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The 2024 World Aquatics Championships, the 21st edition of the World Aquatics Championships, were held in Doha, Qatar, from 2 to 18 February 2024. [1] Originally scheduled to be held in November 2023, the championships were postponed until February 2024 in response to the rescheduling of the 20th edition of the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, from 2021 to 2022 due to the COVID ...
The World Aquatics Swimming World Cup (formerly known as the FINA Swimming World Cup) is an international series of swimming meets organized by World Aquatics (the international governing body formerly known as FINA). Launched in 1988, the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup is staged between August and November every year and attracts a high ...
World Aquatics, [3] formerly known as FINA (French: Fédération internationale de natation; English: International Swimming Federation), [a] is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) [4] for administering international competitions in water sports. It is one of several international federations ...
Hal Henning, FINA's president from 1972 through 1976, and their first American President, was highly instrumental in starting the first World Aquatics Championships, and in retaining the number of swimming events in the Olympics, which gave an advantage to nations with larger, more balanced swim teams.
Swimming's world governing body FINA said on Friday it would review whether caps designed for afro and big hairstyles could be worn in its competitions if there was no advantage to be gained from ...
The championships are usually held biennially, with competition in all five World Aquatics disciplines: swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and artistic swimming. [1] Starting in 2015, the competition was held jointly with the FINA World Aquatics Championships .
A swimmer’s disqualification on a technicality after winning a college conference final has led to one teammate branding the decision as the “dumbest rule in swimming.”
The World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m), formerly known as the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), [1] also referred to as 'short course worlds', [2] [3] [4] are an international swimming competition staged by the internationally recognized governing body of the sport, World Aquatics (formerly FINA).