Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Host city	Kazan, Russia
Date(s)	2–9 August
Venue(s)	Kazan Arena
Events	42
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Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held between 2 and 9 August 2015 in Kazan, Russia.^[1] The United States won the overall medal count, led by Katie Ledecky who claimed five gold medals.

Schedule

42 events were held.^[2]

All time are local (UTC+3).

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Russia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	8	10	5	23
2	Australia	7	3	6	16
3	China	5	1	7	13
4	Great Britain	5	1	3	9
5	France	4	1	1	6
6	Hungary	3	2	4	9
7	Sweden	3	2	1	6
8	Japan	3	1	0	4
9	Italy	1	3	1	5
10	South Africa	1	3	0	4
11	Russia*	1	1	2	4
12	Germany	1	0	2	3
13	Netherlands	0	4	0	4
14	Brazil	0	3	1	4
15	Denmark	0	2	2	4
16	New Zealand	0	2	0	2
17	Poland	0	1	2	3
18	Jamaica	0	1	1	2
19	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
20	Canada	0	0	4	4
21	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Singapore	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		42	42	45	129

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle[3] details	Florent Manaudou  France	21.19	Nathan Adrian  United States	21.52	Bruno Fratus  Brazil	21.55
100 m freestyle[4] details	Ning Zetao  China	47.84	Cameron McEvoy  Australia	47.95	Federico Grabich  Argentina	48.12
200 m freestyle[5] details	James Guy  Great Britain	1:45.14 NR	Sun Yang  China	1:45.20	Paul Biedermann  Germany	1:45.38
400 m freestyle[6] details	Sun Yang  China	3:42.58	James Guy  Great Britain	3:43.75 NR	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	3:44.59
800 m freestyle[7] details	Sun Yang  China	7:39.96	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	7:40.81 ER	Mack Horton  Australia	7:44.02
1500 m freestyle[8] details	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	14:39.67 ER	Connor Jaeger  United States	14:41.20 NR	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	14:51.08
50 m backstroke[9] details	Camille Lacourt  France	24.23	Matt Grevers  United States	24.61	Ben Treffers  Australia	24.69
100 m backstroke[10] details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	52.40	Camille Lacourt  France	52.48	Matt Grevers  United States	52.66
200 m backstroke[11] details	Mitch Larkin  Australia	1:53.58 OC	Radosław Kawęcki  Poland	1:54.55	Evgeny Rylov  Russia	1:54:60 NR
50 m breaststroke[12] details	Adam Peaty  Great Britain	26.51	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	26.66	Kevin Cordes  United States	26.86
100 m breaststroke[13] details	Adam Peaty  Great Britain	58.52	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	58.59	Ross Murdoch  Great Britain	59.09
200 m breaststroke[14] details	Marco Koch  Germany	2:07.76	Kevin Cordes  United States	2:08.05	Dániel Gyurta  Hungary	2:08.10
50 m butterfly[15] details	Florent Manaudou  France	22.97	Nicholas Santos  Brazil	23.09	László Cseh  Hungary Konrad Czerniak  Poland	23.15
100 m butterfly[16] details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	50.56 AF	László Cseh  Hungary	50.87 NR	Joseph Schooling  Singapore	50.96 AS
200 m butterfly[17] details	László Cseh  Hungary	1:53.48	Chad le Clos  South Africa	1:53.68	Jan Świtkowski  Poland	1:54.10
200 m individual medley[18] details	Ryan Lochte  United States	1:55.81	Thiago Pereira  Brazil	1:56.65	Wang Shun  China	1:56.81 NR
400 m individual medley[19] details	Daiya Seto  Japan	4:08.50	Dávid Verrasztó  Hungary	4:09.90	Chase Kalisz  United States	4:10.05
4×100 m freestyle relay[20] details	France Mehdy Metella (48.37) Florent Manaudou (47.93) Fabien Gilot (47.08) Jérémy Stravius (47.36) Lorys Bourelly[a] Clément Mignon[a]	3:10.74	Russia Andrey Grechin (48.60) Nikita Lobintsev (47.98) Vladimir Morozov (46.95) Alexandr Sukhorukov (47.66) Danila Izotov[a]	3:11.19	Italy Luca Dotto (48.75) Marco Orsi (47.75) Michele Santucci (48.48) Filippo Magnini (47.55)	3:12.53
4×200 m freestyle relay[21] details	Great Britain Daniel Wallace (1:47.04) Robert Renwick (1:45.98) Calum Jarvis (1:46.57) James Guy (1:44.74) Nicholas Grainger[a] Duncan Scott[a]	7:04.33 NR	United States Ryan Lochte (1:45.71) Conor Dwyer (1:45.33) Reed Malone (1:46.92) Michael Weiss (1:46.79) Michael Klueh[a]	7:04.75	Australia Cameron McEvoy (1:46.46) David McKeon (1:47.05) Daniel Smith (1:46.38) Thomas Fraser-Holmes (1:45.45) Grant Hackett[a] Kurt Herzog[a]	7:05.34
4×100 m medley relay[22] details	United States Ryan Murphy (53.05) Kevin Cordes (58.88) Tom Shields (50.59) Nathan Adrian (47.41) Matt Grevers[a] Cody Miller[a] Tim Phillips[a] Ryan Lochte[a]	3:29.93	Australia Mitch Larkin (52.41) Jake Packard (59.16) Jayden Hadler (51.91) Cameron McEvoy (46.60) David Morgan[a] Kyle Chalmers[a]	3:30.08	France Camille Lacourt (52.81) Giacomo Perez-Dortona (59.88) Mehdy Metella (50.39) Fabien Gilot (47.42)	3:30.50
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | CR Championship record | ER European record | OC Oceania record | WR World record | NR National record a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle[23] details	Bronte Campbell  Australia	24.12	Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands	24.22	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	24.31
100 m freestyle[24] details	Bronte Campbell  Australia	52.52	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	52.70	Cate Campbell  Australia	52.82
200 m freestyle[25] details	Katie Ledecky  United States	1:55.16	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	1:55.32	Missy Franklin  United States	1:55.49
400 m freestyle[26] details	Katie Ledecky  United States	3:59.13 CR	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	4:03.02 NR	Jessica Ashwood  Australia	4:03.34 OC
800 m freestyle[27] details	Katie Ledecky  United States	8:07.39 WR	Lauren Boyle  New Zealand	8:17.65 OC	Jazmin Carlin  Great Britain	8:18.15
1500 m freestyle[28] details	Katie Ledecky  United States	15:25.48 WR	Lauren Boyle  New Zealand	15:40.14 OC	Boglárka Kapás  Hungary	15:47.09 NR
50 m backstroke[29] details	Fu Yuanhui  China	27.11	Etiene Medeiros  Brazil	27.26 AM	Liu Xiang  China	27.58
100 m backstroke[30] details	Emily Seebohm  Australia	58.26	Madison Wilson  Australia	58.75	Mie Nielsen  Denmark	58.86
200 m backstroke[31] details	Emily Seebohm  Australia	2:05.81 OC	Missy Franklin  United States	2:06.34	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	2:06.84
50 m breaststroke[32] details	Jennie Johansson  Sweden	30.05 NR	Alia Atkinson  Jamaica	30.11 NR	Yuliya Yefimova  Russia	30.13
100 m breaststroke[33] details	Yuliya Yefimova  Russia	1:05.66	Rūta Meilutytė  Lithuania	1:06.36	Alia Atkinson  Jamaica	1:06.42
200 m breaststroke[34] details	Kanako Watanabe  Japan	2:21.15	Micah Lawrence  United States	2:22.44	Jessica Vall  Spain Rikke Møller Pedersen  Denmark Shi Jinglin  China	2:22.76 NR 2:22.76
50 m butterfly[35] details	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	24.96 CR	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	25.34	Lu Ying  China	25.37 AS
100 m butterfly[36] details	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	55.64 WR	Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark	57.05	Lu Ying  China	57.48
200 m butterfly[37] details	Natsumi Hoshi  Japan	2:05.56	Cammile Adams  United States	2:06.40	Zhang Yufei  China	2:06.51 WJ
200 m individual medley[38] details	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	2:06.12 WR	Kanako Watanabe  Japan	2:08.45 NR	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  Great Britain	2:08.77
400 m individual medley[39] details	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	4:30.39	Maya DiRado  United States	4:31.71	Emily Overholt  Canada	4:32.52 NR
4×100 m freestyle relay[40] details	Australia Emily Seebohm (53.92) Emma McKeon (53.57) Bronte Campbell (51.77) Cate Campbell (52.22) Madison Wilson[b] Melanie Wright[b] Bronte Barratt[b]	3:31.48 CR	Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.30) Maud van der Meer (54.50) Marrit Steenbergen (53.88) Femke Heemskerk (51.99)	3:33.67	United States Missy Franklin (53.68) Margo Geer (54.14) Lia Neal (53.70) Simone Manuel (53.09) Shannon Vreeland[b] Abbey Weitzeil[b]	3:34.61
4×200 m freestyle relay[41] details	United States Missy Franklin (1:55.95) Leah Smith (1:56.86) Katie McLaughlin (1:56.92) Katie Ledecky (1:55.64) Cierra Runge[b] Chelsea Chenault[b] Shannon Vreeland[b]	7:45.37	Italy Alice Mizzau (1:57.50) Erica Musso (1:58.66) Chiara Masini Luccetti (1:57.52) Federica Pellegrini (1:54.73)	7:48.41	China Qiu Yuhan (1:56.88) Guo Junjun (1:57.55) Zhang Yufei (1:58.73) Shen Duo (1:55.94) Shao Yiwen[b] Zhang Yuhan[b]	7:49.10
4×100 m medley relay[42] details	China Fu Yuanhui (59.29) Shi Jinglin (1:05.56) Lu Ying (56.56) Shen Duo (53.00) Chen Xinyi[b] Qiu Yuhan[b]	3:54.41	Sweden Michelle Coleman (1:00.74) Jennie Johansson (1:05.63) Sarah Sjöström (55.28) Louise Hansson (53.59)	3:55.24 ER	Australia Emily Seebohm (58.81) Taylor McKeown (1:07.38) Emma McKeon (57.59) Bronte Campbell (51.78) Madison Wilson[b] Lorna Tonks[b] Madeline Groves[b] Melanie Wright[b]	3:55.56
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | CR Championship record | ER European record | OC Oceania record | WR World record | NR National record b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay[43] details	United States Ryan Lochte (48.79) Nathan Adrian (47.29) Simone Manuel (53.66) Missy Franklin (53.31) Conor Dwyer[c] Margo Geer[c] Abbey Weitzeil[c]	3:23.05 WR	Netherlands Sebastiaan Verschuren (48.74) Joost Reijns (49.09) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.48) Femke Heemskerk (52.79) Kyle Stolk[c] Marrit Steenbergen[c]	3:23.10 ER	Canada Santo Condorelli (48.19) Yuri Kisil (48.25) Sandrine Mainville (53.60) Chantal van Landeghem (53.55) Karl Krug[c] Victoria Poon[c]	3:23.59 NR
4×100 m medley relay[44] details	Great Britain Chris Walker-Hebborn (52.94) Adam Peaty (57.98) Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (57.02) Fran Halsall (53.77) Ross Murdoch[c] Rachael Kelly[c]	3:41.71 WR	United States Ryan Murphy (53.31) Kevin Cordes (58.63) Katie McLaughlin (57.56) Margo Geer (53.77) Kendyl Stewart[c] Lia Neal[c]	3:43.27 AM	Germany Jan-Philip Glania (53.52) Hendrik Feldwehr (59.16) Alexandra Wenk (57.21) Annika Bruhn (54.24)	3:44.13 NR
AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | CR Championship record | ER European record | OC Oceania record | WR World record | NR National record c Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Records

The following world and championship records were broken during the competition.

World records

Date	Event	Time	Name	Nation
August 2	Women's 100 m butterfly semifinals	55.74	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
August 3	Women's 1500 m freestyle heats	15:27.71	Katie Ledecky	United States
August 3	Women's 100 m butterfly final	55.64	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
August 3	Women's 200 individual medley final	2:06.12	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
August 4	Men's 50 m breaststroke heats	26.62	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
August 4	Men's 50 m breaststroke semifinals	26.42	Adam Peaty	Great Britain
August 4	Women's 1500 m freestyle final	15:25.48	Katie Ledecky	United States
August 5	Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay heats	3:42.33	Ryan Murphy (52.18) Kevin Cordes (58.33) Kendyl Stewart (57.78) Lia Neal (54.04)	United States
August 5	Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay final	3:41.71	Chris Walker-Hebborn (52.94) Adam Peaty (57.98) Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (57.02) Fran Halsall (53.77	Great Britain
August 8	Women's 800 m freestyle final	8:07.39	Katie Ledecky	United States
August 8	Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay final	3:23.05	Ryan Lochte (48.79) Nathan Adrian (47.29) Simone Manuel (53.66) Missy Franklin (53.31)	United States

Championship records

Date	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
August 2	Women's 400 m freestyle final	(same)	3:59.13	Katie Ledecky	United States
August 2	Men's 100 m breaststroke heats	(same)	58.52	Adam Peaty	Great Britain
August 2	Men's 100 m breaststroke semifinals	(same)	58.49	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
August 2	Men's 100 m breaststroke semifinals	(same)	58.18	Adam Peaty	Great Britain
August 2	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay final	(same)	3:31.48	Emily Seebohm (53.92) Emma McKeon (53.57) Bronte Campbell (51.77) Cate Campbell (52.22)	Australia
August 4	Women's 1500 m freestyle final	Women's 800 m freestyle	8:13.25	Katie Ledecky	United States
August 7	Women's 50 m butterfly semifinals	(same)	25.06	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
August 7	Women's 50 m butterfly final	(same)	24.96	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden