Budapest will host the upcoming FINA World Championships, and Kazan hosted the event two years ago, but both cities could be in the running to host a future major FINA event, the Short Course World Championships.
According to a report from InsideTheGames, Budapest, Kazan, Taiwan and Hong Kong are the four candidates to host Short Course Worlds in either 2022 or 2024. Host cities will be selected by the FINA Bureau on July 17.
Unlike the about-to-begin FINA World Championships in Budapest, the short course edition of the meet consists of only swimming events, not the other aquatic sports. It was most recently held in Windsor, Canada, in December 2016, and future years’ meets are scheduled for Hangzhou, China (2018), and Abu Dhabi (2020).
Hong Kong previously hosted the event in 1999, but none of the other candidate cities have previously hosted Short Course Worlds.
Budapest will also play host to the 2018 World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships, according to InsideTheGames.
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