List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)

This is the complete list of men's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Medalists[edit]

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

50 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1986 Madrid	Tom Jager  United States	Dano Halsall  Switzerland	Matt Biondi  United States
1991 Perth	Tom Jager  United States	Matt Biondi  United States	Gennadiy Prigoda  Soviet Union
1994 Rome	Alexander Popov  Russia	Gary Hall, Jr.  United States	Raimundas Mažuolis  Lithuania
1998 Perth	Bill Pilczuk  United States	Alexander Popov  Russia	Ricardo Busquets  Puerto Rico
			Michael Klim  Australia
2001 Fukuoka	Anthony Ervin  United States	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Roland Schoeman  South Africa
			Tomohiro Yamanoi  Japan
2003 Barcelona	Alexander Popov  Russia	Mark Foster  Great Britain	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands
2005 Montreal	Roland Schoeman  South Africa	Duje Draganja  Croatia	Bartosz Kizierowski  Poland
2007 Melbourne	Ben Wildman-Tobriner  United States	Cullen Jones  United States	Stefan Nystrand  Sweden
2009 Rome	César Cielo  Brazil	Frédérick Bousquet  France	Amaury Leveaux  France
2011 Shanghai	César Cielo  Brazil	Luca Dotto  Italy	Alain Bernard  France
2013 Barcelona	César Cielo (3)  Brazil	Vladimir Morozov  Russia	George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago
2015 Kazan	Florent Manaudou  France	Nathan Adrian  United States	Bruno Fratus  Brazil
2017 Budapest	Caeleb Dressel  United States	Bruno Fratus  Brazil	Ben Proud  Great Britain
2019 Gwangju	Caeleb Dressel  United States	Bruno Fratus  Brazil	none awarded
		Kristian Golomeev  Greece
2022 Budapest	Ben Proud  Great Britain	Michael Andrew  United States	Maxime Grousset  France
2023 Fukuoka	Cameron McEvoy  Australia	Jack Alexy  United States	Ben Proud  Great Britain
2024 Doha	Vladyslav Bukhov  Ukraine	Cameron McEvoy  Australia	Ben Proud  Great Britain

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	7	6	1	14
2	Brazil	3	2	1	6
3	Russia	2	2	0	4
4	France	1	1	3	5
	Great Britain	1	1	3	5
6	Australia	1	1	1	3
7	South Africa	1	0	1	2
8	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
9	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
10	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
14	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
Total		17	18	18	53

100 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Jim Montgomery  United States	Michel Rousseau  France	Michael Wenden  Australia
1975 Cali	Andy Coan  United States	Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union	Jim Montgomery  United States
1978 West Berlin	David McCagg  United States	Jim Montgomery  United States	Klaus Steinbach  West Germany
1982 Guayaquil	Jörg Woithe  East Germany	Rowdy Gaines  United States	Per Johansson  Sweden
1986 Madrid	Matt Biondi  United States	Stéphan Caron  France	Tom Jager  United States
1991 Perth	Matt Biondi  United States	Tommy Werner  Sweden	Giorgio Lamberti  Italy
1994 Rome	Alexander Popov  Russia	Gary Hall, Jr.  United States	Gustavo Borges  Brazil
1998 Perth	Alexander Popov  Russia	Michael Klim  Australia	Lars Frölander  Sweden
2001 Fukuoka	Anthony Ervin  United States	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Lars Frölander  Sweden
2003 Barcelona	Alexander Popov (3)  Russia	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Ian Thorpe  Australia
2005 Montreal	Filippo Magnini  Italy	Roland Schoeman  South Africa	Ryk Neethling  South Africa
2007 Melbourne	Brent Hayden  Canada	none awarded	Eamon Sullivan  Australia
	Filippo Magnini  Italy
2009 Rome	César Cielo  Brazil	Alain Bernard  France	Frédérick Bousquet  France
2011 Shanghai	James Magnussen  Australia	Brent Hayden  Canada	William Meynard  France
2013 Barcelona	James Magnussen  Australia	Jimmy Feigen  United States	Nathan Adrian  United States
2015 Kazan	Ning Zetao  China	Cameron McEvoy  Australia	Federico Grabich  Argentina
2017 Budapest	Caeleb Dressel  United States	Nathan Adrian  United States	Mehdy Metella  France
2019 Gwangju	Caeleb Dressel  United States	Kyle Chalmers  Australia	Vladislav Grinev  Russia
2022 Budapest	David Popovici  Romania	Maxime Grousset  France	Joshua Liendo  Canada
2023 Fukuoka	Kyle Chalmers  Australia	Jack Alexy  United States	Maxime Grousset  France
2024 Doha	Pan Zhanle  China	Alessandro Miressi  Italy	Nándor Németh  Hungary

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	8	6	3	17
2	Australia	3	3	3	9
3	Russia	3	0	1	4
4	Italy	2	1	1	4
5	China	2	0	0	2
6	Canada	1	1	1	3
7	Brazil	1	0	1	2
8	East Germany	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
10	France	0	4	4	8
11	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
12	Sweden	0	1	3	4
13	South Africa	0	1	1	2
14	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
15	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Total		22	20	21	63

200 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Jim Montgomery  United States	Kurt Krumpholz  United States	Roger Pyttel  East Germany
1975 Cali	Timothy Shaw  United States	Bruce Furniss  United States	Brian Brinkley  Great Britain
1978 West Berlin	Bill Forrester  United States	Rowdy Gaines  United States	Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union
1982 Guayaquil	Michael Gross  West Germany	Rowdy Gaines  United States	Jörg Woithe  East Germany
1986 Madrid	Michael Gross (2)  West Germany	Sven Lodziewski  East Germany	Matt Biondi  United States
1991 Perth	Giorgio Lamberti  Italy	Steffen Zesner  Germany	Artur Wojdat  Poland
1994 Rome	Antti Kasvio  Finland	Anders Holmertz  Sweden	Danyon Loader  New Zealand
1998 Perth	Michael Klim  Australia	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands
2001 Fukuoka	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Klete Keller  United States
2003 Barcelona	Ian Thorpe (2)  Australia	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Grant Hackett  Australia
2005 Montreal	Michael Phelps  United States	Grant Hackett  Australia	Ryk Neethling  South Africa
2007 Melbourne	Michael Phelps (2)  United States	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea
2009 Rome	Paul Biedermann  Germany	Michael Phelps  United States	Danila Izotov  Russia
2011 Shanghai	Ryan Lochte  United States	Michael Phelps  United States	Paul Biedermann  Germany
2013 Barcelona	Yannick Agnel  France	Conor Dwyer  United States	Danila Izotov  Russia
2015 Kazan	James Guy  Great Britain	Sun Yang  China	Paul Biedermann  Germany
2017 Budapest	Sun Yang  China	Townley Haas  United States	Aleksandr Krasnykh  Russia
2019 Gwangju	Sun Yang (2)  China	Katsuhiro Matsumoto  Japan	Martin Malyutin  Russia
			Duncan Scott  Great Britain
2022 Budapest	David Popovici  Romania	Hwang Sun-woo  South Korea	Tom Dean  Great Britain
2023 Fukuoka	Matthew Richards  Great Britain	Tom Dean  Great Britain	Hwang Sun-woo  South Korea
2024 Doha	Hwang Sun-woo  South Korea	Danas Rapšys  Lithuania	Luke Hobson  United States

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	8	3	17
2	Australia	3	1	1	5
3	Great Britain	2	1	3	6
4	China	2	1	0	3
5	West Germany	2	0	0	2
6	Germany	1	1	2	4
	South Korea	1	1	2	4
8	Italy	1	1	0	2
9	Finland	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
12	Netherlands	0	3	1	4
13	East Germany	0	1	2	3
14	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
17	Russia	0	0	4	4
18	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Total		21	21	22	64

400 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Rick DeMont  United States	Brad Cooper  Australia	Bengt Gingsjö  Sweden
1975 Cali	Timothy Shaw  United States	Bruce Furniss  United States	Frank Pfütze  East Germany
1978 West Berlin	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	Jeff Float  United States	Bill Forrester  United States
1982 Guayaquil	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	Svyatoslav Semenov  Soviet Union	Sven Lodziewski  East Germany
1986 Madrid	Rainer Henkel  West Germany	Uwe Daßler  East Germany	Dan Jorgensen  United States
1991 Perth	Jörg Hoffmann  Germany	Stefan Pfeiffer  Germany	Artur Wojdat  Poland
1994 Rome	Kieren Perkins  Australia	Antti Kasvio  Finland	Danyon Loader  New Zealand
1998 Perth	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Grant Hackett  Australia	Paul Palmer  Great Britain
2001 Fukuoka	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Grant Hackett  Australia	Emiliano Brembilla  Italy
2003 Barcelona	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Grant Hackett  Australia	Dragoş Coman  Romania
2005 Montreal	Grant Hackett  Australia	Yury Prilukov  Russia	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia
2007 Melbourne	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	Grant Hackett  Australia	Yury Prilukov  Russia
2009 Rome	Paul Biedermann  Germany	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	Zhang Lin  China
2011 Shanghai	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	Sun Yang  China	Paul Biedermann  Germany
2013 Barcelona	Sun Yang  China	Kosuke Hagino  Japan	Connor Jaeger  United States
2015 Kazan	Sun Yang  China	James Guy  Great Britain	Ryan Cochrane  Canada
2017 Budapest	Sun Yang  China	Mack Horton  Australia	Gabriele Detti  Italy
2019 Gwangju	Sun Yang (4)  China	Mack Horton  Australia	Gabriele Detti  Italy
2022 Budapest	Elijah Winnington  Australia	Lukas Märtens  Germany	Guilherme Costa  Brazil
2023 Fukuoka	Samuel Short  Australia	Ahmed Hafnaoui  Tunisia	Lukas Märtens  Germany
2024 Doha	Kim Woo-min  South Korea	Elijah Winnington  Australia	Lukas Märtens  Germany

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	7	8	0	15
2	China	4	1	1	6
3	South Korea	3	0	0	3
4	Germany	2	2	3	7
	United States	2	2	3	7
6	Soviet Union	2	1	0	3
7	West Germany	1	0	0	1
8	Tunisia	0	2	1	3
9	East Germany	0	1	2	3
10	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Russia	0	1	1	2
12	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
14	Italy	0	0	3	3
15	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Total		21	21	21	63

800 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Fukuoka	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Grant Hackett  Australia	Graeme Smith  Great Britain
2003 Barcelona	Grant Hackett  Australia	Larsen Jensen  United States	Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine
2005 Montreal	Grant Hackett  Australia	Larsen Jensen  United States	Yury Prilukov  Russia
2007 Melbourne	Przemysław Stańczyk  Poland	Craig Stevens  Australia	Federico Colbertaldo  Italy
2009 Rome	Zhang Lin  China	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	Ryan Cochrane  Canada
2011 Shanghai	Sun Yang  China	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	Gergő Kis  Hungary
2013 Barcelona	Sun Yang  China	Michael McBroom  United States	Ryan Cochrane  Canada
2015 Kazan	Sun Yang (3)  China	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Mack Horton  Australia
2017 Budapest	Gabriele Detti  Italy	Wojciech Wojdak  Poland	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy
2019 Gwangju	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Henrik Christiansen  Norway	David Aubry  France
2022 Budapest	Robert Finke  United States	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine
2023 Fukuoka	Ahmed Hafnaoui  Tunisia	Samuel Short  Australia	Robert Finke  United States
2024 Doha	Daniel Wiffen  Ireland	Elijah Winnington  Australia	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	4	0	0	4
2	Australia	3	4	1	8
3	Italy	2	1	3	6
4	United States	1	3	1	5
5	Poland	1	1	0	2
	Tunisia	1	1	0	2
7	Ireland	1	0	0	1
8	Canada	0	1	2	3
9	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
11	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
12	France	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	13	39

1500 metre freestyle[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Stephen Holland  Australia	Rick DeMont  United States	Brad Cooper  Australia
1975 Cali	Timothy Shaw  United States	Brian Goodell  United States	David Parker  Great Britain
1978 West Berlin	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	Borut Petrič  Yugoslavia	Bobby Hackett  United States
1982 Guayaquil	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	Svyatoslav Semenov  Soviet Union	Darjan Petrič  Yugoslavia
1986 Madrid	Rainer Henkel  West Germany	Stefano Battistelli  Italy	Dan Jorgensen  United States
1991 Perth	Jörg Hoffmann  Germany	Kieren Perkins  Australia	Stefan Pfeiffer  Germany
1994 Rome	Kieren Perkins  Australia	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	Steffen Zesner  Germany
1998 Perth	Grant Hackett  Australia	Emiliano Brembilla  Italy	Daniel Kowalski  Australia
2001 Fukuoka	Grant Hackett  Australia	Graeme Smith  Great Britain	Alexey Filipets  Russia
2003 Barcelona	Grant Hackett  Australia	Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine	Erik Vendt  United States
2005 Montreal	Grant Hackett (4)  Australia	Larsen Jensen  United States	David Davies  Great Britain
2007 Melbourne	Mateusz Sawrymowicz  Poland	Yury Prilukov  Russia	David Davies  Great Britain
2009 Rome	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	Sun Yang  China
2011 Shanghai	Sun Yang  China	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	Gergő Kis  Hungary
2013 Barcelona	Sun Yang  China	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy
2015 Kazan	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Connor Jaeger  United States	Ryan Cochrane  Canada
2017 Budapest	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine	Mack Horton  Australia
2019 Gwangju	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy
2022 Budapest	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	Robert Finke  United States	Florian Wellbrock  Germany
2023 Fukuoka	Ahmed Hafnaoui  Tunisia	Robert Finke  United States	Samuel Short  Australia
2024 Doha	Daniel Wiffen  Ireland	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	David Aubry  France

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	6	2	4	12
2	Italy	3	2	2	7
3	Germany	2	1	3	6
4	Soviet Union	2	1	0	3
5	China	2	0	1	3
6	Tunisia	2	0	0	2
7	United States	1	6	3	10
8	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
11	Canada	0	3	1	4
12	Ukraine	0	3	0	3
13	Great Britain	0	1	3	4
14	Russia	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
16	France	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Total		21	21	21	63

50 metre backstroke[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Fukuoka	Randall Bal  United States	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	Matt Welsh  Australia
2003 Barcelona	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	Matt Welsh  Australia	Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa
2005 Montreal	Aristeidis Grigoriadis  Greece	Matt Welsh  Australia	Liam Tancock  Great Britain
2007 Melbourne	Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa	Thomas Rupprath  Germany	Liam Tancock  Great Britain
2009 Rome	Liam Tancock  Great Britain	Junya Koga  Japan	Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa
2011 Shanghai	Liam Tancock  Great Britain	Camille Lacourt  France	Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa
2013 Barcelona	Camille Lacourt  France	Matt Grevers  United States	none awarded
		Jérémy Stravius  France
2015 Kazan	Camille Lacourt  France	Matt Grevers  United States	Ben Treffers  Australia
2017 Budapest	Camille Lacourt (3)  France	Junya Koga  Japan	Matt Grevers  United States
2019 Gwangju	Zane Waddell  South Africa	Evgeny Rylov  Russia	Kliment Kolesnikov  Russia
2022 Budapest	Justin Ress  United States	Hunter Armstrong  United States	Ksawery Masiuk  Poland
2023 Fukuoka	Hunter Armstrong  United States	Justin Ress  United States	Xu Jiayu  China
2024 Doha	Isaac Cooper  Australia	Hunter Armstrong  United States	Ksawery Masiuk  Poland

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	5	1	9
2	France	3	2	0	5
3	South Africa	2	0	3	5
4	Great Britain	2	0	2	4
5	Australia	1	2	2	5
6	Germany	1	2	0	3
7	Greece	1	0	0	1
8	Japan	0	2	0	2
9	Russia	0	1	1	2
10	Poland	0	0	2	2
11	China	0	0	1	1
Total		13	14	12	39

100 metre backstroke[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Roland Matthes  East Germany	Mike Stamm  United States	Lutz Wanja  East Germany
1975 Cali	Roland Matthes  East Germany	John Murphy  United States	Melvin Nash  United States
1978 West Berlin	Bob Jackson  United States	Peter Rocca  United States	Rômulo Arantes  Brazil
1982 Guayaquil	Dirk Richter  East Germany	Rick Carey  United States	Vladimir Shemetov  Soviet Union
1986 Madrid	Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union	Dirk Richter  East Germany	Sergei Zabolotnov  Soviet Union
1991 Perth	Jeff Rouse  United States	Mark Tewksbury  Canada	Martín López-Zubero  Spain
1994 Rome	Martín López-Zubero  Spain	Jeff Rouse  United States	Tamás Deutsch  Hungary
1998 Perth	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	Mark Versfeld  Canada	Stev Theloke  Germany
2001 Fukuoka	Matt Welsh  Australia	Örn Arnarson  Iceland	Steffen Driesen  Germany
2003 Barcelona	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia	none awarded
		Matt Welsh  Australia
2005 Montreal	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Randall Bal  United States	László Cseh  Hungary
2007 Melbourne	Aaron Peirsol (3)  United States	Ryan Lochte  United States	Liam Tancock  Great Britain
2009 Rome	Junya Koga  Japan	Helge Meeuw  Germany	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain
2011 Shanghai	Camille Lacourt  France	none awarded	Ryosuke Irie  Japan
	Jérémy Stravius  France
2013 Barcelona	Matt Grevers  United States	David Plummer  United States	Jérémy Stravius  France
2015 Kazan	Mitch Larkin  Australia	Camille Lacourt  France	Matt Grevers  United States
2017 Budapest	Xu Jiayu  China	Matt Grevers  United States	Ryan Murphy  United States
2019 Gwangju	Xu Jiayu  China	Evgeny Rylov  Russia	Mitch Larkin  Australia
2022 Budapest	Thomas Ceccon  Italy	Ryan Murphy  United States	Hunter Armstrong  United States
2023 Fukuoka	Ryan Murphy  United States	Thomas Ceccon  Italy	Hunter Armstrong  United States
2024 Doha	Hunter Armstrong  United States	Hugo González  Spain	Apostolos Christou  Greece

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	10	5	24
2	East Germany	3	1	1	5
3	Australia	2	1	1	4
	France	2	1	1	4
5	China	2	0	0	2
6	Spain	1	1	2	4
7	Italy	1	1	0	2
8	Soviet Union	1	0	2	3
9	Japan	1	0	1	2
10	Canada	0	2	0	2
	Russia	0	2	0	2
12	Germany	0	1	2	3
13	Iceland	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary	0	0	2	2
15	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
Total		22	21	20	63

200 metre backstroke[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Belgrade	Roland Matthes  East Germany	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	John Naber  United States
1975 Cali	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	Mark Tonelli  Australia	Paul Hove  United States
1978 West Berlin	Jesse Vassallo  United States	Gary Hurring  New Zealand	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary
1982 Guayaquil	Rick Carey  United States	Sándor Wladár  Hungary	Frank Baltrusch  East Germany
1986 Madrid	Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union	Frank Baltrusch  East Germany	Frank Hoffmeister  West Germany
1991 Perth	Martín López-Zubero  Spain	Stefano Battistelli  Italy	Vladimir Selkov  Soviet Union
1994 Rome	Vladimir Selkov  Russia	Martín López-Zubero  Spain	Royce Sharp  United States
1998 Perth	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	Ralf Braun  Germany	Mark Versfeld  Canada
2001 Fukuoka	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Markus Rogan  Austria	Örn Arnarson  Iceland
2003 Barcelona	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Gordan Kožulj  Croatia	Simon Dufour  France
2005 Montreal	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Markus Rogan  Austria	Ryan Lochte  United States
2007 Melbourne	Ryan Lochte  United States	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Markus Rogan  Austria
2009 Rome	Aaron Peirsol (4)  United States	Ryosuke Irie  Japan	Ryan Lochte  United States
2011 Shanghai	Ryan Lochte  United States	Ryosuke Irie  Japan	Tyler Clary  United States
2013 Barcelona	Ryan Lochte  United States	Radosław Kawęcki  Poland	Tyler Clary  United States
2015 Kazan	Mitch Larkin  Australia	Radosław Kawęcki  Poland	Evgeny Rylov  Russia
2017 Budapest	Evgeny Rylov  Russia	Ryan Murphy  United States	Jacob Pebley  United States
2019 Gwangju	Evgeny Rylov  Russia	Ryan Murphy  United States	Luke Greenbank  Great Britain
2022 Budapest	Ryan Murphy  United States	Luke Greenbank  Great Britain	Shaine Casas  United States
2023 Fukuoka	Hubert Kós  Hungary	Ryan Murphy  United States	Roman Mityukov  Switzerland
2024 Doha	Hugo González  Spain	Roman Mityukov  Switzerland	Pieter Coetze  South Africa

• Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	11	4	9	24
2	Russia	3	0	1	4
3	Hungary	2	2	1	5
4	Spain	2	1	0	3
5	East Germany	1	1	1	3
6	Australia	1	1	0	2
7	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
8	Austria	0	2	1	3
9	Japan	0	2	0	2
	Poland	0	2	0	2
11	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
13	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
17	Canada	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Iceland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Total		21	21	21	63

50 metre breaststroke[edit]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Fukuoka	Oleh Lisohor  Ukraine	Roman Sludnov  Russia	Domenico Fioravanti  Italy
2003 Barcelona	James Gibson  Great Britain	Oleh Lisohor  Ukraine	Mihály Flaskay  Hungary
2005 Montreal	Mark Warnecke  Germany	Mark Gangloff  United States	Kosuke Kitajima  Japan
2007 Melbourne	Oleh Lisohor  Ukraine	Brendan Hansen  United States	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa
2009 Rome	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	Felipe França Silva  Brazil	Mark Gangloff  United States
2011 Shanghai	Felipe França Silva  Brazil	Fabio Scozzoli  Italy	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa
2013 Barcelona	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	Christian Sprenger  Australia	Giulio Zorzi  South Africa
2015 Kazan	Adam Peaty  Great Britain	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	Kevin Cordes  United States
2017 Budapest	Adam Peaty  Great Britain	João Gomes Júnior  Brazil	Cameron van der Burgh