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They Are The Champions: 2023 World Aquatics Championships

7/30/2023

 

Who Won The 2023 World Aquatics Championships?

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The World Aquatics Championships - Fukuoka 2023 ended today after almost two weeks of competition in Japan. This 20th edition puts the biennial, odd-year rotation of the championships back on track after Covid-19 schedule adjustments. This was the second time Fukuoka, and Japan, has hosted the event (2001).

75 (!) world titles were offered for the 2,392 (!!) athletes registered, across the six main disciplines of aquatics: diving, high diving, artistic swimming, water polo, swimming, and open water swimming. Spanning the history of the championships, Team United States is the all-time medal winner, followed by Team China.

And Team USA took the overall medal table at Fukuoka 2023 as well, with 44 to Team China's 40 and Team Australia's 30. 30 national teams won at least one medal across all disciplines.

Some of the highlights along the way? Katie Ledecky breaking Michael Phelps' individual career gold record while winning a sixth straight 800-meter title, Sarah Sjostrom setting a new mark in individual total medals, Kaylee McKeown and Leon Marchand each winning three individual titles, the eight world records (* below) set in swimming in the finals, Germany sweeping the open water individual races, and the near-complete dominance of Team China in diving, with four of its divers winning two golds each.

Congratulations to all the 2023 champions! A quick recap of the winners is below, and complete results can be found online at worldaquatics.com.


2023 World Swimming Champions
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Xu Jiayu, Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei, and Cheng Yujie celebrate Team China's Mixed 4x100 Medley Relay 2023 World Championship (Sarah Stier/Getty/World Aquatics)
Men's 50 meter Freestyle: Cameron McEvoy (AUS)
Men's 100 meter Freestyle: Kyle Chalmers (AUS)
Men's 200 meter Freestyle: Matt Richards (GBR)
Men's 400 meter Freestyle: Samuel Short (AUS)
Men's 800 meter Freestyle: Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN)
Men's 1500 meter Freestyle: Ahmed Hafnaoui
Men's 50 meter Backstroke: Hunter Armstrong (USA)
Men's 100 meter Backstroke: Ryan Murphy (USA)
Men's 200 meter Backstroke: Hubert Kós (HUN)
Men's 50 meter Breaststroke: Qin Haiyang (CHN)
Men's 100 meter Breaststroke: Qin Haiyang
Men's 200 meter Breaststroke: Qin Haiyang *
Men's 50 meter Butterfly: Thomas Ceccon
Men's 100 meter Butterfly: Maxime Grousset (FRA)
Men's 200 meter Butterfly: Léon Marchand (FRA)
Men's 200 meter Individual Medley: Léon Marchand
Men's 400 meter Individual Medley: Léon Marchand *
Men's 4x100 meter Freestyle Relay: Jack Cartwright, Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor, Kyle Chalmers (Matthew Temple - reserve) (AUS)
Men's 4x200 meter Freestyle Relay: Duncan Scott, Matthew Richards, James Guy, Tom Dean (Joe Licthfield - reserve) (AUS)
Men's 4x100 meter Medley Relay: Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, , Dare Rose, Jack Alexy (Hunter Armstrong, Josh Matheny, Thomas Heilman, Matt King reserves) (USA)

Women's 50 meter Freestyle: Sarah Sjöström (SWE)
Women's 100 meter Freestyle: Mollie O'Callaghan (AUS)
Women's 200 meter Freestyle: Mollie O'Callaghan *
Women's 400 meter Freestyle: Ariarne Titmus (AUS) *
Women's 800 meter Freestyle: Katie Ledecky (USA)
Women's 1500 meter Freestyle: Katie Ledecky
Women's 50 meter Backstroke: Kaylee McKeown (AUS)
Women's 100 meter Backstroke: Kaylee McKeown
Women's 200 meter Backstroke: Kaylee McKeown
Women's 50 meter Breaststroke: Rūta Meilutytė (LTU) *
Women's 100 meter Breaststroke: Rūta Meilutytė
Women's 200 meter Breaststroke: Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA)
Women's 50 meter Butterfly: Sarah Sjöström
Women's 100 meter Butterfly: Zhang Yufei (CHN)
Women's 200 meter Butterfly: Summer McIntosh (CAN)
Women's 200 meter Individual Medley: Kate Douglass (USA)
Women's 400 meter Individual Medley: Summer McIntosh
Women's 4x100 meter Freestyle Relay: Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon (Brianna Throssell, Madison Wilson reserves) (AUS) *
Women's 4x200 meter Freestyle Relay: Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Brianna Throssell, Ariarne Titmus (Madison Wilson, Lani Pallister, Kiah Melverton reserves) (AUS) *
Women's 4x100 meter Medley Relay: Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass (Katharine Berkoff, Lydia Jacoby, Torri Huske, Abbey Weitzeil reserves) (USA)

Mixed 4x100 meter Freestyle Relay: Jack Cartwright, Kyle Chalmers, Shayna Jack, Mollie O'Callaghan (Flynn Southam, Madison Wilson, Meg Harris - reserves) (AUS) *
​Mixed 4x100 meter Medley Relay: Xu Jiayu, Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei, Cheng Yujie (Yan Zibei, Wang Yichun, Wu Qingfeng reserves) (CHN)
2023 World Open Water Swimming Champions
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Team Italy won the Mixed 4x1500 Team Relay open water world championship for 2023 (World Aquatics)
Men's 5km: Florian Wellbrock (GER)
Men's 10km: Florian Wellbrock

Women's 5km: Leonie Beck (GER)
Women's 10km: Leonie Beck
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Mixed 4x1500m Relay: Barbara Pozzobon, Ginevra Taddeucci, Domenico Acerenza, 
and Gregorio Paltrinieri
(ITA)
2023 World Diving Champions
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The Mixed Team podium at the 2023 World Diving Championships (World Aquatics)
Men's 1 meter Springboard: Peng Jianfeng (CHN)
Men's 3 meter Springboard: Wang Zongyuan (CHN)
Men's 10 meter Platform: Cassiel Rousseau (AUS)
Men's Synchronized 3 meter Springboard: Long Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan (CHN)
Men's Synchronized  10 meter Platform: Lian Junjie and Yang Hao (CHN)

Women's 1 meter Springboard: Lin Shan (CHN)
Women's 3 meter Springboard: Chen Yiwen (CHN)
Women's 10 meter Platform: Chen Yuxi (CHN)
Women's Synchronized 3 meter Springboard: Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen (CHN)
Women's Synchronized  10 meter Platform: Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan (CHN)

Mixed 3 Meter Springboard: Zifeng Zhu and Shan Lin (CHN)
Mixed 10 Meter Platform: Wang Feilong and Zhang Jiaqi (CHN)
​Mixed Team: Bai Yuming, Zhang Jjiuyuan, Si Yajie, and Zhang Minjie (CHN)
2023 World High Diving Champions
Constantin Popovici (ROM) is the 2023 men's High Diving world champion (Profimedia)
Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) won the women's 2023 High Diving world championship (c/o diving.org.au)
2023 World Artistic Swimming Champions
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Team China won the 2023 Acrobatic Routine world championship in artistic swimming (World Aquatics)
Men's Solo Free Routine: Dennis González (ESP)
Men's Solo Technical Routine: Fernando Díaz del Río (ESP)

Women's Solo Free Routine: Yukiko Inui (JPN)
Women's Solo Technical Routine: Yukiko Inui
Women's Duet Free Routine: Anna-Maria Alexandri and Eirini-Marina Alexandri (AUT)
Women's Duet Technical Routine: Moe Higa and Mashiro Yasunaga (JPN)

Mixed Duet Free Routine: Cheng Wentao and Shi Haoyu (CHN)
Mixed Duet Technical Routine: Tomoka Sato and Yotaro Sato (JPN)

Team Acrobatic Routine: Chang Hao, Cheng Wentao, Feng Yu, Shi Haoyu, Wang Ciyue, Xiang Binxuan, Xiao Yanning, and Zhang Yayi (CHN)
Team Free Routine: Chang Hao,  Feng Yu, Wang Ciyue, Wang Liuyi, Wang Qianyi, Xiang Binxuan, Xiao Yanning, and Zhang Yayi (CHN)
Team Technical Routine: Cristina Arámbula, Marina García Polo, Meritxell Mas, Alisa Ozhogina, Paula Ramírez, Sara Saldaña, Iris Tió, and Blanca Toledano (ESP)
2023 World Water Polo Champions
Team Hungary won the men's Water Polo world championships for 2023 (MTI)
Team Netherlands won the 2023 women's Water Polo world title (Zhang Xiaoyu/Xinhua)

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