FINA World Masters Championships

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The FINA World Masters Championships (or "Masters Worlds") is an international Aquatics championships for adults (per FINA rules, Masters are 25 years old and older). The championships is held biennially, with competition in all five of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Water polo, Open water swimming, and Synchronized swimming.^[1] Starting in 2015, the competition will be held jointly with the FINA World Aquatics Championships.^[2]

Editions[]

FINA organizes the FINA World Masters Championships since 1986, but 2 editions were held in the pre-FINA era:

• 1978 – Toronto, CAN (non-FINA)
• 1984 – Christchurch, NZL (non-FINA)

Number	Year	Location	Dates
1	1986	Tokyo, Japan	12–16 July
2	1988	Brisbane, Australia	10–15 October
3	1990	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6–13 August
4	1992	Indianapolis, USA	25 June – 5 July
5	1994	Montreal, Canada	4–10 July
6	1996	Sheffield, Great Britain	23 June – 3 July
7	1998	Casablanca, Morocco	19–30 June
8	2000	Munich, Germany	29 July – 4 August
9	2002	Christchurch, New Zealand	21 March – 3 April
10	2004	Riccione, Italy	1–13 June
11	2006	Stanford, USA	4–17 August
12	2008	Perth, Australia	18–25 April
13	2010	Gothenburg - Borås, Sweden	27 July – 7 August
14	2012	Riccione, Italy	3–17 June
15	2014	Montreal, Canada	27 July – 10 August
16	2015	Kazan, Russia	5–16 August
17	2017	Budapest, Hungary	7–20 August
18	2019	Gwangju, South Korea	5–18 August
19	2022	Kyushu, Japan	31 May–9 June

See also[]

• Masters swimming
• European Masters Swimming Championships

References[]

External links[]

• Website for the results of the FINA World Masters Championships are reported in the FINA dedicated web page (PDF)
• FINA XIV World Masters Champs 2012 in Riccione (ITA) (PDF)

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