2024 World Aquatics Championships

21st World Aquatics Championships
Host cityDoha, Qatar
Date(s)2–18 February
Venue(s)3
Nations participating199
Athletes participating~2,600
Events75 in 6 sports
Officially opened byTamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Websiteworldaquatics-doha2024.com
2024 World Aquatics Championships
Artistic swimming
Solo
Technicalmenwomen
Freemenwomen
Duet
Technicalwomenmixed
Freewomenmixed
Team
Technicalmixed
Freemixed
Acrobaticmixed
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Synchronised
3 mmenwomenmixed
10 mmenwomenmixed
Individual & Synchronised
Teammixed
High diving
20 mwomen
27 mmen
Open water swimming
Individual
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
Relay
4×1.5 kmmixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomenmixed
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomenmixed
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen
Rostersmenwomen

The 2024 World Aquatics Championships, the 21st edition of the World Aquatics Championships, were held in Doha, Qatar, from 2 to 18 February 2024.[1] Originally scheduled to be held in November 2023, the championships were postponed until February 2024 in response to the rescheduling of the 20th edition of the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, from 2021 to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then again to 14 to 30 July 2023 due to travel restrictions and safety measures in place in Japan.[2][3]

It was the first time the World Aquatics Championships was staged in the Middle East. Doha staged the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in 2014, and has also staged nine legs of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup series between 2012 and 2021.

The tournament featured the largest number of athletes in comparison with previous events, in which more than 2,600 participants hailing from 201 countries, in addition to the World Aquatics Refugee team, competed in 75 medals events.[4] However, the competition witnessed the notable absence of numerous top swimmers, with only six out of the 22 individual gold medalists from the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka taking part in the event in order to defend their last year's titles.[5] A number of swimmers and member federations have expressed concerns regarding the timing of these championships, given they take place just five months before the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris;[6] in fact, this marks the first time a long-course world championship has been held in an Olympic year.[7]

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  2. ^ "New dates set for world swim championships: May 13-19, 2022". AP NEWS. 4 May 2020. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. ^ "FINA postpones Fukuoka-hosted 2022 World Championships because of COVID-19". TASS. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Despite High Profile Absences, Doha 2024 Worlds to Set Athlete Record". Swimming World Magazine. 2 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Why most of Australia's best swimmers are skipping the world championships". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 February 2024.
  6. ^ Sutherland, James (2 September 2023). "USA Swimming Releases Selection Criteria For 2024 World Championships In Doha". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 20 September 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Pan swims fastest 100 meters in history to help China win relay gold at aquatics worlds". Associated Press. 11 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.