2018 FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships
# 2018 FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships

The 16th FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships was held from 18 to 22 July 2018 at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary. It was the first World Junior Championships following the renaming of the sport from synchronized swimming to artistic swimming to reflect the incorporation of evaluation criteria emphasizing choreography and artistic expression, in addition to synchronization, and was the first to use the name World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships at the time of competition.

This 2018 edition also marked the first time men were allowed to compete at any edition of the Championships, with a mixed gender duet debuted that featured one male and one female swimmer per duo.

## Results

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Solo technical | Varvara Subbotina Russia | 92.6551 | Marta Fiedina Ukraine | 88.6030 | Mana Fujiwara Japan | 87.9752 |
| Solo free | Varvara Subbotina Russia | 93.5667 | Marta Fiedina Ukraine | 90.7667 | Mana Fujiwara Japan | 88.3333 |
| Duet technical | Russia Kseniia Ladnaia Elizaveta Minaeva | 91.6280 | Ukraine Maryna Aleksiyiva Vladyslava Aleksiyiva | 89.9301 | China Liu Jin Han Liu Jin Tong | 87.5172 |
| Duet free | Russia Kseniia Ladnaia Elizaveta Minaeva | 93.1000 | Ukraine Maryna Aleksiyiva Vladyslava Aleksiyiva | 91.0333 | Japan Mana Fujiwara Ami Wada | 89.1333 |
| Team technical | Russia | 92.7347 | Ukraine | 90.3331 | Japan | 89.0176 |
| Team free | Russia | 93.6667 | Ukraine | 91.8000 | Japan | 90.5667 |
| Team free combination | Russia | 94.2333 | Ukraine | 92.1000 | Japan | 90.5333 |

### Mixed

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duet technical | Russia Alina Mantulenko Mikhail Vasilev | 83.6404 | China Shi Haoyu Zhang Yiyao | 79.3538 | Japan Jimma Iwasaki Kana Miyauchi | 78.7287 |
| Duet free | Russia Alina Mantulenko Mikhail Vasilev | 85.1333 | China Shi Haoyu Zhang Yiyao | 81.4667 | Japan Jimma Iwasaki Kana Miyauchi | 80.7667 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Hungary)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Russia | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | China | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |
