Marc-Antoine Olivier (FRA) and Leonie Beck (GER) started the 2020 season in the best possible way by winning the first leg of the FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series, organised today in Doha (QAT). The French star needed 1h49m46s6 to complete the men’s 10km, while the German ace touched in 1h56m41s1 in the women’s field.

The 2020 edition of the FINA Diving Grand Prix kicks off today in Madrid (ESP) and will visit all the five continents until the conclusion of the circuit in November. In the Spanish capital, eight events are on the programme of the three-day competition: individual and synchro 3m springboard and 10m platform, for both men and women.

Doha, the capital of Qatar, is ready to host the first leg of the 2020 FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series, on February 15, with the participation of no less than 137 swimmers from 34 nations. The 10km races will be held at the shore of Katara Beach, with the swimmers performing five times a loop of 2km. The women’s competition will commence at 11h00 and the men’s race will start at 13h30 (both local time).

Croatia, France, Greece and Montenegro were the winners in the first 2020 round of the European preliminaries of the FINA Men’s Water Polo World League, after four matches contested on February 11.

In Tbilisi, playing for Group A, Georgia received Greece, but could not overcome the Hellenic strength, losing by 7-19. The visitors controlled operations throughout the entire match, with partials of 5-1, 4-2, 5-3 and 5-1 in their favour. On the winning side, Angelos Vlachopoulos was the most prolific scorer, with four goals.

After a very exciting competitive year of 2019, highlighted by the FINA World Championships in Gwangju (KOR), the list of the “FINA Best Athletes of the Year” is known in all FINA six disciplines.

Athletes from China and Japan were in great shape in the second and last leg of the 2020 edition of the FINA Champions Swim Series, taking place in Beijing (CHN) on January 18-19. The local stars, as with the first stop of the circuit in Shenzhen (CHN, January 14-15), left the Ying Dong Natatorium venue of the Chinese capital with nine titles, while the hosts of this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo earned five gold medals. 

Chinese swimmers were in excellent shape in the first leg of the 2020 edition of the FINA Champions Swim Series, organised in Shenzhen (CHN) on January 14-15, winning nine gold medals out of the 28 individual events in the programme. The swimming stars now travel to Beijing (CHN), where the second leg of the competition takes place on January 18-19. Overall, 70 swimmers are participating in the event, totalling 59 Olympic and 163 World Championships’ medals.

Swimming stars are arriving and already training in the Shenzhen Universiade Center Swimming Natatorium, the venue of the first leg of the 2020 FINA Champions Swim Series, to be staged in January 14-15 in the Chinese southern metropolis. For this year’s edition of FINA’s successful event, the entry list comprises 70 athletes – 41 among men and 29 in the women’s events -, a strong field totalling 59 Olympic and 163 Championships’ medals. The second meet of the competition will take place in Beijing (CHN), on January 18-19.  

Six-time Olympic referee Eugenio Martinez of Cuba has passed away on December 25, 2019 leaving a huge hole in the worldwide water polo community. We have lost another great to the game.

A former FINA Bureau member (2013-17) and four-time FINA Technical Water Polo Committee member (2000-2013, 2017-19), Eugenio was an affable, yet stern, personality whose control of water polo matches was legendary.

The team of Greece won the gold medal of the 2019 edition of the FINA World Men’s Junior Water Polo Championships, staged between December 12-20 in Kuwait City (KUW). In the decisive game, the Hellenic team defeated the Serbian squad by 6-4, thus revalidating the 2017 world crown. In the bronze-medal match, Italy beat Croatia by 9-6.

The winners of the tournament started the final in the best possible way, managing a 2-0 advantage in the first quarter. This proved decisive throughout the match, as the remaining three periods were perfectly balanced (1-1, 0-0 and 3-3).