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World Aquatics Championships

World Aquatics Championships

World Championships for aquatic sports

"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 (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.

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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.

Championships

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).

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* 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)

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

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Multiple gold medalists

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count per type.

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Disciplines, events & medalists

Except where specified below, there are male and female categories for each event.

Swimming (since 1973)

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)
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Diving (since 1973)

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 platform

Mixed events:

  • synchronized 3 m springboard
  • synchronized 10 m platform
  • 3 m springboard / 10 m platform team

Artistic swimming (since 1973)

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)

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 tournament

Open water swimming (since 1991)

Main article: List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
  • 5 km
  • 10 km
  • Mixed Relay

High diving (since 2013)

Main article: List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in high diving
  • 27m (men only)
  • 20m (women only)

See also

Notes

  1. 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

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    "Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
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    "Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
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    "Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
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    "Overview". World Aquatics. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
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    "18th FINA World Championships: Entry List by Event" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
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    "World Aquatics Championships 2025 awarded to Singapore". World Aquatics. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
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    "Beijing announced as World Aquatics Championships 2029 host". World Aquatics. 11 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

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