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The first FINA World Championships in Aquatics were held in the Tašmajdan Sports Centre in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from August 31 to September 9, 1973. Since then, they've been staged periodically but rather irregularly, at intervals ranging from two to five years. The championships include all four Olympic disciplines governed by the international swimming federation FINA: diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, and water polo.

The tournament saw a raft of world records tumble, but nearly all fell to the meet's two dominant countries, East Germany and the United States, who between them claimed 28 of the 37 gold medals on offer. The USA finished with fifteen gold medals, thanks mostly to its strong performance from the men in the swimming and its clean sweep in the synchronised swimming.

Jim Montgomery, the man who became the first to break the 50-second mark in the 100 m freestyle, had few problems taking gold in both the 100 m and 200 m freestyle, with Australian Michael Wenden forced to settle for bronze in the 200 m. Another Australian, Brad Cooper, went under the world mark in the 400 m, but it wasn't enough to take gold from American Rick DeMont. Both men went under the four-minute mark for the first time.

But Cooper's compatriot, Stephen Holland, exacted revenge on Demont in the 1500 m and shattered the world record by almost seven seconds in the process. Holland's effort was Australia's only gold of the meet, while DeMont captured the silver, also under the world mark, with Cooper finishing in third place.

East German backstroker Roland Matthes' glittering career was in its twilight, but it didn't stop him resetting the world record in the 200 m backstroke for the eighth time, shaving almost a second off. It would be his last world record, though he also took gold in the 100 m backstroke, missing his own record by just over a second. John Hencken also broke the world mark on the way to taking gold in the 100 m breaststroke, while Great Britain's David Wilkie did likewise in the 200 m.

The Americans truly asserted their authority in the relays, taking gold in the 4×100 m, 4×100 m medley and 4×200 m. Anchored by Montgomery, the 4×200 m team smashed the world record, winning by a massive 10 seconds from the Australians. The West German team took bronze, Wenden touching out Folkert Meeuw by three one-hundredths of a second.

The Americans' dominance in the men's, however, was matched by the East Germans in the women's. Kornelia Ender announced herself as Shane Gould's successor, taking gold in the 100 m butterfly and freestyle and finishing with four gold. Teammate Rosemarie Kother claimed the 200 m butterfly in a world record time.

Andrea Hubner (200 m) and Gudrun Wegner (400 m) made it an East German clean sweep in the medleys, both girls taking more than three seconds off the world mark. Breaststroker Renate Vogel also took out both the 100 m and 200 m events, and claimed her third gold when the 4×100 m medley team won in a world record time.

The Americans made a clean sweep of the synchronised swimming, with Japan and Canada forced to settle for consolation medals in all three events. Teresa Anderson won three gold, teaming up with Gail Johnson to take the duet event to add to her solo and team triumphs.

The medals were more evenly spread in the diving with Sweden, Italy, East Germany and the USA all winning gold. Sweden's Ulrika Knape took out her pet event, the 10 m platform, but was again denied in the 3 m springboard after taking silver at the Summer Olympics a year earlier, this time by East German Christa Kohler.

American Phil Boggs announced himself with gold in the 3 m springboard, an event he would dominate for the next five years, while Italian Klaus Dibiasi took out the 10 m platform.

The Hungarian water polo team, led by arguably its greatest ever player, Tamás Farago, took gold, exacting revenge on the Soviet Union in the final after the USSR beat them in the 1972 Summer Olympics final in Munich, West Germany.

Medal summary

Swimming

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jim Montgomery (USA)	51.70	Michel Rousseau (FRA)	52.08	Michael Wenden (AUS)	52.22
200 m freestyle	Jim Montgomery (USA)	1:53.02	Kurt Krumpholz (USA)	1:53.61	Roger Pyttel (GDR)	1:53.97
400 m freestyle	Rick DeMont (USA)	3:58.18 WR	Brad Cooper (AUS)	3:58.70	Bengt Gingsjö (SWE)	4:01.27
1500 m freestyle	Stephen Holland (AUS)	15:31.85 WR	Rick DeMont (USA)	15:35.44	Brad Cooper (AUS)	15:45.04
100 m backstroke	Roland Matthes (GDR)	57.47	Mike Stamm (USA)	58.77	Lutz Wanja (GDR)	59.08
200 m backstroke	Roland Matthes (GDR)	2:01.87 WR	Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN)	2:05.89	John Naber (USA)	2:06.91
100 m breaststroke	John Hencken (USA)	1:04.02 WR	Mikhail Kryukin (URS)	1:04.61	Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)	1:05.61
200 m breaststroke	David Wilkie (GBR)	2:19.28 WR	John Hencken (USA)	2:19.95	Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)	2:23.11
100 m butterfly	Bruce Robertson (CAN)	55.69	Joe Bottom (USA)	56.37	Robin Backhaus (USA)	56.42
200 m butterfly	Robin Backhaus (USA)	2:03.32	Steven Gregg (USA)	2:03.58	Hartmut Flöckner (GDR)	2:03.84
200 m individual medley	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	2:08.36	Stan Carper (USA)	2:08.43	David Wilkie (GBR)	2:08.84
400 m individual medley	András Hargitay (HUN)	4:31.11	Rod Strachan (USA)	4:33.50	Rick Colella (USA)	4:34.68
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Mel Nash Joe Bottom Jim Montgomery John Murphy	3:27.18	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Grivennikov Viktor Aboymov Vladimir Krivtsov Vladimir Bure	3:31.36	East Germany (GDR) Roland Matthes Roger Pyttel Peter Bruch Hartmut Flöckner	3:32.03
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Kurt Krumpholz Robin Backhaus Rick Klatt Jim Montgomery	7:33.22 WR	Australia (AUS) John Kulasalu Stephen Badger Brad Cooper Michael Wenden	7:43.65	Germany (GER) Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Peter Nocke Folkert Meeuw	7:43.68
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Mike Stamm John Hencken Joe Bottom Jim Montgomery	3:49.49	East Germany (GDR) Roland Matthes Jürgen Glas Hartmut Flöckner Roger Pyttel	3:53.24	Canada (CAN) Ian MacKenzie Peter Hrdlitschka Bruce Robertson Brian Phillips	3:56.37

Legend: WR – World record when swum

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	57.54 WR	Shirley Babashoff (USA)	58.87	Enith Brigitha (NED)	58.87
200 m freestyle	Keena Rothhammer (USA)	2:04.99	Shirley Babashoff (USA)	2:05.33	Andrea Eife (GDR)	2:05.52
400 m freestyle	Heather Greenwood (USA)	4:20.28	Keena Rothhammer (USA)	4:21.50	Novella Calligaris (ITA)	4:21.79
800 m freestyle	Novella Calligaris (ITA)	8:52.97 WR	Jo Harshbarger (USA)	8:55.56	Gudrun Wegner (GDR)	9:01.82
100 m backstroke	Ulrike Richter (GDR)	1:05.42	Melissa Belote (USA)	1:06.11	Wendy Cook (CAN)	1:06.27
200 m backstroke	Melissa Belote (USA)	2:20.52	Enith Brigitha (NED)	2:22.15	Andrea Gyarmati (HUN)	2:22.48
100 m breaststroke	Renate Vogel (GDR)	1:13.74	Lyubov Rusanova (URS)	1:15.42	Brigitte Schuchardt (GDR)	1:15.82
200 m breaststroke	Renate Vogel (GDR)	2.40.01	Hannelore Anke (GDR)	2:40.49	Lynn Colella (USA)	2:41.71
100 m butterfly	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	1:02.53	Rosemarie Kother (GDR)	1:02.68	Mayumi Aoki (JPN)	1:03.73
200 m butterfly	Rosemarie Kother (GDR)	2:13.76 WR	Roswitha Beier (GDR)	2:16.77	Lynn Colella (USA)	2:19.53
200 m individual medley	Andrea Hübner (GDR)	2:20.51 WR	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	2:21.21	Kathy Heddy (USA)	2:23.84
400 m individual medley	Gudrun Wegner (GDR)	4:57.51 WR	Angela Franke (GDR)	5:00.37	Novella Calligaris (ITA)	5:02.02
4×100 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Kornelia Ender Andrea Eife Andrea Hübner Sylvia Eichner	3:52.45 WR	United States (USA) Kim Peyton Kathy Heddy Heather Greenwood Shirley Babashoff	3:55.52	Germany (GER) Jutta Weber Heidemarie Reineck Gudrun Beckmann Angela Steinbach	3:58.88
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany (GDR) Ulrike Richter Renate Vogel Rosemarie Kother Kornelia Ender	4:16.84 WR	United States (USA) Melissa Belote Marcia Morey Deena Deardurff Shirley Babashoff	4:25.80	Germany (GER) Angelika Grieser Petra Nows Gudrun Beckmann Jutta Weber	4:26.57

Legend: WR – World record when swum

Synchronized swimming

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Solo	Teresa Andersen (USA)	120.460	Jojo Carrier (CAN)	112.534	Junko Hasumi (JPN)	104.830
Duet	Teresa Andersen and Gail Johnson (USA)	118.391	Jojo Carrier and Madeleine Ramsay (CAN)	112.917	Masako Fujiwara and Yasuko Fujiwara (JPN)	109.702
Team competition	United States (USA) Teresa Anderson Susan Barros Robin Curren Jackie Douglas Gail Johnson Dance Moore Amanda Norrish Suzanne Randell	117.617	Canada (CAN) Michelle Calkins Frances Hambrook Debbie Humphrey Lorraine Nicholl Gail Page Carol Stuart Susan Thomas Laura Wilkin	112.918	Japan (JPN) Masako Fujiwara Yasuko Fujiwara Junko Hasumi Yasuko Unesaki ---- ---- ---- ----	107.311

Diving

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 3 m springboard	Phil Boggs (USA)	618.57	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	615.18	Keith Russell (USA)	579.48
Women's 3 m springboard	Christa Köhler (GDR)	442.17	Ulrika Knape (SWE)	434.19	Marina Janicke (GDR)	426.33
Men's 10 m platform	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	559.53	Keith Russell (USA)	523.74	Falk Hoffmann (GDR)	492.15
Women's 10 m platform	Ulrika Knape (SWE)	406.77	Milena Duchková (CZE)	387.18	Irina Kalynina (URS)	381.42

Water polo

Men's competition

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Hungary	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia

References

Preceded by None	FINA World Aquatics Championships	Succeeded by 1975 World Aquatics Championships (Cali, Colombia)

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 ==References==
-* [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_a.pdf FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (men)]
+* [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_a.pdf FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (men)] ([http://www.webcitation.org/5gYGemkC1 Archived] 2009-05-05)
 * [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_b.pdf FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (women)]
 * [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_VII.pdf FINA Official Championship Results History – Diving]