Men
Medalists by tournament
- Abbreviation and legend
- * – Host team
- † – Defunct team
Multiple gold medalists
The following table is pre-sorted by number of gold medals (in descending order), number of silver medals (in descending order), number of bronze medals (in descending order), date of receiving the last gold medal (in ascending order), date of receiving the first gold medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Serbian player Slobodan Nikić is the first and only male athlete to win three gold medals in water polo at the World Aquatics Championships. [2]
There are forty six male athletes who won two gold medals in water polo at the World Aquatics Championships.
- Legend
- – Hosts
| Rk | Player | Birth | Height | Men's team | Pos | Water polo tournament | Period (age of first/last) | Medals | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | S | B | T | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Slobodan Nikić | 1983 | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |  Serbia and Montenegro | FP | 2003 | 2005 | 12 years (20/32) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | [2] | |||||
 Serbia | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | |||||||||||||
Multiple medalists
The following table is pre-sorted by total number of medals (in descending order), number of gold medals (in descending order), number of silver medals (in descending order), date of receiving the last medal (in ascending order), date of receiving the first medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.
Seventeen male athletes won five or more medals in water polo at the World Aquatics Championships. Aside from Serbian player Slobodan Nikić [2] , all others were members of the Spain men's national water polo team (10 players) and Croatia men's national water polo team (6 players). Brazilian-born Spanish player Felipe Perrone [3] and Croatian Andro Bušlje [4] are the only athletes (man or woman) to win seven medals in water polo at the World Aquatics Championships.
- Legend
- – Hosts
| Rk | Player | Birth | Height | Men's team | Pos | Water polo tournament | Period (age of first/last) | Medals | Ref | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | S | B | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Felipe Perrone | 1986 | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |  Spain | FP | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 24 years (15/39) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | [3] | ||||
 Brazil | 2001 | 2003 | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Andro Bušlje | 1986 | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) |  Croatia | FP | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 14 years (19/33) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | [4] | ||||||
| 3 | Maro Joković | 1987 | 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) | Croatia | FP | 2007 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 12 years (19/31) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | [5] | ||||||||
| 4 | Slobodan Nikić | 1983 | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | Serbia and Montenegro | FP | 2003 | 2005 | 12 years (20/32) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | [2] | ||||||||||||
| Serbia | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Marko Bijač | 1991 | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | Croatia | GK | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 12 years (22/34) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [6] | ||||||
| Alejandro Bustos | 1997 | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | Spain | FP | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 8 years (20/28) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [7] | |||||||||
| Sergi Cabañas | 1996 | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | Spain | FP | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 6 years (23/29) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [8] | ||||||||||
| Miguel de Toro | 1993 | 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) | Spain | FP | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 8 years (23/31) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [9] | |||||||||
| Álvaro Granados | 1998 | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | Spain | FP | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 8 years (18/26) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [10] | |||||||||
| Marc Larumbe | 1994 | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | Spain | FP | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 6 years (25/31) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [11] | ||||||||||
| Luka Lončar | 1987 | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | Croatia | FP | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | 2025 | 12 years (26/38) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [12] | |||||||||
| Eduardo Lorrio | 1993 | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | Spain | GK | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 6 years (25/31) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [13] | ||||||||||
| Alberto Munárriz | 1994 | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | Spain | FP | 2013 | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 12 years (19/31) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [14] | ||||||||
| Roger Tahull | 1997 | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | Spain | FP | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 8 years (20/28) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | [15] | |||||||||
| 15 | Blai Mallarach | 1987 | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | Spain | FP | 2009 | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 15 years (21/36) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | [16] | |||||||||
| 16 | Josip Pavić | 1982 | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | Croatia | GK | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 14 years (19/33) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | [17] | |||||||
| Sandro Sukno | 1990 | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | Croatia | FP | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 8 years (19/27) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | [18] | ||||||||||
| Rk | Player | Birth | Height | Men's team | Pos | Water polo tournament | Period (age of first/last) | G | S | B | T | Ref | |||||||||||||
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