1978 World Aquatics Championships

File:Stamps of Germany (Berlin) 1978, MiNr 571.jpg

A German stamp dedicated to the 1978 World Aquatics Championships

The 1978 World Aquatics Championships took place in the free city of West Berlin between August 20 and August 28, 1978. Women's Water Polo competed as an exhibition sport.

Medal table

Place	Nation	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3	Total
1		23*	14	7	44
2		6	4	6	16
3		3	1	5	9
4		2	0	0	2
5	Template:GDR	1	10	4	15
6		1	2	4	7
7		1	0	1	2
8		0	2	1	3
9	Hungary	0	1	2	3
10		0	1	1	2
11		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
13	Template:GBR2	0	0	2	2
		0	0	2	2
15		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
Total		37	37	37	111

• Record(*)

Results

Diving

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
10 m platform	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
10 m platform	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete

Swimming

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
400 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1500 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m backstroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m backstroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m breaststroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m breaststroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m butterfly	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m butterfly	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m individual medley	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
400 m individual medley	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Template:Flagteam Jack Babashoff Rowdy Gaines Jim Montgomery David McCagg	Template:Flagteam Andreas Schmidt Ulrich Temps Peter Knust Klaus Steinbach	Template:Flagteam Per Holmertz Dan Larsson Per-Ola Quist Per-Alvar Magnusson
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Template:Flagteam Bruce Furniss Bill Forrester Bobby Hackett Rowdy Gaines	Template:Flagteam Sergey Rusin Andrey Krylov Vladimir Salnikov Sergey Kopliakov	Template:Flagteam Andreas Schmidt Peter Knust Karsten Lippmann Frank Wennmann
4 × 100 m medley relay	Template:Flagteam Bob Jackson Nick Nevid Joe Bottom David McCagg	Template:Flagteam Klaus Steinbach Walter Kusch Michael Kraus Andreas Schmidt	Template:Flagteam Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew John Mills Martin Smith

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
400 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
800 m freestyle	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m backstroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m backstroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m breaststroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m breaststroke	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
100 m butterfly	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m butterfly	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
200 m individual medley	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
400 m individual medley	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Template:Flagteam Tracy Caulkins Stephanie Elkins Jill Sterkel Cynthia Woodhead	Template:Flagteam Heike Witt Caren Metschuck Barbara Krause Petra Priemer	Template:Flagteam Gail Amundrud Nancy Garapick Sue Sloan Wendy Quirk
4 × 100 m medley relay	Template:Flagteam Linda Jezek Tracy Caulkins Joan Pennington Cynthia Woodhead	Template:Flagteam Birgit Treiber Ramona Reinke Andrea Pollack Barbara Krause	Template:Flagteam Elena Kruglova Yuliya Bogdanova Irina Aksenova Larisa Tsaryova

Synchronised swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Solo routine	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
Duet routine	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete
Team routine	Template:Flagteam	Template:Flagteam	Template:Flagteam

Water polo

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Template:Wp	Template:Wp	Template:Wp

External links

• FINA Official Website
• World Swimming Championship Results
• 1978 World Aquatics Championships Results