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
11986Japan Tokyo, Japan12–16 July
21988Australia Brisbane, Australia10–15 October
31990Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil6–13 August
41992United States Indianapolis, USA25 June – 5 July
51994Canada Montreal, Canada4–10 July
61996United Kingdom Sheffield, Great Britain23 Juni – 3 July
71998Morocco Casablanca, Morocco19–30 June
82000Germany Munich, Germany29 July – 4 August
92002New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand21 March – 3 April
102004Italy Riccione, Italy1–13 June
112006United States Stanford, USA4–17 August
122008Australia Perth, Australia18–25 April
132010Sweden Gothenburg and Borås, Sweden27 July – 7 August
142012Italy Riccione, Italy3–17 June
152014Canada Montreal, Canada27 July – 10 August
162015Russia Kazan, Russia5–16 August
172017Hungary Budapest, Hungary7–20 August

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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