The 6th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, was held in Indianapolis, United States. The championships were for girls aged 14–17 and boys age 15–18. Over 600 athletes from 90 different countries competed at the Championships.^[1]

Host selection

Hosting rights were originally awarded to Budapest, Hungary, but they decided to withdraw since they were already hosting the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.^[2] Budapest is scheduled to host the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. Host city Indianapolis has previously hosted U.S. Olympic Trials 4 times since 1982.^[3]

Venue

The event was held at the Indiana University Natatorium, which is best known for hosting the 1987 Pan American Games. The pool is on the campus of Purdue University.^[4][5]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States*	11	12	7	30
2	Canada	7	5	3	15
3	Japan	6	4	6	16
4	Hungary	5	8	3	16
5	Russia	3	3	8	14
6	Spain	3	1	2	6
7	Italy	2	2	1	5
8	Argentina	2	1	0	3
9	Great Britain	2	0	2	4
10	Ireland	1	1	1	3
11	Germany	1	0	0	1
12	Australia	0	1	4	5
13	France	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
15	Sweden	0	1	0	1
16	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		43	41	42	126

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Michael Andrew  United States	21.75 =WJ	Maxime Grousset  France	22.25	Leonardo Deplano  Italy	22.31
100 m freestyle[c]	Ivan Girev  Russia	48.33 CR	Nándor Németh  Hungary	48.95	Daniel Krueger  United States	49.35
200 m freestyle	Ivan Girev  Russia	1:46.40 WJ	Nándor Németh  Hungary	1:46.79	Elijah Winnington  Australia	1:46.81
400 m freestyle	Andrew Abruzzo  United States	3:49.19	Balázs Holló  Hungary	3:49.97	Trey Freeman III  United States	3:50.14
800 m freestyle	Andrew Abruzzo  United States	7:54.58	Dávid Lakatos  Hungary	7:56.81	Michael Brinegar  United States	7:57.22
1500 m freestyle	Andrew Abruzzo  United States	15:06.48	Michael Brinegar  United States	15:09.00	Iaroslav Potapov  Russia	15:09.18
50 m backstroke	Michael Andrew  United States	24.63 WJ	Hugo Gonzalez  Spain	25.30	Kacper Stokowski  Poland	25.38
100 m backstroke	Hugo Gonzalez  Spain	54.27 CR	Conor Ferguson  Ireland	54.51	Daniel Martin  Romania	54.55
200 m backstroke	Hugo Gonzalez  Spain	1:56.69 CR	Carson Foster  United States	1:57.87	Nikita Tretyakov  Russia	1:58.72
50 m breaststroke	Nicolò Martinenghi  Italy	27.10	Alessandro Pinzuti  Italy	27.19	Michael Andrew  United States	27.39
100 m breaststroke	Nicolò Martinenghi  Italy	59.58	Reece Whitley  United States	1:00.08	Michael Andrew  United States	1:00.37
200 m breaststroke	Daniel Roy  United States	2:10.77	Reece Whitley  United States	2:10.82	Zac Stubblety-Cook  Australia	2:10.90
50 m butterfly	Michael Andrew  United States	23.22 WJ	Andrei Minakov  Russia	23.53	Kristóf Milák  Hungary	23.72
100 m butterfly	Kristóf Milák  Hungary	51.08 CR	Egor Kuimov  Russia	51.16 NR	Andrei Minakov  Russia	51.84
200 m butterfly	Kristóf Milák  Hungary	1:53.87 CR	Yuya Sakamoto  Japan	1:57.05	Antani Ivanov  Bulgaria	1:57.54
200 m individual medley	Johannes Hintze  Germany	1:59.03 WJ	Kieran Smith  United States	1:59.56	Márton Barta  Hungary	2:00.14
400 m individual medley	Hugo Gonzalez  Spain	4:14.65 CR	Márton Barta  Hungary	4:15.65	Balázs Holló  Hungary	4:16.78
4×100 m freestyle relay[c]	Hungary (HUN) Kristóf Milák (49.08) Márton Barta (50.58) Richárd Márton (50.09) Nándor Németh (48.24) Dávid Lakatos	3:17.99	Poland (POL) Karol Ostrowski (49.87) Bartosz Piszczorowicz (49.12) Kacper Stokowski (49.88) Jakub Kraska (49.66) Antoni Kałużyński	3:18.53	Australia (AUS) Jordan Brunt (49.68) Zachary Attard (49.57) Samuel Wendt (50.67) Elijah Winnington (48.63)	3:18.55
4×200 m freestyle relay	Hungary (HUN) Richárd Márton (1:48.68) Kristóf Milák (1:47.52) Balázs Holló (1:48.23) Nándor Németh (1:46.52) Ákos Kalmár Márton Barta Dávid Lakatos	7:10.95 WJ	United States (USA) Patrick Callan (1:47.33) Jack LeVant (1:47.98) Carson Foster (1:48.12) Trey Freeman III (1:47.53) Cody Bybee Drew Kibler	7:10.96	Russia (RUS) Ivan Girev (1:46.62) Petr Zhikharev (1:49.43) Maksim Aleksandrov (1:48.66) Martin Malyutin (1:46.68) Mihail Bocharnikov	7:11.39
4×100 m medley relay[c]	Russia (RUS) Nikita Tretyakov (56.11) Evgenii Somov (1:00.75) Egor Kuimov (51.17) Ivan Girev (48.27) Vladislav Gerasimenko Andrei Minakov Gleb Karasev	3:36.30 WJ	Italy (ITA) Thomas Ceccon (55.06) Nicolò Martinenghi (59.10) Federico Burdisso (52.86) Davide Nardini (49.42) Alessandro Pinzuti Alberto Razzetti	3:36.44	Australia (AUS) Leon MacAlister (56.22) Zac Stubblety-Cook (1:00.43) Jordan Brunt (52.67) Elijah Winnington (49.07) Taj Jones Zachary Attard	3:38.39

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Rikako Ikee  Japan	24.59 CR	Grace Ariola  United States	24.82	Sayuki Ouchi  Japan	25.07
100 m freestyle	Freya Anderson  Great Britain	53.88 CR	Rikako Ikee  Japan	54.16	Kayla Sanchez  Canada	54.44
200 m freestyle	Taylor Ruck  Canada	1:57.08 CR	Ajna Késely  Hungary	1:57.10	Irina Krivonogova  Russia	1:58.51
400 m freestyle	Ajna Késely  Hungary	4:06.72	Delfina Pignatiello  Argentina	4:08.33 NR	Anastasiia Kirpichnikova  Russia	4:08.73
800 m freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello  Argentina	8:25.22 CR, SA	Ajna Késely  Hungary	8:30.62	Agueda Cons Gestido  Spain	8:30.85
1500 m freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello  Argentina	15:59.51 CR, NR	Ajna Késely  Hungary	16:15.68	Agueda Cons Gestido  Spain	16:17.84
50 m backstroke	Natsumi Sakai  Japan Jade Hannah  Canada	27.93	None awarded		Grace Ariola  United States	28.11
100 m backstroke	Regan Smith  United States	59.11 WJ	Taylor Ruck  Canada	59.23	Jade Hannah  Canada	59.62
200 m backstroke	Regan Smith  United States	2:07.45 CR	Alexandra Sumner  United States	2:09.04	Natsumi Sakai  Japan	2:09.34
50 m breaststroke	Emily Weiss  United States	30.78	Faith Knelson  Canada	30.91	Mona McSharry  Ireland	30.97
100 m breaststroke	Mona McSharry  Ireland	1:07.10 NR	Faith Knelson  Canada	1:07.47	Zoe Bartel  United States	1:07.63
200 m breaststroke	Zoe Bartel  United States	2:25.68	Ella Nelson  United States	2:27.04	Annabel Guye-Johnson  Great Britain	2:27.42
50 m butterfly	Rikako Ikee  Japan	25.46 WJ, NR	Sara Junevik  Sweden	26.18	Rebecca Smith  Canada	26.22
100 m butterfly	Rikako Ikee  Japan	57.25 CR	Rebecca Smith  Canada	58.07	Suzuka Hasegawa  Japan	58.60
200 m butterfly	Emily Large  Great Britain	2:07.74 CR	Suzuka Hasegawa  Japan	2:08.29	Keanna MacInnes  Great Britain	2:09.64
200 m individual medley	Miku Kojima  Japan	2:12.42	Kayla Sanchez  Canada	2:12.64	Cyrielle Duhamel  France	2:13.31
400 m individual medley	Miku Kojima  Japan	4:39.14	Anna Sasaki  Japan	4:40.99	Anja Crevar  Serbia	4:42.24
4×100 m freestyle relay	Canada (CAN) Taylor Ruck (53.63) CR Penny Oleksiak (53.70) Rebecca Smith (54.65) Kayla Sanchez (54.21) Faith Knelson	3:36.19 WJ	United States (USA) Lucie Nordmann (55.15) Alex Walsh (54.87) Julia Cook (55.39) Grace Ariola (54.28) Kate Douglass Kelly Pash	3:39.69	Japan (JPN) Sayuki Ouchi (55.61) Miku Kojima (56.37) Rikako Ikee (53.35) Natsumi Sakai (55.26) Anna Sasaki	3:40.59
4×200 m freestyle relay	Canada (CAN) Kayla Sanchez (1:59.01) Penny Oleksiak (1:56.86) Rebecca Smith (1:58.66) Taylor Ruck (1:56.94) Mabel Zavaros	7:51.47 WJ	Russia (RUS) Irina Krivonogova (1:58.61) Polina Nevmovenko (2:00.50) Vasilissa Buinaia (2:00.37) Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (1:57.85) Katarina Milutinovich	7:57.33	Japan (JPN) Waka Kobori (2:00.53) Rikako Ikee (1:56.54) Sayuki Ouchi (2:01.11) Suzuka Hasegawa (2:03.91)	8:02.09
4×100 m medley relay	Canada (CAN) Jade Hannah (1:00.68) Faith Knelson (1:07.86) Penny Oleksiak (56.91) Taylor Ruck (52.93) Kayla Sanchez	3:58.38 WJ	United States (USA) Regan Smith (59.11) =WJ Zoe Bartel (1:07.17) Lucie Nordmann (58.66) Grace Ariola (54.25) Alexandra Sumner Emily Weiss Kelly Pash Alex Walsh	3:59.19	Japan (JPN) Natsumi Sakai (59.77) Miku Kojima (1:09.01) Rikako Ikee (56.94) Sayuki Ouchi (54.25) Suzuka Hasegawa Anna Sasaki	3:59.97

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay[c]	Canada (CAN) Ruslan Gaziev (49.99) Alexander Pratt (50.95) Taylor Ruck (52.72) Penny Oleksiak (52.99)	3:26.65 WJ	Australia (AUS) Elijah Winnington (49.66) Jordan Brunt (49.22) Jemima Horwood (54.89) Eliza King (54.80) Zachary Attard	3:28.57	Russia (RUS) Ivan Girev (48.64) Andrei Minakov (49.42) Irina Krivonogova (55.47) Vasilissa Buinaia (55.30) Georgii Goriachev Gleb Karasev Anastasiia Kirpichnikova	3:28.83
4×100 m medley relay	Canada (CAN) Taylor Ruck (59.27) Gabe Mastromatteo (1:00.81) Penny Oleksiak (56.98) Ruslan Gaziev (49.30) Jade Hannah Mabel Zavaros	3:46.36	United States (USA) Regan Smith (58.95)[b] Reece Whitley (59.42) Nicolas Alberio (53.66) Grace Ariola (54.77) Lucie Nordmann Daniel Roy Cody Bybee Julia Cook	3:46.80	Russia (RUS) Polina Egorova (1:00.84) Evgenii Somov (1:00.89) Egor Kuimov (51.65) Vasilissa Buinaia (54.94) Anastasiia Avdeeva Vladislav Gerasimenko Sofya Lobova Gleb Karasev	3:48.32

Notes

Relay medalists in italics participated in the heats only.
^a Subsequently broken by Taylor Ruck in the women's 4×100 freestyle relay.
^b Not recognized as a record as it was set in a mixed relay.
^c Matthew Willenbring of USA originally finished third in men's 100m freestyle, but later was disqualified for doping. FINA also decided to disqualify men's 4×100m freestyle and 4×100m medley relays and 4x100m mixed freestyle relay in which Willenbring had swum.^[6]

Participating countries

Competitors from the following 90 countries participated at the Championships.^[1]