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{{Short description|1978 edition of the World Aquatics Championships}}
{{Infobox swimming meet
| name           = 3rd FINA World Championships
| image          = 
| imagesize      = 
| hostcity       = [[West Berlin]]
| dates          = August 20–28, 1978
| venues         = 
| teams          = 
| nations        = 
| athletes       =
| events         = 
| footnotes      =
| previous       = [[1975 World Aquatics Championships|1975 Cali]]
| next           = [[1982 World Aquatics Championships|1982 Guayaquil]]
}}
{{1978 World Aquatics Championships}}
[[File:Stamps of Germany (Berlin) 1978, MiNr 571.jpg|thumb|A German stamp dedicated to the 1978 World Aquatics Championships]]
The '''1978 [[World Aquatics Championships]]''' took place in the [[City-state|free city]] of [[West Berlin]] between August 20 and August 28, 1978. Women's Water Polo competed as an exhibition sport.

==Medal table==
{| class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size:90%"
|- bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
! width=50 | Place
! width=200 | Nation
! width=50 | {{gold1}}
! width=50 | {{silver2}}
! width=50 | {{bronze3}}
! width=50 | Total
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 1
| align="left" | {{USA}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 23*
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 14
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 7
| 44
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 2
| align="left" | {{URS}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 6
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 4
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 6
| 16
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 3
| align="left" | {{CAN}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 3
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 5
| 9
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 4
| align="left" | {{AUS}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 2
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0
| 2
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 5
| align="left" | {{GDR}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 10
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 4
| 15
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 6
| align="left" | {{FRG}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 4
| 7
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 7
| align="left" | {{ITA}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 2
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 8
| align="left" | {{JPN}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 3
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 9
| align="left" | {{flag|Hungary}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 3
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 10
| align="left" | {{YUG}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 2
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| rowspan="2" valign="center"| 11
| align="left" | {{NOR}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0
| 1
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| align="left" | {{NZL}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0
| 1
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| rowspan="2" valign="center"| 13
| align="left" | {{GBR2}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 2
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| align="left" | {{SWE}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 2
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| rowspan="2" valign="center"| 15
| align="left" | {{BRA}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 1
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| align="left" | {{DEN}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 1
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" bgcolor=D3D3D3| '''Total'''
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | '''37'''
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | '''37'''
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | '''37'''
| bgcolor=D3D3D3|'''111'''
|}
*Record(*)

==Results==

===Diving===
{{main|Diving at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships}}

;Men
{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
|3 m springboard
| {{flagathlete|[[Phil Boggs]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Falk Hoffmann]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Giorgio Cagnotto]]|ITA}}
|-valign="top"
|10 m platform
| {{flagathlete|[[Greg Louganis]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Falk Hoffmann]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Aleynik]]|URS}}
|}

;Women
{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
|3 m springboard
| {{flagathlete|[[Irina Kalinina]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Cynthia Potter]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jennifer Chandler]]|USA}}
|-valign="top"
|10 m platform
| {{flagathlete|[[Irina Kalinina]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Martina Jäschke]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Melissa Briley]]|USA}}
|}

===Swimming===
{{main|Swimming at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships}}

;Men
{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
|100 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[David McCagg]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jim Montgomery (swimmer)|Jim Montgomery]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Klaus Steinbach]]|FRG}}
|-valign="top"
|200 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Bill Forrester]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Rowdy Gaines]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Sergey Kopliakov]]|URS}}
|-valign="top"
|400 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Salnikov]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jeff Float]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Bill Forrester]]|USA}}
|-valign="top"
|1500 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Salnikov]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Borut Petrič]]|YUG}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Bobby Hackett (swimmer)|Bobby Hackett]]|USA}}
|-valign="top"
|100 m backstroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Bob Jackson (swimmer)|Bob Jackson]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Peter Rocca]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Romulo Arantes]]|BRA}}
|-valign="top"
|200 m backstroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Jesse Vassallo]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Gary Hurring]]|NZL}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Zoltán Verrasztó]]|HUN}}
|-valign="top"
|100 m breaststroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Walter Kusch]]|FRG}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Graham Smith (Canadian swimmer)|Graham Smith]]|CAN}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Gerald Mörken]]|FRG}}
|-valign="top"
|200 m breaststroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Nick Nevid]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Arsens Miskarovs]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Walter Kusch]]|FRG}}
|-valign="top"
|100 m butterfly
| {{flagathlete|[[Joe Bottom]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Greg Jagenburg]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Pär Arvidsson]]|SWE}}
|-valign="top"
|200 m butterfly
| {{flagathlete|[[Mike Bruner]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Steve Gregg]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Roger Pyttel]]|GDR}}
|-valign="top"
|200 m individual medley
| {{flagathlete|[[Graham Smith (Canadian swimmer)|Graham Smith]]|CAN}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jesse Vassallo]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Oleksandr Sydorenko|Aleksandr Sidorenko]]|URS}}
|-valign="top"
|400 m individual medley
| {{flagathlete|[[Jesse Vassallo]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Sergey Fesenko, Sr.|Sergey Fesenko]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[András Hargitay]]|HUN}}
|- valign="top"
|4 × 100 m freestyle relay
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br/><small>[[Jack Babashoff]]<br/>[[Rowdy Gaines]]<br/>[[Jim Montgomery (swimmer)|Jim Montgomery]]<br/>[[David McCagg]]</small>
| {{flagteam|FRG}}<br/><small>[[Andreas Schmidt (swimmer)|Andreas Schmidt]]<br/>[[Ulrich Temps]]<br/>[[Peter Knust]]<br/>[[Klaus Steinbach]]</small>
| {{flagteam|SWE}}<br/><small>[[Per Holmertz]]<br/>[[Dan Larsson]]<br/>[[Per-Ola Quist]]<br/>[[Per-Alvar Magnusson]]</small>
|- valign=top
|4 × 200 m freestyle relay
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br/><small>[[Bruce Furniss]]<br/>[[Bill Forrester]]<br/>[[Bobby Hackett (swimmer)|Bobby Hackett]]<br/>[[Rowdy Gaines]]</small>
| {{flagteam|URS}}<br/><small>[[Sergey Rusin]]<br/>[[Andrey Krylov (swimmer born 1956)|Andrey Krylov]]<br/>[[Vladimir Salnikov]]<br/>[[Sergey Kopliakov]]</small>
| {{flagteam|FRG}}<br/><small>[[Andreas Schmidt (swimmer)|Andreas Schmidt]]<br/>[[Peter Knust]]<br/>[[Karsten Lippmann]]<br/>[[Frank Wennmann]]</small>
|- valign=top
|4 × 100 m medley relay
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br/><small>[[Bob Jackson (swimmer)|Bob Jackson]]<br/>[[Nick Nevid]]<br/>[[Joe Bottom]]<br/>[[David McCagg]]</small>
| {{flagteam|FRG}}<br/><small>[[Klaus Steinbach]]<br/>[[Walter Kusch]]<br/>[[Michael Kraus (swimmer)|Michael Kraus]]<br/>[[Andreas Schmidt (swimmer)|Andreas Schmidt]]</small>
| {{flagteam|GBR}}<br/><small>[[Gary Abraham]]<br/>[[Duncan Goodhew]]<br/>[[John Mills (swimmer)|John Mills]]<br/>[[Martin Smith (swimmer)|Martin Smith]]</small>
|}

;Women
{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
|100 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Barbara Krause]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Lene Jenssen]]|NOR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Larisa Tsaryova]]|URS}}
|-
|200 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Cynthia Woodhead]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Barbara Krause]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Larisa Tsaryova]]|URS}}
|-
|400 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracey Wickham]]|AUS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Cynthia Woodhead]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Kim Linehan]]|USA}}
|-
|800 m freestyle
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracey Wickham]]|AUS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Cynthia Woodhead]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Kim Linehan]]|USA}}
|-
|100 m backstroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Linda Jezek]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Birgit Treiber]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Cheryl Gibson]]|CAN}}
|-
|200 m backstroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Linda Jezek]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Birgit Treiber]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Cheryl Gibson]]|CAN}}
|-
|100 m breaststroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Yuliya Bogdanova]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracy Caulkins]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Margaret Kelly (swimmer)|Margaret Kelly]]|GBR}}
|-
|200 m breaststroke
| {{flagathlete|[[Lina Kačiušytė]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Yuliya Bogdanova]]|URS}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Susanne Nielsson]]|DEN}}
|-
|100 m butterfly
| {{flagathlete|[[Joan Pennington]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Andrea Pollack]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Wendy Quirk]]|CAN}}
|-
|200 m butterfly
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracy Caulkins]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Nancy Hogshead]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Andrea Pollack]]|GDR}}
|-
|200 m individual medley
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracy Caulkins]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Joan Pennington]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Ulrike Tauber]]|GDR}}
|-
|400 m individual medley
| {{flagathlete|[[Tracy Caulkins]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Ulrike Tauber]]|GDR}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Petra Schneider]]|GDR}}
|- valign=top
|4 × 100 m freestyle relay
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br/><small>[[Tracy Caulkins]]<br/>[[Stephanie Elkins]]<br/>[[Jill Sterkel]]<br/>[[Cynthia Woodhead]]</small>
| {{flagteam|GDR}}<br/><small>[[Heike Witt]]<br/>[[Caren Metschuck]]<br/>[[Barbara Krause]]<br/>[[Petra Priemer]]</small>
| {{flagteam|CAN}}<br/><small>[[Gail Amundrud]]<br/>[[Nancy Garapick]]<br/>[[Sue Sloan]]<br/>[[Wendy Quirk]]</small>
|- valign=top
|4 × 100 m medley relay
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br/><small>[[Linda Jezek]]<br/>[[Tracy Caulkins]]<br/>[[Joan Pennington]]<br/>[[Cynthia Woodhead]]</small>
| {{flagteam|GDR}}<br/><small>[[Birgit Treiber]]<br/>[[Ramona Reinke]]<br/>[[Andrea Pollack]]<br/>[[Barbara Krause]]</small>
| {{flagteam|URS}}<br/><small>[[Elena Kruglova]]<br/>[[Yuliya Bogdanova]]<br/>[[Irina Aksenova]]<br/>[[Larisa Tsaryova]]</small>
|}

===Synchronised swimming===
{{main|Synchronised swimming at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships}}

{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
|Solo routine
| {{flagathlete|[[Helen Vanderburg]]|CAN}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Pam Tryon]]|USA}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Yasuko Unezaki]]|JPN}}
|-valign="top"
|Duet routine
| {{flagathlete|[[Michelle Calkins]]|CAN}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Helen Vanderburg]]|CAN}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Masako Fujiwara]]|JPN}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Yasuko Fujiwara]]|JPN}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Michele Barone]]|USA}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Pam Tryon]]|USA}}
|-valign="top"
|Team routine
| {{flagteam|USA}}
| {{flagteam|JPN}}
| {{flagteam|CAN}}
|}

===Water polo===
;Men
{{main|Water polo at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships&nbsp;– Men's tournament}}
{| {{MedalistTable|labelwidth=150|type=Event|columns=1}}
|-valign="top"
| Team
| {{wp|ITA}}
| {{wp|HUN|1957}}
| {{wp|YUG}}
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.fina.org/ FINA Official Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070410220505/http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimwc.htm World Swimming Championship Results]
*[http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/doc%204/e97f4710-eacb-4be0-ab6a-7eb6d252bca8/78_WORLDCHAMP.PDF 1978 World Aquatics Championships Results]{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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