FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

The FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) is a five-day competition held every two years, where the world comes to witness record-breaking feats and action-packed races, with swimming stars from all continents.

After Istanbul (TUR) in 2012, the 12th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) will take place in Doha (QAT), from December 10-14, 2014.

World Cup winner Alshammar and Olympic champion Frolander head up Sweden’s bid for glory in Dubai

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Therese Alshammar and Lars Frolander, two of the greatest swimmers in the history of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), are heading up Sweden’s bid for glory at this month’s event in Dubai.

The duo, both multiple medallists from past events, are the most prominent names in a powerful squad of 20 that also includes Sarah Sjostrom, the world record-holder in the 100m butterfly.

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Brazilian sprinter Cielo in confident mood ahead of Dubai

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Brazilian Olympic gold medallist Cesar Cielo is in a confident mood and believes he has nothing to prove at next month’s 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

Sprint star Cielo was beaten by Nathan Adrian of the United States of America in the 50m and 100m freestyle races in the Pan-Pacific Championships in Irvine, California earlier this year and the two will go head-to-head again at the spectacular, new Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex on the Dubai Bypass Road.

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Volunteers get ready for 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

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Volunteers for next month’s 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Dubai were told last November 27, 2010, they will be a key part of the event’s success.

Many of the 400 who have signed up to be part of the first-ever world swimming championships in the Middle East attended an induction day at the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex, the spectacular, new venue that will be the scene of five days of top-class racing.

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The brightest Stars in Dubai

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From Africa…

CAMERON VAN DER BURGH (RSA)
At 22, he is the current WR holder in the 50m breaststroke (25.25) and 100m breaststroke (55.61) - he was also respectively third and second in those events in Manchester 2008. In long course, he got the gold in the 50m at the 2009 Worlds in Rome. Over the last years, he is one of the most “valuable” athletes in the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup series.  

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Kenya’s Jason Dunford aims to make history in Dubai

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Jason Dunford (KEN) - credit: gettyimagesCommonwealth Games gold medallist Jason Dunford is hoping history can repeat itself when he lines up in next month’s FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Dubai.

The 23 year-old has already made history once this year by securing Kenya’s first swimming medal at a Commonwealth Games, finishing at the head of a world-class field including Australia’s Geoff Huegill and Roland Schoeman of South Africa in the 50m butterfly in New Delhi.

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