World Life Saving Championships

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The ILS World Life Saving Championships are the world championships for lifesaving sport events. They are sanctioned by the International Life Saving Federation (ILS), conducted every 2 years, and commonly marketed and known as the ‘Rescue’ series, for example – Rescue 2008.

The World Life Saving Championships incorporate - National Teams World Championships, Interclub Teams World Championships, Masters World Championships, Surfboats World Championships and IRB World Championships. Additional championships can include additional events such as March Past, Long distance Race. The World Championships typically attract between 3,000 and 5,000 competitors and officials, and are conducted over a period of 12 to 14 days.^[1]

History[]

Prior to the amalgamation of WLS and FIS in 1993 to create ILS, both WLS and FIS conducted World Championship events in Life Saving Sports. Founded in 1971 WLS conducted ocean and beach based world championships for National Teams in South Africa in 1974 and Interclub World Championships in 1981 and 1983. The 1988, 1990, and 1992 Rescue series of World Championship events were also organised by WLS. Rescue 88, the 1988 World Championships were the first international championships to conduct both ocean and pool events. In 1956 prior to the advent of WLS, as part of the 1956 Olympic Games celebrations Surf Life Saving Australia (a founding member of WLS) hosted an International Lifesaving Championships at Torquay Beach in which teams from several countries competed against each other. It could be argued that this was the first World Lifesaving Championships for ocean and beach events. Founded in 1910, member nations of FIS agreed to conduct World Championships in pool life saving events. The first such championships were conducted in Paris, France in 1955 and were held sporadically over the next 40 years until the final FIS Championships in 1995. These contests were strictly for national representative teams only. Since 1996, World Life Saving Championships have been conducted solely by ILS every two years.

List of competitions[]

Number	Year	Championship	Location	Country
1		FIS	Paris, France	France
2		FIS	Mulhouse, France	France
3		International contest	Torquay Beach, Australia	Australia
4		FIS	Bordeaux, France	France
5		FIS	, France	France
6		FIS	Wiesbaden, Germany	Germany
7		FIS	Madrid, Spain	Spain
8		FIS	, Luxembourg	Luxembourg
9		FIS	Rome, Italy	Italy
10		FIS	Paris, France	France
11		FIS	Alger, Algeria	Algeria
12		FIS	Rabat, Morocco	Morocco
13		FIS	Salzburg, Austria	Austria
14		FIS	Trier, Germany	Germany
15		FIS	Rome, Italy	Italy
16		FIS	, France	France
17		WLS	South Africa	South Africa
18		FIS	Barcelona, Spain	Spain
19		FIS	Berlin, Germany	Germany
20		FIS	London, Great Britain	United Kingdom
21	1981	WLS Interclub	Bali, Indonesia	Indonesia
22	1981	FIS	Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgaria
23	1983	WLS Interclub	Hawaii, United States	United States
24	1983	FIS	Warsaw, Poland	Poland
25		FIS	Warendorf, Germany	Germany
26	1988	Rescue 88	Gold Coast, Australia	Australia
27		Rescue 90	Lübeck/Travemünde, Germany	Germany
28		FIS	Jönköping, Sweden	Sweden
29		Rescue 92	Shimoda, Japan	Japan
30		Rescue 94	Cardiff/Newquay, Great Britain	United Kingdom
31		FIS	Valenciennes, France	France
32		Rescue 96	Durban, South Africa	South Africa
33		Rescue 98	Auckland, New Zealand	New Zealand
34		Rescue 2000	Sydney, Australia[2]	Australia
35		Rescue 2002	Daytona Beach/Orlando, United States[2]	United States
36		Rescue 2004	Livorno/Viareggio, Italy	Italy
37		Rescue 2006	Geelong/Lorne, Australia[3]	Australia
38		Rescue 2008	Berlin/Warnemünde, Germany	Germany
39		Rescue 2010	Alexandria, Egypt	Egypt
40		Rescue 2012	Adelaide, Australia[4]	Australia
41		Rescue 2014	Montpellier and La Grande-Motte, France	France
42		Rescue 2016	Eindhoven and Noordwijk, The Netherlands[5]	Netherlands
43		Rescue 2018	Adelaide, Australia[6]	Australia
44		Rescue 2020	Riccione, Italy[7]	Italy
45		Rescue 2024	Gold Coast, Australia[8]	Australia
46		Rescue 2026	Agadir, Morocco[9]	Morocco

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.ilsf.org/