FINA Newsletter: 30 Days to go before Barcelona 2013 World Championships

 

 

Newsletter #12 // June 19th 2013

 

 

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This newsletter provides you with background information and news on FINA's activities and upcoming events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

barcelona 2013: 30 days to go!

 

 

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Only 30 days to go until FINA's big Aquatics Festival in Barcelona! During 17 days, more than 2,000 athletes coming from the five continents (about 180 nations) will display the pinnacle of FINA sports.

The exciting novelty at this 15th edition is the introduction of high diving on the World Championships programme. As a result, a total 68 medals will be on offer in Barcelona across the six FINA disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Open Water Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and High Diving.

World Championships programme:
SWIMMING (July 28th - August 4): Freestyle (50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m), Backstroke (50m, 100m, 200m), Breaststroke (50m, 100m, 200m), Butterfly (50m, 100m, 200m), Individual Medley (200m, 400m), Relay (4x100m, 4x200m, 4x100m medley relay)
DIVING (July 20th - 28th): 1m Springboard, 3m Springboard, 3m Springboard Synchronised, 10m Platform, 10m Platform Synchronised
OPEN WATER SWIMMING (July 20th - 27th): 5km, 10km, 25km, Team
SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING (July 20th - 27th): Solo, Duet, Team, Free Combination
WATER POLO (July 21st - August 3rd): Men's Tournament (16 teams), Women's Tournament (16 teams)
HIGH DIVING (July 29th - 31st): 27m (men), 20m (women)

 

 

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Diving elite to make a splash in Bolzano Grand Prix

 

 

Cagnotto_ITABolzano (ITA) will welcome the up-and-coming elite for the last of the seven-stop circuit of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2013, from June 28-30.

The event will provide the last opportunity for divers from top nations in the sport to fine-tune their preparation in the lead-up to the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, next July.

Going into Bolzano, China's Chao He (current world n.8) positions himself as top qualifier in the men's 3m springboard. He dominated the first four legs of the Grand Prix in the event and enjoys a comfortable margin ahead of closest challengers Zhiyi Sun (CHN, world n.13) and Constantin Blaha (AUT, world n.16). On the higher board, Jian Yang (CHN, world n.5) has managed to hold at bay Maxim Bouchard (CAN, world n.15) and Siyi Xie (CHN, world n.21), who currently share the second spot.

Making the women's 3m springboard top-3 so far are Jiao Liu (CHN, world n.7), Dolores Hernandez (MEX, world n.12) and Han Wang (CHN, world n.6). In the 10m platform, Jie Lian (CHN, world n.10) carries the lead while teammate Xiaohui Huang (world n.13) and Ukraine's Iulia Prokopchuk (world n.7) are currently on a tie for second place.

China tops the ranking in all four synchro events. Last year, the traditional diving powerhouse swept all events but the men's 3m springboard, which was won by Spain's Javier Illana.

 

 

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Swimming World Cup 2013: save the dates!

 

In the spotlight

To_AUSThe 2013 edition of the FINA Swimming World Cup will kick off on August 7 in Eindhoven (NED). Heavyweights from the swimming world stage will gather to compete in the eight-meet 25m series, which are divided into three main clusters: Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Here's the full FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 calendar:

August 7-8, Eindhoven (NED)
August 10-11, Berlin (GER)
October 12-13, Moscow (RUS)
October 17-18, Dubai (UAE)
October 20-21, Doha (QAT)
November 5-6, Singapore (SIN)
November 9-10, Tokyo (JPN)
November 13-14, Beijing (CHN)

The new scoring system for the Swimming World Cup distributes points according to meet, cluster and overall series performances. An overall prize money of US$1,976,000 will be distributed at this year's series.


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Water Polo and Swimming World Juniors in August

Following the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, the next generation of swimming and water polo stars will take the spotlight in August, meeting at the highest level:

  • 17th FINA World Men's Junior Water Polo Championships 2013 (20 & U), Szombathely (HUN) from August 12-18, 2013
  • 10th FINA World Women's Junior Water Polo Championships 2013 (20 & U), Volos (GRE) from August 19-25, 2013
  • 4th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2013, Dubai (UAE) from August 26-31, 2013

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