Vitaly Mutko chairs a meeting of World Aquatics Championship Organizing Committee
(KZN.RU, December 18) Vitaly Mutko, Sports Minister of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the 16th FINA World Championship Organizing Committee, chaired yesterday's meeting of the Organizing Committee on Preparation and Conduct of the 2015 Championships in Kazan. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin participated in the video conference held at Tatarstan's Government House.
As Mr. Mutko noted, the experience of Kazan's 2013 Summer Universiade gives every reason to believe that the 2015 World FINA Championships will be held at a high level.
The FINA World Aquatics Championships in Kazan will be held from July 24 to August 9, 2015.
Two-and-a-half thousand athletes and two thousand officials, arriving from 180-185 countries, are expected to take part in the competitions. The Championships will be held in six kinds – swimming, open water swimming, diving, high-diving, synchronized swimming and water polo. Seventy sets of medals will be contested, which will be a record number in the history of the World Aquatics Championships.