2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
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In the pool swimming portion of the 2022 World Championships, the United States topped the nation medal table by a significant margin, breaking the record for the most medals won at a single World Championships. They won 45 medals overall, with 17 being gold, 12 being silver, and 16 being bronze.
Because of this, it’s only fitting that an American swimmer tops both the overall medal table for swimmers and the medal table for individual events only. Katie Ledecky leads the swimmer medal table with her golds from the 400, 800, and 1500 free, and an additional win in the 4×200 free relay. In addition, her three individual golds are the most out of any swimmer at this World Championship meet. The only other swimmers to have three individual medals are Summer McIntosh (two golds and one silver), Leon Marchand (two golds and one silver), Sarah Sjostrom (two golds and one silver), Michael Andrew (one silver and two bronzes), and Zhang Yufei (three bronzes).
Mollie O’Callaghan and Torri Huske tie as the swimmers with the most overall medals, with O’Callaghan winning three golds and three silvers (one individual gold and silver) and Huske winning three golds and three bronzes (one individual gold and bronze).
Overall, 125 different athletes won medals, which is one more than the amount of athletes that won medals last year at the Tokyo Olympics. This is surprising, considering the World Championships has additional events such as 50 stroke races and the mixed free relay.
2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALS—BY THE NUMBERS (Pool Swimming Only):
- 249 total Worlds medals were given out
- 102 individual Worlds medals were given out
- 147 relay Worlds medals were given out
- 51 Worlds medals were given out to prelims-only swimmers
- 125 different athletes won at least one Worlds medal
- 67 different athletes won 2+ Worlds medals
- 33 different athletes won 3+ Worlds medals
- 16 different athletes won 4+ Worlds medals
- 6 different athletes won 5+ Worlds medals
- 2 different athletes won 6 Worlds medals
- 58 different athletes won at least one Worlds gold medal
- 22 different athletes won 2+ Worlds gold medals
- 5 different athletes won 3+ Worlds gold medals
- 1 athlete won 4 Worlds gold medals
- 72 different athletes won Worlds medals in individual events
- 24 different athletes won 2+ Worlds medals in individual events
- 6 different athletes won 3+ Worlds medals in individual medals
- 27 different athletes won Worlds gold medals in individual events
- 6 different athletes won 2+ Worlds gold medals in individual events
- 1 athlete won 3 Worlds gold medals in individual events
To nobody’s shock, the majority of these multi-medal winners from Worlds were either American or Australian, largely due to their countries having enough depth to put different swimmers on prelims and finals relays. The sheer amount of relay medals given out (with 51 distributed just for prelims-only swimmers) also explains the number of different individual medal winners (72) is substantially less than the total number of different medal winners.
2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALS—THE DOMINANCE OF THE UNITED STATES/AUSTRALIA:
- Out of the 67 athletes who won 2+ Worlds medals, 40 were American (23) or Australian (17).
- Out of the 33 athletes who won 3+ Worlds medals, 19 were American (13) or Australian (6).
- Out of the 16 athletes who won 4+ Worlds medals, 12 were American (7) or Australian (5).
- All six athletes who won more than 5 Worlds medals (Torri Huske, Erika Brown, Claire Curzan, Hunter Armstrong, Michael Andrew, Mollie O’Callaghan) were either American or Australian.
Out of all the 125 different Worlds medalists, only 6 of them make up an exclusive group of World Champions in multiple individual events. This number is less than Tokyo, where there were 8 different Olympic champions in multiple individual events.
List of World Champions In More Than One Individual Event:
- Katie Ledecky (USA) — gold in women’s 400 free, 800 free, 1500 free
- Leon Marchand (FRA) — gold in men’s 200 IM and 400 IM, silver in 200 fly
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) — gold in women’s 200 fly and 400 IM, silver in 400 free
- Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) — gold in women’s 50 free and 50 fly, silver in 100 free
- David Popovici (ROU) — gold in men’s 100 free and 200 free
- Kristof Milak (HUN) — gold in men’s 100 fly and 200 fly.
With that all being said and done, here are the official athlete medal tables for the pool swimming at the 2022 World Championships with one table for all events and one table for individual events only.
Note: These medal tables only account for pool swimming. These totals also don’t add to the same as the by-country medals table. Each prelims and finals swimmer on a relay is counted as 1 medal below, versus 1 medal in aggregate per country in the primary medals table.
Full Swimmer Medal Table:
| Name | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Katie Ledecky | United States | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mollie O’Callaghan | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Torri Huske | United States | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Lily King | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Alex Walsh | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Madi Wilson | Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Meg Harris | Australia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Leah Neale | Australia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Summer McIntosh | Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Leon Marchand | France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kristof Milak | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nicolo Martinenghi | Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| David Popovici | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sarah Sjostrom | Sweden | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Erika Brown | United States | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Claire Curzan | United States | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Hunter Armstrong | United States | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Nic Fink | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Ryan Murphy | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Justin Ress | United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Caeleb Dressel | United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kaylee McKeown | Australia | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Brianna Throssell | Australia | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Zac Stubblety-Cook | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| William Yang | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Jack Cartwright | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Zac Incerti | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Shayna Jack | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kylie Masse | Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Yang Junxuan | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ben Proud | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Benedetta Pilato | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Lorezno Zazzeri | Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Federico Burdisso | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Piero Codia | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ruta Meilutyte | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Michael Andrew | United States | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Carson Foster | United States | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Ryan Held | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Brooks Curry | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Bobby Finke | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Trenton Julian | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Regan Smith | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Hali Flickinger | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Drew Kibler | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Rhyan White | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Natalie Hinds | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Leah Smith | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kieran Smith | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Trey Freeman | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Coby Carrozza | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Claire Weinstein | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bella Sims | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Matt Temple | Australia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Kiah Melverton | Australia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jenna Strauch | Australia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Lani Pallister | Australia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Samuel Short | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mack Horton | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Brendon Smith | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Isaac Cooper | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Matt Wilson | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guilherme Costa | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kayla Sanchez | Canada | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Penny Oleksiak | Canada | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Taylor Ruck | Canada | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Maggie MacNeil | Canada | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Josh Liendo | Canada | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Rebecca Smith | Canada | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Katerine Savard | Canada | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Javier Acevedo | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mary-Sophie Havey | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rachel Nicol | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ingrid Wilm | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kelsey Wog | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Zhang Yufei | China | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Tang Muhan | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Maxime Grousset | France | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Melanie Henique | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Marie Wattel | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Analia Pigree | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Florian Wellbrock | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Lukas Martens | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Anna Elendt | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tom Dean | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| James Guy | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Jacob Whittle | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Richards | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| James Wilby | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jacob Peters | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Manuel Frigo | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Simona Quadarella | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Yu Hanaguruma | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nakoi Mizunuma | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tomuru Honda | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kira Toussaint | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kasia Wasick | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ksawery Masiuk | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lara Van Niekerk | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hwang Sunwoo | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Erik Persson | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mykhalio Romanchuk | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kate Douglass | United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Katie Grimes | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Katharine Berkoff | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Phoebe Bacon | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Shaine Casas | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Chase Kalisz | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Daiya Seto | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Leah Hayes | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Emma Weyant | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mallory Comerford | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Full Swimmer Medal Table (Individual Events Only):
| Name | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Katie Ledecky | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sarah Sjostrom | Sweden | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Summer McIntosh | Canada | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Leon Marchand | France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| David Popovici | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kristof Milak | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bobby Finke | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mollie O’Callaghan | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kylie Masse | Canada | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kaylee McKeown | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Benedetta Pilatto | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Ryan Murphy | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Nicolo Martinenghi | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Torri Huske | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ruta Meilutyte | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Nic Fink | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ben Proud | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Yang Junxuan | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Regan Smith | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lily King | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Alex Walsh | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Caeleb Dressel | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Justin Ress | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zac Stubblety-Cook | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Katie Grimes | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Carson Foster | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Michael Andrew | United States | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Maxime Grousset | France | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Florian Wellbrock | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hunter Armstrong | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hwang Sunwoo | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lukas Martens | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kasia Wasick | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kiah Melverton | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Katharine Berkoff | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Phoebe Bacon | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Melanie Henique | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Marie Wattel | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hali Flickinger | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Anna Elendt | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jenna Strauch | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Naoki Mizunuma | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Erik Persson | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yu Hanaguruma | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Zhang Yufei | China | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Josh Liendo | Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Tom Dean | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Guiherme Costa | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mykhalio Romanchuk | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Erika Brown | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Meg Harris | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tang Muhan | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Leah Smith | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lani Pallister | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Simona Quaderella | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Claire Curzan | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Analia Pigree | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rhyan White | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lara Van Niekerk | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kate Douglass | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Leah Hayes | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Emma Weyant | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tomuru Honda | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shaine Casas | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Chase Kalisz | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Daiya Seto | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
In contrast to the the total medal numbers that favor US/Australia, I am struck by the international diversity of the individual stars of the meet – for example (if I’m doing my math right) the 16 swimmers with multiple individual represent 9 different countries. The top of the table is even more impressive with the top 6 in individual medal count representing 6 different countries.
sorry I hadn’t realized how the tables were organized (in order of gold medals first) so my numbers aren’t correct. I think the point remains valid though – some remarkable swimming from around the world.
the table lists huske as having 3 G and 3 S, instead of 3 B, just fyi
MA one of 6 who won 3 medals. People tear him down but that’s a career!
He only swims 50s tho. If you think about it he should have had 4 if his 100Br didn’t go sideways.
How can you say he only swims 50’s? He swims 100 back, 100 breast, 100 fly, and 200 IM also. He swam 100 breast, 100 fly individual, 100 fly 50.6 on mixed medley relay and 100 fly 50.0 on medley relay at WC. At WC he swam 3×50 fly, 3×50 breast, 3×50 free, 3×100 fly, 2×100 breast, 100 fly, 100 fly. The man has aerobic endurance and speed
“only swims 50s”. OK clown.
“people” he is a fast swimmer. “they” also thinks his vaccination views are careless
The vast majority of the world could care less about his opinion on vaccination or if he is vaccinated at all. The fact remains that he had covid when vaccines were not available to him. Despite not being vaccinated, he hasn’t had covid again eventhough he has been exposed. I am glad he has some natural immunity from previous covid infection that is still working for him.