Kazan and Budapest Will Host 2022, 2024 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships

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On July 17, FINA announced that Kazan will host the 2022 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships while Budapest will do the same in 2024. Both Championships are 25-meter contests.

Kazan was the host of the 2015 FINA Long Course World Championships while Budapest is currently hosting the 2017 FINA World competitions. Other future host cities include Hangzhou, China in 2018, Gwangju, South Korea in 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2020, Fukoka, Japan in 2021 and Doha, Qatar in 2023.

Read FINA’s full announcement of the two host sites below:

The cities of Kazan (RUS) and Budapest (HUN) were awarded today the organisation of the 2022 and 2024 editions of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), respectively. The announcement of the Host cities followed the FINA Bureau vote and the formal presentations of the four bidders for these events: besides the Russian and Hungarian metropolis, Hong Kong (HKG) and Taipei City (TPE) were the two other candidates.

“All these cities/National Federations have worked very hard to present solid projects and I am sure that in any of them FINA would organise excellent Championships. Thank you very much to all the four bidders!”, stated the FINA President, Dr. Julio C. Maglione, before opening the envelopes with the winners’ names.

“But we are in a sport organisation and there must be a winner. In this case, two winners!”, concluded Dr Maglione.

Two years after staging the 2015 FINA World Championships, Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, will once more be the prestigious host of a top FINA competition, which also comprises the organisation of the FINA World Aquatics Convention.

“FINA knows Kazan very well. We have the necessary infrastructures and the full support of our authorities”, considered Vladimir Leonov, Minister of Sport and Youth of the republic of Tatarstan. “We are known as the Sport capital of Russia, and everyone in the FINA Family fully understands the meaning of this status”, Mr Leonov concluded.

As for the Magyar capital, currently hosting the 2017 FINA World Championships, it was represented at the highest level by the Hungarian Minister for Human Resources Zoltan Balog“This is a great achievement for Budapest and shows that the outstanding investment we have done for the Championships here this summer constitutes a precious legacy for the future”, the Minister said.

Before Kazan 2022 and Budapest 2024, the next editions of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) and FINA World Aquatics Convention, organised in the month of December, will take place in Hangzhou (CHN, 2018) and Abu Dhabi (UAE, 2020).

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Wǻs Sim
6 years ago

Houfaf Abdssalem

HENRIK CHRISTIANSEN 800 BRONZE
HENRIK CHRISTIANSEN 800 BRONZE
6 years ago

But there are no Short Course Worlds in 2019, 2021 and 2023? Correct me if I wrong but these championships are only arranged every second year. On the Olympic year and 2 years into the quad.

Jim glickman
Jim glickman
6 years ago

It’s for long course in odd years

Shaheen Alghofari
6 years ago

Why not a different place. So boring Joe Stott Betsy Perry

Brownish
Brownish
6 years ago

I think Hungary would liked to be in another group of organisers but nobody made a real infrastructure to win this possibility. Otherwise Shaheen have you been in Hungary? If not, try it.

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