Australia 60 1 142 45 21 M 24 W nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Hungary nbsp United States1994 1 11 September 7 nbsp Rome Italy 102 1 400 45 21 M 24 W nbsp China nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp China1998 8 17 January 8 nbsp Perth Australia 121 1 371 53 24 M 27 W 2 X nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp Australia nbsp United States2001 16 29 July 9 nbsp Fukuoka Japan 134 1 498 61 29 M 32 W nbsp Australia nbsp China nbsp United States nbsp United States2003 12 27 July 10 nbsp Barcelona Spain 157 2 015 62 29 M 33 W nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp Australia nbsp United States2005 16 31 July 11 nbsp Montreal Canada 144 1 784 62 29 M 33 W nbsp United States nbsp Australia nbsp China nbsp United States2007 18 March 1 April 12 nbsp Melbourne Australia 167 2 158 65 29 M 36 W nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp Australia nbsp United States2009 17 July 2 August 13 nbsp Rome Italy 185 2 556 65 29 M 36 W nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Russia nbsp United Statesand nbsp China2011 16 31 July 14 nbsp Shanghai China 181 2 220 66 29 M 36 W 1 X nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Russia nbsp China2013 19 July 4 August 15 nbsp Barcelona Spain 181 2 293 68 30 M 37 W 1 X nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Russia nbsp United States2015 24 July 9 August 16 nbsp Kazan Russia 190 2 400 75 30 M 37 W 8 X nbsp China nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp China2017 14 30 July 17 nbsp Budapest Hungary 182 2 360 75 30 M 37 W 8 X nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Russia nbsp United States2019 12 28 July 18 nbsp Gwangju South Korea 192 2 623 76 30 M 38 W 8 X nbsp China nbsp United States nbsp Russia nbsp United States2022 18 June 3 July 19 nbsp Budapest Hungary 183 2 034 74 29 M 37 W 8 X nbsp United States nbsp China nbsp Italy nbsp United States 2023 14 30 July 20 nbsp Fukuoka Japan 195 2 392 75 31 M 33 W 11 X nbsp China nbsp Australia nbsp United States nbsp United States2024 2 18 February 21 nbsp Doha Qatar 199 2 238 75 31 M 33 W 11 X nbsp China nbsp United States nbsp Australia nbsp China2025 22 nbsp Singapore 6 2027 23 nbsp Budapest Hungary 6 2029 24 nbsp Beijing China 7 Record by number of gold medals nbsp United States 23 gold medals 1978 and nbsp China 23 gold medals 2024 Record by number of total medals nbsp United States 49 medals in total 2022 All time medal table editUpdated after the 2024 World Aquatics Championships RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 nbsp United States3022461907382 nbsp China207124964273 nbsp Australia117127903344 nbsp Russia10573622405 nbsp Italy5162751886 nbsp East Germany5144271227 nbsp Hungary4334331108 nbsp Germany4264731799 nbsp Great Britain36376513810 nbsp France33373410411 nbsp Canada30567115712 nbsp Netherlands24423410013 nbsp Sweden2121186014 nbsp Japan19497914715 nbsp Brazil1715195116 nbsp Soviet Union1628287217 nbsp Spain1442359118 nbsp Ukraine1319306219 nbsp South Africa137173720 nbsp West Germany87122721 nbsp Poland611122922 nbsp Greece5792123 nbsp Lithuania5331124 nbsp Romania5281525 nbsp Denmark4982126 nbsp Zimbabwe450927 nbsp Tunisia4341128 nbsp South Korea4251129 nbsp Serbia421730 nbsp Croatia3341031 nbsp Finland322732 nbsp Mexico214193533 nbsp New Zealand2681634 nbsp Belarus2136 nbsp Yugoslavia213636 nbsp Portugal211437 nbsp Ireland200238 nbsp Austria1661339 nbsp Switzerland162940 nbsp North Korea132641 nbsp Hong Kong1214 nbsp Norway121443 nbsp Malaysia116844 nbsp Bulgaria114645 nbsp Belgium1124 nbsp Colombia1124 nbsp Costa Rica1124 nbsp Serbia and Montenegro112449 nbsp Kazakhstan101250 nbsp Suriname100151 nbsp Slovakia032552 nbsp Czech Republic030353 nbsp Cuba0112 nbsp Czechoslovakia0112 nbsp Iceland0112 nbsp Jamaica011257 nbsp Ecuador0101 nbsp Israel0101 nbsp Montenegro010160 nbsp Egypt005561 nbsp Argentina0022 nbsp Neutral Independent Athletes a 0022 nbsp Singapore002264 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina0011 nbsp Puerto Rico0011 nbsp Trinidad and Tobago0011 nbsp Venezuela0011Totals 67 entries 1234124412303708Multiple gold medalists editBoldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count per type Rank Athlete Country Gender Discipline From To Gold Silver Bronze Total1 Michael Phelps nbsp United States M Swimming 2001 2011 26 6 1 332 Katie Ledecky nbsp United States F Swimming 2013 2023 21 5 263 Svetlana Romashina nbsp Russia F Artistic swimming 2005 2019 21 214 Natalia Ishchenko nbsp Russia F Artistic swimming 2005 2015 19 2 215 Ryan Lochte nbsp United States M Swimming 2005 2015 18 5 4 276 Svetlana Kolesnichenko nbsp Russia F Artistic swimming 2011 2019 16 167 Caeleb Dressel nbsp United States M Swimming 2017 2022 15 2 178 Sarah Sjostrom nbsp Sweden F Swimming 2009 2024 14 8 3 259 Alla Shishkina nbsp Russia F Artistic swimming 2009 2019 14 1410 Anastasia Davydova nbsp Russia F Artistic swimming 2001 2011 13 1 14Disciplines events amp medalists editExcept where specified below there are male and female categories for each event Swimming since 1973 edit Main article Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming men Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming women Distance Free Back Breast Fly I M Free relay Medley relay Mixed free relay Mixed medley relay50m 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m Diving since 1973 edit Main article World Diving Championships Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Men s and women s events 1 m springboard 3 m springboard 10 m platform synchronized 3 m springboard synchronized 10 m platformMixed events synchronized 3 m springboard synchronized 10 m platform 3 m springboard 10 m platform teamArtistic swimming since 1973 edit Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Except for Acrobatic routine all events include technical and free routines with medals awarded separately Solo including men s solo since 2023 Duet including mixed pair male female since 2015 Team since 2023 open event to men and women Acrobatic routine since 2023 open event to men and women Water polo since 1973 edit Main article Water polo at the World Aquatics Championships Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo Men s tournament Women s tournamentOpen water swimming since 1991 edit Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming 5 km 10 km Mixed RelayHigh diving since 2013 edit Main article List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in high diving 27m men only 20m women only See also editWorld Aquatics FINA World Swimming Championships 25 m FINA World Junior Swimming Championships FINA Swimming World Cup FINA World Masters Championships FINA Marathon Swim World Series List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming men List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming women Major achievements in swimming by nationNotes edit At the 2024 World Championships in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine athletes from Belarus were not permitted to use the name flag or anthem of Belarus They instead participated as Neutral Independent Athletes NIA and under the World Aquatics flag References edit Overview World Aquatics Retrieved 17 September 2023 Overview World Aquatics Retrieved 17 September 2023 Overview World Aquatics Retrieved 17 September 2023 Overview World Aquatics Retrieved 17 September 2023 18th FINA World Championships Entry List by Event PDF Omega Timing Archived PDF from the original on 18 July 2019 Retrieved 17 November 2019 a b World Aquatics Championships 2025 awarded to Singapore World Aquatics 9 February 2023 Retrieved 9 February 2023 Beijing announced as World Aquatics Championships 2029 host World Aquatics 11 February 2024 Retrieved 11 February 2024 External links edit1973 World Aquatics Championships results 1975 World Aquatics Championships results 1978 World Aquatics Championships results 1982 World Aquatics Championships results 1986 World Aquatics Championships results 1991 World Aquatics Championships results 1994 World Aquatics Championships results 1998 World Aquatics Championships results 2001 World Aquatics Championships results 2003 World Aquatics Championships results 2005 World Aquatics Championships results 2007 World Aquatics Championships results 2009 World Aquatics Championships results 2011 World Aquatics Championships results 2013 World 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