2013, a new step for CMAS !
Finswimming 04.06.2013
During the General Assembly in Philippines, it was announced that Finswimming will be in exhibition during the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan from 14th to 16th July.
Today, this project became a reality. A few days ago, we identified swimmer's candidates to make a selection of eight athletes. Note that the exhibition will be made only with male swimmers.
For this project, national's federations were very reactive and CMAS HQ received many applications for participation. It shows that the federations have measured the importance of this project.
The International University Sports Federation has confirmed its approval for two events, 50m Apnea Men and 100m SF Men.
Following this exhibition, we expect a positive result which we can then, all together to reach the first target for integration of finswimming in the program of the next Summer Universiade. The list of selected swimmers is below.
| William Paul Baldwin | Greece | (100 m SF record-holder 34:18) |
| Pavel Kabanov | Russia | (50 m AP record-holder 13:98) |
| Stefano Figini | Italy | (multiple records-holder) |
| Alexey Kazantsev | Russia | (7th in the world ranking 50 m AP 14:67) |
| Alexander Drozdov | Estonia | (8th in the world ranking 50 m AP 14:79) |
| Nikolay Tover | Estonia | (11th in the world ranking 50 m AP 14:96) |
| Loukas Karatzopoulos | Greece | (13th in the world ranking 50 m AP 15:13) |
| Giona Cristofori | Italy | (15th in the world ranking 50 m AP 15:18) |
Reserve: Andrey Burakov Russia (7th in the world ranking 100 m SF 35:90)
Schedule coming soon
