2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- 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
Day 7 medal events included the women’s 50 butterfly, men’s 50 freestyle, men’s 100 butterfly, women’s 200 backstroke, women’s 800 freestyle, and the mixed 4×100 freestyle relay.
Rumors of the United States’ demise have been greatly exaggerated, as the U.S. has come roaring back on the medal table of the past two finals sessions, and took gold in five of six opportunities Saturday night.
Of course, American Caeleb Dressel alone tallied three golds on the penultimate night of racing, winning the 50 free, 100 fly, and 4×100 mixed free relay (along with Mallory Comerford, Simone Manuel and Zach Apple). Seventeen-year-old Regan Smith, the newly-minted world record holder, won the 200 back, and Katie Ledecky returned from illness to grind out an 800 win.
Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom picked up the final gold up for grabs Saturday, winning her third-straight 50 fly world title.
DAY 7 MEDAL TABLE:
| RANK | COUNTRY | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL | Rank by Total |
| 1 | United States | 11 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 1 |
| 2 | Australia | 5 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 2 |
| 3 | Russia | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 3 |
| 4 | China | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 (tie) |
| 5 | Italy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 (tie) |
| 6 | Hungary | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 (tie) |
| 7 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 (tie) |
| 8 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 9 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 (tie) |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 (tie) |
| 11 | Brazil | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 12 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 (tie) |
| 13 (tie) | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| 13 (tie) | Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| 13 (tie) | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| 13 (tie) | Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| 13 (tie) | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| 14 | France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 15 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 (tie) |
| TOTALS | 34 | 35 | 34 | 103 |
Honest question to Americans, do you get hyped for every single swimmer on your team? I get cheering for the relays like crazy, and a few favorites individually, but every single one of them? Or do you go with the ones primarily from your home state?
Qualifying to the US team(basically like putting all of Europe’s best swimmers together on a single squad) is pretty much a guaranteed medal chance, so I gotta ask. I could never cheer for every single European in a competition if we were united, but maybe it’s different.
Just thought it must be a little dull knowing there will be many golds in advance, lol.
No we get extremely excited for basically everyone. National identity is far more prevalent than State ID. We are not multiple countries. We are one. Why on earth would you compare it to a hypothetical and impossible united Europe? You know many other countries have their own states and provinces right?
And we don’t just cheer if they get golds. We cheer even if they get dead last bc that’s what we do. It is never dull.
Definitely cheer for every American swimmer, but at the same time you definitely have your personal favorites. Ex. I was always a big Phelps guy(I mean, who isn’t/wasn’t) but never a big Lochte guy
Negative. The standard for hype has become world records: Baker, Ledecky, King, Smith (Regan)
With a few exceptions, we generally don’t know what state our swimmers hail from. They’re American. What state you’re from is just a line in your address, not anything most people are particularly attached to.
Unless they’re from Texas. Those guys LOVE Texas.
This has been a very fast meet, in terms of world records.
The top 8 countries will be even faster next year. It’s going to be an amazing 9 days in Tokyo.
Ruck & Oleksiak will be back stronger and faster, and the USA is going to bring some 200 freestylers 🙂
Swim swam
Can you do a breakdown by gender, maybe top 5 each pdiums male and female?
Note: If 3 countries are tied for 5th overall, the next country Brazil is 8th and not 6th.
And so on.
Keep the momentum going for one more day! 🙌🏻
Started poorly, finished brilliantly.
Team USA Swimming
Gold Medals/Total Medals
2011 – 16/29
2013 – 13/29
2015 – 08/23
2017 – 18/38
2019 – 11/22
Doubling up the Aussies on golds
With 15 times the population ………