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The World Aquatics Congress is the highest authority of World Aquatics and shall have the power to decide upon any matters arising within World Aquatics. A Congress is held either as an Ordinary Congress or as an Extraordinary Congress. A Congress may be held in person, by teleconference, by video conference or by another means of communication.
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The championships are staged in a 25m pool, referred to as short course format, and traditionally have been held biennially in alternate years to the World Aquatics Championships. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Unlike the World Aquatics Championships , only swimming events are staged at these championships (being one of the six disciplines that form part of the ...
The 2023 event is notable for a number of reasons including a switch to long course (50m) format as a pre-Olympics year event, the event acting as a qualifying meet for both the forthcoming World Aquatics Championships in 2024 and Olympic Games in 2024, and the introduction of an "open" category in 50m and 100m events for transgender swimmers. [3]
World Aquatics oversees aquatic competitions in swimming, water polo, diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving. The World Cup event in Berlin, Germany, will run from October ...
The swimming events at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships were held from 27 July to 3 August 2025 at the World Aquatics Championships Arena in Singapore. [ 1 ] Schedule
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has been quietly mounting a legal battle against World Aquatics to overturn the swimming governing body’s effective ban on most trans women competing in the ...
Michael Phelps —pictured here (right) at the 2005 World Championships—won 26 World Championships gold medals – more than any other athlete. The aquatics discipline of swimming is considered the flagship event at every edition of the World Aquatics Championships since its introduction in 1973. While open water swimming events were added to the program in 1991, it is considered a separate ...