United States at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

The United States competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July.

United States at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
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World Aquatics code	USA
National federation	United States Aquatic Sports
Website	usaquaticsports.org
in Gwangju, South Korea
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 15 Silver 11 Bronze 10 Total 36
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Nathan Adrian Zach Apple Michael Chadwick* Caeleb Dressel Townley Haas* Blake Pieroni	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	July 21
Gold	Caeleb Dressel	Swimming	Men's 50 metre butterfly	July 22
Gold	Lilly King	Swimming	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	July 23
Gold	Caeleb Dressel	Swimming	Men's 100 metre freestyle	July 25
Gold	Olivia Smoliga	Swimming	Women's 50 metre backstroke	July 25
Gold	United States women's national water polo team Amanda Longan Madeline Musselman Melissa Seidemann Rachel Fattal Paige Hauschild Maggie Steffens Stephania Haralabidis Kiley Neushul Aria Fischer Kaleigh Gilchrist Makenzie Fischer Alys Williams Ashleigh Johnson	Water polo	Women's tournament	July 26
Gold	Simone Manuel	Swimming	Women's 100 metre freestyle	July 26
Gold	Caeleb Dressel	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle	July 27
Gold	Caeleb Dressel	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly	July 27
Gold	Katie Ledecky	Swimming	Women's 800 m freestyle	July 27
Gold	Regan Smith	Swimming	Women's 200 m backstroke	July 27
Gold	Nathan Adrian* Zach Apple Mallory Comerford Caeleb Dressel Simone Manuel Katie McLaughlin* Blake Pieroni* Abbey Weitzeil*	Swimming	Mixed 4×100 m freestyle relay	July 27
Gold	Lilly King	Swimming	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	July 28
Gold	Simone Manuel	Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	July 28
Gold	Regan Smith Lilly King Kelsi Dahlia Simone Manuel Olivia Smoliga* Melanie Margalis* Katie McLaughlin* Mallory Comerford*	Swimming	Women's 4×100 metre medley relay	July 28
Silver	Sarah Bacon	Diving	Women's 1 metre springboard	July 13
Silver	Haley Anderson	Open water swimming	Women's 10 km	July 14
Silver	Katie Ledecky	Swimming	Women's 400 metre freestyle	July 21
Silver	Mallory Comerford Kelsi Dahlia Margo Geer* Simone Manuel Lia Neal* Allison Schmitt* Abbey Weitzeil	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	July 21
Silver	Steven LoBue	High diving	Men's high diving	July 24
Silver	Mallory Comerford* Kelsi Dahlia* Caeleb Dressel Matt Grevers* Lilly King Simone Manuel Ryan Murphy Andrew Wilson*	Swimming	Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay	July 24
Silver	Hali Flickinger	Swimming	Women's 200 metre butterfly	July 25
Silver	Gabby DeLoof* Katie Ledecky Simone Manuel Melanie Margalis Katie McLaughlin Allison Schmitt* Leah Smith*	Swimming	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	July 25
Silver	Ryan Murphy	Swimming	Men's 200 metre backstroke	July 26
Silver	Jay Litherland	Swimming	Men's 400 metre individual medley	July 28
Silver	Ryan Murphy Andrew Wilson Caeleb Dressel Nathan Adrian Matt Grevers* Michael Andrew* Jack Conger* Zach Apple*	Swimming	Men's 4×100 metre medley relay	July 28
Bronze	Samantha Bromberg Katrina Young	Diving	Women's 10 metre synchronized platform	July 14
Bronze	Andrew Capobianco Katrina Young	Diving	Team event	July 16
Bronze	Hannah Moore	Open water swimming	Women's 5 km	July 17
Bronze	Delaney Schnell	Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	July 17
Bronze	Haley Anderson Michael Brinegar Hannah Moore Jordan Wilimovsky	Open water swimming	Team relay	July 18
Bronze	Leah Smith	Swimming	Women's 400 metre freestyle	July 21
Bronze	Olivia Smoliga	Swimming	Women's 100 metre backstroke	July 23
Bronze	Katie Drabot	Swimming	Women's 200 metre butterfly	July 25
Bronze	Chase Kalisz	Swimming	Men's 200 metre individual medley	July 25
Bronze	Zach Apple Jack Conger* Townley Haas Jack LeVant* Blake Pieroni Andrew Seliskar	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	July 26

Awards

• 2019 FINA World Championships: Best Team^[1][2]

Artistic swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Anita Alvarez	Solo free routine	84.4667	12 Q	84.7333	12
Anita Alvarez Ruby Remati	Duet technical routine	84.4615	12 Q	84.0190	12
	Duet free routine	84.5000	12 Q	83.6333	12
Paige Areizaga Nicole Goot Hannah Heffernan Daniella Ramirez Ruby Remati Abby Remmers Lindi Schroeder Emma Tchakmakjian	Team technical routine	84.4057	11 Q	84.0566	11
Anita Alvarez Paige Areizaga Nicole Goot Hannah Heffernan Daniella Ramirez Ruby Remati Abby Remmers Lindi Schroeder	Team free routine	85.2667	11 Q	84.4000	11

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Bill May Natalia Vega	Duet technical routine	86.3969	4 Q	86.9235	4
	Duet free routine	87.8667	4 Q	88.3000	4

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
David Boudia	3 m springboard	424.45	7 Q	464.20	4 Q	458.10	5
David Dinsmore	10 m platform	436.95	9 Q	483.60	5 Q	438.15	12
Briadam Herrera	1 m springboard	365.25	6 Q	—		399.90	6
Michael Hixon	1 m springboard	330.00	17	—		Did not advance
	3 m springboard	423.05	8 Q	428.00	12 Q	449.95	7
Brandon Loschiavo	10 m platform	401.40	12 Q	433.70	9 Q	470.10	8
Andrew Capobianco Michael Hixon	3 m synchronized springboard	374.97	7 Q	—		388.08	8
Benjamin Bramley Steele Johnson	10 m synchronized platform	373.80	8 Q	—		383.79	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sarah Bacon	1 m springboard	240.00	6 Q	—		262.00
	3 m springboard	295.95	6 Q	282.65	14	Did not advance
Maria Coburn	1 m springboard	239.70	7 Q	—		237.75	10
Amelia Magana	10 m platform	318.10	7 Q	308.50	12 Q	305.00	11
Delaney Schnell		305.75	10 Q	317.35	8 Q	364.20
Brooke Schultz	3 m springboard	241.45	29	Did not advance
Alison Gibson Krysta Palmer	3 m synchronized springboard	274.44	5 Q	—		274.47	10
Samantha Bromberg Katrina Young	10 m synchronized platform	295.38	4 Q	—		304.86

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Briadam Herrera Maria Coburn	3 m synchronized springboard	295.95	5
Zachary Cooper Olivia Rosendahl	10 m synchronized platform	267.96	5
Andrew Capobianco Katrina Young	Team	357.60

High diving

Main article: High diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
David Colturi	Men's high diving	343.90	10
Andy Jones		365.85	6
Steven LoBue		433.65

Women

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Genevieve Bradley	Women's high diving	280.80	4
Ellie Smart		209.85	10

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

The United States qualified four male and five female open water swimmers.^[3][4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Michael Brinegar	Men's 5 km	53:37.1	12
Brennan Gravley	Men's 5 km	53:37.8	14
	Men's 25 km	4:57:17.5	15
David Heron	Men's 10 km	1:49:57.6	25
	Men's 25 km	4:55:11.8	14
Jordan Wilimovsky	Men's 10 km	1:48:01.0	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Haley Anderson	Women's 10 km	1:54:48.1
Katy Campbell	Women's 25 km	5:11:59.6	9
Hannah Moore	Women's 5 km	57:58.0
Erica Sullivan	Women's 25 km	5:11:23.2	5
Ashley Twichell	Women's 5 km	58:00.0	7
	Women's 10 km	1:54:50.5	6

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Haley Anderson Michael Brinegar Hannah Moore Jordan Wilimovsky	Team	53:59.0

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michael Andrew	50 m backstroke	24.70	2 Q	24.76	7 Q	24.58	5
	50 m breaststroke	27.02	11 Q	26.88	7 Q	26.88	7
	100 m breaststroke	1:00.04	19	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.09	5 Q	22.95	5 Q	22.80	4
	50 m freestyle	21.82	7 Q	21.77	8 Q	21.62	6
Jack Conger	100 m butterfly	51.96	9 Q	51.91	11	Did not advance
Abrahm DeVine	200 m individual medley	1:59.26	12 Q	1:57.91	7 Q	1:57.66	8
Caeleb Dressel	50 m butterfly	22.84	=1 Q	22.57 AM CR	1 Q	22.35 AM CR
	100 m butterfly	50.28	1 Q	49.50 WR	1 Q	49.66
	50 m freestyle	21.49	1 Q	21.18	1 Q	21.04 CR NR
	100 m freestyle	47.32	1 Q	47.32	1 Q	46.96 NR
Matt Grevers	100 m backstroke	53.22	4 Q	52.82	4 Q	52.82	5
Zane Grothe	400 m freestyle	3:45.83	6 Q	—		3:45.78	8
	800 m freestyle	7:50.14	11	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:21.43	26	—		Did not advance
Townley Haas	200 m freestyle	1:46.85	13 Q	1:46.37	14	Did not advance
Zach Harting	200 m butterfly	1:56.42	8 Q	1:55.26	2 Q	1:55.69	6
Chase Kalisz	200 m individual medley	1:58.20	3 Q	1:57.34	4 Q	1:56.78
	400 m individual medley	4:15.62	10	—		Did not advance
Jay Litherland		4:13.78	3 Q	—		4:09.22
Ryan Murphy	50 m backstroke	24.93	6 Q	24.64	4 Q	24.53	4
	100 m backstroke	53.69	9 Q	52.44	=2 Q	52.78	4
	200 m backstroke	1:56.61	1 Q	1:56.25	2 Q	1:54.12
Jacob Pebley		1.58.07	16 Q	1:56.65	4 Q	1:56.72	6
Blake Pieroni	100 m freestyle	48.31	5 Q	47.87	5 Q	47.88	4
Josh Prenot	200 m breaststroke	2:09.68	=9 Q	2:08.77	13	Did not advance
Andrew Seliskar	200 m freestyle	1:46.74	12 Q	1:46.83	15	Did not advance
Grant Shoults	400 m freestyle	3:52.96	25	—		Did not advance
Jordan Wilimovsky	800 m freestyle	7:53.11	16	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	14:59.94	11	—		Did not advance
Andrew Wilson	50 m breaststroke	DNS		Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	59.26	8 Q	58.95	5 Q	59.11	6
	200 m breaststroke	2:09.61	8 Q	2:07.86	3 Q	2:08.10	6
Justin Wright	200 m butterfly	1:57.18	18	Did not advance
Nathan Adrian Zach Apple Michael Chadwick* Caeleb Dressel Townley Haas* Blake Pieroni	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:11.31	1 Q	—		3:09.06 CR
Zach Apple Jack Conger* Townley Haas Jack LeVant* Blake Pieroni Andrew Seliskar	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:06.86	3 Q	—		7:01.98
Ryan Murphy Andrew Wilson Caeleb Dressel Nathan Adrian Matt Grevers* Michael Andrew* Jack Conger* Zach Apple*	4×100 m medley relay	3:31.93	2 Q	—		3:28.45

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kathleen Baker	50 m backstroke	28.17	11 Q	27.62	1 Q	27.69	6
	100 m backstroke	59.31	4 Q	59.03	4 Q	59.56	6
	200 m backstroke	2:10.08	9 Q	2:09.68	9	Did not advance
Mallory Comerford	100 m freestyle	53.57	6 Q	53.10	5 Q	53.22	7
Kelsi Dahlia	50 m butterfly	25.70	2 Q	25.59	4 Q	25.48 =AM	4
	100 m butterfly	57.22	5 Q	57.06	7 Q	57.11	6
Katie Drabot	200 m butterfly	2:08.33	5 Q	2:06.59	2 Q	2:07.04
Ella Eastin	200 m individual medley	2:11.06	8 Q	2:10.72	=9	Did not advance
Hali Flickinger	200 m butterfly	2:05.96	1 Q	2:06.25	1 Q	2:06.95
Brooke Forde	400 m individual medley	4:39.74	9	—		Did not advance
Lilly King	50 m breaststroke	30.18	2 Q	29.84	1 Q	29.84
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.31	1 Q	1:05.66	2 Q	1:04.93
	200 m breaststroke	DSQ		Did not advance
Katie Ledecky	200 m freestyle	DNS		Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:01.84	1 Q	—		3:59.97
	800 m freestyle	8:17.42	2 Q	—		8:13.58
	1500 m freestyle	15:48.90	1 Q	—		WD
Simone Manuel	50 m freestyle	24.41	3 Q	24.21	4 Q	24.05
	100 m freestyle	53.10	1 Q	53.31	=7 Q	52.04 AM
Melanie Margalis	200 m individual medley	2:09.69	3 Q	2:09.14	3 Q	2:08.91	4
Ally McHugh	400 m individual medley	4:38.32	5 Q	—		4:38.34	6
Katie McLaughlin	100 m butterfly	57.67	8 Q	57.23	9	Did not advance
Allison Schmitt	200 m freestyle	1:58.73	14 Q	1:58.27	14	Did not advance
Leah Smith	400 m freestyle	4:04.53	5 Q	—		4:01.29
	800 m freestyle	8:17.23	1 Q	—		8:17.10	5
Regan Smith	200 m backstroke	2:06.01	1 Q	2:03.35	1 Q WR	2:03.69
Olivia Smoliga	50 m backstroke	27.96	6 Q	27.76	5 Q	27.33 NR
	100 m backstroke	59.55	5 Q	59.36	6 Q	58.91
Micah Sumrall	100 m breaststroke	1:07.81	16 Q	1:07.94	16	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:25.17	=8 Q	2:25.41	11	Did not advance
Ashley Twichell	1500 m freestyle	15:56.22	5 Q	—		15:54.19	4
Abbey Weitzeil	50 m freestyle	24.47	6 Q	24.58	10	Did not advance
Mallory Comerford Kelsi Dahlia Margo Geer* Simone Manuel Lia Neal* Allison Schmitt* Abbey Weitzeil	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:36.13	4 Q	—		3:31.02 AM
Gabby DeLoof* Katie Ledecky Simone Manuel Melanie Margalis Katie McLaughlin Allison Schmitt* Leah Smith*	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:51.58	2 Q	—		7:41.87 AM
Regan Smith Lilly King Kelsi Dahlia Simone Manuel Olivia Smoliga* Melanie Margalis* Katie McLaughlin* Mallory Comerford*	4×100 m medley relay	3:55.39	1 Q	—		3:50.40 WR

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nathan Adrian* Zach Apple Mallory Comerford Caeleb Dressel Simone Manuel Katie McLaughlin* Blake Pieroni* Abbey Weitzeil*	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:22.70	1 Q	—		3:19.40 WR
Mallory Comerford* Kelsi Dahlia* Caeleb Dressel Matt Grevers* Lilly King Simone Manuel Ryan Murphy Andrew Wilson*	4×100 m medley relay	3:41.23	1 Q	—		3:39.10

Legend: (*) = Swimmers who participated in the heat only.

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster^[5]

• Alex Wolf
• Johnny Hooper
• Marko Vavic
• Alex Obert
• Ben Hallock
• Luca Cupido
• Hannes Daube
• Matthew Farmer
• Alex Bowen
• Chancellor Ramirez
• Jesse Smith (C)
• Max Irving
• Drew Holland
• Coach: Dejan Udovičić

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	3	0	0	52	16	+36	6	Quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	35	35	0	4	Playoffs
3	Australia	3	1	0	2	32	34	−2	2
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	3	20	54	−34	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

15 July 2019 11:10	Report	United States	16–7	Kazakhstan	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 4–2, 3–2, 5–2
		four players 3	Goals	seven players 1

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17 July 2019 09:50	Report	United States	7–17	Croatia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 3–5, 2–4, 1–4
		Ramirez 2	Goals	four players 3

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19 July 2019 19:10	Report	United States	12–11	Australia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Adrian Alxandrescu (ROU), Arkadiy Voevodin (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 3–3, 2–2, 3–3
		Cupido 3	Goals	four players 2

Playoffs

21 July 2019 15:30	Report	Greece	11–9	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Sebastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 3–2, 2–2, 3–1
		Genidounias 4	Goals	three players 2

9th–12th place semifinals

23 July 2019 12:30	Report	United States	20–3	South Africa	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jeremy Cheng (SGP), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 8–1, 5–2, 2–0
		three players 4	Goals	three players 1

9th place game

25 July 2019 11:00	Report	Montenegro	14–15	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 6–4, 4–4, 2–3
		Ivović 6	Goals	Hooper 4

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster^[6]

• Amanda Longan
• Maddie Musselman
• Melissa Seidemann
• Rachel Fattal
• Paige Hauschild
• Margaret Steffens (C)
• Stephania Haralabidis
• Kiley Neushul
• Aria Fischer
• Kaleigh Gilchrist
• Makenzie Fischer
• Alys Williams
• Ashleigh Johnson
• Coach: Adam Krikorian

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	60	13	+47	6	Quarterfinals
2	Netherlands	3	2	0	1	57	18	+39	4	Playoffs
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	26	41	−15	2
4	South Africa	3	0	0	3	5	76	−71	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

14 July 2019 09:50	Report	New Zealand	3–22	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jaume Teixido (ESP), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 0–8, 1–4, 0–6, 2–4
		Doyle 2	Goals	Haralabidis 5

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16 July 2019 19:10	Report	United States	12–9	Netherlands	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Sebastien Dervieux (FRA), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–2, 4–3, 4–2
		Gilchrist, Musselman 3	Goals	Keuning 2

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18 July 2019 16:30	Report	South Africa	1–26	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), An Jin-yong (KOR)
		Score by quarters: 0–7, 1–8, 0–6, 0–5
		Meecham 1	Goals	Musselman 5

Quarterfinals

22 July 2019 14:00	Report	United States	15–5	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Jaume Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 4–2, 2–2, 5–1
		Musselman 4	Goals	Eleftheriadou, Xenaki 2

Semifinals

24 July 2019 17:00	Report	United States	7–2	Australia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 3–0, 2–0, 1–1, 1–1
		three players 2	Goals	Halligan, Webster 1

Gold medal final

26 July 2019 18:30	Report	United States	11–6	Spain	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–2, 4–0, 2–3
		Neushul 3	Goals	Tarragó 3