Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Date(s)21–28 July

Venue(s)Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center

Events42

Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Host city	Gwangju, South Korea
Date(s)	21–28 July
Venue(s)	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Events	42
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2019 FINA World Championships
Artistic swimming
Solo
Technical		women
Free		women
Duet
Technical		women
Technical	mixed
Free		women
Free	mixed
Team
Technical		women
Free		women
Combination		women
Highlight		women
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
3 m & 10 m	mixed team
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
3 m	mixed
10 m	men	women
10 m	mixed
High diving
20 m		women
27 m	men
Open water swimming
Single
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Relay
4 × 1.25 km	mixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed
4 × 200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed
Water polo
Tournament	men	women
Rosters	men	women
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Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships was held from 21 to 28 July 2019.

42 events were held.^[1]

All times are local (UTC+9).

H	Heats	½	Semi finals	F	Final

A = Afternoon session (starting at 10:00), E = Evening session (starting at 20:00)

**Men**
Date →	Sun 21		Mon 22		Tue 23		Wed 24		Thu 25		Fri 26		Sat 27		Sun 28
Event ↓	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E
50 m freestyle											H	½		F
100 m freestyle							H	½		F
200 m freestyle			H	½		F
400 m freestyle	H	F
800 m freestyle					H			F
1500 m freestyle													H			F
50 m backstroke													H	½		F
100 m backstroke			H	½		F
200 m backstroke									H	½		F
50 m breaststroke					H	½		F
100 m breaststroke	H	½		F
200 m breaststroke									H	½		F
50 m butterfly	H	½		F
100 m butterfly											H	½		F
200 m butterfly					H	½		F
200 m individual medley							H	½		F
400 m individual medley															H	F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	H	F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay											H	F
4 × 100 m medley relay															H	F

**Women**
Date →	Sun 21		Mon 22		Tue 23		Wed 24		Thu 25		Fri 26		Sat 27		Sun 28
Event ↓	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E
50 m freestyle													H	½		F
100 m freestyle									H	½		F
200 m freestyle					H	½		F
400 m freestyle	H	F
800 m freestyle											H			F
1500 m freestyle			H			F
50 m backstroke							H	½		F
100 m backstroke			H	½		F
200 m backstroke											H	½		F
50 m breaststroke													H	½		F
100 m breaststroke			H	½		F
200 m breaststroke									H	½		F
50 m butterfly											H	½		F
100 m butterfly	H	½		F
200 m butterfly							H	½		F
200 m individual medley	H	½		F
400 m individual medley															H	F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	H	F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay									H	F
4 × 100 m medley relay															H	F

**Mixed**
Date →	Sun 21		Mon 22		Tue 23		Wed 24		Thu 25		Fri 26		Sat 27		Sun 28
Event ↓	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E	A	E
4 × 100 m freestyle relay													H	F
4 × 100 m medley relay							H	F

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	14	8	5	27
2	Australia	5	9	5	19
3	Hungary	4	0	0	4
4	Russia	3	7	6	16
5	Italy	3	2	3	8
6	China	3	2	2	7
7	Great Britain	3	1	3	7
8	Japan	2	2	2	6
9	Canada	2	0	6	8
10	Sweden	1	2	2	5
11	South Africa	1	1	2	4
12	Germany	1	1	0	2
13	Brazil	0	3	2	5
14	Greece	0	1	0	1
Netherlands	0	1	0	1
Norway	0	1	0	1
Switzerland	0	1	0	1
Ukraine	0	1	0	1
19	France	0	0	2	2
20	Egypt	0	0	1	1
New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)	42	43	42	127

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle^[2] details	Caeleb Dressel United States	21.04 CR, NR	Bruno Fratus Brazil Kristian Golomeev Greece	21.45	None awarded
100 m freestyle^[3] details	Caeleb Dressel United States	46.96 NR	Kyle Chalmers Australia	47.08	Vladislav Grinev Russia	47.82
200 m freestyle^[4] details	Sun Yang China	1:44.93	Katsuhiro Matsumoto Japan	1:45.22 NR	Martin Malyutin Russia Duncan Scott Great Britain	1:45.63
400 m freestyle^[5] details	Sun Yang China	3:42.44	Mack Horton Australia	3:43.17	Gabriele Detti Italy	3:43.23 NR
800 m freestyle^[6] details	Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy	7:39.27 ER	Henrik Christiansen Norway	7:41.28 NR	David Aubry France	7:42.08 NR
1500 m freestyle^[7] details	Florian Wellbrock Germany	14:36.54	Mykhailo Romanchuk Ukraine	14:37.63	Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy	14:38.75

50 m backstroke^[8] details	Zane Waddell South Africa	24.43	Evgeny Rylov Russia	24.49	Kliment Kolesnikov Russia	24.51
100 m backstroke^[9] details	Xu Jiayu China	52.43	Evgeny Rylov Russia	52.67	Mitch Larkin Australia	52.77
200 m backstroke^[10] details	Evgeny Rylov Russia	1:53.40	Ryan Murphy United States	1:54.12	Luke Greenbank Great Britain	1:55.85

50 m breaststroke^[11] details	Adam Peaty Great Britain	26.06	Felipe Lima Brazil	26.66	João Gomes Júnior Brazil	26.69
100 m breaststroke^[12] details	Adam Peaty Great Britain	57.14	James Wilby Great Britain	58.46	Yan Zibei China	58.63 AS
200 m breaststroke^[13] details	Anton Chupkov Russia	2:06.12 WR	Matthew Wilson Australia	2:06.68	Ippei Watanabe Japan	2:06.73

50 m butterfly^[14] details	Caeleb Dressel United States	22.35 CR, AM	Oleg Kostin Russia	22.70 NR	Nicholas Santos Brazil	22.79
100 m butterfly^[15] details	Caeleb Dressel United States	49.66	Andrey Minakov Russia	50.83 NR	Chad le Clos South Africa	51.16
200 m butterfly^[16] details	Kristóf Milák Hungary	1:50.73 WR	Daiya Seto Japan	1:53.86	Chad le Clos South Africa	1:54.15

200 m individual medley^[17] details	Daiya Seto Japan	1:56.14	Jérémy Desplanches Switzerland	1:56.56 NR	Chase Kalisz United States	1:56.78
400 m individual medley^[18] details	Daiya Seto Japan	4:08.95	Jay Litherland United States	4:09.22	Lewis Clareburt New Zealand	4:12.07 NR

4 × 100 m freestyle relay^[19] details	United States Caeleb Dressel (47.63) Blake Pieroni (47.49) Zach Apple (46.86) Nathan Adrian (47.08) Townley Haas^[a] Michael Chadwick^[a]	3:09.06 CR	Russia Vladislav Grinev (47.83) Vladimir Morozov (47.62) Kliment Kolesnikov (47.50) Evgeny Rylov (47.02) Andrey Minakov^[a]	3:09.97	Australia Cameron McEvoy (48.44) Clyde Lewis (47.61) Alexander Graham (48.11) Kyle Chalmers (47.06)	3:11.22
4 × 200 m freestyle relay^[20] details	Australia Clyde Lewis (1:45.58) Kyle Chalmers (1:45.37) Alexander Graham (1:45.05) Mack Horton (1:44.85) Jack McLoughlin^[a] Thomas Fraser-Holmes^[a]	7:00.85 OC	Russia Mikhail Dovgalyuk (1:45.56) Mikhail Vekovishchev (1:45.45) Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:45.38) Martin Malyutin (1:45.42) Ivan Girev^[a]	7:01.81	United States Andrew Seliskar (1:45.81) Blake Pieroni (1:44.98) Zach Apple (1:46.03) Townley Haas (1:45.16) Jack Conger^[a] Jack LeVant^[a]	7:01.98
4 × 100 m medley relay^[21] details	Great Britain Luke Greenbank (53.95) Adam Peaty (57.20) James Guy (50.81) Duncan Scott (46.14) James Wilby^[a]	3:28.10 ER	United States Ryan Murphy (52.92) Andrew Wilson (58.65) Caeleb Dressel (49.28) Nathan Adrian (47.60) Matt Grevers^[a] Michael Andrew^[a] Jack Conger^[a] Zach Apple^[a]	3:28.45	Russia Evgeny Rylov (52.57) Kirill Prigoda (58.68) Andrey Minakov (50.54) Vladimir Morozov (47.02) Kliment Kolesnikov^[a] Anton Chupkov^[a] Mikhail Vekovishchev^[a] Vladislav Grinev^[a]	3:28.81 NR
AF African record \| AM Americas record \| AS Asian record \| CR Championship record \| ER European record \| OC Oceania record \| WR World record \| NR National record

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle^[22] details	Simone Manuel United States	24.05	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	24.07	Cate Campbell Australia	24.11
100 m freestyle^[23] details	Simone Manuel United States	52.04 AM	Cate Campbell Australia	52.43	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	52.46
200 m freestyle^[24] details	Federica Pellegrini Italy	1:54.22	Ariarne Titmus Australia	1:54.66	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	1:54.78
400 m freestyle^[25] details	Ariarne Titmus Australia	3:58.76 OC	Katie Ledecky United States	3:59.97	Leah Smith United States	4:01.29
800 m freestyle^[26] details	Katie Ledecky United States	8:13.58	Simona Quadarella Italy	8:14.99 NR	Ariarne Titmus Australia	8:15.70 OC
1500 m freestyle^[27] details	Simona Quadarella Italy	15:40.89 NR	Sarah Köhler Germany	15:48.83 NR	Wang Jianjiahe China	15:51.00

50 m backstroke^[28] details	Olivia Smoliga United States	27.33 NR	Etiene Medeiros Brazil	27.44	Daria Vaskina Russia	27.51
100 m backstroke^[29] details	Kylie Masse Canada	58.60	Minna Atherton Australia	58.85	Olivia Smoliga United States	58.91
200 m backstroke^[30] details	Regan Smith United States	2:03.69	Kaylee McKeown Australia	2:06.26	Kylie Masse Canada	2:06.62

50 m breaststroke^[31] details	Lilly King United States	29.84	Benedetta Pilato Italy	30.00	Yuliya Yefimova Russia	30.15
100 m breaststroke^[32] details	Lilly King United States	1:04.93	Yuliya Yefimova Russia	1:05.49	Martina Carraro Italy	1:06.36 NR
200 m breaststroke^[33] details	Yuliya Yefimova Russia	2:20.17	Tatjana Schoenmaker South Africa	2:22.52	Sydney Pickrem Canada	2:22.90

50 m butterfly^[34] details	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	25.02	Ranomi Kromowidjojo Netherlands	25.35	Farida Osman Egypt	25.47
100 m butterfly^[35] details	Maggie MacNeil Canada	55.83 AM	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	56.22	Emma McKeon Australia	56.61
200 m butterfly^[36] details	Boglárka Kapás Hungary	2:06.78	Hali Flickinger United States	2:06.95	Katie Drabot United States	2:07.04

200 m individual medley^[37] details	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	2:07.53	Ye Shiwen China	2:08.60	Sydney Pickrem Canada	2:08.70
400 m individual medley^[38] details	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	4:30.39	Ye Shiwen China	4:32.07	Yui Ohashi Japan	4:32.33

4 × 100 m freestyle relay^[39] details	Australia Bronte Campbell (52.85) Brianna Throssell (53.34) Emma McKeon (52.57) Cate Campbell (51.45) Madison Wilson^[b]	3:30.21 CR	United States Mallory Comerford (52.98) Abbey Weitzeil (52.66) Kelsi Dahlia (53.46) Simone Manuel (51.92) Allison Schmitt^[b] Margo Geer^[b] Lia Neal^[b]	3:31.02 AM	Canada Kayla Sanchez (53.72) Taylor Ruck (52.19) Penny Oleksiak (52.69) Maggie MacNeil (53.18) Rebecca Smith^[b]	3:31.78 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay^[40] details	Australia Ariarne Titmus (1:54.27) OC Madison Wilson (1:56.73) Brianna Throssell (1:55.60) Emma McKeon (1:54.90) Leah Neale^[b] Kiah Melverton^[b]	7:41.50 WR	United States Simone Manuel (1:56.09) Katie Ledecky (1:54.61) Melanie Margalis (1:55.81) Katie McLaughlin (1:55.36) Allison Schmitt^[b] Gabby DeLoof^[b] Leah Smith^[b]	7:41.87 AM	Canada Kayla Sanchez (1:57.32) Taylor Ruck (1:56.41) Emily Overholt (1:56.26) Penny Oleksiak (1:54.36) Rebecca Smith^[b] Emma O'Croinin^[b]	7:44.35 NR
4 × 100 m medley relay^[41] details	United States Regan Smith (57.57) WR Lilly King (1:04.81) Kelsi Dahlia (56.16) Simone Manuel (51.86) Olivia Smoliga^[b] Melanie Margalis^[b] Katie McLaughlin^[b] Mallory Comerford^[b]	3:50.40 WR	Australia Minna Atherton (59.06) Jessica Hansen (1:06.08) Emma McKeon (56.32) Cate Campbell (51.96) Kaylee McKeown^[b] Brianna Throssell^[b] Madison Wilson^[b]	3:53.42	Canada Kylie Masse (59.12) Sydney Pickrem (1:06.42) Maggie MacNeil (55.56) Penny Oleksiak (52.48) Kierra Smith^[b] Rebecca Smith^[b] Taylor Ruck^[b]	3:53.58 NR
AF African record \| AM Americas record \| AS Asian record \| CR Championship record \| ER European record \| OC Oceania record \| WR World record \| NR National record

^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 m freestyle relay^[42] details	United States Caeleb Dressel (47.34) Zach Apple (47.34) Mallory Comerford (52.72) Simone Manuel (52.00) Blake Pieroni^[c] Nathan Adrian^[c] Katie McLaughlin^[c] Abbey Weitzeil^[c]	3:19.40 WR	Australia Kyle Chalmers (47.37) Clyde Lewis (48.18) Emma McKeon (52.06) Bronte Campbell (52.36) Cameron McEvoy^[c] Alexander Graham^[c] Brianna Throssell^[c] Madison Wilson^[c]	3:19.97 OC	France Clément Mignon (48.44) Mehdy Metella (47.78) Charlotte Bonnet (52.87) Marie Wattel (53.02) Maxime Grousset^[c] Béryl Gastaldello^[c]	3:22.11
4 × 100 m medley relay^[43] details	Australia Mitch Larkin (53.47) Matthew Wilson (58.37) Emma McKeon (56.14) Cate Campbell (51.10) Minna Atherton^[c] Matthew Temple^[c] Bronte Campbell^[c]	3:39.08	United States Ryan Murphy (52.46) Lilly King (1:04.94) Caeleb Dressel (49.33) Simone Manuel (52.37) Matt Grevers^[c] Andrew Wilson^[c] Kelsi Dahlia^[c] Mallory Comerford^[c]	3:39.10	Great Britain Georgia Davies (59.25) Adam Peaty (57.73) James Guy (50.72) Freya Anderson (52.98) James Wilby^[c]	3:40.68
AF African record \| AM Americas record \| AS Asian record \| CR Championship record \| ER European record \| OC Oceania record \| WR World record \| NR National record

^c Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Doping

Days before the competition, 20-year-old Australian swimmer Shayna Jack withdrew from the World Championships, mentioning “personal reasons”. On 27 July 2019, Jack published a statement on her social media profiles, confirming doping allegations over testing positive for a banned substance.^[44]

Date	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
July 21	Men's 100 m breaststroke semifinals	(same)	56.88	Adam Peaty	Great Britain
July 24	Men's 200 m butterfly final	(same)	1:50.73	Kristóf Milák	Hungary
July 25	Men's 200 m breaststroke semifinals	(same)	=2:06.67	Matthew Wilson	Australia
July 25	Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay final	(same)	7:41.50	Ariarne Titmus (1:54.27) Madison Wilson (1:56.73) Brianna Throssell (1:55.60) Emma McKeon (1:54.90)	Australia
July 26	Men's 100 m butterfly semifinals	(same)	49.50	Caeleb Dressel	United States
July 26	Women's 200 metre backstroke semifinals	(same)	2:03.35	Regan Smith	United States
July 26	Men's 200 m breaststroke final	(same)	2:06.12	Anton Chupkov	Russia
July 27	Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay final	(same)	3:19.40	Caeleb Dressel (47.34) Zach Apple (47.34) Mallory Comerford (52.72) Simone Manuel (52.00)	United States
July 28	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay final	Women's 100 m backstroke	57.57	Regan Smith	United States
July 28	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay final	(same)	3:50.40	Regan Smith (57.57) Lilly King (1:04.81) Kelsi Dahlia (56.16) Simone Manuel (51.86)	United States

v t e World championships in 2019
Summer sports & indoor sports	Aquatics artistic swimming diving high diving open water swimming swimming water polo Archery Association football (women) Athletics cross country relay Badminton mixed team Basketball men 3x3 Beach soccer Beach volleyball Bowls Boxing men women Canoeing slalom sprint marathon Cricket Test ODI (men) Cycling road track mountain bike cyclo-cross BMX Fencing Floorball (women) Futsal (AMF men) Gymnastics artistic rhythmic trampoline Handball men women Judo Korfball Minifootball Modern pentathlon Muaythai Netball Nine-pin bowling Orienteering Roller hockey men women Rowing Rugby union (men) Shooting (shotgun) Softball (men) Sport climbing Squash men 2018–19 2019–20 women 2018–19 2019–20 Surfing Table tennis men women team Taekwondo Weightlifting Windsurfing Wrestling Wushu
Winter sports	Alpine skiing Bandy (men) Biathlon Bobsleigh / skeleton Curling men women mixed mixed doubles wheelchair Figure skating Freestyle skiing / snowboarding Ice hockey men women Luge Nordic skiing Speed skating allround single distances sprint short track
Cue & mind sports	Chess rapid blitz Darts BDO PDC Draughts men women Pool Nine-ball Ten-ball Snooker six-red
Motor sports	Air race Aquabike Endurance auto racing 2018–19 2019–20 Endurance motorcycle racing 2018–19 2019–20 F1 Powerboat Formula One Motocross men women team MotoGP Moto2 Moto3 MotoE Radio-controlled 1:10 off-road Rally Rallycross Rally raid Auto Moto Bajas auto Bajas moto Speedway individual team Sidecarcross Superbike Supersport Supersport 300 Touring car

Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Medal summary

Medal table

Men

Women

Mixed

Doping

Records

World records

Championship records

References

External links

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Date	Event	Time	Name	Nation
July 21	Men's 50 m butterfly semifinals	22.57	Caeleb Dressel	United States
July 21	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay final	3:09.06	Caeleb Dressel (47.63) Blake Pieroni (47.49) Zach Apple (46.86) Nathan Adrian (47.08)	United States
July 21	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay final	3:30.21	Bronte Campbell (52.85) Brianna Throssell (53.34) Emma McKeon (52.57) Cate Campbell (51.45)	Australia
July 22	Men's 100 m backstroke semifinals	52.17	Xu Jiayu	China
July 22	Men's 50 m butterfly final	22.35	Caeleb Dressel	United States
July 25	Men's 200 m breaststroke semifinals	2:06.83	Anton Chupkov	Russia
July 27	Men's 50 m freestyle final	21.04	Caeleb Dressel	United States