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
Through night 5 of the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, the United States has taken back the lead in the overall medal table, thanks to a gold medal-winning performance by Caeleb Dressel in the men’s 100m free and Olivia Smoliga‘s podium-topping outing in the women’s 50m back.
Dressel’s time of 46.96 falls just .05 shy of the World Record, but checks in as the fastest time ever in textile, as well as a new American Record. As for Smoliga, the former Georgia Bulldog set an American Record for herself, with her time of 27.33 slicing .10 off of her own former mark.
A pair of American women also did damage in the 200m fly, with Hali Flickinger and Katie Drabot finishing with silver and bronze, while Chase Kalisz collected bronze in the men’s 200m IM.
The women’s 4x200m free relay also snagged silver in a time that would have set a new World Record, had the Australians not beaten them to the wall first to capture the win.
Speaking of Australia, besides the 4x200m freestyle gold medal and WR, Matt Wilson raced his way to the top seed in the men’s 200m breast, matching the WR in the process.
Overall Swimming Medal Table Through Day 5:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 2 | Australia | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | China | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Italy | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Hungary | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Russia | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | Brazil | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals | 23 | 23 | 24 | 70 | |
A little better than Kazan but much worse than Budapest
Didn’t Brazil get a couple of gold medals in the open water part of the program?
Here is only Pool.. if we added all events China would have 853953485934853094 diving golds by now..
USA population – 330 million; Australia 25 million. USA should be doing better!! Statically, if you have one world championship swimmer per 1 million people, USA should have 330 and Australia should have 25!! China based on population is not doing very well either.
Based on the way that you qualify for world championship in the us you can’t have 330 swimmers on the world team…
You neglect to mention the focus that swimming receives in each country. In Australia, it is considered one of the biggest sports by far, leading to more kids dreaming of being an Olympic swimmer, and therefore a large talent pool. In the US, every kid wants to play football or basketball, not swim. Stop looking for excuses as to why no country will be as dominant as the US in swimming and just accept it for what it is.
That does not reconcile with the results at the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championship. Qualifying a team a year out from the FINA World Aquatics Championship is sheer lunacy.
It’s actually not considered one of the biggest sports in Australia anymore.
Yeah, as someone else said, a lot of our population goes to American football, soccer, basketball, baseball. Most of the kids that get into swimming are those with parents who guide them towards it.
Russia is going to win 3 golds tomorrow
At least today the American team had some highlights, the 4*200 relay was disappointing due to the silver, but the effort was amazing and honestly much more than what most of us expected seeing how the meet is going and Dressel has been great all along. Yes, the 200 fly and 200 IM defeats were hard, but the US is still pushing on to perform
Smoliga is a beautiful lady with nice outgoing personality.
After so many misses, so happy that she finally gets her first major gold medal.
Pfftt….if you look at the medal tally from an Olympic point of view Australia are once again on top @ Day 5 with 4 Golds to 3….(who ever counts 50 form stokes)
Sprinters
Congratulations, you’ve won the 2019 Olympic game scoring criteria version of the World Championship of swimming through day 5!!!
You obviously had help from your sister to write that :o)
Interesting direction you took that one. Best of luck to your rooting interests moving forward, and bless your heart.
Oui, good luck on the farm.
Aussies probably shouldn’t bring up Olympic performances….
Another trailer park comment with zero substance.