World Aquatics at the moment confirmed that the Chinese language capital will host the World Aquatics Championships – Beijing 2029, following a bidding course of and cautious consideration by the World Aquatics Bureau.
The flagship World Aquatics occasion will welcome greater than 2,500 world-class athletes from over 200 international locations and areas to compete within the six aquatic sports activities of swimming, diving, water polo, inventive swimming, open water swimming and excessive diving.
A confirmed host with a robust file of efficiently delivering World Aquatics occasions, the Individuals’s Republic of China has organised over 100 main aquatics competitions, 37 of which have taken place in Beijing. Having beforehand hosted two editions of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, alongside numerous different main sporting occasions, Beijing guarantees an unforgettable expertise for each athletes and followers.
Additional solidifying its dedication to aquatic sports activities, China will host three World Aquatics occasions in 2024 alone: the World Aquatics Inventive Swimming World Cup in Beijing (5-7 April), the World Aquatics Diving World Cup – Tremendous Closing in Xi’an (19-21 April), and the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Shanghai (18-20 October).
The showcase World Aquatics occasion shall be organised in shut cooperation with the China Swimming Affiliation and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports activities.
World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam famous the significance of at the moment’s announcement.
“Beijing has repeatedly welcomed main aquatics occasions, offering wonderful circumstances that allow our athletes to carry out at their best possible. For this, we’re deeply grateful,” mentioned World Aquatics President Al-Musallam. “Due to our longstanding collaboration with our buddies in China, we all know the worldwide aquatics neighborhood can stay up for world-class sporting motion and leisure in one of many world’s most iconic cities. We’re additionally very grateful to the opposite cities that expressed an curiosity in internet hosting. The World Aquatics Championships have turn out to be a compelling occasion for contributors, spectators, viewers, companions and organisers alike.”
An aquatics hotspot, Beijing has hosted 15 editions of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup, together with a number of World Cup occasions in swimming, diving, inventive swimming and water polo. China additionally hosted each the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Hangzhou in 2018 and the World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai in 2011.
Along with the World Aquatics Championships – Beijing 2029, the Chinese language capital may even host the World Aquatics Masters Championships – Beijing 2029. The precise dates for each of those occasions shall be introduced sooner or later.
With the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 at the moment happening in Doha, Staff China had a dominant first week within the Qatari capital, taking 16 golds out of 29 occasions to prime the medal desk.
“The Individuals’s Republic of China is deeply obsessed with aquatic sports activities. We’ve a really proud historical past of welcoming one of the best aquatics athletes to our nation,” mentioned China Swimming Affiliation President Zhou Jihong. “We’re subsequently very honoured with Beijing being awarded the chance to host the world’s largest aquatics occasion, the World Aquatics Championships, in 2029.”
Following Doha, the 2025 and 2027 editions of the World Aquatics Championships shall be hosted in Singapore and Budapest, respectively.
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