FINA have announced the Swimming World Cup 2021 calendar which will take in six legs in September and October across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
It follows confirmation that the FINA Task Force – which was set up in March to monitor the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those involved in aquatics – had postponed the 2020 World Cup.
On Monday the world governing body released the schedule for next year’s World Cup – worth about 2.5 million US dollars – which will start weeks after the conclusion of the rescheduled Olympic Games in Tokyo.
All six competitions will be held in a short-course pool and will serve as qualification events for the World Championships (25m) that will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
They had been scheduled for this coming December but were pushed back a year to December 13-18 2021 because of COVID-19.
The first cluster of the 2021 season will be contested in Singapore and Jinan, China, in September with the dates to be confirmed.
The circuit will then move on to Berlin, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary, from October 1-3 and October 7-9 respectively.
The third and final cluster will be staged in Doha, Qatar, from October 21-23 and will conclude in Kazan, Russia, from October 28-30.
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