World Aquatics Athletes of the Year explained

The World Aquatics Athletes of the Year (formerly FINA Athletes of the Year) is a set of awards presented by World Aquatics (International Swimming Federation) and the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. Each recognises excellence in five categories of aquatic sports: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming. The award was inaugurated in 2010.

Swimming

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality	Ref
2010
2011			(2)
2012	(2)
2013			(3)
2014
2015	(2)
2016	(3)		(2)
2017
2018	(4)		(2)
2019	(2)		(2)
2021			(3)
2022	(2)
2023					^[1]
2024					^[2]

Best swimming performance

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2015
2016	(2)		(2)

Water polo

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014	Maggie Steffens (2)
Year	Female team winner		Male team winner
2015
2016	(2)		(2)
2017	(3)
2018	(4)
2019	(5)		-
2020			Dušan Mandić
2021	(3)
2022	Maddie Musselman		Felipe Perrone
2023	Brigitte Sleeking	Netherlands	Gergő Zalánki
2024	Beatriz Ortiz^[3] ^[4]		Dušan Mandić (2)

Diving

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010
2011
2012	(2)
2013
2014
2015
2016	(2)
2017	(3)
2018	(4)		(2)
2019	(5)
2021	(6)		(2)
2022
2023	(2)		Cassiel Rousseau

High diving

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2013
2014			(2)
2015	(2)
2016			(2)
2017
2018	(2)		(3)
2019	(3)		(4)
2021
2022	(4)

Artistic swimming

Year	Winner	Nationality
2010
2011	(2)
2012	(3)
2013	(2)
2014

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2015	(3)
2016	(4) (4)
2017			Aleksandr Maltsev (2)
2018			(2)
2019	(5) (2)		(3)
2021	(6) (3)		(4)
2022			(3)

Open water swimming

Year	Female winner	Nationality	Male winner	Nationality
2010
2011
2012
2013			(2)
2014	(2)
2015	(3)
2016
2017	(4)
2018	(5)		(2)
2019	(6)
2021	(7)
2022	(8)

See also

• List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year
• International Swimming Hall of Fame

External links

• FINA Elects the Best in 2010 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2011-12-10.
• FINA selected this year's best in the five disciplines (2011) from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2011-12-10.
• PR 1 - ATHLETES OF THE YEAR 2012 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2013-01-04.
• ATHLETES OF THE YEAR 2013 from Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA); retrieved 2014-01-06.

Notes and References

1. News: 2023-10-24 . Qin, McKeown named best swimmers of year by World Aquatics . en . The Straits Times . 2023-11-06 . 0585-3923.
2. News: Léon Marchand and Summer McIntosh crowned World Aquatics Athletes of the Year . December 15, 2024 . . December 15, 2024.
3. https://www.rtve.es/deportes/20250113/bea-ortiz-mejor-jugadora-mundo-waterpolo-2024/16405514.shtml
4. https://www.instagram.com/p/DExWGf1sLXs/?utm_source=ig_embed&img_index=1