The 2023 World Aquatics Championships, the 20th edition of the

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, will be held in

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, between 14 to 30 July 2023. Originally scheduled to be held in 2021, the championships were postponed until May 2022 in response to the rescheduling of the

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in Tokyo to 2021 due to the

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. The event was pushed back a second time to 2023 due to ongoing travel restrictions and safety measures in place in Japan. In its place,

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hosted the 19th Championships from 18 June to 3 July 2022. It will be the second time Fukuoka hosts this meet, 22 years after the

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Host selection

The competitions originally were to be held in

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, in the summer of 2021. This was announced on 19 July 2013, on the biennial General Congress of

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, the host-city of the

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, was awarded the 2019 Championships in the same vote. However, in March 2015, it was announced that Budapest will host the 2017 Championships, after

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gave up the organization of the championships for financial reasons. A new bidding procedure was opened for the 2021 event. On 9 June 2015, the FINA reported it had received expressions of interest for the 2021 and 2023 FINA World Championships from Argentina, Australia (with Melbourne or Sydney), China (with Wuhan or Nanjing), Germany (two potential cities), Japan, Turkey and Qatar. On 30 June 2015, an information meeting was organised for the nations and cities which had shown interest in bidding before. This meeting was attended by representatives of cities from six countries:

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). On 31 January 2016, each of the bids was presented at a formal presentation to, and vote of, the

Bureau meeting in Budapest; then they announced that the host cities will be Fukuoka (2021) and Doha (2023).FINA Names Fukuoka (2021), Doha (2023) Hosts for Future FINA World Championships
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Venues

Most of the competitions will be held at the Marine Messe, built for the

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, also hosted in Fukuoka. *

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(swimming, artistic swimming and water polo) * Kokusai Center (water polo) * Fukuoka Prefectural Pool (diving) * Boat Race Fukuoka (open water swimming, high diving)

Schedule

A total of 74 medal events were held across five disciplines. 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 and with only the compulsory events of its program. Due this the schedule the swimming events for the first week, rather than the customary second half of the event.

Notes and references

External links

Official website
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