World Championship
Berlin(BRD) 1978
MEN
| DISCIPLINA | GOLD | NATION | SILVER | NATION | BRONZE | NATION | |
| Swimming | 100 f.s. | David McCagg | USA | Jim Montgomery | USA | Klaus Steinbach | BRD |
| 200 f.s. | Bill Forrester | USA | Rowdy Gainess | USA | Sergei Kopliakov | URS | |
| 400 f.s. | Vladimir Salnikov | URS | Jeff Float | USA | Bill Forrester | USA | |
| 1.500 f.s. | Vladimir Salnikov | URS | Borut Petric | YU | Bobby Hackett | USA | |
| 100 d. | Bob Jackson | USA | Peter Rocca | USA | Romulo Arantes | BR | |
| 200 d. | Jessie Vassallo | USA | Gary Hurring | NZ | Zoltan Verraszto | H | |
| 100 f. | Joe Bottom | USA | Greg Jagenburg | USA | Par Arvidsson | S | |
| 200 f. | Mike Bruner | USA | Steve Gregg | USA | Roger Pyttel | DDR | |
| 100 r. | Walter Kusch | BRD | Graham Smith | CDN | Gerald Morken | BRD | |
| 200 r. | Nick Nevid | USA | Arsen Miskarov | URS | Walter Kusch | BRD | |
| 200 m. | Graham Smith | CDN | JEsse Vassallo | USA | Aleksandr Sidorenko | URS | |
| 400 m. | Jesse Vassallo | USA | Sergey Fesenko | URS | Andras Hargitay | H | |
| 4 x 100 f.s. | USA (J. Babashoff, R. Gaines, J. Montgomery, D. McCagg) | USA | West Germany (A. Schmidt, U. Temps, P. Knust, K. Steinbach) | BRD | Sweden(P. Holmerz, D. Larsson, P.-O. Quist, P.-A. Magnusson) | S | |
| 4 x 200 f.s. | United States (B. Furniss, B. Forrester, B. Hackett, R. Gaines) | GB | Sovietic Union (S. Rusin, A. Krilov, V. Salnikov, S. Kopliakov) | URS | West Germany (A. Schmidt, P. Knust, K. Lippmann, F. Wennmann) | BRD | |
| 4 x 100 m. | USA (B. Jackson, N. Nevid, J. Bottom, D. McCagg) | USA | West Germany (K. Steinbach, W. Kusch, M. Kraus, A. Schmidt) | BRD | United Kingdom (G. Abraham, D. Goodhew, J. Mills, M. Smith) | GB | |
| Diving | Trampolino | Phil Boggs | USA | Falk Hoffmann | DDR | Giorgio Cagnotto | I |
| Piattaforma | Greg Louganis | USA | Falk Hoffmann | DDR | Vladimir Aleynik | URS | |
| Handpool | Italy | I | Hungary | H | Yugoslavie | YU |
WOMEN
| DISCIPLINA | GOLD | NATION | SILVER | NATION | BRONZE | NATION | |
| Swimming | 100 f.s. | Barbara Krause | DDR | Lene Jenssen | N | Larisa Tsereva | URS |
| 200 f.s. | Cynthia Woodhead | USA | Barbara Krause | DDR | Larisa Tsereva | URS | |
| 400 f.s. | Tracey Wickham | AUS | Cynthia Woodhead | USA | Kim Linehan | USA | |
| 800 f.s. | Tracey Wickham | AUS | Cynthia Woodhead | USA | Kim Linehan | USA | |
| 100 d. | Linda Jezek | DDR | Birgit Treiber | DDR | Cheryl Gibson | CDN | |
| 200 d. | Linda Jezek | DDR | Birgit Treiber | DDR | Cheryl Gibson | CDN | |
| 100 f. | Joan Pennington | USA | Andrea Pollack | DDR | Wendy Quirk | CDN | |
| 200 f. | Tracy Caulkins | USA | Nancy Hogshead | USA | Andrea Pollack | DDR | |
| 100 r. | Julia Bogdanova | URS | Tracy Caulkins | USA | Margaret Kelly | GB | |
| 200 r. | Lina Kaciusyte | URS | Julia Bogdanova | URS | Susanne Nielsson | DK | |
| 200 m. | Tracy Caulkins | USA | Joan Pennington | USA | Ulrike Tauber | DDR | |
| 400 m. | Tracy Caulkins | USA | Ulrike Tauber | DDR | Petra Schneider | DDR | |
| 4 x 100 f.s. | USA (T. Caulkins, S. Elkins, J. Sterkel, C. Woodhead) | USA | East Germany (H. Witt, C. Metschuck, B. Krause, P. Priemer) | DDR | Canada (G. Amundrud, N. Garapick, S. Sloan, W. Quirk) | CDN | |
| 4 x 100 m. | USA (L. Jazek, T. Caulkins, J. Pennington, C. Woodhead) | USA | East Germany (B. Treiber, R. Reinke, A. Pollack, B. Krause) | DDR | Sovietic Union (E. Kruglova, J. Bogdanova, I. Aksenova, L. Tsereva) | URS | |
| Diving | Trampolino | Irina Kalynina | URS | Cynthia Potter | USA | Jennifer Chandler | USA |
| Piattaforma | Irina Kalynina | URS | Martina Jaschke | DDR | Melissa Briley | USA | |
| Sinchro | Alone | Helen Vanderburg | CDN | Pam Tryon | USA | Yasuko Unezaki | J |
| Two | Canada (M. Calkins, H. Vanderburg) | CDN | Japan (M. Fujiwara, Y. Fujiwara) | J | USA (M. Barone, P. Tryon) | USA | |
| Team | USA | USA | Japan | J | Canada | CDN |