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2015 World Aquatics Championships

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16th FINA World Championships
16thFINA World Championships
Host cityKazan,Russia
Date24 July – 9 August 2015
VenueKazan Arena
Nations190
Athletes2,400
Opened byPresidentVladimir Putin
Closed byJulio Maglione
WebsiteWorld Championships 2015
2015 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
3 m & 10 mmixed team
Synchronised
3 mmenwomenmixed
10 mmenwomenmixed
High diving
20 mwomen
27 mmen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Team
5 kmmixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomenmixed
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomenmixed
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Duet
Technicalwomenmixed
Freewomenmixed
Team
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

The16thFINA World Championships (Russian:Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), alsoAquatics 2015, were held inKazan,Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. The number of participating national teams (190), athletes (2,400) and the number of medals (75) were the most ever amongst these championships.[1][2] This was the first time the World Aquatics Championships partially overlaps with theFINA World Masters Championships that have a number of athletes (near 5,500), countries (110) and medals (635) which are the most ever also.

Competitions were held in six sports (swimming,open water swimming,diving andhigh diving,synchronized swimming, andwater polo) in three main competition venues. The new FINA High Diving discipline has been presented on the XX FINA Technical Congress and has been officially included to the FINA World Aquatics Championships program starting fromthe 15th FINA World Championships 2013 inBarcelona,Spain. In this 16th FINA World Championships first time the mixed-pair (female-male) duets in thesynchronized swimming were included and first time the mixed command competitions in each sports were carried. This Championship is one of the qualifying events for the2016 Summer Olympics.[3]

At these Championships 31 countries were awarded with a medal. The most gold medals won was byChina, theUnited States andRussia. Also, China, the United States andAustralia had the most of any medals in total. This was the first time since the2001 World Aquatics Championships that the United States did not finish in first place in the medal standings, finishing second in the medal table behind China. It was the second time that China topped the medal standings. Also, 12 world records were set at these Championships.

Host selection

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The host selection for the 2015 World Aquatics Championships took place on 15 July 2011 at the biennial General Congress of FINA inShanghai, the host city of the Championships that year. Kazan defeated rival bids fromGuadalajara (Mexico),Hong Kong,Guangzhou (China), andMontreal (Canada). The last two cities withdrew their bids shortly before the vote.

Date change

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The dates of these Championships were moved back one week to lengthen the gap between it and the aquatics competitions at the2015 Pan American Games inToronto, Ontario,Canada.[4]

Host city

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Location of Kazan

Kazan is the capital of theRepublic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of near 1.2 million (2015),[5] it is the sixth largest city of Russia. Kazan is one of the key political, economic, sport, cultural, religious, financial, scientific, educational, and transportation centers of Russia. Kazan is located at the confluence of theVolga andKazanka Rivers in the European part of Russia, just one hour from Moscow by air. The current mayor of Kazan isIlsur Metshin.

In 2005 Kazan celebrated its 1,000th anniversary, in 2013 Kazan hosted similar by scope the worldwide sport event, the2013 Summer Universiade. As a city of unique monuments of the past (including of independent medievalKazan Khanate), Kazan is on the list of theUNESCOworld heritage cities.[6]

There are a lot of famous professional sport clubs like football clubRubin Kazan, ice hockey clubAk Bars Kazan, basketball clubUNICS, volleyball clubsZenit andDynamo-Kazan.

The organizing committee and executive direction of sport projects, many commercial sponsors and non-commercial partners and so-called "Ambassadors of Championships" were involved for carrying the event. Initially, half of the 6,500 members from national teams were accommodated in Athletes Villages like at theOlympics. A fleet of near 500 buses and cars, more than 400 volunteers, near 100 broadcasters and 1,200 mass-media journalists supported the event. Totally, near 1,800 officials and 100,000 guests visited the city. More than 500,000 tickets were sold on the Championship's competitions and shows. Rides by urban transport are free for participants, volunteers and spectators with a ticket for a sports competition. The cost for the Championships was near 3.5 billion rubles.[2]

During the Championships, an open-air cultural FINA park with a capacity of 20,000 and many thematic and national pavilions were opened for all participants and guests near the main venues. The 33rdInternational Sport movies and TV FestivalFICTS Challenge 2015 (first time outside Milano) and Tatarstan's mainsabantuy were dated for the Championships.

Symbols

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The logo of 2015 World Aquatics Championships is the coloured and stylised map of Kazan with pictograms of the events held in the championships. Corresponding toemblem of Tatarstan, thesnow leopards Itil (male) and Alsou (female) in swimming costumes were selected as mascots of championships. Slogan of the championships isWater of Life.[7]

The medals of championships contains its name, city and date in the rim and volume host country and city and logos of the championships and FINA in internal dark blue background with live water effect. The medals are made from zinc with proper coating by gold, silver and bronze.

In honour of the eventBank of Russia issued the 3 rubles silver commemorative coin with coloured logo of championships[8] andRussian Post produced 320,000 stamps and the commemorative booklet with envelope and stamp of first day mail cancellation.

Venues

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The Championship competitions hold in facilities built for the2013 Summer Universiade, also hosted by Kazan.

Three of four main venues are placed near each other. All the venues is conveniently accessed by major avenues and roads, as well as by public transport, making it easy for participants and spectators to travel to and from the Championships. All existing venues are designed and constructed in accordance with the FINA competitions requirements.

SwimmingMain pool + warm-up pool (the main swimming arena) – "Kazan Arena"
Synchronized swimmingMain pool + warm-up pool (the main swimming arena) – "Kazan Arena"
DivingAquatics Palace
Water poloBurevestnik Swimming Pool (group stage men)
Olymp Swimming Pool (group stage women)
temporary pool between Aquatics Palace and Kazan Arena (play-off games)
Open water swimmingKazanka River bank near theKazan Kremlin
High divingKazanka River bank near theKazan Kremlin
TrainingOrgsintez Swimming Pool, Burevestnik Swimming Pool, Olymp Swimming Pool, etc.

Kazan Arena

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Main article:Kazan Arena

Construction period: May 2010 – December 2012

The usual capacity of the venue is 45,000 seats, but 15,000 temporary seats were installed during the World Championships 2015.

This was the first time since the1908 Summer Olympics that 100m swimming pools were placed in afootball stadium.On the football pitch of the stadium two temporary 50 meters long pools are constructed. Main pool for swimming and synchronised swimming competitions, and a temporary training pool connected with the competition pool with additional athletes relax and massage area.

The total capacity of the competition arena (including temporary stands) reaches up to 15,000 people. Both temporary pools and a roof in the Main Swimming Arena were constructed to meet FINA World Championships. General Requirements in cooperation with FINA partner – Myrtha Pools.

Common view and spectators during world's record at the Kazan Arena

Aquatics palace and arena for water polo

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Main article:Palace of Water Sports

Construction period: September 2009 – October 2012

The capacity of the venue is 4,200 seats. The temporary open arena for water polo with capacity 3,500 is set near the Aquatics palace.

The building consists of three pools:

  • Diving – 33.3×25 m pool (allowable operating depth is 5.5 m);
  • Synchronized swimming – 50×25 m (maximum operating depth is 3.0 m);
  • Training pool – 50×25 m (practicing pool depth is 2.2 m).

This special indoorswimming pool is situated on the picturesque bank of the Kazanka River. Diving and synchronized swimming play-offs are held there.

The temporary open arena for water polo with 3,500 was built close near Aquatics Palace, using its service and support systems.

Open arena for water polo
Aquatics palace inside

Kazanka river bank near the Kazan Kremlin

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High diving tower

It is a temporary construction for the competition. The location atKazanka River nearKazan Kremlin and Palace Square is the same as for the 1stFINA High Diving World Cup.

Number of seats: 3,000 people

Open water swimming and high diving hold. Route of open water swimming lies across Kazanka River having near 1,5 km wide at this place.

Training venues

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  • Orgsintez Swimming Pool
  • Burevestnik Swimming Pool
  • Olymp Swimming Pool
  • Ak Bure Swimming Pool
  • Akcharlak Swimming Pool
  • Bustan Swimming Pool

Schedule

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The opening ceremony took place on July 24, 2015, and the closing ceremony on August 9, 2015. Both were held in some modified ice hockeyTatNeft Arena. The opening and closing ceremonies involved the president of FINA, the heads of Kazan and Tatarstan, and (at opening) the president of Russia who declared the start of Championships, and (at closing) the prime minister of Russia and the prime minister ofHungary who took the FINA flag from a name of host country of thenext world aquatics championships. Dozens of singers, dancers, acrobats, other artists, swimmers, aerialists and also all the spectators with a distributed coloured flashlights took part in the ceremonies. The pools, water paths, many fountains, pads for artists, dancing robots-manipulators, large multi-level dynamically changed the main, floating and pendant structures, poles of fire, vapour, virtual waterfall (at opening), large 4-faced articulatory gestured 3D mask (at closing) and other special effects were involved the Olympics-scope ceremonies. The opening ceremony first time was repeated eight times in next days as show.[1][2]

  ●  Finals
 ●  Other competitions
All dates areMSK (UTC+3)
July–August 201524
Fri		25
Sat		26
Sun		27
Mon		28
Tue		29
Wed		30
Thu		31
Fri		1
Sat		2
Sun		3
Mon		4
Tue		5
Wed		6
Thu		7
Fri		8
Sat		9
Sun		Gold
medals
Diving●●●●●●●●●●●●●●13
High diving●●●2
Open water swimming●●●●●●●7
Swimming●●
●●		●●
●●		●●●
●●		●●●
●●		●●●
●●		●●●
●●		●●●
●●●		●●●●
●●●●		42
Synchronised swimming●●●●●●●●●●9
Water polo●●●●●●●●●●●●●●2
Total gold medals534324246466567875
Cumulative total581215172123273337434954606775

Medal table

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Total number of medal sets is 75.

Three swimmers finished with same time and won bronze in Kazan

  *   Host nation (Russia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China15101035
2 United States1314633
3 Russia*94417
4 Australia73818
5 Great Britain71614
6 France5117
7 Italy33814
8 Hungary33410
9 Sweden3216
10 Japan3148
11 South Africa2305
12 Germany2147
13 Brazil1427
14 North Korea1012
15 Serbia1001
16 Netherlands0808
17 Canada0448
18 Denmark0224
19 Ukraine0213
20 Mexico0202
 New Zealand0202
22 Greece0123
 Poland0123
 Spain0123
25 Jamaica0112
26 Croatia0101
 Lithuania0101
28 Argentina0011
 Belarus0011
 Malaysia0011
 Singapore0011
Totals (31 entries)757677228

Participating nations

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This section needs to beupdated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(August 2015)

A total of near 2,400 athletes from 190 nations and territories are participating in the event.[9] The 15 countries with more than 35 participating athletes areAustralia,Brazil,Canada,China,France,Kazakhstan,Germany,Great Britain,Greece,Hungary,Italy,Japan,Mexico,Russia,South Africa,Spain,Ukraine and theUnited States. First timeKosovo Swimming Federation participates in this FINA World Championships.[10]

References

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  1. ^ab"TASS: Sports – 2015 World Aquatics Championships opening ceremony kicks off in Kazan".TASS. Archived fromthe original on 29 July 2015. Retrieved3 August 2015.
  2. ^abc"16th FINA World Championships 2015 in Kazan – official website". Archived fromthe original on 15 July 2017. Retrieved3 August 2015.
  3. ^"FINA's 2016 Olympic Qualification Procedures for Aquatics". Archived fromthe original on 2014-11-26. Retrieved2014-11-15.
  4. ^Keith, Braden (10 October 2013)."FINA Moves Dates of 2015 World Aquatics Championships to Accommodate Pan Am Games".swimswam.com/. Swim Swam. Retrieved16 February 2015.
  5. ^"Численность населения муниципальных образований Республики Татарстан"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved2015-07-28.
  6. ^UNESCO World Heritage Centre."Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin". Retrieved3 August 2015.
  7. ^"Marks - 16th FINA World Championships 2015 in Kazan".kazan2015.com. Archived fromthe original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved17 September 2015.
  8. ^"Central Bank issues three-ruble coin in honor of FINA World Championships in Kazan".Tatar-inform. 22 July 2015. Archived fromthe original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved17 September 2015.
  9. ^"Athletes Biographies". Archived fromthe original on 2011-12-05. Retrieved2014-03-19. ATHLETES BIOGRAPHIES
  10. ^"16th FINA World Championships 2015 in Kazan - official website".

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