The Greensboro Aquatic Center USA Bid Committee, operating as the North Carolina World Organizing Committee, announced that it will not be submitting a bid for the 2025\/2027 FINA World Championships & FINA World Masters Championships.<\/p>\n
Greensboro had been one of six cities, and the only U.S. city, that submitted a Letter of Intent to FINA and attended the FINA Bid Information Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, in January of this year. Other cities or countries attending the Bid Meeting were Belgrade, Serbia; Budapest, Hungary; Kazan, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; and China.<\/p>\n
“Encouraged by USA Swimming, our largest aquatics sport governing body in the U.S., we are going to take a walk-before-you-run approach to international aquatics championships,” said Hill Carrow<\/strong>, Chairman of the Greensboro USA Bid Committee. “Instead of jumping into competitive international aquatics events head-first with the largest aquatics competition on the planet, we intend instead to start out with more modest-sized international events and work our way up. Some of the events we are now considering include FINA World Cup, FINA World Junior Championships, FINA Champions Swim Series, and UANA (Pan American) Masters Swimming Championships, among others.”<\/p>\n The FINA World Championships, which are held every other year in the odd year, feature over 2,300 of the world’s elite athletes competing in six disciplines – Artistic Swimming, Diving, High Dive, Open Water Swimming, Swimming, and Water Polo – and have never been held in the United States. The most recent FINA World Championships & FINA Masters World Championships were held in 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, and this year’s Championships will be hosted by Gwangju, South Korea.<\/p>\n