China Leads World Championships Medal Counts for the 5th Straight Edition (All Sports Tables)

2025 World Championships

• July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
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While the United States led the medal table for swimming in the pool at the 2025 World Championships, it was China that continued its streak atop the overall standings with both the the most gold medals (15) and overall medals (37) across the championship’s six disciplines.

China won the most gold medals for the fifth straight championship (including a 2022 tie with the United States, where the U.S. had more silver and total medals).

While only two of those came in swimming (a low by China’s recent standards), the country once again dominated diving, winning nine out of the 13 events on offer.

That matches their gold medal output from the 2024 championships, though with a young roster including many World Championship debutants, that is a slide from their 12-and-13 win performances in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

In the absence and subsequent limitation for Russian synchronized swimmers, China has also emerged as the new world power, winning 4 golds in 11 events there. Neutral Athletes from Russia won 3, Spain won 3, and Austria won 1.

That includes China sweeping the gold medals in the artistic swimming team events, which has historically been the domain of the Russians.

The United States (James Lichtenstein – men) and Australia (Rhiannan Iffland – women) won the high diving events, which are treated as a different discipline by World Aquatics.

The water polo golds went to Spain for the men and Greece for the women. That is a fourth all-time World Championship for the Spanish men and a second of the Greek women. Hungary swept the silvers, while Spain and Greece swapped for the women’s and men’s bronze medals, respectively.

In a re-expanded open water schedule that came the week before pool swimming, Germany led the table with four gold medals, led by a perfect four-for-four from Florian Wellbrock. Australia picked up two gold medals from Moesha Johnson in the women’s 5k and 10k races, while Japan’s Ichika Kajimoto won the brand new women’s 3km knockout sprint, which was her country first ever open water gold medal. Her 5km bronze earlier in the week was her country’s first open water medal of any color.

And in the pool, a last-day gold medal and World Record for the women’s 400 medley relay concluded a better finish to the meet than it started for the Americans, who were stricken by illness at a pre-championship training camp.

Overall, the gap from China to the rest of the world was much smaller than it has been in recent events. In 2024, for example, they won 23 gold medals, followed by the US with 9 and Australia with 7. That spike was driven by dominance of a Russia-less artistic swimming plus a much better performance in the pool (7 golds, versus just 2 this year).

Of the nine American gold medals in pool swimming, eight were won by women, with Luca Urlando‘s 200 fly being the lone title for the men.

In 2023, China won 20 gold medals across all sports, compared to 15 for Australia and 7 for the United States. In 2022, the U.S. and China combined with 18 gold medals each.

In total, 29 countries won medals at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships. That list includes for the first time Kyrgyzstan, which sent only two athletes and came away with a bronze medal in the men’s 100 breaststroke via Denis Petrashov. They become the 71st federation all-time, including neutral athlete groups, to win a medal at the World Championships (68th excluding neutral federations).

World Aquatics currently has 210 member federations, of which 62 have won a medal at the World Aquatics Championships.

All-Sports Medals Table

All tables are sorted by most gold medals, then most silver medals, then most bronze medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	15	12	10	37
2	Australia	13	7	8	28
3	United States	10	11	11	32
4	Neutral Athletes B [a]	6	8	4	18
5	Germany	6	3	1	10
6	Spain	4	3	5	12
7	France	4	1	5	10
8	Canada	4	1	4	9
9	Italy	2	11	6	19
10	Romania	2	0	1	3
11	Tunisia	2	0	0	2
12	Japan	1	4	3	8
	Mexico	1	4	3	8
14	Hungary	1	3	3	7
15	Great Britain	1	2	2	5
16	South Africa	1	2	1	4
17	Netherlands	1	0	2	3
18	Greece	1	0	1	2
19	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
21	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
22	Neutral Athletes A [b]	0	1	2	3
23	Belgium	0	1	1	2
	North Korea	0	1	1	2
25	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
27	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Monaco	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		77	79	77	233

Pool Swimming

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	11	9	29
2	Australia	8	6	6	20
3	France	4	1	3	8
4	Canada	4	0	4	8
5	Neutral Athletes B [a]	3	4	1	8
6	China	2	6	6	14
7	Germany	2	2	1	5
8	Romania	2	0	0	2
	Tunisia	2	0	0	2
10	Italy	1	4	2	7
11	South Africa	1	2	1	4
12	Great Britain	1	1	0	2
13	Netherlands	1	0	2	3
14	Hungary	1	0	1	2
15	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
16	Japan	0	3	1	4
17	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
18	Belgium	0	1	1	2
19	Poland	0	1	0	1
20	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Neutral Athletes A [b]	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		42	44	41	127

Open Water Swimming

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	0	0	4
2	Australia	2	0	2	4
3	Japan	1	0	1	2
4	Italy	0	6	0	6
5	Hungary	0	1	2	3
6	France	0	0	2	2
7	Monaco	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	8	22

Diving

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	9	3	4	16
2	Australia	2	1	0	3
3	Mexico	1	4	2	7
4	Italy	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Neutral Athletes B [a]	0	1	1	2
	North Korea	0	1	1	2
8	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
10	Japan	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		13	13	13	39

High Diving

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	0	1	2
2	Australia	1	0	0	1
3	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
5	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Water Polo

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	1	0	1	2
	Spain	1	0	1	2
3	Hungary	0	2	0	2
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Artistic Swimming

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	4	3	0	7
2	Neutral Athletes B[a]	3	3	2	8
3	Spain	3	2	4	9
4	Austria	1	0	0	1
5	Italy	0	1	2	3
6	Neutral Athletes A[b]	0	1	1	2
7	Japan	0	1	0	1
8	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		11	11	11	33