FINA World Masters Championships

The FINA World Masters Championships (or "Masters Worlds") is an international Aquatics championships for adults (per FINA rules, Masters are 25 years old and older). The championships is held biennially, with competition in all five of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Water polo, Open water swimming, and Synchronized swimming.[1] Starting in 2015, the competition will be held jointly with the FINA World Aquatics Championships.[2]

Editions

FINA organizes the FINA World Masters Championships since 1986, but 2 editions were held in the pre-FINA era:

  • 1978 – Toronto, CAN (non-FINA)
  • 1984 – Christchurch, NZL (non-FINA)
NumberYearLocationDates
11986 Tokyo, Japan12–16 July
21988 Brisbane, Australia10–15 October
31990 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil6–13 August
41992 Indianapolis, USA25 June – 5 July
51994 Montreal, Canada4–10 July
61996 Sheffield, Great Britain23 June – 3 July
71998 Casablanca, Morocco19–30 June
82000 Munich, Germany29 July – 4 August
92002 Christchurch, New Zealand21 March – 3 April
102004 Riccione, Italy1–13 June
112006 Stanford, USA4–17 August
122008 Perth, Australia18–25 April
132010 Gothenburg - Borås, Sweden27 July – 7 August
142012 Riccione, Italy3–17 June
152014 Montreal, Canada27 July – 10 August
162015 Kazan, Russia5–16 August
172017 Budapest, Hungary7–20 August
182019 Gwangju, South Korea5–18 August
192022 Kyushu, Japan31 May–9 June

See also

References
  1. Masters Worlds subpage of the FINA website; retrieved 2012-03-04.
  2. "2015 World Masters Championships Date Set for Kazan, Russia". SwimSwam.


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