World Aquatics Athletes of the Year
The World Aquatics Athletes of the Year is a set of awards presented by World Aquatics 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 | |||||
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| 2023 | |||||
| 2024 | |||||
| 2025 |
Artistic swimming
| Year | Female winner | Nationality | Male winner | Nationality |
| 2015 | Aleksandr Maltsev Bill May | |||
| 2016 | | |||
| 2017 | Aleksandr Maltsev | |||
| 2018 | ||||
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| 2021 | | |||
| 2022 |