United States Among 7 Bidders for 2025 and 2027 World Championships

The November 26th deadline has passed and FINA has announced 7 cities as bidders for the 2025 and 2027 FINA World Championships and FINA World Masters Championships. In a rare twist, that includes a bid being offered up by Greensboro, North Carolina in the United States: a country that has never hosted the World Championships but has topped the medals table in 13 out of 17 editions.

The 7 bidders will be invited to a meeting at FINA’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland on January 25th, 2019, after which the federations/cities will have until June 17th, 2019 to finalize their bids. On June 17th, they will make presentations to FINA, and the FINA Bureau will vote on and award the bids on July 11, 2019

FINA 2025 and 2027 World Championships:

  • AUSTRALIA, Melbourne
  • CHINA, city to be confirmed
  • HUNGARY, Budapest
  • RUSSIA, Kazan
  • SERBIA, Belgrade
  • UKRAINE, city to be confirmed
  • USA, Greensboro, North Carolina

The FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in odd-numbered years, bring together the 6 disciplines under the FINA banner: pool swimming, open water swimming, diving, high diving, synchronized swimming, and water polo. So far, Barcelona, Spain and Rome, Italy are the only cities to have hosted the event twice. Of the named cities, Melbourne, Australia (2007); Budapest, Hungary (2017); Belgrade, Serbia (1973 – inaugural edition); and Kazan, Russia (2015) have previously hosted. China hosted once before in Shanghai in 2011, and Ukraine has never hosted the event.

The Greensboro Aquatic Center in the United States is currently hosting the US Winter National Championships. The facility announced earlier this year that they would add a 4th pool at a cost of $8.2 million to the complex to offer an additional 19 short course lanes and 8 long course lanes.

The Greensboro Aquatic Center’s main competition pool has a seating capacity of 1,848 off-deck, which is fall smaller than most recent hosts of the meet. The most likely host would be a temporary pool in the historic Greensboro Coliseum, located in the same complex, with a capacity of over 23,000.

All-Time Hosting Awards, FINA World Aquatics Championships

Year Date Edition Location Athletes Events Events details Winner of the medal table Second of the medal table Third of the medal table
1973 31 August – 9 September 1 Belgrade, Yugoslavia 686 37 18 (m), 19 (f)  United States  East Germany  Italy
1975 19–27 July 2 Cali, Colombia 682 37 18 (m), 19 (f)  United States  East Germany  Hungary
1978 20–28 August 3 West Berlin, West Germany 828 37 18 (m), 19 (f)  United States  Soviet Union  Canada
1982 29 July – 8 August 4 Guayaquil, Ecuador 848 37 18 (m), 19 (f)  United States  East Germany  Soviet Union
1986 13–23 August 5 Madrid, Spain 1119 41 19 (m), 22 (f)  East Germany  United States  Canada
1991 3–13 January 6 Perth, Australia 1142 45 21 (m), 24 (f)  United States  China  Hungary
1994 1–11 September 7 Rome, Italy 1400 45 21 (m), 24 (f)  China  United States  Russia
1998 8–17 January 8 Perth, Australia 1371 55 26 (m), 29 (f)  United States  Russia  Australia
2001 16–29 July 9 Fukuoka, Japan 1498 61 29 (m), 32 (f)  Australia  China  United States
2003 12–27 July 10 Barcelona, Spain 2015 62 29 (m), 33 (f)  United States  Russia  Australia
2005 16–31 July 11 Montreal, Canada 1784 62 29 (m), 33 (f)  United States  Australia  China
2007 18 March – 1 April 12 Melbourne, Australia 2158 65 29 (m), 36 (f)  United States  Russia  Australia
2009 17 July – 2 August 13 Rome, Italy 2556 65 29 (m), 36 (f)  United States  China  Russia
2011 16–31 July 14 Shanghai, China 2220 65 29 (m), 36 (f)  United States  China  Russia
2013 19 July – 4 August 15 Barcelona, Spain[1][2][3] 2293 68 30 (m), 37 (f), 1 (mixed)  United States  China  Russia
2015 24 July – 9 August 16 Kazan, Russia[4] 2400 75 30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)  China  United States  Russia
2017 14–30 July 17 Budapest, Hungary[5] 2360 75 30 (m), 37 (f), 8 (mixed)  United States  China  Russia
2019 12–28 July[6] 18 Gwangju, South Korea
2021 16 July – 1 August 19 Fukuoka, Japan
2023 6–22 October 20 Doha, Qatar

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petriasfan
5 years ago

Perth was the first city to hold the World Championships twice – 91 and 98. Fukuoka will join the list soon.

Aquajosh
5 years ago

Budapest will absolutely get it again. The Duna Arena is one of the fastest, most modern pools in the world, and they were fantastic hosts. Everyone loved Budapest. The second city is up for grabs, but Greensboro?? Where in the world would everyone stay??

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Reply to  Aquajosh
5 years ago

Theres plenty of places to stay. Right next door is High Point and as cheesy and dumb as it sounds, is home to the furniture mart/market every year that I am sure attracts WAAY more people than the world champs swimming, seriously.

horninco
5 years ago

I have been wondering if US would ever make a serious bid for Worlds.

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