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2022 World Aquatics Championships

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The 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 19th edition of the FINA World Aquatics Championships, were held in Budapest, Hungary, from 17 June to 3 July 2022.[1]

19th FINA World Championships
Fina World Championships Budapest 2022 logo.svg
Host cityBudapest, Hungary
Date(s)17 June – 3 July
Venue(s)Duna Aréna, Lake Lupa, Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex, Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Szeged Tiszavirág Pool, Sopron Lőver Pool
Officially opened byKatalin Novák

In March 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FINA banned both the Russian and Belarusian nationals from entering the championships.[2]

Host selectionEdit

Originally, Budapest was selected to host the 2021 World Aquatics Championships. However, after Guadalajara, Mexico, pulled out from the organization of the 2017 Championships, the city took the responsibility for hosting the event, since the infrastructure was already fully ready. Consequently, the application process for the 2021 edition was reopened and the event was relocated to Fukuoka, Japan, and was scheduled to be held between 16 July and August 1, 2021. To avoid clash with the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics the event was rescheduled to be held between 13 and 29 May 2022. However, in January 2022, it was announced that the event in Fukuoka would be postponed a second time to 14–30 July 2023 due to the health impacts of the Omicron variant and the pandemic measures in Japan.[3] This would have entailed a full four years between World Championships, and only one global event between the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.

On 7 February 2022, FINA announced that Budapest had been awarded to host of an extraordinary out-of sequence Championships to be held from 18 June – 3 July 2022, in order to ensure that athletes had a global aquatics championship to target in the summer of 2022.[4]

It is the second time Budapest hosts the competitions, 5 years after the 2017 World Aquatics Championships and will host again the event in 2027.

VenuesEdit

ScheduleEdit

A total of 74 medal events were held across five disciplines, one minus than the 2019 Championships. In view of the training and recovery challenges of a busy 2022 aquatics calendar, FINA decided to reverse the calendar, make an event on a smaller scale than previous years with only the compulsory events in its program and choose to drop the high diving and the beach water polo events from program. In addition, there was a reversal in the calendar where swimming and artistic swimming events that is traditionally disputed at the last week were reallocated in the first days and the diving and open waters were reallocated to the second.[5][6]

● Opening ceremony ● Other competitions ● Finals ● Closing ceremony M Men's matches W Women's matches
June/July 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 Total
Ceremonies ● ● -
Swimming 5 4 5 5 5 5 6 7 42
Open water swimming 1 2 2 2 7
Artistic swimming ● 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 10
Diving 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 13
Water polo W M W M W M W M W M W M W M 2
Total 0 6 5 7 6 6 6 7 9 2 3 2 5 4 1 2 3 74
Cumulative Total 0 6 11 18 24 30 36 43 52 54 57 59 64 68 69 71 74 74

Participating nationsEdit

Out of 209 FINA members, 185 nations take part in the Championships, as well as the FINA Refugee Team.[7]

Medal tableEdit

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States18141749
2  China182828
3  Italy97622
4  Australia69419
5  Canada35614
6  Japan28313
7  France27211
8  Ukraine26210
9  Germany25310
10  Hungary*2215
11  Sweden2204
12  Brazil2125
13  Romania2002
14  Great Britain14611
15  Netherlands1135
16  Lithuania1012
  Spain1012
18  Poland0112
19  South Korea0101
20  Greece0033
21  Austria0022
  Malaysia0022
23  South Africa0011
Totals (23 entries)747574223

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ "FINA confirms Budapest will host World Championships in 2022". 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "PRESS RELEASE | FINA Bureau meets, makes further decisions on Russian and Belarusian athletes and event hosting" (Press release). FINA. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. ^ "FINA postpones Fukuoka-hosted 2022 World Championships because of COVID-19". 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Budapest awarded extraordinary FINA World Championships, event to take place in June 2022". 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  5. ^ "FINA announces the competition schedule for the FINA World Championships Budapest 2022". Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Schedule" (PDF). Fina.org. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  7. ^ "185 FINA MEMBER FEDERATIONS SEND POOL SWIMMERS TO 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". swimswam.com. Retrieved 18 June 2022.

External linksEdit

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