Facts about the 19th FINA World Swimming Championships: 

** Previous to the start of this year’s world swimming championships.

Dressel is the 3rd swimmer with the most medals at the FINA World Swimming Championships with a total of 15 medals (all events). 13 out of those 15 are gold. Dressel has 87% effectiveness in taking a gold medal, while Phelps had 79% in his entire World Championship career. 

The 3 countries with more medals are: United States (260), Australia (91) and Hungary (50) (Data from from 1973 to 2019). However, Great Britain (49) is just one medal away from Hungary (50). 

Adam Peaty has more medals than 23 nations that have participated at the FINA World Swimming Championships and their swimmers have won a medal (1973 – 2019)

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Some useful links: 

Swimming Live Results:

Open Water Live Results: 

Where and When? 

This year’s world championships will take place in Budapest, Hungary at the Duna Arena venue from June 18 until July 3.  

Schedule for Swimming: 

Last update: June, 2022

Team GB: 

Duncan Scott is the biggest absence from the FINA World Swimming Championships due to COVID-19 reasons. Team GB did not expect this situation: to have both Adam Peaty Duncan Scott out of Worlds. Great Britain are the current World Champions in the men’s 4×100 medley relay (Luke Greenbank,, James Guy, Adam Peaty and Duncan Scott in 2019). 

This year the team will only count with backstroke specialist and Olympic Medalist, Greenbank and World Champion, Guy.

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Michael Andrew:

During the first day of the 19th FINA World Swimming Championships he qualified to the semifinal of both men’s 50 butterfly and 100 meter breaststroke. He is favorite to medal in both events. What are your predictions? 

Dylan Carter: 

In a time of 22.87 Dylan Carter broke his own national record and will be the number one seed heading into the semifinals. Dressel, Ceccon and Andrew were the only other 3 swimmers under 23 seconds. 

Team Mexico: 

Maria Matta Cocco finished in 17th place in the women’s 100 meter butterfly, only 1 spot away from making the semifinals cut. During the first day of prelims, she was the best Mexican in the pool. 

Men’s 400 IM: 

Marchand (FRA) and Foster (USA) qualified as the main favorites for tonight’s final. Chase Kalisz, 2020 Olympic Champion, will try to become World Champion again and defeat the young stars.

Check latest results here.

Last update: June, 2022

Comparing Results to Rio 2016 and London 2012

On the women’s side, MacNeil was 0.11 slower than Sjöström. Those 0.11 were the difference between breaking the WR and OR. 

The last 3 Olympic Champions have all swum under 56 seconds, Dana Vollmer being the first one of all time. 

On the men’s side, at the Tokyo Olympics Dressel broke both his own WR and Joseph Schooling’s OR from 2016. He is the first Olympic Champion that swam the 100 butterfly under 50 seconds. 

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Numbers that Matter:

More than 30 million people watched at a certain moment the Olympics. That is more than 60% of Spain’s population (Source: verTele)

Swimming was the 5th most watched sport with over 14 million spectators representing 31.7% of the Olympics’ audience.

US Men were dominant in swimming: the American men won gold in 47% of the men’s races, with Caeleb Dressel as the main star dominating the men’s: 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly (Source: FINA)

.The Australian’s were closer to the US: 89% of the gold medals from Australia in the pool came from the female side. 8 medals were won by the Australian women and just one by the men in the 200 breaststroke (Source: FINA)

Katie Ledecky was defeated for the first time at the Olympics (individual events only). Titmus won the battle in women’s 400 freestyle and in 2022 the Australian took Ledecky’s 400 freestyle WR.

Last update: June, 2022

In Budapest 2017 Dressel became the 3rd swimmer in history ro break 50 seconds in the men’s 100 butterfly. The others: Phelps and Cavic.

With a time of 49.86 he became the fastest in the new swimsuit era and was just 0.04 off Phelps’ World Record set in 2009.

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100 Meter Butterfly Podium Comparison: 

2017 FINA World Swimming Championships

Source: FINA

2019 FINA World Swimming Championships

Source: FINA

A very important fact to mention is that le Clos’ bronze medal winning time would have finished last place in the final of the 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships (Source: FINA). 

Caeleb Dressel broke the WR at the 2019 World Championships in a time of 49.50 in the semifinals. The time swam in the final was the second fastest ever. 

Milak won silver at the 2017 World Swimming Championships when he was just 17 years of age. That time is the current World Junior Record (WJR). In 2019 he broke Phelps’ 200 butterfly World Record and became World Champion. 

Dressel (USA) and Milak (HUN) broke World Records that belonged to Michael Phelps that were untouchable for more than 10 years. 

Last update: June, 2022

Since the 2015 World Swimming Championships that were organized in Kazan, Russia; almost every single major swimming competition has happened in Budapest, Hungary. 

• 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships
• 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 
• 2020 International Swimming League 
• 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships 

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In 2017 the world saw for the first time Caeleb Dressel swimming multiple individual events at a major international competition. In Rio 2016, he only swam the 100 meter freestyle and the 4×100 meter freestyle and 4×100 meter medley relays. In the 100 freestyle final he finished in 6th place in a time of 48.02 (source: Olympics)

Budapest Hungary and the Duna Aréna, became the places where Dressel showed the entire world who he really was:

Here are the results of Dressel at that competition: 

50 freestyle – 21.15 – Gold Medal 

100 freestyle – 47.17 – Gold Medal 

50 butterfly – 4th place 

100 butterfly – 49.86 – Gold Medal

4×100 free relay – Gold

4×100 medley relay – Gold

Mixed freestyle relay – Gold

Mixed medley relay – Gold

Source: FINA 

In 2020, the Duna Arena was the place where the ISL decided to carry out the second season. I was there and I can tell you that the atmosphere was incredible. The pool is one of the fastest in the world and if you are a swimmer, you understand what I’m talking about. 

In 2020 the American sprinter made more than $300,000 during the entire season in Budapest (source: SwimSwam). Definitely Budapest is a lucky place for Dressel and many other swimmers. 

Katinka Hosszu, Olympic and World Champion, and World Record Holder, has also won World Championship titles in this pool. At the 2017 World Swimming Championships, she won both the 200 and 400 Individual Medley in times of 2:07.00 and 4:29.33, respectively (source: FINA)

Who will be the star at this year’s World Championships? 

My predictions: 

Michael Andrew (USA): in both the men’s 50 and 100 meter breaststroke. 

Hunter Armstrong (USA): 50 backstroke + 100 backstroke. 

Carson Foster (USA): 200 IM + 400 IM

Last update: June, 2022

The biggest competition in Latin America will take place in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5 of 2023. 

The best swimmers in the world will be reunited here. Stars like Dylan Carter, Bruno Fratus, Nicholas Santos or Jorge Iga will be fighting for a medal.

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Qualification Standards: 

In order to qualify to swim at the Pan American games the committee has established top times that swimmers need to meet, if their desire is to represent their country in the pool. 

That being said, the qualifying times for the upcoming games (2023) are slower than the ones who were required to compete at the 2019 version of the games.

50 Meter Freestyle:

On the men’s side, the qualifying standard time increased by 0.14 seconds. From 22.68 in 2019 to 22.82 in 2023.

On the women’s side, in 2019, the top time was 25.89. This qualifying standard now stands in 26.05 to compete at the Santiago Pan American Games in 2023. 

Source (Latinoamérica Swim Channel)

See the following table with the time comparison:

                  Men’s                                                                           Women’s

Source (Latinoamérica Swim Channel)

For the younger generations this is huge, since it gives them more opportunity to represent their country. For example Mexican young star Andres Dupont, swam a time of 1:50.65 in the men’s 200 meter freestyle, just 0.33 of the qualifying time. 

Let us know in the comments what you think about the change in times. 

Last update: June, 2022