Calendarul oficial FINA Iulie-Sept. 2011

Saturday, 16 July 2011 - Sunday, 31 July 2011

• 14th FINA World
• Championships - Shanghai (CHN) :: World Championships
• Thursday, 21 July 2011
  FINA Extraordinary Congress - Shanghai (CHN) :: Conferences
• Sunday, 24 July 2011
  FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2011 #4 - Lac St. Jean (CAN) :: Open Water
• Saturday, 30 July 2011
  FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2011 #7 - Lac St. Jean (CAN) :: Open Water

August 2011

• Saturday, 06 August 2011
  FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2011 #8 - Lac Magog (CAN) :: Open Water
• Sunday, 07 August 2011
  FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2011 #9 - Sabac (SRB) :: Open Water
• Friday, 12 August 2011 - Monday, 22 August 2011
  Universiade 2011 - Shenzhen (CHN) :: Other International Competitions
• Saturday, 13 August 2011
  London 2012 Olympic Games Test Event for Marathon Swimming - London (GBR) :: Olympic Games
• Saturday, 13 August 2011
  London 2012 Olympic Games Test Event for Marathon Swimming - London (GBR) :: Open Water
• Saturday, 13 August 2011
  FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2011 #5 - Lac Megantic (CAN) :: Open Water
• Sunday, 14 August 2011
  FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2011 #10 - Ohrid Lake (MKD) :: Open Water
• Tuesday, 16 August 2011 - Sunday, 21 August 2011
  3rd FINA World Junior Swimming Championships - Lima (PER) :: Swimming

Saturday, 03 September 2011 - Sunday, 18 September 2011
African Games - Maputo (MOZ) :: Other International Competitions

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FINA

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For other uses, see Fina (disambiguation).

Fédération Internationale de Natation
Logo of FINA prior to 2008
Motto	Water is Our World
Formation	1908
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland
Membership	202 national federations
President	Dr. Julio César Maglione
Website	www.fina.org

Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) is the International Federation (IF) recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)^[1] for administering international competition in the aquatic sports (its name translated from French is "International Swimming Federation"). It is one of several IFs which administers a given sport/discipline for the IOC and/or international community. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

FINA currently oversees competition in five aquatic sports: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming.

On July 24, 2009, Dr. Julio Maglione of Uruguay was elected FINA President.

History

FINA was founded on July 19, 1908 in the Manchester Hotel in London, UK at the end of the 1908 Summer Olympics by the Belgian, British, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish Swimming Federations.^[3]

Number of national federations by year:

• 1908: 8
• 1928: 38
• 1958: 75
• 1978: 106
• 1988: 109
• 2000: 174
• 2008: 197

Members

At the January 2010 FINA Bureau meeting, Tonga became the 202nd National Federation of FINA.^[4] Members are grouped by continent, and there are 5 continental associations of which they can choose to be a member:

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Note: The number following each continental name is the number of FINA members which fall into the given geographical area. It is not necessarily the number of members in the continental association.

Organization

The FINA membership meets roughly every two years in a regularly scheduled Congress; typically coinciding with the World Championships. Congresses are held to determine the direction the body would like to take. There are two types of normal or "ordinary" Congress: General and Technical, and these are normally alternated. "Extraordinary" Congress are also called-up from time to time, and deal with a specific topic or area of concern (e.g. an Extraordinary Congress was held with the 2009 World Championships to review the Masters swimming rules; there was a General Congress at the 2009 Worlds^[5]).

Between Congress meetings of the entire membership, a smaller 22-member representative board, called the FINA Bureau, meets to act in a timely manner on items which cannot wait until the entire body can meet. It is the Bureau that elects the FINA Executive Officers.^[6]

Various committees and commission also help with the oversight of individual disciplines (e.g. the Technical Open Water Swimming Committee helps with open water), or topic-related issues (e.g. the FINA Doping Panel).^[7]

FINA Presidents
Name	Country	Term
George Hearn	Great Britain	1908–1924
Erik Bergvall	Sweden	1924–1928
Émile-Georges Drigny	France	1928–1932
Walther Binner	Germany	1932–1936
Harold Fern	Great Britain	1936–1948 (*)
Rene de Raeve	Belgium	1948–1952
M.L. Negri	Argentina	1952–1956
Jan de Vries	Netherlands	1956–1960
Max Ritter	Germany	1960–1964
William Berge Phillips	Australia	1964–1968
Javier Ostos Mora[8]	Mexico	1968–1972
Dr. Harold Henning	United States	1972–1976
Javier Ostos Mora (2nd term)[8]	Mexico	1976–1980
Ante Lambasa	Yugoslavia	1980–1984
Robert Helmick	United States	1984–1988
Mustapha Larfaoui	Algeria	1988–2009
Dr. Julio Maglione	Uruguay	2009–present (term is through 2013)

Presidential terms are four-years long, beginning and concluding with the year following the Olympics (i.e. 2009-2013 is the current term).

Events

FINA organizes one (1) championship involving each of the five disciplines it oversees (the "World Championships"), as well championships and circuits in each of the disciplines.^[9]

World Championships

Main article: FINA World Aquatics Championships

The biggest FINA event is the biennial World Championships, currently held every odd year. It features competitions in all five aquatic disciplines. Prior to 2000, the event was held every 4 years, in the even year between (Summer) Olympic Games.

Discipline championships

• Swimming: World Swimming Championships (25m), (aka "Short Course Worlds"). Bi-annual event (in even years), swum in 25-meter length pool (Olympic and World Championships are in a 50m pool).
• Water Polo: Water Polo World Leagues (men's and women's).
• Diving: Diving World Series
• Open Water: World Open Water Swimming Championships (aka "Open Water Worlds"). Even years from 2000-2010.
• Synchronized Swimming: Synchronized Swimming World Trophy.
• Masters: World Masters Championships (aka "Masters Worlds"). Bi-annual, in even years. "Masters" competition is for adults (20 years old and up). This championships features all 5 disciplines.

Other events

In addition to the championships events listed above, FINA also organizes the following annual events, and sub-championships:

• World Cups: Annual race/competition series of multiple meets/tournaments/races/competitions in swimming, water polo, diving, open water (10Ks) and synchronized swimming.
• Grand Prix: Annual race/competition series of multiple events in diving and open water (races over 10-kilometers).
• Junior Worlds: A world-level championships restricted to a younger age population (typically under-18, though can vary by discipline/gender). Held in swimming, water polo, diving, and synchronized swimming. Open Water is to begin one in 2012.
• World Men's Water Polo Development Trophy

See also

• List of international sport federations

Notes

1. ^ The International Olympic Committee online listing of the International Federations.

2. ^ Report from/on the 2009 FINA General Congress held on July 24, 2009 and published by FINA on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-07-24.

3. ^ The National Federation page on the FINA website.

4. ^ FINA Press Release 2010-02: FINA Bureau Meeting in Bangkok (THA) - Main decisions (a report on the January 14+15, 2010 FINA Bureau meeting). Published 2010-01-16; retrieved 2010-01-25.

5. ^ FINA calendar of upcoming meetings. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

6. ^ FINA Bureau page of the FINA website.

7. ^ FINA Committee list

8. ^ ^{a b} FINA Honorary Life President Lic. Javier Ostos Mora passes away at 92. Published 2008-11-07 by FINA. Retrieved 2008-11-10.

9. ^ FINA Media Kit for the 2010 FINA World Aquatics Convention; published by FINA on 2010-02-22; retrieved 2010-02-25. (The listing and structure of the "Events" section is based on the event listing in this packet.)

Introduction

The 14th FINA World Championships Shanghai 2011, an internationally grand event succeeding Expo 2010 Shanghai China, will be held from July 16 to 31, 2011. Created in 1973 and held biennially, the competition, a major aquatic sports meet of the largest scale in the world, consists of five major disciplines, namely swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming. Presently, second only to FIFA in the number of members, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) wields extensive great influence with 202 national federations.
Shanghai won the bid for the 14th FINA World Championships on 24 March 2007. The 14th FINA World Championships Shanghai 2011 to be held in China for the first time will be the highest-level single sporting event that Shanghai has ever sponsored with the highest attendance and the largest scale. Following Fukuoka, Japan in 2001, Shanghai will be the second host city of the FINA World Championships in Asia. The competition is scheduled to span 16 days, with the participation of over 5,000 athletes, coaches and officials from more than 180 countries and regions. In addition, some 1,500 correspondents both from home and abroad will cover the event on the site.

Swimming

Synchronized Swimming

Diving

		Introduction The 14th FINA World Championships Shanghai 2011, an internationally grand event succeeding Expo 2010 Shanghai China, will be held from July 16 to 31, 2011. Created in 1973 and held biennially, the competition, a major aquatic sports meet of the largest scale in the world, consists of five major disciplines, namely swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming. Presently, second only to FIFA in the number of members, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) wields extensive great influence with 202 national federations. Shanghai won the bid for the 14th FINA World Championships on 24 March 2007. The 14th FINA World Championships Shanghai 2011 to be held in China for the first time will be the highest-level single sporting event that Shanghai has ever sponsored with the highest attendance and the largest scale. Following Fukuoka, Japan in 2001, Shanghai will be the second host city of the FINA World Championships in Asia. The competition is scheduled to span 16 days, with the participation of over 5,000 athletes, coaches and officials from more than 180 countries and regions. In addition, some 1,500 correspondents both from home and abroad will cover the event on the site. Date Time Event Session Price/(RMB) 07/24(SUN) 9:00 W Butterfly and 7 other events: heats 1 380 180 100 30 18:00 W Butterfly and 7 other events: semi-finals and finals 2 580 380 180 80 07/25(MON) 9:00 W Backstroke and 4 other events: heats 3 380 180 100 30 18:00 M Butterfly and 7 other events: semi-finals and finals 4 580 380 180 80 07/26(TUE) 9:00 M Breaststroke and 3 other events: heats 5 380 180 100 30 18:00 M Freestyle and 7 other events: semi-finals and finals 6 580 380 180 80 07/27(WED) 9:00 W Backstroke and 3 other events: heats 7 380 180 100 30 18:00 M Freestyle and 7 other events: semi-finals and finals 8 580 380 180 80 07/28(THU) 9:00 W Freestyle and 4 other events: heats 9 380 180 100 30 18:00 W Freestyle and 8 other events: semi-finals and finals 10 580 380 180 80 07/29(FRI) 9:00 M Freestyle and 5 other events: heats 11 380 180 100 30 18:00 W Freestyle and 8 other events: semi-finals and finals 12 580 380 180 80 07/30(SAT) 9:00 W Freestyle and 4 other events: heats 13 380 180 100 30 18:00 W Butterfly and 8 other events: semi-finals and finals 14 580 380 180 80 07/31(SUN) 9:00 M Medley and 2 other events: heats 15 380 180 100 30 18:00 W Breaststroke and 6 other events: finals 16 580 380 180 80 Schedule 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN Swimming Synchronized Swimming Diving Men’s Water Polo Women’s Water Polo Open Water Swimming Notes：There match that day.Click the image to buy. Traffic Ticket services: 1. Ticketing center: No.6 Staircase, Shanghai Stadium; at the intersection of North Caoxi Road and Lingling Road (Map 1 Attached) 2. Ticket Sales inside the venue: On-site Ticket Office: Ticket Office, Oriental Sports Center Opening Hours: 8:00—20:00, July 16 to July 31 No. 701, Yaoti Road, Shanghai (Map 2 Attached) 3. Telephone booking hotline: 021-64265678 4. Online booking: http://www.eaticket.com/swimming/ 5. The details of the tickets deliveryhttp://www.eaticket.com/docs/help/shippingway 6. The details of the tickets agenthttp://www.eaticket.com/info/483 Notes: Means of remittance: Account No. for Corporate Remittance: 31001632504052503698 Corporate title: Shanghai East Asia Ticket Marketing Co., Ltd., China Construction Bank, Shanghai Stadium Sub-branch Address for ticket pickup: No.1111, North Caoxi Road (Lingling Road Intersection) (Map 1 Attached)
		nd 6 other events: finals	16	580 380 180 80

Schedule

	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Diving
Men’s Water Polo
Women’s Water Polo
Open Water Swimming

Notes：There match that day.Click the image to buy.

Traffic Ticket services:
1. Ticketing center: No.6 Staircase, Shanghai Stadium; at the intersection of North Caoxi Road and Lingling Road (Map 1 Attached)
2. Ticket Sales inside the venue:
On-site Ticket Office:
Ticket Office, Oriental Sports Center Opening Hours: 8:00—20:00, July 16 to July 31 No. 701, Yaoti Road, Shanghai (Map 2 Attached)
3. Telephone booking hotline: 021-64265678
4. Online booking: http://www.eaticket.com/swimming/
5. The details of the tickets deliveryhttp://www.eaticket.com/docs/help/shippingway
6. The details of the tickets agenthttp://www.eaticket.com/info/483

Notes: Means of remittance:
Account No. for Corporate Remittance: 31001632504052503698
Corporate title: Shanghai East Asia Ticket Marketing Co., Ltd., China Construction Bank, Shanghai Stadium Sub-branch
Address for ticket pickup: No.1111, North Caoxi Road (Lingling Road Intersection) (Map 1 Attached)