The 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 19th edition of the
FINA World Aquatics Championships
The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...
, were held in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...
,
Hungary
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, from 17 June to 3 July 2022.
In March 2022, after the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
, FINA banned both the Russian and Belarusian nationals from entering the championships.
Host selection
Originally, Budapest was selected to host the 2021 World Aquatics Championships. However, after
Guadalajara
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,
Mexico
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, 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
is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since anc ...
,
Japan
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, and was scheduled to be held between 16 July to August 1, 2021. To avoid clash with the postponed
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
the event was rescheduled to be held between 13 to 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. This would have entailed a full four years between World Championships, and only one global event between the 2020 and
2024 Summer Olympics
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, athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)''
, events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines)
, opening = 26 July 2024
, closing = 11 August 2024
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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.
It is the second time Budapest hosts the competitions, 5 years after the
and will host again the
event in 2027.
Venues
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Duna Aréna (swimming, diving and water polo finals)
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Lake Lupa (open water swimming)
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Tamás Széchy Swimming Complex (artistic swimming)
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Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium
The Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium is an aquatics complex located on Margaret Island in Budapest, Hungary.The facility has four floors, covers an area of about 80,000 square meters and has eight indoor and outdoor pools, including traini ...
(water polo)
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Debrecen Swimming Complex (water polo)
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Szeged
Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ...
Tiszavirág Pool (water polo)
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Sopron
Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő.
History
Ancient times-13th century
When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...
Lőver Pool (water polo)
Schedule
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.
Participating nations
Out of 209 FINA members, 185 nations take part in the Championships, as well as the
FINA Refugee Team.
Medal table
References
External links
Official website
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World Championships, 2022
2022 in Hungarian sport
World Championships, 2022
International sports competitions in Budapest
Sports events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Sports events affected by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
June 2022 sports events in Hungary
July 2022 sports events in Hungary