Looking ahead to 2012, they have posters here in Sweden about the next FINA Masters to be held in Riccione, Italy. I went there when they held it in 2004 and had a great time. The dates are June 2-16, 2012.
DUE TO THE HUGE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AT THE OPEN WATER EVENT, THE FINA MASTER COMMITTEE AND THE O.C. DECIDED, FOR SAFETY REASONS, TO SPLIT THE RACE IN TWO DAYS, SATURDAY 16th AND SUNDAY 17th JUNE.
ON SATURDAY THE 16TH JUNE AGE GROUPS 40, 35, 30 AND 25 MEN AND WOMEN WILL START, ON SUNDAY THE OTHERS AGE GROUPS 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, 50 and 45 MEN AND WOMEN.
THE SWIMMERS INVOLVED IN THE OPEN WATER AND 400 FREE ON SATURDAY COULD BE ABLE TO SWIM IN BOTH EVENTS.
there are 1973 ow swimmers and 8385 pool swimmers. the average is 3 events per pool swimmer
522 swimmers from the US, 4824 from Italy.
Sweden has it's largest ever (outside of sweden worlds) 185.
OW has raised to 2330 swimmers...... race wll be split in two days for safety reasons
DUE TO THE HUGE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AT THE OPEN WATER EVENT, THE FINA MASTER COMMITTEE AND THE O.C. DECIDED, FOR SAFETY REASONS, TO SPLIT THE RACE IN TWO DAYS, SATURDAY 16th AND SUNDAY 17th JUNE.
ON SATURDAY THE 16TH JUNE AGE GROUPS 40, 35, 30 AND 25 MEN AND WOMEN WILL START, ON SUNDAY THE OTHERS AGE GROUPS 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, 50 and 45 MEN AND WOMEN.
THE SWIMMERS INVOLVED IN THE OPEN WATER AND 400 FREE ON SATURDAY COULD BE ABLE TO SWIM IN BOTH EVENTS.
there are 1973 ow swimmers and 8385 pool swimmers. the average is 3 events per pool swimmer
522 swimmers from the US, 4824 from Italy.
Sweden has it's largest ever (outside of sweden worlds) 185.
OW has raised to 2330 swimmers...... race wll be split in two days for safety reasons
