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2025
16 Jul
 
27 Jul
2023
28 Jul
 
08 Aug
2019
03 Jul
 
14 Jul
2017
19 Aug
 
30 Aug
Chinese Taipei, Taipei City
2015
03 Jul
 
14 Jul
Republic of Korea, Gwangju

FISU Technical Committee Chair

Tom Baster Technical Committee Chair
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History of Swimming in FISU

Swimming is one of the most popular leisure activities and competitive sports around the world and it first featured at the third International University Sports Weeks in 1951, in Luxembourg. However, it was not until the inauguration date of the modern Summer Universiade in 1959 in Turin that swimming became a compulsory event on the sports programme of FISU.

Due to the increasing success, university swimming continued to attract more and more student participants from around the world, boosting the level of competition to grow beyond its own great heights. In 1967 in Tokyo, the victory of the American swimming team remained without doubt one of the most outstanding feats in Universiade history, taking a total of nine world records. The success story of swimming continued throughout the eighties and nineties. In the 1981 Summer Universiade in Bucharest (ROM), 26 Universiade records were broken in 29 events. Just two years later in Edmonton (CAN), the Soviet swimmers, headed by the world record holder Vladimir Salvikov, literally crushed the opposition, taking 22 titles. Edmonton was also the first international event for the future Olympic champion Alex Bauman.

The level of the Universiade swimming competitions remained high and top ranking swimmers such as Matt Biondi, Michael Gross, Jon Sieben, Otylia Jedrzejczack, Yana Klochkova, Rachel Komisarz, Oleg Lisogor, Tom Malchow, Gustavo Borges and Zhang Yu Fei participated in both the Olympics and the FISU Games.

Minimum Requirements for Swimming

The Organising Committee must provide, for exclusive use, an indoor/outdoor competition pool with full support facilities as approved by the Swimming CT. The FINA regulations must be followed.