2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th
- Budapest, Hungary
- LCM (50m)
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Stanford narrowly edged California for the most World Championship medals in Budapest, winning 14 total and 12 gold medals.
Stanford easily led the gold medal count, thanks to a stellar combination of Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel, who won 5 golds apiece. Louisville earned 9 golds overall, courtesy of Kelsi Worrell (4) and Mallory Comerford (5).
In terms of individual medals, California led the way with 7 total. That was a true team effort, with Ryan Murphy (2), Kathleen Baker (2), Nathan Adrian (1), Jacob Pebley (1) and Farida Osman (1) all chipping in.
With Tim Phillips earning a relay medal with the American men’s medley, the list has now expanded to 20 NCAA programs. Here’s the full final numbers on teams, athletes, nations and medals:
- 108 total medals for NCAA athletes or alums
- won by 49 different swimmers
- representing 20 different NCAA programs
- representing 7 different nations
Most Medals By Athlete
| Rank | Name | School | Total | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1 | Caeleb Dressel | Florida | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Katie Ledecky | Stanford | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Simone Manuel | Stanford | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Mallory Comerford | Louisville | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Kelsi Worrell | Louisville | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Townley Haas | Texas | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Lilly King | Indiana | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Nathan Adrian | California | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Katinka Hosszu | USC | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Matt Grevers | Northwestern | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Ryan Murphy | California | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Kevin Cordes | Arizona | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Blake Pieroni | Indiana | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Katie Meili | Columbia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Kathleen Baker | California | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Leah Smith | Virginia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
NCAA PROGRAM MEDAL TABLES
Note: in compiling these numbers, we’re using the strict definition of “current swimmer or alumnus.” To count towards these numbers, an athlete must have competed for the college program in question. We’re not including commits, nor are we including swimmers who train out of a certain university without directly competing for that college’s NCAA program. So, for example, Bruno Fratus doesn’t count for Auburn (he’s trained there but never competed at the college level), Zane Grothe doesn’t count for Indiana (he trains there now, but swam for Auburn throughout college) and Michael Phelps wouldn’t count for Michigan (anyone remember that? A good illustration of why our definition leaves a lot less weird gray area). In addition, transfers will count for the program for which they are currently competing, or the program with which they finished their collegiate eligibility.
Note #2: We’re also counting total medals, not total event medals (as is typically done in medal counts). So instead of the men’s 4×100 free relay counting as one gold medal (like it would in a traditional medal table), we’re counting each individual swimmer’s college affiliations, if any. So Brazil’s male 4×100 free relay actually counts as two golds for Auburn: one for Cesar Cielo and another for Marcelo Chierighini. And while this could certainly be debated, we’re also counting prelims swimmers. So the U.S. women’s 4×100 free relay counts as three medals for Stanford (Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel in the final and Lia Neal in prelims) and two for Louisville (Kelsi Worrell and Mallory Comerford) along with one for Georgia (Olivia Smoliga in prelims).
All that said, think of these lists as a tally of total medals won by all members and alums of each NCAA program.
ALL MEDALS
| Total | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| Stanford | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| California | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Louisville | 11 | 9 | 2 | |
| Georgia | 11 | 6 | 5 | |
| Texas | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Florida | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Indiana | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Northwestern | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| USC | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Auburn | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Arizona | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Virginia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Columbia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Texas A&M | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Missouri | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | ||
| Duke | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ohio State | 1 | 1 | ||
| Arizona State | 1 | 1 | ||
| Michigan | 1 | 1 |
Individual Only
| Total | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| California | 7 | 3 | 4 | |
| Stanford | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| USC | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Florida | 3 | 3 | ||
| Northwestern | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Texas | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Indiana | 2 | 2 | ||
| Georgia | 2 | 2 | ||
| Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Columbia | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Duke | 1 | 1 | ||
| Arizona | 1 | 1 | ||
| Louisville | 1 | 1 |
Strange to see a woman with 5 medals and all of them gold but nothing from an individual event. It looks like Mallory was used in every relay she was eligible for. She did well but I thought Lia Neal could have anchored that medley morning swim today without risk of failing to advance. Mallory was noticeably tired at the wall following the race.
Neal was third in the 100 at Trials but it was a gap back to her 53.59.
They could have used Mallory on fly. I suspect she would have been faster than Gibson, hence freeing up Neal for free.
That would have been very intriguing but somewhat of a slap to Gibson.
I don’t know what to think about Mallory in fly. She moved her personal best from mid 59s into the high 57s in the world championship trials, barely stopping in the 58s for one race. With Worrell in the same college program for two years seemingly the improvement would have shown sooner.
This should probably be split up not just by school, but by combined/non-combined programs as well. Cal, Stanford and Texas are all non-combined, therefore tallying their medals together skews things a bit.
Agreed.
I did not know we were keeping track. Point???
We’re going to have to wait for Clark Smith to get it together before Texas can take their proper place.
if ever.