2023 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships

World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships 2023
Host city	Netanya, Israel
Date(s)	4–9 September
Venue(s)	Wingate Institute
Nations participating	93
Athletes participating	648
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Wingate Institute Competition Pool, World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships 2023

The 9th World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships were held in Netanya, Israel, at the Wingate Institute from 4 to 9 September 2023. ^{[1] [2]} These championships were the first to be held under the new World Aquatics name and branding. The age groups for these championships were altered slightly from the previous championships in 2022, with the equalisation of age groups to 14-18 years for both genders (athletes age as of 31 December 2023). ^[3] In total 648 athletes from 93 member federations competed at the championships. ^[4] Due to the status of their member federation athletes from the Philippines were required to compete as 'Neutral Independent Athletes'. ^[5] Three large member federations opted not to compete at these championships, being Great Britain, France, and Hungary.

The United States of America topped the medal tally and were awarded the World Aquatics Team of the Championships award. ^[6] Ukraine's Oleksandr Zheltiakov was awarded the World Aquatics Male Swimmer of the Championships award and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Lana Pudar was awarded the World Aquatics Female Swimmer of the Championships award. ^{[7] [8]}

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Israel)

Rank	Medal	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	15	11	7	33
2	Australia	9	7	8	24
3	Canada	2	3	8	13
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	0	3
	Denmark	2	1	0	3
	Ukraine	2	1	0	3
7	Turkey	2	0	0	2
8	China	1	4	4	9
9	Japan	1	3	3	7
10	Bulgaria	1	2	0	3
11	Estonia	1	1	1	3
12	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
13	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	0	1
16	Italy	0	4	8	12
17	Austria	0	1	1	2
18	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
20	Argentina	0	0	2	2
21	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		42	42	43	127

Source: Medal table

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Nikoli Blackman   Trinidad and Tobago	22.35	Flynn Southam   Australia	22.43	Lorenzo Ballarati   Italy	22.47
100 m freestyle	Maximus Williamson   United States	48.45	Lorenzo Ballarati   Italy	49.05	Edward Sommerville   Australia	49.16
200 m freestyle	Flynn Southam   Australia	1:46.57	Alessandro Ragaini   Italy	1:47.28	Anders McAlpine   Australia	1:47.94
400 m freestyle	Petar Mitsin   Bulgaria	3:46.49	Alessandro Ragaini   Italy	3:46.66	Filippo Bertoni   Italy	3:48.73
800 m freestyle	Kuzey Tunçelli   Turkey	7:48.75	Petar Mitsin   Bulgaria	7:49.36	Zhang Zhanshuo   China	7:50.03
1500 m freestyle	Kuzey Tunçelli   Turkey	14:59.80	Kim Jun-woo   South Korea	15:01.94	Zhang Zhanshuo   China	15:11.94
50 m backstroke	Miroslav Knedla   Czech Republic	24.80	Oleksandr Zheltyakov   Ukraine	24.91 NR	Ulises Saravia   Argentina	25.02
100 m backstroke	Oleksandr Zheltyakov   Ukraine	53.73 NR	Miroslav Knedla   Czech Republic	54.01	Christian Bacico   Italy	54.08
200 m backstroke	Oleksandr Zheltyakov   Ukraine	1:56.13	Daniel Diehl   United States	1:58.93	Christian Bacico   Italy	1:59.33
50 m breaststroke	Felix Viktor Iberle   Indonesia	27.39	Jonas Gaur   Denmark	27.55	Watson Nguyen   United States	27.85
100 m breaststroke	Joshua Chen   United States	1:00.70	Yamato Okadome   Japan	1:01.20	Watson Nguyen   United States	1:01.22
200 m breaststroke	Adam Mak Sai-ting   Hong Kong	2:11.84	Jordan Willis   United States	2:12.07	Riku Yamaguchi   Japan	2:12.13
50 m butterfly	Casper Puggaard   Denmark	23.50	Lukas Edl   Austria	23.89	Thomas Pattison   Australia	23.95
100 m butterfly	Casper Puggaard   Denmark	52.30	Wang Xizhe   China	52.65	Lukas Edl   Austria	52.68
200 m butterfly	Wang Xizhe   China	1:56.22	Petar Mitsin   Bulgaria	1:56.73	Alessandro Ragaini   Italy	1:57.79
200 m individual medley	Maximus Williamson   United States	1:57.29 CR	Daniel Diehl   United States	1:58.62	Lorne Wigginton   Canada	1:59.44
400 m individual medley	Tomoyuki Matsushita   Japan	4:10.97 CR	Zhang Zhanshuo   China	4:12.44	Lorne Wigginton   Canada	4:12.81
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States  (USA) Daniel Diehl (49.93) Maximus Williamson (47.78) Hudson Williams (49.14) Jason Zhao (48.64) Jacob Wimberly [a] Ethan Harrington [a]	3:15.49 WJ	Australia  (AUS) Edward Sommerville (49.24) Marcus da Silva (49.53) Anders McAlpine (49.45) Flynn Southam (48.47) Tane Bidois [a] Thomas Pattison [a]	3:16.69	Canada  (CAN) Filip Senc-Samardzic (49.80) Paul Dardis (49.15) Antoine Sauve (48.73) Aiden Norman (49.66)	3:17.34
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States  (USA) Maximus Williamson (1:47.11) Cooper Lucas (1:47.75) Jason Zhao (1:47.56) Daniel Diehl (1:46.61) Norvin Clontz [a] Ryan Erisman [a] Nathan Szobota [a] Jacob Wimberly [a]	7:09.03	China  (CHN) Wang Xizhe (1:48.05) Ji Yicun (1:48.76) Liu Wudi (1:48.50) Zhang Zhanshuo (1:47.06)	7:13.37	Australia  (AUS) Anders McAlpine (1:49.17) Edward Sommerville (1:47.91) Marcus da Silva (1:49.68) Flynn Southam (1:49.26) Karl Albertyn [a] Ike Martinez [a]	7:16.02
4×100 m medley relay	United States  (USA) Daniel Diehl (54.37) Joshua Chen (1:00.25) Jacob Wimberly (53.79) Maximus Williamson (47.57) Caleb Maldari [a] Watson Nguyen [a] Jason Zhao [a] Hudson Williams [a]	3:35.98	Italy  (ITA) Christian Bacico Christian Mantegazza Daniele Momoni Davide Passafaro Daniele Del Signore [a] Carlos D'Ambrosio [a] Mirko Chiaversoli [a]	3:38.00	China  (CHN) Jiang Chenglin Zhang Zhanshuo Wang Xizhe Ji Yicun Liu Wudi [a]	3:39.81

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Olivia Wunsch   Australia	24.59 =CR	Annam Olasewere   United States	24.95	Hannah Casey   Australia	25.07
100 m freestyle	Olivia Wunsch   Australia	53.71	Milla Jansen   Australia	54.08	Anna Moesch   United States	54.69
200 m freestyle	Addison Sauickie   United States	1:58.09	Julie Brousseau   Canada	1:58.10	Leah Hayes   United States	1:58.19
400 m freestyle	Jamie Perkins   Australia	4:05.72	Madi Mintenko   United States	4:08.06	Addison Sauickie   United States	4:08.94
800 m freestyle	Kayla Han   United States	8:29.66	Mao Yihan   China	8:33.66	Agostina Hein   Argentina	8:33.90
1500 m freestyle	Kate Hurst   United States	16:09.37	Ruka Takezawa   Japan	16:18.68	Mao Yihan   China	16:18.76
50 m backstroke	Iona Anderson   Australia	28.01	Erika Pelaez   United States	28.07	Jaclyn Barclay   Australia	28.14
100 m backstroke	Jaclyn Barclay   Australia	59.47	Iona Anderson   Australia	59.88	Erika Pelaez   United States	59.94
200 m backstroke	Teagan O'Dell   United States	2:08.09	Jojo Ramey   United States	2:10.18	Bella Grant   Australia	2:11.24
50 m breaststroke	Eneli Jefimova   Estonia	30.42	Monique Wieruszowski   New Zealand	30.68	Piper Enge   United States	30.74
100 m breaststroke	Alexanne Lepage   Canada	1:06.58	Eneli Jefimova   Estonia	1:06.84	Jimena Ruiz   Spain	1:07.25
200 m breaststroke	Alexanne Lepage   Canada	2:24.70	Mina Nakazawa   Japan	2:25.57	Eneli Jefimova   Estonia	2:26.29
50 m butterfly	Leah Shackley   United States	26.20	Lana Pudar   Bosnia and Herzegovina	26.26	Olivia Wunsch   Australia Mizuki Hirai   Japan	26.53
100 m butterfly	Lana Pudar   Bosnia and Herzegovina	57.77	Leah Shackley   United States	58.29	Mizuki Hirai   Japan	58.35
200 m butterfly	Lana Pudar   Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.20 CR	Bella Grant   Australia	2:08.97	Paola Borrelli   Italy	2:10.89
200 m individual medley	Leah Hayes   United States	2:10.24 CR	Haley McDonald   United States	2:13.18	Julie Brousseau   Canada	2:13.74
400 m individual medley	Leah Hayes   United States	4:36.84 CR	Ella Jansen   Canada	4:37.35	Julie Brousseau   Canada	4:38.45
4×100 m freestyle relay	Australia  (AUS) Milla Jansen Hannah Casey Jaimie de Lutiis Olivia Wunsch Jamie Perkins [a] Amelia Weber [a]	3:36.52	United States  (USA) Leah Hayes Anna Moesch Addison Sauickie Erika Pelaez Madi Mintenko [a] Teagan O'Dell [a] Bailey Hartman [a]	3:37.71	Canada  (CAN) Julie Brousseau Ella Jansen Mia West Sienna Angove Delia Lloyd [a] Ella Cosgrove [a]	3:40.40
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States  (USA) Addison Sauickie Leah Hayes Lynsey Bowen Madi Mintenko Anna Moesch [a] Bailey Hartman [a]	7:52.48	Australia  (AUS) Jamie Perkins Hannah Casey Jaimie de Lutiis Amelia Weber Bella Grant [a]	7:52.68	Canada  (CAN) Julie Brousseau Sienna Angove Ella Cosgrove Ella Jansen Mia West [a] Julia Strojnowska [a]	7:53.09
4×100 m medley relay	Australia  (AUS) Jaclyn Barclay Hayley Mackinder Isabella Boyd Olivia Wunsch Iona Anderson [a] Isabella Johnson [a] Bella Grant [a] Milla Jansen [a]	4:00.86	Canada  (CAN) Delia Lloyd Alexanne Lepage Ella Jansen Sienna Angove Jordan Greber [a] Halle West [a] Victoria Raymond [a] Julie Brousseau [a]	4:01.96	Italy  (ITA) Giada Gorlier Francesca Zucca Paola Borrelli Sara Curtis Irene Mati [a] Marina Cacciapuoti [a]	4:03.34

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay	Australia  (AUS) Flynn Southam Edward Sommerville Olivia Wunsch Milla Jansen Marcus da Silva [a] Anders McAlpine [a] Jaimie de Lutiis [a] Hannah Casey [a]	3:24.29 WJ	United States  (USA) Maximus Williamson Jason Zhao Erika Pelaez Anna Moesch Jacob Wimberly [a] Hudson Williams [a] Caroline Larsen [a] Madi Mintenko [a]	3:25.59	Canada  (CAN) Paul Dardis Antoine Sauve Julie Brousseau Ella Jansen Aiden Norman [a] Sienna Angove [a] Mia West [a]	3:29.14
4×100 m medley relay	United States  (USA) Teagan O'Dell Watson Nguyen Leah Shackley Maximus Williamson Caleb Maldari [a] Joshua Chen [a] Haley McDonald [a]	3:45.62	Australia  (AUS) Jaclyn Barclay Gideon Burnes Isabella Boyd Edward Sommerville Iona Anderson [a] Joshua Kerr [a] Enoch Robb [a] Jaimie de Lutiis [a]	3:49.18	Italy  (ITA) Christian Bacico Christian Mantegazza Paola Borrelli Matilde Biagiotti Daniele del Signore [a] Francesca Zucca [a] Lorenzo Ballarati [a] Cristiana Stevanato [a]	3:50.09

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Records

The following junior world and championship records were set during the competition.

Junior world records

Date	Round	Event	Time	Name	Nation
September 4	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:15.49	Daniel Diehl (49.93) Maximus Williamson (47.78) Hudson Williams (49.14) Jason Zhao (48.64)	United States
September 6	Final	Mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:24.29	Flynn Southam (48.58) Edward Sommerville (48.64) Olivia Wunsch (53.62) Milla Jansen (53.55)	Australia

Championship records

Date	Round	Event	Time	Name	Nation
September 4	Final	Women's 400 metre individual medley	4:36.84	Leah Hayes	United States
September 5	Heat 4	Men's 200 metre individual medley	1:58.42	Tomoyuki Matsushita	Japan
September 5	Final	Women's 200 metre butterfly	2:07.20	Lana Pudar	Bosnia and Herzegovina
September 5	Final	Men's 200 metre individual medley	1:57.29	Maximus Williamson	United States
September 6	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	1:06.23	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia
September 7	Final	Women's 200 metre individual medley	2:10.24	Leah Hayes	United States
September 8	Heat 7	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	26.98	Felix Viktor Iberle	Indonesia
September 8	Final	Men's 400 metre individual medley	4:10.97	Tomoyuki Matsushita	Japan
September 9	Final	Women's 50 metre freestyle	=24.59	Olivia Wunsch	Australia

Note: The first version of the results erroneously recognized 3 performances as records. The Women's 50m Breaststroke results recorded championship record performances from Alexanne Lepage and Eneli Jefimova in the heats. Likewise, the performance from Kuzey Tuncelli in the final of the Men's 800m Freestyle was recognized as a championship record. Each performance was slower than the existing championship record. All results were later amended.

References

1. "World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships 2023 -Overview". worldaquatics.com. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). FINA . Retrieved 4 September 2023.
3. "Competition Schedule | AQUA Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
4. "Competition Athletes | AQUA Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
5. "Competition Athletes | AQUA Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
6. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
7. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
8. "They Said | Swimmers of the Championships, Oleksandr Zheltiakov & Lana Pudar". World Aquatics. 2023-09-09. Retrieved 2023-09-09.

External links

• World Aquatics website
• Results