Gwangju and Budapest to host FINA World Championships In an election held in Barcelona today, the South Korean city Gwangju and Hungary’s capital Budapest received the right the host the future FINA World Championships. Gwangju will stage the major sporting event in 2019 while Budapest has been chosen as host for the 2021 World Championships Barcelona, 19 July 2013 FINA President, Dr. Julio C. Maglione, awarded the two cities with the right to stage FINA World Championships. In a packed conference room at the Palau Sant Jordi, main competition venue...

ISHOF Board Charts The Future of the Museum The fifty-year lease with the City of Fort Lauderdale will terminate in 2015. While the City is planning a complete renovation of the Complex, these plans were made without our input and are not consistent with our vision for ISHOF's future. As expressed by Museum consultant Peter Sollogub, of Cambridge Seven Associates ( www.c7A.com ) after a recent visit to our museum: "It's a magnificent collection collection...with (a) national, global and historical breadth...I think (ISHOF) has a great opportunity to really create...

FRASER BROTHERS DOMINATE 2013 ISLAND GAMES; JERSEY BRINGS MULTIPLE MEDALS 3 Kelsey Zimcosky | July 19th, 2013 | Categories: Featured, International, News The 2013 Island Games took place July 15-18. Many took home multiple medals, including the Cayman Islands, Shetland Islands, and Jersey. (Photo: Tim BInning/TheSwimPictures.com) SEARCH RELATED LIAM EGAN BREAKS 35-YEAR OLD BOBBY HACKETT NEW ENGLAND SWIMMING LSC RECORD THE US WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM CHOOSES CAPTAINS DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2013 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS LAKESIDE’S JULIA ROY BREAKS HISTORIC MARY T. STATE RECORD 2013 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEWS: WOMEN’S...

Order of events & venues for 2014 Masters Worlds in Montreal, Canada. LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--FINA has posted the event order and venues for the 2014 Masters Worlds in Montreal, Canada. Overall competition dates are July 27-August 10. Competition dates by discipline are: Swimming (August 3-9), Open Water (August 10), Diving (August 5-9), Synchro (July 28-August 2), and Water Polo (July 27-August 2). Further information can be found online here: -event order: http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3857&Itemid=1066 -venues: http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3858&Itemid=1189

National team gathers for staging camp to prepare for worlds TORREMOLINOS, Spain – With FINA World Championships right around the corner, Canada’s national team swimmers are making their final preparations together in one place. Members of the successful Summer Universiade team arrived Wednesday at Canada’s staging camp in Torremolinos, Spain, where the rest of the team gathered Tuesday. The 34 pool swimmers (17 male, 17 female) will spend a week training together in the Costa del Sol resort town before moving on to Barcelona for the FINA World Championships. The...

Killman, Moody to represent US at World Championships Synchronized swimmers will compete in solo event in Barcelona INDIANAPOLIS - 2012 Olympian Mary Killman (McKinney, Texas) and Rebecca Moody (San Jose, Calif.) will represent the U.S. at the FINA World Championships, July 20-24, in Barcelona, Spain. Killman will compete in the technical solo synchronized swimming competition, while Moody will take part in the free solo. The tech solo prelim and final are scheduled for Saturday, July 20. The solo free prelim is Monday, July 22, with the final on Wednesday, July...

The World University Games, one of the most competitive swim meets of the year, has wrapped its pool competition. While most of Team USA travels home, some WUG swimmers continue on to the World Championships, like a rock band touring the world. The WUGs were a successful meet for Team USA. Many younger swimmers gained invaluable experience exchanging their club team caps for Team USA caps. Representing the USA in a swim meet is not only a thrill, but should provide these swimmers with additional motivation and mental experience needed...

Open Water Schedule at 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona Event Website - www.bcn2013.com/en TV Broadcast – FINA TV will stream online highlights daily – for details follow the links at www.fina.org OPEN WATER COMPETITION SCHEDULE Saturday 20 July to Saturday 27 July - Open Water Competition Sat 20 Jul - Men’s and Women’s 5km - from 10.00am local time Thomas Lurz (GER), 33 years old, has won the last seven gold medals in this discipline and can make it eight in a row in 2013. The last time he...

As one of the team captains last year in London, Rebecca Soni helped lead the USA to unbelievable swimming success at the Games, winning gold and setting the world record twice in the 200m breaststroke. In this issue of Splash, we ask Rebecca a couple questions to help you get to know her better, and she also gives us five tips for swimming the 200 breaststroke. Read about her now in “Lessons from the Masters,” in the online edition of the May-June issue of Splash. Also available as a mobile...

FINA and Barcelona 2013 organisers set to host successful World Championships The 15th FINA World Championships have officially been presented in the conference room of the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona today. FINA’s President, Dr. Julio Cesar Maglione, assured that the major sporting event in 2013 will be a “great spectacle”. The head of the International Swimming Federation was accompanied by Barcelona’s mayor Xavier Trias, who looks forward to “organising the best World Championships in history” Barcelona, 18 July 2013 One day before the curtain falls on Friday (19 July)...