Beijing to Host 2029 World Aquatics Championships – News18

Beijing, the Chinese capital, has been confirmed because the host of the 2029 World Aquatics Championships, following a bidding course of and cautious consideration by the World Aquatics Bureau, the worldwide federation for water sports activities World Aquatics, previously often known as FINA, mentioned on Sunday.

The World Aquatics Championships 2029 will welcome greater than 2,500 world-class athletes from over 200 nations and areas to compete within the six aquatic sports activities of swimming, diving, water polo, creative swimming, open water swimming and excessive diving, the World Aquatics mentioned.

The World Aquatics occasion can be organised in shut cooperation with the China Swimming Association and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports.

In addition to the World Aquatics Championships 2029, Bejing may even host the World Aquatics Masters Championships 2029. The dates for each of those occasions can be introduced in the end.

Beijing has hosted 15 editions of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup, together with a number of World Cup occasions in swimming, diving, creative swimming and water polo. China additionally hosted each the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Hangzhou in 2018 and the World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai in 2011.

Moreover, China may even host three World Aquatics occasions in 2024 alone: the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Beijing (April 5-7), the World Aquatics Diving World Cup – Super Final in Xi’an (April 19-21), and the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Shanghai (October 18-20).

With the World Aquatics Championships 2024 presently going down in Doha, the 2025 and 2027 editions of the World Aquatics Championships can be hosted in Singapore and Budapest, respectively.

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