2015 World Aquatics Championships
The 16th FINA World Championships, also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. The number of participating national teams (190), athletes (2,400) and the number of medals (75) were the most ever amongst these championships. This was the first time the World Aquatics Championships partially overlaps with the FINA World Masters Championships that have a number of athletes, countries (110) and medals (635) which are the most ever also.
Open arena for water polo
Aquatics palace inside
High diving tower
Three swimmers finished with same time and won bronze in Kazan
Synchronized swimming or artistic swimming is a sport where swimmers perform a synchronized choreographed routine, accompanied by music. The sport is governed internationally by World Aquatics. It has traditionally been a women's sport, although FINA introduced a new mixed gender duet competition that included one male swimmer in each duet at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and LEN introduced men's individual events at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships. From 2024, men will be able to compete in the team event at the Olympics.
Czech synchronized swimming team performing a free routine combination in 2013
A member of the Japanese team is thrown up in the air during the team's free routine at the 2013 French Open.
Wu Yiwen and Huang Xuechen of China perform during the duet technical routine at the 2013 French Open.
A mixed-sex pair, participating in FINA World Championships of synchronised swimming, waves to the crowd before diving into water.
