Winter Swimming World Championships (WSWC) is ''masters'' championships in the men's and women's age categories (A to J2) organized by

International Winter Swimming Association International Winter Swimming Association (IWSA) is a non-governmental organization registered in Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ...

(IWSA) which was founded in 2006 after great success and huge international attendance at the 2006 Finnish Winter Swimming Championships in Oulu. They have been held at biennial intervals in various locations since the year 2000 and follow the IWSA winter swimming rules.

Overview

The planned venue for the WSWC 2022 Championship is Lake Onega near the town of

Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk (russian: Петрозаводск, p=pʲɪtrəzɐˈvotsk; Karelian, Vepsian and fi, Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some . The population ...

in the Republic of Karelia in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

, on 21 to 27 March 2022. And in following references are additional facts concerning WSWC 2020 in Bled.

References

External links

video ''IWSA - 10 years''

WSWC 2022
Winter swimming World championships in aquatics World championships in winter sports {{swimming-stub