The Cali Local Organizing Committee (CLOC) announces that the deadline for press & media accreditation has been extended.
The new deadline ends on Friday, May 17, 2013.*
Press & Media accreditation requests must be made online, at: http://www.losjuegosmundiales2013.com
The accreditation period has been extended in order to give all applicants enough time to provide personal information, so that we can validate that those seeking accreditation actually represent a press or media organization.
We emphasize that the only way to obtain press accreditation is by registration.
Please download the registration manual by clicking here. It will help make the registration process easier.
Hermann Kewitz
Press Officer
/Attaché de Presse/
Watzmannstrasse 39
47249 Duisburg
Germany
h.kewitz@theworldgames.org
49 171 531 48 47
02.08.2013
Report of World Games in Cali 2013
The World Games 2013 in Cali (COL) started on the 25th of July with the opening ceremony. The World Games include all the sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee as Olympic sports which are not scheduled during the Summer Olympic Games. The World Games are organized in the year following the Games of the Olympiad.
At the World Games the CMAS is represented by Finswimming. The athletes take part in 6 races: 50m apnea, 50m surface, 100m surface, 200m surface, 400m surface and 4*100m surface. Twenty four finswimmers (twelve men and twelve women) are qualified for each race according to their performance of the previous season. The races are scheduled on 26th and 27th of July.
The event is broadcast live on the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/11293879
The results are available on the following link:
http://worldgames2013.sportresult.com/NH/en/300/Comp/DetailedScheduleByDate?sportCode=FN&day=07%2F26%2F2013%2000%3A00%3A00&expandAll=False
The CMAS members wish good luck to all the finswimmers in Cali!
Andrea Nava’s World Games record in the 100m SF
For the finswimmers the challenge started on this morning (07/27/13) in Cali. The first race of the World Games was the 100m male SF category.
During the heats of the morning, the Italian finswimmer Andrea Nava was able to set a new World Games record for the 100m SF with 35’’29. He is followed by Alexandre Noir (FRA) with 35’’74 and Pavel Kabanov (RUS) with 35’’82.
Here are the race results:
Qualification Finswimming - Men's Surface 100m
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Result |
|---|
| 1. | ITA | NAVA Andrea | 35.29 |
| 2. | FRA | NOIR Alexandre | 35.74 |
| 3. | RUS | KABANOV Pavel | 35.82 |
| 4. | UKR | KONKOV Oleksandr | 36.00 |
| 5. | RUS | BARABASH Andrei | 36.02 |
| 6. | ITA | FUMAROLA Cesare | 36.35 |
| 7. | KOR | LEE Kwanho | 36.37 |
| 7. | EST | DROZDOV Aleksander | 36.37 |
Lauschus won first place in 400m SF
The German finswimmer Max Lauschus took the lead in the 400m SF with 3’03’’31. Denes Kanyo (HUN) arrived closely behind him (3’03’’39). The bronze medal went to Russian Evgeny Smirnov (3’06’’78).
Here are the race results:
Finswimming - Men's Surface 400m
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Result |
|---|
| 1. | GER | LAUSCHUS Max | 2:58.00 |
| 2. | RUS | SMIRNOV Evgeny | 2:58.75 |
| 3. | ITA | FIGINI Stefano | 3:01.54 |
| 4. | HUN | KANYO Denes | 3:02.77 |
| 5. | KOR | YOU Gyeongheon | 3:05.00 |
| 6. | UKR | ODYNOKOV Oleksandr | 3:06.04 |
| 7. | GER | MALKOWSKI Jan | 3:09.55 |
| 8. | TPE | YANG PingHua | 3:11.88 |
200m SF (heats): best time for Baranovskaya
The first female race of the World Games was the 200m SF. As expected, the Russian swimmer Valeriya Baranovskaya took the first place with 1’30’’76. She is followed by Yana Trofymez from Ukraine (1’32’’47) and Csilla Karolyi from Hungary (1’32’’75).
Here are the race results:
Finswimming - Women's Surface 200m
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Result |
|---|
| 1. | RUS | BARANOVSKAYA Valeriya | 1:28.74 |
| 2. | RUS | KRAVCHUK Vasilisa | 1:28.82 |
| 3. | UKR | TROFYMEZ Yana | 1:30.84 |
| 4. | GER | PILZ Sandra | 1:32.64 |
| 5. | KOR | KIM Bo Kyung | 1:33.10 |
| 6. | HUN | KAROLYI Csilla | 1:33.32 |
| 7. | UKR | SHLYAKHOVSKA Olga | 1:33.33 |
| 8. | COL | PEREZ RUBIO Kelly Ximena | 1:44.88 |
Jang won 1st place of the 50m AP (heats)
The final race of the morning was the 50m AP women. The Korean Yesol Jang came in first place with 16’’25. She is followed by the French swimmer Camille Heitz (16’’37) and the Chinese Yaoyue Liang (16’’44).
Here are the race results:
Qualification Women's Apnoea 50m
| Rank | Country | Athletes | Result |
|---|
| 1. | KOR | JANG Yesol | 16.25 |
| 2. | FRA | HEITZ Camille | 16.37 |
| 3. | CHN | LIANG Yaoyue | 16.44 |
| 4. | UKR | ARTIUSHENKO Margaryta | 16.47 |
| 5. | COL | PEREZ RUBIO Alix Victoria | 16.52 |
| 6. | RUS | ILYUSHINA Vera | 16.93 |
| 7. | CHN | XU Huanshan | 16.95 |
| 8. | COL | SALAZAR SOLORZANO | 17.26 |
