The Swimming Union of the Americas is the swimming continental association for the Americas (i.e. it oversees international aquatics competition within
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Etymology
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South America
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). It is commonly referred to as ASUA in English, or by its Spanish and French acronym, UANA – Unión Americana de Natación (Spanish) or Union américaine de natation (French).
ASUA was founded during the 1948 Olympics in
London
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UK.
Organization
ASUA is divided into 4 Zones, each with its own body which organizes competitions. The bodies that oversees these Zones, are:
*Zone 1:
CONSANAT—the South American Swimming Confederation (''Confederación Sudamericana de Natación'').
*Zone 2:
CCCAN CCCAN (pronounced C-C-Can) is the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Federation (in Spanish: la ''Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Natación''). It is the body that organizes and overseas aquatic sports competitions in the Caribbe ...
—the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Confederation (''Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Natación'').
*Zone 3:
United States Aquatic Sports
United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) is the national federation for aquatic sports which represents the United States in FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation). Since by U.S. law and FINA regulations, the United States must have only one na ...
(USAS)
*Zone 4:
Aquatic Federation of Canada
The Aquatic Federation of Canada (AFC) (in French: ''Fédération aquatique du Canada'', ''FAC'') is a federation of the Olympic, Aquatics federations of Canada: Diving Canada, Canada Artistic Swimming, Swimming Canada, and Water Polo Canada.
Member countries (with FINA abbreviations), by zone:
Note: (BZE) is also a member of ASUA; however, as of June 2016 it is not (yet) listed as a CCCAN member,
CCCAN member page
from the CCCAN website; retrieved 2016-06-16. the regional confederation they geographically belong to.
Competitions
*Artistic Swimming: Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships
*Swimming: UANA Swimming Cup
*Water Polo: UANA Water Polo Cup
See also
*FINA
FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ...
References
External links
UANACONSANAT
{{International water polo
Swimming organizations
Swimming in the Americas
Pan-American sports governing bodies
Sports organizations established in 1948