2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Swimming
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
- Meet site
- Competition Schedule
- FinaTV Live Stream
- Entry Lists
- Results
At the conclusion of the competition, the United States brings home the most medals overall with 14 gold, 8 silver, and 5 bronze (27 total).
Day 8 ended with more gold for the United States thanks to Simone Manuel in the 50 free, Lilly King in the 50 breast, and the women’s 4 x 100 medley relay. The women’s relay team of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Kelsi Dahlia, and Simone Manuel broke the World Record, setting the mark at 3:50.40. Regan Smith also broke the World Record in the 100 backstroke leading off the relay.
With two more medals, Simone Manuel becomes the first woman to ever win 7 medals at a long course World Championships. Caeleb Dressel also takes home 8 medals: 6 gold, 2 silver.
Hungary only won four medals at this World Championships, but all of them were gold. Katinka Hosszu swept the IMs, while Kristof Milak and Boglarka Kapas claimed the men’s and women’s 200 butterfly golds. Hosszu’s final gold, the 400 IM, came on the final day of competition.
Daiya Seto of Japan swept the men’s IMs, winning his nation it final gold medal of the meet.
Florian Wellbrock won Germany’s first gold of the competition in the men’s 1500.
Zane Waddell got South Africa its first gold with a surprise victory in the men’s 50 backstroke, leaving the silver and bronze medals both to Russia. Russia picked up one more bronze medal in the men’s 4 x 100 medley relay.
Lewis Clareburt got New Zealand on the table with a bronze in the 400 IM, as did Ukraine’s Mykhailo Romanchuk with silver in the 1500.
Day 8 Medal Table – Final Standings:
| RANK | COUNTRY | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL | RANK BY TOTAL |
| 1 | United States | 14 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 1 |
| 2 | Australia | 5 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 2 |
| 3 | Hungary | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 (tie) |
| 4 | Russia | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
| 5 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 (tie) |
| 6 | China | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 (tie) |
| 7 | Great Britain | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 (tie) |
| 8 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 4 (tie) |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 (tie) |
| 11 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 (tie) |
| 12 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 (tie) |
| 13 | Brazil | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 (tie) |
| 14 (tie) | Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 14 (tie) | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 14 (tie) | Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 14 (tie) | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 14 (tie) | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 19 | France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 (tie) |
| 20 (tie) | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| 20 (tie) | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 (tie) |
| TOTALS | 42 | 43 | 42 | 127 |
US 14
Aussies 5
Always interesting stuff. Here are my suggestions, for what they are worth.
1. Score the medals by points. 5=1st 3=2nd 1=3rd. Gives a clearer picture
2. Show breakdown by male/females
3. Maybe look at breakdown w/o non Olympic events
4. Look at breakdown by strokes and/or distance
Good ideas Mike we’ll dig into that stuff.
FWIW – FINA does score the entire FINAL, not just medalists – that’s sometimes worth looking at.
would like to see the Olympic Medal Tally too…. also no mention of the Number 2 country, Australia, that had a huge improvement from last World Champs from 1-5-4 (10) to 5-9-5 (19).
Agree, plus a gender tally, which was the best female team,? Male team?
Big LOL @ Hungary outranking Russia when they won 12 fewer medals than them.
The women faired better than the men:
8 G, 4 S, 3 B for a total of 15 medals.
Two mixed relay medals (1 G, 1 S) were awarded.
Other than Dressel the only men to win medals in individual events were Murphy, Kalisz and Litherland
Yes the US won more medals than any other country but very few of the Americans swam well in terms of times. Lilly King won the 50 and 100 breast but nowhere near her record times as an example, there was a lot of speculation about her going under 1:04 and maybe approaching 28+ in the 50, not sure how would describe her performance. The men had a terrible meet in the freestyle events other than Dressel winning the 50 and 100 and Pieroni getting 4th in the 100. No No Americans in the final of the 800 or 1500 and Zane Grothe had a bad 400 swim, no Americans made the final of the 200.
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Also a ton of fourth places. Looking good for next year.
Wow, after the first few days, everyone down and out on the US. Then they turned it around.
The totals could have been better for Team USA, especially on the women’s side:
King’s disqualification
Lazor’s omission
Ledecky’s illness
Lots of teams were missing people or had sickness. not just USA
Yes, we know. Just because somebody made a comment about factors that affected the United States doesn’t mean there weren’t factors that affected other countries…nobody made that implication.
Part of me wonders if this was simply a luck of the draw of the event order and USA’s relative strengths.
— 3 of 4 Dressel’s individual gold finals would be contested on Night 5 or later.
— Relays are more loaded towards the latter half of the meet.
— The breakthroughs, of course, that added to this momentum effect were Simone’s 100/50 FR sweep on Day 6 and 8, and the fact that secret weapon Regan Smith had to hide in a bottle for the first 5 days.
— This effect was magnified by KL’s illness in the beginning, some of the near “sure” gold medal chances in the beginning of the meet.
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At the end of day 4 (halfway) the us was 3 G 3 S 2 B
In the last four days 11 G 5 S 3 B