France competed at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan from 14 to 30 July.^[1]

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Championships per discipline.

• David Aubry, Logan Fontaine and Anastasiya Kirpichnikova was compete in both open water swimming and indoor swimming. Gary Hunt was compete in both diving competitions.

Men

Women

Mixed

France entered 7 divers.^[2]

Men

More information Athlete, Event ...

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jules Bouyer	1 m springboard	361.50	11 Q	—		374.15	10
	3 m springboard	415.25	9 Q	389.05	17	Did not advance
Alexis Jandard	1 m springboard	322.70	21	—		Did not advance
	3 m springboard	424.70	6 Q	390.40	16	Did not advance
Jules Bouyer Alexis Jandard	3 m synchro springboard	344.85	11 Q	—		389.10
Loïs Szymczak Gary Hunt	10 m synchro platform	285.51	17	—		Did not advance

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Women

France entered 6 open water swimmers.^[3][4]

Men

Women

Mixed

France entered 32 swimmers.^[5]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
David Aubry	1500 m freestyle	14:54.29	8	—		14:56.63	8
Pacome Bricout	800 m freestyle	7:55.20	20	—		Did not advance
Logan Fontaine	400 m freestyle	3:51.56	25	—		Did not advance
Roman Fuchs	200 m freestyle	1:48.13	29	Did not advance
Maxime Grousset	50 m freestyle	Did not start
	100 m freestyle	48.06	8 Q	47.87	7 Q	47.42
	50 m butterfly	22.74 NR	1 Q	22.72 NR	1 Q	22.82
	100 m butterfly	51.00	4 Q	50.62	2 Q	50.14 NR
Antoine Herlem	200 m backstroke	1:58.20	15 Q	1:57.55	10	Did not advance
Damien Joly	800 m freestyle	7:47.44	13	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	14:56.31	10	—		Did not advance
Antoine Marc	200 m breaststroke	2:10.51	11 Q	2:10.66	13	Did not advance
Florent Manaudou	50 m freestyle	21.72	3 Q	21.96	12	Did not advance
Léon Marchand	200 m breaststroke	Did not start
	200 m butterfly	1:55.46	7 Q	1:54.21	2 Q	1:52.43 NR
	200 m individual medley	1:58.38	9 Q	1:56.34	1 Q	1:54.82 ER
	400 m individual medley	4:10.88	2 Q	—		4:02.50 WR
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	100 m backstroke	53.90	15 Q	53.06	5 Q	52.84	5
Hadrien Salvan	200 m freestyle	1:46.87	17	Did not advance
Mewen Tomac	100 m backstroke	53.57	6 Q	52.86	4 Q	53.16	8
	200 m backstroke	1:58.09	12 Q	1:56.05	5 Q	1:55.79	4
Hadrien Salvan Max Berg Guillaume Guth Florent Manaudou	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:14.54	12	—		Did not advance
Hadrien Salvan Wissam-Amazigh Yebba Enzo Tesic Léon Marchand Roman Fuchs	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:06.40	5 Q	—		7:03.86	4
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Léon Marchand Maxime Grousset Hadrien Salvan Mewen Tomac	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:31.61	2 Q	—		3:29.88	4

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Women

Mixed

Summary

More information Team, Event ...

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
France	Men's tournament	Italy L 6–11	China W 17–8	Canada W 15–11	2 QP	Australia W 11–8	Spain L 6–7	United States W 18–16	Italy L 9–16	6
France	Women's tournament	Australia L 8–10	China W 12–11	United States L 5–16	3 QP	Spain L 9–16	—	South Africa W 20–6	Israel W 11–7	9

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Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the French roster.^[6]

Head coach: Florian Bruzzo

• 1 Clément Dubois GK
• 2 Rémi Saudadier FP
• 3 Ugo Crousillat FP
• 4 Alexandre Bouet FP
• 5 Enzo Khasz FP
• 6 Thomas Vernoux FP
• 7 Duje Živković FP
• 8 Emil Bjorch FP
• 9 Mehdi Marzouki FP
• 10 Charles Canonne FP
• 11 Pierre-Frédéric Vanpeperstraete FP
• 12 Andrea De Nardi FP
• 13 Hugo Fontani GK
• Mathias Bachelier FP
• Denis Do Carmo FP

Group play

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	0	55	17	+38	9	Quarterfinals
2	France	3	2	0	0	1	38	32	+6	6	Playoffs
3	Canada	3	1	0	0	2	30	49	−19	3
4	China	3	0	0	0	3	23	48	−25	0

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Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

17 July 2023 13:30	Report	France	6–13	Italy	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Vojin Putniković (SRB), Michiel Zwartt (NED)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–3, 0–3, 1–5
		Crousillat, Khasz 2	Goals	Fondelli 4

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19 July 2023 10:30	Report	China	8–17	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 4–6, 0–4, 3–3
		Chen R., Xie 2	Goals	Marzouki 4

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21 July 2023 20:30	Report	France	15–11	Canada	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 5–4, 5–3, 3–2, 2–2
		three players 3	Goals	three players 3

Playoffs

23 July 2023 15:30	Report	Australia	8–11	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adrian-Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Darren Spiritsanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 5–2, 2–4, 1–1
		Negus, Pavillard 2	Goals	Vernoux 4

Quarterfinals

25 July 2023 19:30	Report	Spain	7–6	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Raffaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–2, 2–1, 3–1
		Tahull 2	Goals	Bouet, Crousillat 2

5–8th place semifinals

27 July 2023 15:30	Report	United States	16–18	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–3, 5–4, 2–5  PSO: 3–5
		Bowen 5	Goals	Crousillat, Vernoux 3

Fifth place game

29 July 2023 16:30	Report	Italy	16–9	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–2, 7–3, 5–2
		Di Fulvio 5	Goals	Crousillat 3

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is the French roster.^[7]

Head coach: Theodoros Lorantos

• 1 Mia Rycraw GK
• 2 Estelle Millot FP
• 3 Valentine Heurtaux FP
• 4 Camelia Bouloukbachi FP
• 5 Louise Guillet FP
• 6 Orsolya Hertzka FP
• 7 Juliette Dhalluin FP
• 8 Aurélie Battu FP
• 9 Erica Hardy FP
• 10 Camille Radosavljevic FP
• 11 Tiziana Raspo FP
• 12 Audrey Daulé FP
• 13 Pasiphaé Martineaud-Peret GK
• Lara Andres FP
• Ema Vernoux FP

Group play

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	0	40	16	+24	9	Quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	2	0	0	1	26	24	+2	6	Playoffs
3	France	3	1	0	0	2	25	37	−12	3
4	China	3	0	0	0	3	24	38	−14	0

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Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

16 July 2023 10:30	Report	France	8–10	Australia	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Hélène Painchaud (CAN), Germán Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–4, 2–1, 1–2
		Bouloukbachi 3	Goals	Andrews, Fasala 2

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18 July 2023 20:30	Report	China	11–12	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Alessia Ferrari (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 1–3, 4–1, 2–5
		Wang H. 3	Goals	Dhalluin 4

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20 July 2023 16:00	Report	France	5–16	United States	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Chisato Kurosaki (JPN), Alessia Ferrari (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 1–2, 0–4, 3–5
		Bouloukbachi 2	Goals	Prentice 4

Playoffs

22 July 2023 15:30	Report	France	9–16	Spain	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Matan Schwartz (ISR), Raffaele Colombo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 4–4, 2–5, 2–4
		Bouloukbachi, Dhalluin 2	Goals	Forca 5

9–12th place semifinals

24 July 2023 13:30	Report	France	20–6	South Africa	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Hélène Painchaud (CAN), Germán Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 6–0, 5–4, 5–1
		Vernoux 6	Goals	Thornton-Dibb 3

Ninth place game

26 July 2023 10:30	Report	Israel	7–11	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nicola Johnson (AUS), Natalia Markopoulou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–4, 1–4, 3–0
		Bogachenko 4	Goals	Millot 3