This is a list of the medalists of the open water swimming competitions at the World Aquatics Championships. Medalists at the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, which have been held as separate events in the even years between 2000 and 2010, have not been included.

Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1998 Perth	Aleksey Akatyev  Russia	Ky Hurst  Australia	Luca Baldini  Italy
2001 Fukuoka	Luca Baldini  Italy	Yevgeny Bezruchenko  Russia	Marco Formentini  Italy
2003 Barcelona	Evgeny Koshkarov  Russia	Christian Hein  Germany	Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia
2005 Montreal	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Chip Peterson  United States	Simone Ercoli  Italy
2007 Melbourne	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece
2009 Rome	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece	Chad Ho  South Africa
2011 Shanghai	Thomas Lurz (4)  Germany	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia
2013 Barcelona	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	Eric Hedlin  Canada	Thomas Lurz  Germany
2015 Kazan	Chad Ho  South Africa	Rob Muffels  Germany	Matteo Furlan  Italy
2017 Budapest	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	Mario Sanzullo  Italy	Timothy Shuttleworth  Great Britain
2019 Gwangju	Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary	Logan Fontaine  France	Eric Hedlin  Canada
2022 Budapest	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine
2023 Fukuoka	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Domenico Acerenza  Italy
2024 Doha	Logan Fontaine  France	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	Domenico Acerenza  Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	6	2	1	9
2	Russia	2	2	2	6
3	France	2	2	0	4
4	Italy	1	3	6	10
5	South Africa	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
8	Greece	0	2	1	3
9	Canada	0	1	1	2
10	Australia	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
12	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		14	14	14	42

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Fukuoka	Yevgeny Bezruchenko  Russia	Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia	Fabio Venturini  Italy
2003 Barcelona	Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia	Christian Hein  Germany	David Meca  Spain
2005 Montreal	Chip Peterson  United States	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Petar Stoychev  Bulgaria
2007 Melbourne	Vladimir Dyatchin (2)  Russia	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia
2009 Rome	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Andrew Gemmell  United States	Fran Crippen  United States
2011 Shanghai	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Sergey Bolshakov  Russia
2013 Barcelona	Spyridon Gianniotis (2)  Greece	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia
2015 Kazan	Jordan Wilimovsky  United States	Ferry Weertman  Netherlands	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece
2017 Budapest	Ferry Weertman  Netherlands	Jordan Wilimovsky  United States	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France
2019 Gwangju	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	Rob Muffels  Germany
2022 Budapest	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Domenico Acerenza  Italy	Florian Wellbrock  Germany
2023 Fukuoka	Florian Wellbrock (2)  Germany	Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary	Oliver Klemet  Germany
2024 Doha	Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	Hector Pardoe  Great Britain

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	5	3	11
2	Russia	3	1	2	6
3	United States	2	2	1	5
4	Greece	2	0	1	3
5	Italy	1	1	1	3
6	Hungary	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
8	France	0	2	1	3
9	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		13	13	13	39

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1991 Perth	Chad Hundeby  United States	Sergio Chariandini  Italy	David O'Brien  Australia
1994 Rome	Greg Streppel  Canada	David Bates  Australia	Aleksey Akatyev  Russia
1998 Perth	Aleksey Akatyev  Russia	David Meca  Spain	Gabriel Chaillou  Argentina
2001 Fukuoka	Yuri Kudinov  Russia	Stéphane Gomez  France	Stéphane Lecat  France
2003 Barcelona	Yuri Kudinov  Russia	David Meca  Spain	Petar Stoychev  Bulgaria
2005 Montreal	David Meca  Spain	Brendan Capell  Australia	Petar Stoychev  Bulgaria
2007 Melbourne	Yuri Kudinov (3)  Russia	Marco Formentini  Italy	Mohamed Zanaty  Egypt
2009 Rome	Valerio Cleri  Italy	Trent Grimsey  Australia	Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia
2011 Shanghai	Petar Stoychev  Bulgaria	Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia	Csaba Gercsák  Hungary
2013 Barcelona	Thomas Lurz  Germany	Brian Ryckeman  Belgium	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia
2015 Kazan	Simone Ruffini  Italy	Alex Meyer  United States	Matteo Furlan  Italy
2017 Budapest	Axel Reymond  France	Matteo Furlan  Italy	Evgeny Drattsev  Russia
2019 Gwangju	Axel Reymond  France	Kirill Belyaev  Russia	Alessio Occhipinti  Italy
2022 Budapest	Dario Verani  Italy	Axel Reymond  France	Péter Gálicz  Hungary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	2	4	10
2	Italy	3	3	2	8
3	France	2	2	1	5
4	Spain	1	2	0	3
5	United States	1	1	0	2
6	Bulgaria	1	0	2	3
7	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
9	Australia	0	3	1	4
10	Belgium	0	1	0	1
11	Hungary	0	0	2	2
12	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		14	14	14	42

Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1998 Perth	Erica Rose  United States	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands	Peggy Büchse  Germany
2001 Fukuoka	Viola Valli  Italy	Peggy Büchse  Germany	Hayley Lewis  Australia
2003 Barcelona	Viola Valli (2)  Italy	Jana Pechanová  Czech Republic	Britta Kamrau  Germany
2005 Montreal	Larisa Ilchenko  Russia	Margy Keefe  United States	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands
2007 Melbourne	Larisa Ilchenko (2)  Russia	Ekaterina Seliverstova  Russia	Kate Brookes-Peterson  Australia
2009 Rome	Melissa Gorman  Australia	Larisa Ilchenko  Russia	Poliana Okimoto  Brazil
2011 Shanghai	Swann Oberson  Switzerland	Aurélie Muller  France	Ashley Twichell  United States
2013 Barcelona	Haley Anderson  United States	Poliana Okimoto  Brazil	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2015 Kazan	Haley Anderson (2)  United States	Kalliopi Araouzou  Greece	Finnia Wunram  Germany
2017 Budapest	Ashley Twichell  United States	Aurélie Muller  France	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2019 Gwangju	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Aurélie Muller  France	Leonie Beck  Germany Hannah Moore  United States
2022 Budapest	Ana Marcela Cunha (2)  Brazil	Aurélie Muller  France	Giulia Gabbrielleschi  Italy
2023 Fukuoka	Leonie Beck  Germany	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2024 Doha	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	Chelsea Gubecka  Australia	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	1	2	7
2	Russia	2	2	0	4
3	Brazil	2	1	5	8
4	Italy	2	0	1	3
5	Netherlands	1	2	1	4
6	Germany	1	1	4	6
7	Australia	1	1	2	4
8	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
9	France	0	4	0	4
10	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
Totals (11 entries)		14	14	15	43

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Fukuoka	Peggy Büchse  Germany	Irina Abysova  Russia	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands
2003 Barcelona	Viola Valli  Italy	Angela Maurer  Germany	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands
2005 Montreal	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands	Federica Vitale  Italy	Britta Kamrau  Germany
2007 Melbourne	Larisa Ilchenko  Russia	Cassandra Patten  Great Britain	Kate Brookes-Peterson  Australia
2009 Rome	Keri-Anne Payne  Great Britain	Ekatarina Seliverstova  Russia	Martina Grimaldi  Italy
2011 Shanghai	Keri-Anne Payne (2)  Great Britain	Martina Grimaldi  Italy	Marianna Lymperta  Greece
2013 Barcelona	Poliana Okimoto  Brazil	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Angela Maurer  Germany
2015 Kazan	Aurélie Muller  France	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2017 Budapest	Aurélie Muller (2)  France	Samantha Arévalo  Ecuador	Arianna Bridi  Italy Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2019 Gwangju	Xin Xin  China	Haley Anderson  United States	Rachele Bruni  Italy
2022 Budapest	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	Leonie Beck  Germany	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil
2023 Fukuoka	Leonie Beck  Germany	Chelsea Gubecka  Australia	Katie Grimes  United States
2024 Doha	Sharon van Rouwendaal (2)  Netherlands	María de Valdés  Spain	Angélica André  Portugal

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	3	1	2	6
2	Germany	2	2	2	6
3	Great Britain	2	1	0	3
4	France	2	0	0	2
5	Italy	1	2	3	6
6	Russia	1	2	0	3
7	Brazil	1	1	3	5
8	China	1	0	0	1
9	Australia	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
11	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
13	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		13	13	14	40

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1991 Perth	Shelley Taylor-Smith  Australia	Martha Jahn  United States	Karen Burton  United States
1994 Rome	Melissa Cunningham  Australia	Rita Kovács  Hungary	Shelley Taylor-Smith  Australia
1998 Perth	Tobie Smith  United States	Peggy Büchse  Germany	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands
2001 Fukuoka	Viola Valli  Italy	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands	Angela Maurer  Germany
2003 Barcelona	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands	Britta Kamrau  Germany	Angela Maurer  Germany
2005 Montreal	Edith van Dijk  Netherlands	Britta Kamrau  Germany	Laura la Piana  Italy
2007 Melbourne	Britta Kamrau-Corestein  Germany	Kalyn Keller  United States	Ksenia Popova  Russia
2009 Rome	Angela Maurer  Germany	Anna Uvarova  Russia	Federica Vitale  Italy
2011 Shanghai	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Angela Maurer  Germany	Alice Franco  Italy
2013 Barcelona	Martina Grimaldi  Italy	Angela Maurer  Germany	Eva Fabian  United States
2015 Kazan	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Anna Olasz  Hungary	Angela Maurer  Germany
2017 Budapest	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	Arianna Bridi  Italy
2019 Gwangju	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	Finnia Wunram  Germany	Lara Grangeon  France
2022 Budapest	Ana Marcela Cunha (5)  Brazil	Lea Boy  Germany	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	5	0	0	5
2	Germany	2	7	3	12
3	Netherlands	2	2	2	6
4	Italy	2	0	4	6
5	Australia	2	0	1	3
6	United States	1	2	2	5
7	Hungary	0	2	0	2
8	Russia	0	1	1	2
9	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		14	14	14	42

Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1998 Perth	United States John Flanagan Austin Ramirez Erica Rose	Russia Aleksey Akatyev Yevgeny Bezruchenko Olga Gouseva	Italy Luca Baldini Fabio Venturini Valeria Casprini
2011 Shanghai	United States Andrew Gemmell Ashley Twichell Sean Ryan	Australia Melissa Gorman Ky Hurst Rhys Mainstone	Germany Isabelle Härle Thomas Lurz Jan Wolfgarten
2013 Barcelona	Germany Thomas Lurz Christian Reichert Isabelle Härle	Greece Adonios Fokaidis Spyridon Gianniotis Kalliopi Araouzou	Brazil Allan do Carmo Samuel de Bona Poliana Okimoto
2015 Kazan	Germany Rob Muffels Christian Reichert (2) Isabelle Härle (2)	Brazil Allan do Carmo Diogo Villarinho Ana Marcela Cunha  Netherlands Marcel Schouten Ferry Weertman Sharon van Rouwendaal	Not awarded
2017 Budapest	France Oceane Cassignol Logan Fontaine Aurélie Muller Marc-Antoine Olivier	United States Brendan Casey Ashley Twichell Haley Anderson Jordan Wilimovsky	Italy Rachele Bruni Giulia Gabbrielleschi Federico Vanelli Mario Sanzullo
2019 Gwangju	Germany Lea Boy Sarah Köhler Sören Meißner Rob Muffels (2)	Italy Rachele Bruni Giulia Gabbrielleschi Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri	United States Haley Anderson Jordan Wilimovsky Ashley Twichell Michael Brinegar
2022 Budapest	Germany Lea Boy (2) Oliver Klemet Leonie Beck Florian Wellbrock	Hungary Réka Rohács Anna Olasz Dávid Betlehem Kristóf Rasovszky	Italy Ginevra Taddeucci Giulia Gabbrielleschi Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri
2023 Fukuoka	Italy Barbara Pozzobon Ginevra Taddeucci Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri	Hungary Bettina Fábián Anna Olasz Kristóf Rasovszky Dávid Betlehem	Australia Chelsea Gubecka Moesha Johnson Nicholas Sloman Kyle Lee
2024 Doha	Australia Moesha Johnson Chelsea Gubecka Nicholas Sloman Kyle Lee	Italy Giulia Gabbrielleschi Arianna Bridi Gregorio Paltrinieri Domenico Acerenza	Hungary Bettina Fábián Mira Szimcsák Dávid Betlehem Kristóf Rasovszky

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	0	1	5
2	United States	2	1	1	4
3	Italy	1	2	3	6
4	Australia	1	1	1	3
5	France	1	0	0	1
6	Hungary	0	2	1	3
7	Brazil	0	1	1	2
8	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		9	10	8	27

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1998 Perth	Italy Claudio Gargaro Fabrizio Pescatori Valeria Casprini	Australia Grant Robinson Mark Saliba Tracey Knowles	United States Tobie Smith Nathan Stooke Chuck Wiley

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	1	0	0	1
2	Australia	0	1	0	1
3	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Updated after the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	19	17	14	50
2	Italy	12	11	20	43
3	Russia	12	11	9	32
4	United States	10	9	8	27
5	Brazil	8	3	9	20
6	France	7	10	3	20
7	Netherlands	7	7	5	19
8	Australia	4	8	6	18
9	Hungary	2	5	3	10
10	Greece	2	4	3	9
11	Great Britain	2	1	2	5
12	Spain	1	3	1	5
13	Canada	1	1	1	3
14	Bulgaria	1	0	3	4
15	South Africa	1	0	1	2
	Tunisia	1	0	1	2
17	China	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
19	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
22	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		92	93	93	278

Boldface denotes active swimmers and highest medal count among all swimmers (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Rank	Swimmer	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thomas Lurz	Germany	2005	2013	7	4	2	13
2	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	2019	2023	5	–	1	6
3	Yuri Kudinov	Russia	2001	2007	3	–	–	3
4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	2019	2024	2	4	1	7
5	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	2007	2015	2	3	2	7
6	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France	2017	2024	2	3	1	6
	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	2019	2024	2	3	1	6
8	Vladimir Dyatchin	Russia	2001	2011	2	2	2	6
9	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	1994	1998	2	1	1	4
	Rob Muffels	Germany	2015	2019	2	1	1	4

This table includes medals won at the separate FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in 2000–2010.

Rank	Swimmer	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thomas Lurz	Germany	2002	2013	12	4	4	20
2	Yuri Kudinov	Russia	2000	2008	5	2	1	8
3	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	2019	2023	5	–	1	6
4	Vladimir Dyatchin	Russia	2001	2011	3	3	4	10
5	David Meca	Spain	1998	2005	2	4	1	7
	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	2019	2024	2	4	1	7
7	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	2007	2015	2	3	2	7
8	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France	2017	2024	2	3	1	6
	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	2019	2024	2	3	1	6
10	Yevgeny Bezruchenko	Russia	1998	2001	2	2	1	5

Rank	Swimmer	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ana Marcela Cunha	Brazil	2011	2024	7	2	7	16
2	Viola Valli	Italy	2001	2003	4	–	–	4
3	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	2015	2024	3	4	1	8
4	Aurélie Muller	France	2011	2022	3	4	–	7
5	Edith van Dijk	Netherlands	1998	2005	3	2	4	9
6	Leonie Beck	Germany	2019	2023	3	1	1	5
7	Larisa Ilchenko	Russia	2005	2009	3	1	–	4
8	Haley Anderson	United States	2013	2019	2	2	1	5
9	Ashley Twichell	United States	2011	2019	2	1	2	5
10	Lea Boy	Germany	2019	2022	2	1	–	3

This table includes medals won at the separate FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in 2000–2010.

Rank	Swimmer	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Larisa Ilchenko	Russia	2004	2009	8	1	–	9
2	Ana Marcela Cunha	Brazil	2010	2023	7	2	8	17
3	Edith van Dijk	Netherlands	1998	2008	6	5	4	15
4	Viola Valli	Italy	2000	2003	5	2	1	8
5	Britta Kamrau-Corestein	Germany	2002	2007	4	2	4	10
6	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	2015	2024	3	4	1	8
7	Aurélie Muller	France	2011	2022	3	4	–	7
8	Leonie Beck	Germany	2019	2023	3	1	1	5
9	Angela Maurer	Germany	2000	2015	2	4	6	12
10	Peggy Büchse	Germany	1998	2001	2	2	2	6

• FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)