Ana Marcela Cunha Ties Record for Most Open Water Worlds Medals

2017 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS – OPEN WATER

• July 15 – July 21
• Lake Balaton, Hungary
• Meet Central
• Full Schedule

As a nation, France came away as the big winners in the open water portion of the 2017 FINA World Championships this week.

France had just 1 gold medal at the FINA World Championships in open water from 1991-2015, and just 5 medals total. In 2017, they doubled their total medals – winning 4 golds and a bronze that leave them now as the 5th-best team in the history of the discipline at open water Worlds.

Aurelie Muller was involved in 3 of those 5 medals. She won the premier 10km event individually for the second-straight edition of the World Championships. She also took silver individually in the 5k, and, no surprise, France won gold in the team event as well.

Also taking 3 medals was Ana Marcela Cunha – she won bronze in the 5k and 10k (tie), and was the solo winner of the 25k.

That brings Cunha to 9 career open water medals at the FINA World Aquatics Championships – 3 gold, 2 silver, and 4 bronze. That ties her with Dutch legend Edith van Dijk for the most ever by a woman. Van Dijk had the exact same tally (3 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze) from 1998-2005. Van Dijk has 15 FINA World titles in open water if the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, held from 2000-2010.

See below the final 2017 medals table, the all-time medals table from the FINA World Aquatics Championships, and the medalists results from this year’s championships.

2017 Medals Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	4	1	1	6
2	United States	1	2	0	3
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4	Brazil	1	0	2	3
5	Italy	0	2	3	5
6	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
7	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	8	22

All-Time Medals Table (1991-2017)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	12	10	9	31
2	Germany (GER)	11	14	10	35
3	United States (USA)	10	8	5	23
4	Italy (ITA)	9	6	14	29
5	France (FRA)	5	3	2	10
6	Netherlands (NED)	4	6	4	14
7	Brazil (BRA)	4	3	6	13
8	Australia (AUS)	3	6	5	14
9	Greece (GRE)	2	4	3	9
10	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
11	Spain (SPA)	1	2	1	4
12	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	3	4
14	South Africa (RSA)  Tunisia (TUN)	1	0	1	2
16	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
17	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
18	Belgium (BEL)  Czech Republic (CZE)  Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
21	Argentina (ARG)  Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
Total		68	69	68	202

2017 Results (Medalists)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	54:31.4	Mario Sanzullo  Italy	54:32.1	Timothy Shuttleworth  Great Britain	54:42.1
10 km details	Ferry Weertman  Netherlands	1:51:58.5	Jordan Wilimovsky  United States	1:51:58.6	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	1:51:59.2
25 km details	Axel Reymond  France	5:02:46.4	Matteo Furlan  Italy	5:02:47.0	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia	5:02:49.8

Women[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Ashley Twichell  United States	59:07.0	Aurélie Muller  France	59:10.5	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	59:11.4
10 km details	Aurélie Muller  France	2:00:13.7	Samantha Arévalo  Ecuador	2:00:17.0	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil Arianna Bridi  Italy	2:00:17.2
25 km details	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	5:21:58.4	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	5:22:00.8	Arianna Bridi  Italy	5:22:08.2

Team

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Team details	France Oceane Cassignol Logan Fontaine Aurélie Muller Marc-Antoine Olivier	54:05.9	United States Brendan Casey Ashley Twichell Haley Anderson Jordan Wilimovsky	54:18.1	Italy Rachele Bruni Giulia Gabbrielleschi Federico Vanelli Mario Sanzullo	54:31.0