The Week That Was: Swimming World Championships Comes to a Close with 10 World Records

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The 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships are finished and the USA is the top team again. Here is a quick summary of the competition.

  • 12 countries won gold medals, 21 countries won medals, and 35 countries had final swims.
  • The USA top and Australia was next best when it came to the highest number of titles, total medals and final swims.
  • Australia topped the relay count, with four gold, two silver and one bronze medals, the USA with three gold, four silver and one bronze medals. Among women, the Australian 4x200m quartet stole the show; among men, Great Britain’s historic last-night win in the 4x100m medley shone through.
  • The outstanding splits of the championships were a 57.57 world record USA lead on backstroke from Regan Smith in the women’s 4x100m medley; a 1:54.27 Commonwealth record from Ariarne Titmus leading Australia to a world-record win in the 4x200m freestyle; a 51.10 from Australia’s Cate Campbell in the 4x100m mixed medley, 46.14 from Britain’s Duncan Scott on freestyle and 49.28 by America’s Caeleb Dressel on butterfly in the men’s 4x100m medley.

“The outstanding solo efforts of the championships came from Dressel – the biggest hauler of the meet, with 6 gold and 2 silver – Adam Peaty, Kristof Milak, Anton Chupkov, and Regan Smith, with special mention of Katie Ledecky and an 800m free swim that was one of the most significant of her stellar career – and her Stanford teammate Simone Manuel, who hauled the biggest tally of medals among women with 4 gold and 3 silver. The medal tallies included mixed relays and mean that Olympic and World Championships comparisons are even less relevant than they have ever been.” – Craig Lord

World records (10):

MEN

WOMEN

MIXED

The Swimming Medals Table:

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 nations) 42, 43, 42, 127

 

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4 years ago

Dressel won 6 gold !!!! and not 5.

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