SUMMONS for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships(25m) 11 - 16 December 2018 Hangzhou, China

Hangzhou is known as Zhejiang provincial capital, the center of economy, culture, science and education. The whole city owns 16,596 km2 total area and its permanent resident population is 8.844 million.Swimming is very popular with Hangzhou citizens. At present, there are about 300 natatoriums (swimming pools) in the city; primary and middle schools require every student to have good swimming skills. Nearly 85% of Hangzhou citizens have taken part in swimming. 

The city of Hangzhou aims to construct a strong sports city, gives full play to human cultural and  economic advantages, brings along sports development, and turns Hangzhou into the most beautiful land in China, capital of innovative wisdom and oriental city of quality.

1. Competition Venue 

The official competition venue of the FINA World  Swimming Championships (25m) will be the 10.000 seat Tennis Centre at the spectacular Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center. A temporary competition pool and pool deck will be constructed on top of the main arena of the Tennis Centre.The warm up/warm down/ training pool will be located in temporary constructed building attached to the Competition venue. The facilities will include sufficient space for athlete preparation and team areas. The Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center is only 15-20 minutes’ drive time from most of the official hotels.

2. Competition Schedule

The championships will be staged over 6 days with heats in the morning sessions and the semi-finals and finals in the evening session. Ten (10) lanes of the competition pool will be used for the morning heats, while semi-finals and finals will be swum using eight (8) lanes. All morning sessions will start at 09:30 AM (CST – China Standard Time, UTC +8). The evening sessions every day except.

Sunday,16th of December, will start at 19:00 (CST). On Sunday, 16th December, the evening sessions will commence at 18:00 (CST).

 3. Final sport entries

To be submitted through the FINA GMS by 22 November 2018 @ 23:59 (GMT)

No late entries will be accepted. FINA and the OC will use all collected data for the purposes of event registration and accreditation. The qualification period for all entry times is: 1 August 2017 – 22 November 2018.