1986 World Aquatics Championships

The 1986 World Aquatics Championships took place in Madrid, Spain between August 13 and August 23, 1986 with 1119 participating athletes.

Medals Table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	14	11	4	29
2	United States	10	10	13	33
3	West Germany	4	2	1	7
4	Canada	3	2	2	7
5	Hungary	3	0	0	3
6	China	2	4	1	7
7	Soviet Union	2	3	7	12
8	Romania	1	0	1	2
9	Australia	1	0	0	1
9	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
11	Italy	0	3	0	3
12	Netherlands	0	1	4	5
13	United Kingdom	0	1	2	3
14	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
17	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
18	Japan	0	0	2	2
19	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Total		41	41	41	123

Medal Summary

Swimming

Men's

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
50 m freestyle	Tom Jager (USA)	22.49	Dano Halsall (SUI)	22.80	Matt Biondi (USA)	22.85
100 m freestyle	Matt Biondi (USA)	48.94	Stéphan Caron (FRA)	49.73	Tom Jager (USA)	49.79
200 m freestyle	Michael Groß (FRG)	1:47.92	Sven Lodziewski (GDR)	1:49.12	Matt Biondi (USA)	1:49.43
400 m freestyle	Rainer Henkel (FRG)	3:50.05	Uwe Daßler (GDR)	3:51.26	Dan Jorgensen (USA)	3:51.33
1500 m freestyle	Rainer Henkel (FRG)	15:05.31	Stefano Battistelli (ITA)	15:14.80	Dan Jorgensen (USA)	15:16.23
100 m backstroke	Igor Polyansky (URS)	55.58	Dirk Richter (GDR)	56.49	Sergey Zabolotnov (URS)	56.57
200 m backstroke	Igor Polyansky (URS)	1:58.78	Frank Baltrusch (GDR)	2:01.11	Frank Hoffmeister (FRG)	2:02.42
100 m breaststroke	Victor Davis (USA)	1:02.71	Gianni Minervini (ITA)	1:03.00	Dmitriy Volkov (URS)	1:03.30
200 m breaststroke	József Szabó (HUN)	2:14.27	Victor Davis (CAN)	2:14.93	Steve Bentley (USA)	2:16.51
100 m butterfly	Pablo Morales (USA)	53.54	Matt Biondi (USA)	53.67	Andy Jameson (GBR)	53.81
200 m butterfly	Michael Gross (FRG)	1:56.53	Anthony Mosse (NZL)	1:58.36	Benny Nielsen (DEN)	1:59.09
200 m individual medley	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	2:01.57	Alex Baumann (CAN)	2:02.34	Vadim Yaroshchuk (URS)	2:02.61
400 m individual medley	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	4:18.98	Vadim Yaroshchuk (URS)	4:22.03	Alex Baumann (CAN)	4:22.58
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Tom Jager Michael Heath Paul Wallace Matt Biondi	3:19.89	Soviet Union (URS) Gennadiy Prigoda Nikolay Yevseyev Sergey Smiriyagin Aleksey Markovskiy	3:21.14	East Germany (GDR) Dirk Richter Jörg Woithe Sven Lodziewski Steffen Zesner	3:21.47
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Lars Hinneburg Thomas Flemming Dirk Richter Sven Lodziewski	7:15.91	West Germany (FRG) Rainer Henkel Michael Groß Alexander Schowtka Thomas Fahrner	7:15.96	United States (USA) Eric Boyer Michael Heath Dan Jorgensen Matt Biondi	7:18.29
4 × 100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Dan Yeatch David Lundberg Pablo Morales Matt Biondi	3:41.25	West Germany (FRG) Frank Hoffmeister Bert Göbel Michael Groß André Schadt	3:42.26	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Polyanskiy Dmitriy Volkov Aleksey Markovskiy Nikolay Yevseyev	3:42.63

Women's

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
50 m freestyle	Tamara Costache (ROM)	25.28	Kristin Otto (GDR)	25.50	Marie-Thérèse Armentero (SUI)	25.93
100 m freestyle	Kristin Otto (GDR)	55.05	Jenna Johnson (USA)	55.70	Conny van Bentum (NED)	55.79
200 m freestyle	Heike Friedrich (GDR)	1:58.26	Manuela Stellmach (GDR)	1:58.90	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:00.14
400 m freestyle	Heike Friedrich (GDR)	4:07.45	Astrid Strauß (GDR)	4:09.16	Sarah Hardcastle (GBR)	4:09.85
800 m freestyle	Astrid Strauß (GDR)	8:28.24	Katja Hartmann (GBR)	8:28.44	Debbie Babashoff (USA)	8:34.04
100 m backstroke	Betsy Mitchell (USA)	1:01.74	Kathrin Zimmermann (GDR)	1:02.17	Natalya Shibayeva (URS)	1:02.25
200 m backstroke	Cornelia Sirch (GDR)	2:11.37	Betsy Mitchell (USA)	2:11.39	Kathrin Zimmermann (GDR)	2:11.45
100 m breaststroke	Sylvia Gerasch (GDR)	1:08.11	Silke Hörner (GDR)	1:08.41	Tania Bogomilova (BUL)	1:08.52
200 m breaststroke	Silke Hörner (GDR)	2:27.40	Tania Bogomilova (BUL)	2:27.66	Allison Higson (CAN)	2:31.34
100 m butterfly	Kornelia Greßler (GDR)	59.51	Kristin Otto (GDR)	59.66	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	59.98
200 m butterfly	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:08.41	Kornelia Greßler (GDR)	2:10.66	Birte Weigang (GDR)	2:10.68
200 m individual medley	Kristin Otto (GDR)	2:15.56	Yelena Dendeberova (URS)	2:15.84	Kathleen Nord (GDR)	2:16.05
400 m individual medley	Kathleen Nord (GDR)	4:43.75	Michelle Griglione (USA)	4:44.07	Noemi Lung (ROM)	4:45.44
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto Manuela Stellmach Sabine Schulze Heike Friedrich	3:40.57	United States (USA) Jenna Johnson Dara Torres Mary T. Meagher Betsy Mitchell	3:44.04	Netherlands (NED) Conny van Bentum Laura Leideritz Karin Brienisse Annemarie Verstappen	3:46.89
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Manuela Stellmach Astrid Strauß Nadja Bergknecht Heike Friedrich	7:59.33	United States (USA) Betsy Mitchell Mary T. Meagher Kim Brown Mary Wayte	8:02.12	Netherlands (NED) Annemarie Verstappen Jolanda van de Meer Marianne Muis Conny van Bentum	8:09.59
4 × 100 m medley relay	East Germany (GDR) Kathrin Zimmermann Sylvia Gerasch Kornelia Greßler Kristin Otto	4:04.82	United States (USA) Betsy Mitchell Jenny Hau Mary T. Meagher Jenna Johnson	4:07.75	Netherlands (NED) Jolanda de Rover Petra van Staveren Conny van Bentum Annemarie Verstappen	4:10.70

Diving

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
Men's 3 Metres Springboard	Greg Louganis (USA)	750.06	Tan Liangde (CHN)	692.28	Li Hongping (CHN)	642.06
Men's 10 Metres Highboard	Greg Louganis (USA)	668.58	Li Kongzheng (CHN)	624.33	Bruce Kimball (USA)	599.91
Women's 3 Metres Springboard	Gao Min (CHN)	582.90	Li Yihua (CHN)	549.42	Marina Babkova (URS)	525.21
Women's 10 Metres Highboard	Chen Lin (CHN)	449.67	Lu Wei (CHN)	422.25	Wendy Wyland (USA)	412.47

Synchronised Swimming

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
Solo	Carolyn Waldo (CAN)	200.033	Sarah Josephson (USA)	194.967	Muriel Hermine (FRA)	188.250
Duet	Michelle Cameron & Carolyn Waldo (CAN)	196.267	Karen Josephson & Sarah Josephson (USA)	193.401	Megumi Ito & Mikako Kotani (JPN)	185.467
Team	Canada (CAN)	191.000	United States (USA)	190.821	Japan (JPN)	185.763

Water Polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Yugoslavia (YUG)	Italy (ITA)	Soviet Union (URS)
Women's	Australia (AUS)	Netherlands (NED)	United States (USA)

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