World Aquatics

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World Aquatics, known for most of its history as FINA (French: Fédération internationale de natation; English: International Swimming Federation), is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competition in water sports. Along with bodies such as World Athletics and World Rugby, it is one of the international federations that governs a given sport, or group of disciplines, on behalf of both the IOC and the wider sporting community. It has been headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, since 1986, although a phased move to Budapest, Hungary, was under way through the mid-2020s. Founded on 19 July 1908 in London as FINA, the federation coordinated amateur competition in swimming, diving and water polo before gradually extending its authority to open water swimming, artistic (formerly synchronised) swimming and high diving. It changed its operating name to World Aquatics in January 2023, seven months after its Congress...

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