The swimming events of the 15th FINA World Aquatics Championships were held 28 July–4 August 2013, in Barcelona, Spain. for the 2013 World Championships. From the event's website (www.bcn2013.com); retrieved 12 June 2013. The competition was held in a long course pool inside the Palau Sant Jordi. It featured 40 LCM events, split evenly between males and females. Swimming was one of the five aquatic disciplines at the championships.Meet Summons for the 2013 World Championships. Published by FINA on 31 January 2013; retrieved 2013-06-12.
The United States won the overall medal count, led by Missy Franklin who claimed six gold medals, the most by a female athlete in the history of the championships. China's Sun Yang won three gold medals en route to "male swimmer of the meet". Katie Ledecky, from the United States, was named "female swimmer of the meet" after setting two world records and winning four gold medals. Four other world records were broken during the competition, each in the women's breaststroke events.
Qualifying criteria If a nation entered one competitor in an event then they only have to meet the B standard, but if they enter two competitors then in an event then they both have to meet the A standard. Each member nation can enter one relay team in each event. Qualifying standards must have been met between 1 July 2012, and 1 July 2013. +The time standards for the 2013 FINA World ChampionshipsMenEvent Women A standard (2 entries) B standard (1 entry) A standard (2 entries) B standard (1 entry) 22.33 23.11 50 freestyle 25.34 26.29 48.93 50.64 100 freestyle 54.86 56.78 1:48.42 1:52.21 200 freestyle 1:58.74 2:02.90 3:49.55 3:57.58 400 freestyle 4:09.81 4:18.55 7:59.06 8:15.83 800 freestyle 8:34.33 8:52.33 15:14.38 15:46.38 1500 freestyle 16:26.36 17:00.88 25.43 26.32 50 backstroke 28.84 29.85 54.43 56.34 100 backstroke 1:01.39 1:03.54 1:58.48 2:02.63 200 backstroke 2:11.09 2:15.68 28.00 28.98 50 breaststroke 32.00 33.12 1:00.86 1:02.99 100 breaststroke 1:08.63 1:11.03 2:12.78 2:17.43 200 breaststroke 2:27.88 2:33.06 23.96 24.80 50 butterfly 26.83 27.77 52.57 54.41 100 butterfly 58.89 1:00.95 1:57.03 2:01.13 200 butterfly 2:09.38 2:13.91 1:59.99 2:04.19 200 individual medley 2:14.97 2:19.69 4:18.99 4:28.05 400 individual medley 4:44.53 4:54.49 Competition format: events 200 meters and under: preliminaries-semifinals-finals (top 16 finishers from prelims advanced to semifinals; top-8 in the semifinals advanced to the final). events 400 meters and longer: prelims/final (top 8 finishers from prelims advanced to the final).
Schedule
Date Time Round28 July 2013 10:00 Women's 100 m butterfly heats Men's 400 m freestyle heats Women's 200 m individual medley heats Men's 50 m butterfly heats Women's 400 m freestyle heats Men's 100 m breaststroke heats Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle heats Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle heats18:00 Women's 100 m butterfly semifinalsMen's 400 m freestyle finalWomen's 200 m individual medley semifinalsMen's 50 m butterfly semifinalsWomen's 400 m freestyle finalMen's 100 m breaststroke semifinalsWomen's 4 × 100 m freestyle finalMen's 4 × 100 m freestyle final29 July 2013 10:00 Women's 100 m backstroke heats Men's 100 m backstroke heats Women's 100 m breaststroke heats Men's 200 m freestyle heats Women's 1500 m freestyle heats18:00 Men's 100 m breaststroke finalWomen's 100 m butterfly finalMen's 100 m backstroke semifinalsWomen's 100 m breaststroke semifinalsMen's 50 m butterfly finalWomen's 100 m backstroke semifinalsMen's 200 m freestyle semifinalsWomen's 200 m individual medley final30 July 2013 10:00 Men's 50 m breaststroke heats Women's 200 m freestyle heats Men's 200 m butterfly heats Men's 800 m freestyle heats18:00 Men's 200 m freestyle finalWomen's 100 m backstroke finalMen's 50 m breaststroke semifinalsWomen's 1500 m freestyle finalMen's 100 m backstroke finalWomen's 200 m freestyle semifinalsMen's 200 m butterfly semifinalsWomen's 100 m breaststroke final31 July 2013 10:00 Women's 50 m backstroke heats Men's 100 m freestyle heats Women's 200 m butterfly heats Men's 200 m individual medley heats18:00 Men's 100 m freestyle semifinalsWomen's 50 m backstroke semifinalsMen's 200 m butterfly finalWomen's 200 m freestyle finalMen's 50 m breaststroke finalWomen's 200 m butterfly semifinalsMen's 200 m individual medley semifinalsMen's 800 m freestyle final
Date Time Round1 August 2013 10:00 Women's 100 m freestyle heats Men's 200 m backstroke heats Women's 200 m breaststroke heats Men's 200 m breaststroke heats Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle heats18:00 Women's 100 m freestyle semifinalsMen's 200 m individual medley finalWomen's 200 m breaststroke semifinalsMen's 100 m freestyle finalWomen's 200 m butterfly finalMen's 200 m breaststroke semifinalsWomen's 50 m backstroke finalMen's 200 m backstroke semifinalsWomen's 4 × 200 m freestyle final2 August 2013 10:00 Men's 50 m freestyle heats Women's 50 m butterfly heats Men's 100 m butterfly heats Women's 200 m backstroke heats Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle heats Women's 800 m freestyle heats18:00 Women's 100 m freestyle finalMen's 200 m backstroke finalWomen's 200 m backstroke semifinalsMen's 50 m freestyle semifinalsWomen's 200 m breaststroke finalMen's 100 m butterfly semifinalsWomen's 50 m butterfly semifinalsMen's 200 m breaststroke finalMen's 4 × 200 m freestyle final3 August 2013 10:00 Women's 50 m freestyle heats Men's 50 m backstroke heats Women's 50 m breaststroke heats Men's 1500 m freestyle heats18:00 Women's 50 m butterfly finalMen's 50 m freestyle finalWomen's 200 m backstroke finalWomen's 50 m breaststroke semifinalsMen's 100 m butterfly finalWomen's 50 m freestyle semifinalsMen's 50 m backstroke semifinalsWomen's 800 m freestyle final4 August 2013 10:00 Men's 400 m individual medley heats Women's 400 m individual medley heats Men's 4 × 100 m medley heats Women's 4 × 100 m medley heats18:00 Men's 50 m backstroke finalWomen's 50 m breaststroke finalMen's 400 m individual medley finalWomen's 50 m freestyle finalMen's 1500 m freestyle finalWomen's 400 m individual medley finalMen's 4 × 100 m medley finalWomen's 4 × 100 m medley final
Recap During the World Aquatic Championships, five world records were set (one twice), all by women. Katie Ledecky of the United States broke the world record in the 800-metre freestyle and the 1500-metre freestyle events en route to two gold medals. She also won the 400-metre freestyle to go 3-for-3 in her events. She added a fourth gold, swimming a leg of the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay that the United States won. Her performance earned her "female swimmer of the meet," beating out fellow American Missy Franklin based on a formula that does not consider relay events. Franklin became the first woman ever to win six golds in a single World Championships. Kristin Otto of East Germany has achieved this at the 1988 Olympic Games. She won the 100-metre and 200-metre backstroke events and the 200-metre freestyle. She finished fourth in the 100-metre freestyle in personal best-time. She was also a part of all three women's relay events, which the United States swept. The previous record of five golds in a single World Championships was held by America's Tracy Caulkins and Australia's Libby Trickett. Among men, Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz of America, Ian Thorpe of Australia all won at least six golds in a single World Championships or Olympics. Franklin also moved into a tie with Trickett for most all-time gold medals with nine.
Rūta Meilutytė of Lithuania broke both the 50-metre and 100-metre breaststroke records in the semi-final of each event. Denmark's Rikke Møller Pedersen set the 200-metre breatstroke record in that event's semi-finals. However, it was Russia's Yuliya Yefimova who won the gold medal in both the 50-metre and 200-metre events, while Meilutytė took gold in the 100-metre.
On the men's side, Sun Yang claimed three golds by winning the 400-metre, 800-metre, and 1500-metre freestyle events to earn "male swimmer of the meet." He also swam China to bronze in the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay despite starting his anchor leg two seconds behind third place. Ryan Lochte from the United States won two gold to bring his overall World Champions haul to 15. In the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, the United States appeared to finish first by a wide margin but was disqualified because a swimmer left the platform too early. As a result, France moved up to first. Camille Lacourt won France's first ever 50-metre backstroke title. César Cielo became the first three-time World Champion of the 50-metre free, winning a final that featured three Olympic gold medalists.
Medal summary The United States won the overall medal count with 29 medals (24% of total available) and 13 golds (32%). China won the second most golds (5), but just 9 medals overall (down from 14 in the last World Championships). Australia won 13 medals (3 gold) for second place on the total medal count. Russia won 8 medals, the most for the nation since 1998. Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, all historically strong swimming nations, won just four medals among them.
Medal table
Host nation
Men 50 m freestyleMen's 50 metre freestyle Results 21.32 21.47NR 21.51100 m freestyleMen's 100 metre freestyle Results 47.71 47.82 47.84200 m freestyleMen's 200 metre freestyle Results 1:44.20 1:45.32 1:45.59400 m freestyleMen's 400 metre freestyle Results 3:41.59 3:44.82NR 3:44.85800 m freestyleMen's 800 metre freestyle Results 7:41.36 7:43.60NR 7:43.701500 m freestyleMen's 1500 metre freestyle Results 14:41.15 14:42.48 14:45.37NR50 m backstrokeMen's 50 metre backstroke Results 24.42 24.54 Not awarded100 m backstrokeMen's 100 metre backstroke Results 52.93 53.12 53.21200 m backstrokeMen's 200 metre backstroke Results 1:53.79 1:54.24ER 1:54.6450 m breaststrokeMen's 50 metre breaststroke Results 26.77 26.78OC 27.04100 m breaststrokeMen's 100 metre breaststroke Results 58.79 58.97 59.65200 m breaststrokeMen's 200 metre breaststroke Results 2:07.23CR, ER 2:08.54 2:08.95NR50 m butterflyMen's 50 metre butterfly Results 23.01 23.05 23.11100 m butterflyMen's 100 metre butterfly Results 51.06NR 51.45NR 51.46200 m butterflyMen's 200 metre butterfly Results 1:54.32 1:55.01 1:55.09200 m individual medleyMen's 200 metre individual medley Results 1:54.98 1:56.29 1:56.30400 m individual medleyMen's 400 metre individual medley Results 4:08.69 4:09.22 4:09.484 × 100 m freestyle relayMen's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay ResultsYannick Agnel (48.76)Florent Manaudou (47.93)Fabien Gilot (46.90)Jérémy Stravius (47.59) 3:11.18Nathan Adrian (47.95)Ryan Lochte (47.80)Anthony Ervin (47.44)Jimmy Feigen (48.23) 3:11.42Andrey Grechin (48.09)Nikita Lobintsev (47.91)Vladimir Morozov (47.40)Danila Izotov (48.04) 3:11.444 × 200 m freestyle relayMen's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay ResultsConor Dwyer (1:45.76)Ryan Lochte (1:44.98)Charlie Houchin (1:45.59)Ricky Berens (1:45.39) 7:01.72Danila Izotov (1:45.14)Nikita Lobintsev (1:46.23)Artem Lobuzov (1:46.16)Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.39) 7:03.92Wang Shun (1:47.41)Hao Yun (1:47.25)Li Yunqi (1:46.92)Sun Yang (1:43.16) 7:04.74NR4 × 100 m medley relayMen's 4 × 200 metre medley relay ResultsCamille Lacourt (53.23)Giacomo Perez d'Ortona (59.26) Jérémy Stravius (51.33)Fabien Gilot (47.39) 3:31.51Ashley Delaney (53.55) Christian Sprenger (58.47)Tommaso D'Orsogna (52.34)James Magnussen (47.28) 3:31.64Ryosuke Irie (53.48) Kosuke Kitajima (59.29)Takuro Fujii (51.67)Shinri Shioura (47.82) 3:32.26
Women