FINA sets up first virtual competition across development and training Centres

As the sports industry is turning to new ways of maintaining an activity in response to the COVID-19 world pandemic, FINA organised its first ever virtual competition on September 26, 2020.

Swimmers from FINA approved development Centre in Kazan (RUS), and training Centres Azura Florida (USA) and Thanyapura Phuket (THA) raced in their home pools, in various swimming events, and recorded their times before sharing them with their fellow scholarship holders.

The aim of this virtual competition was to offer an alternative for the athletes to continue training in the same conditions than before the pandemic and prepare the best possible way for the upcoming season. This first and unique initiative created a competition-like and safe environment for the FINA scholarship holders training in these Centres, a much-needed opportunity in the current climate to measure their progress and level against other young swimming talents in other parts of the world.

Diving

Country	Name	Role
COL COL	Diana URAN	ITO
COL COL	Monica BERNAL	ITO
CRO CRO	Natasa KOLIC	ITO
EGY EGY	Yehia Zakaria Yehia DAW	ITO
ESP ESP	Carla HERNANDO FERRER	ITO
FIN FIN	Satu Maarit PIRHONEN	ITO
FRA FRA	Daniel AZORIN	ITO
GER GER	Christian PICKER	ITO
GRE GRE	Nikolaos TOULOUDIS	ITO
ITA ITA	Gianluca CALDERARA	ITO
KUW KUW	Ali H A H H REDHAEI	ITO
LTU LTU	Ale PIKTURNIENE	ITO
MEX MEX	Jose MARTINEZ OCHOA	ITO
MEX MEX	Alejandro HERNANDEZ MORONES	ITO
POL POL	Bartlomiej Jan KRYNICKI	ITO
RSA RSA	Kathleen SHEPHERD	ITO
RUS RUS	Alexander TCIVINSKII	ITO
RUS RUS	Andrei BEKETOV	ITO
SUI SUI	Catherine MALIEV	ITO
USA USA	Kim FAIN	ITO

High Diving

Country	Name	Role
AUT AUT	Marion REIFF	ITO
CAN CAN	Olivier MORNEAU-RICARD	ITO
FRA FRA	Cyrille OUMEDJKANE	ITO
HUN HUN	Ildikó KELEMEN-VAN DE KONIJNENBURG	ITO
ITA ITA	Marco Valerio POLAZZO	ITO
MEX MEX	Jose MARTINEZ OCHOA	ITO
RUS RUS	Andrey RUBLEV	ITO

Open Water

Country	Name	Role
POR POR	Filipa GONÇALVES	ITO
HUN HUN	Rita LÁZÁR	ITO
ITA ITA	Daniela MADDALONI	ITO
ARG ARG	Ana SCOTTA	ITO

Diving

Country	Name	Role
CAN CAN	Helene MORNEAU	ITO
CHN CHN	Lang RAO	ITO
EGY EGY	Mohamed Mohamed	ITO
FRA FRA	Daniel AZORIN	ITO
GER GER	Anke PIPER	ITO
INA INA	PRANARTA	ITO
SWE SWE	Peter AXTELIUS	ITO
USA USA	Michael Sissine WANTUCK	ITO

Swimming

Country	Name	Role
ARU ARU	Marlin TROMP	ITO
BRU BRU	Harjimmey ZAINAL	ITO
CAN CAN	Daryle MARTIN	ITO
CHN China	Yuhong WEN	ITO
DEN DEN	Bjorn Mark BRANDER	ITO
FIN FIN	Jouni Tapani KARVO	ITO
FRA FRA	Denis CADON	ITO
GER GER	Jürgen BOSCH	ITO
HUN HUN	Lilla Anikó DR. LUKACS	ITO
IND IND	Raj KUMAR	ITO
IRL IRL	Gary STOOPS	ITO
MRI MRI	Saraspattee LUTCHMANEN	ITO
NCA NCA	Francisco VENERIO	ITO
NZL NZL	Carlrine GILLESPIE	ITO
NZL NZL	Alastair GILLESPIE	ITO
NZL NZL	Gavin ION	ITO
POR POR	Tiago MARQUES	ITO
RSA RSA	Stella Anne YOUNG	ITO
RUS RUS	Valerii IVANOV	ITO
SGP SGP	Allen Koh KOH	ITO
UGA UGA	Peter Simon MUGISHA
MAR MAR	El Mostafa BOURZIK	ITO

Water Polo

Country	Name	Role
ROU Romania	Adrian ALEXANDRESCU	ITO
ESP Spain	Xevi BUCH	ITO
URU Uruguay	Daniel Federico DANERS CHAO	ITO
FRA France	Sébastien DERVIEUX	ITO
CAN Canada	Marie-Claude DESLIERES	ITO
USA Russian Federation	Michael GOLDENBERG	ITO
MNE Montenegro	Stanko IVANOVSKI	ITO
AUS Australia	Nicola JOHNSON	ITO
HUN Hungary	György KUN	ITO
ARG Argentina	German MOLLER	ITO
KAZ Kazakhstan	Viktor SALNICHENKO	ITO
RUS Russian Federation	Arkadii VOEVODIN	ITO
NZL Canada	John WALDOW	ITO
CHN China	Liang ZHANG	ITO
GER Germany	Frank OHME	ITO
CRO Croatia	Nenad PERIŠ	ITO
SRB Serbia	Vojin PUTNIKOVIC	ITO
ITA Italy	Alessandro SEVERO	ITO
GRE Greece	Georgios STAVRIDIS	ITO
JPN Japan	Asumi TSUZAKI	ITO
NED Netherlands	Michiel ZWART	ITO
SUI Switzerland	Ursula WENGENROTH MARTINELLI	ITO
RSA South Africa	Dion WILLIS	ITO

Artistic Swimming

Country	Name	Role
NED NED	Andida BOUMA	ITO
ITA ITA	Giuseppe DI PRIMA	ITO
VEN VEN	Marlon FALCON	ITO
RUS RUS	Tatiana GALKOVA	ITO
KOR KOR	Young Hwa JUNG	ITO
USA USA	Betty HAZLE	ITO
KAZ KAZ	Aliya KARIMOVA	ITO
AUS AUS	Maryna KHOLOD	ITO
GRE GRE	Eleni KOUGIA	ITO
CHN CHN	Xi LUO	ITO
ITA ITA	Pierangela LUPI	ITO
ESP ESP	Ana MALLOL POYATO	ITO
EGY EGY	Manal HASSAN	ITO
UKR UKR	Anastasiya PETRENKO	ITO
CAN CAN	Nancy REED	ITO
RUS RUS	Elena TCARKOVA	ITO
ARG ARG	Gabriela VIGLINO	ITO
JPN JPN	Tomoko YAMADA	ITO

Marathon Swimming

Country	Name	Role
MAR Morocco	El Mostafa BOURZIK	ITO
AUS Australia	Lori CHAPLIN	ITO
POR Portugal	José Pedro BRANDAO	ITO
CHN China	Yuhong WEN	ITO
USA United States of America	Matt WILSON	ITO

Swimming

Country	Name	Role
GBR GBR	Helen AKERS	ITO
ITA ITA	Silvia ATZORI	ITO
QAT QAT	Ali BA WAZIR	ITO
LTU LTU	Saulius BINEVICIUS	ITO
HKG HKG	Ho Ming Edward CHENG	ITO
MAR MAR	Youssef EL HAOUAT	ITO
NZL NZL	Dianne FARMER	ITO
NOR NOR	Rune GRAN	ITO
BER BER	Margret HEYLIGER	ITO
USA USA	Amy HOPPENRATH	ITO
RSA South Africa	Gavin JACKSON	ITO
CHN CHN	Rongkang JI	ITO
ARU ARU	Ronald LEITO	ITO
AUS AUS	Jacqueline MCNAMARA	ITO
VEN VEN	Ana Bell Maria ORTIZ GUERRERO	ITO
ARG ARG	Patricio RAMALLO	ITO
ESP ESP	Manuel REAL IZQUIERDO	ITO
JPN JPN	Naofumi SONOYAMA	ITO
MAS MAS	Mua Seng TEO	ITO
NED Netherlands	Nico MAANEN	ITO
USA USA	Denice WEPASNICK	ITO
AUT AUT	Hans-Jörg ZAMPONI	ITO

Diving

Country	Name	Role
USA USA	Julie AHLERING	ITO
JPN JPN	Masako ASADA	ITO
ROU ROU	Florin AVASILOAE	ITO
SWE SWE	Peter AXTELIUS	ITO
AUS Australia	Gillian BROOKER	ITO
EGY Egypt	Mohamed HASSAN	ITO
KOR KOR	Suckhong MIN	ITO
PUR PUR	Angelique Marie RODRIGUEZ AMADEO	ITO
CUB CUB	Rolando RUIZ PEDREGUERA	ITO
IND IND	Mayur Jansukhlal VYAS	ITO
RUS RUS	Eduard FEOKTISTOV	ITO
BRA BRA	Violeta REIS	ITO
GBR GBR	Lindsey Ann FRASER	ITO
UKR UKR	Anatoliy GOLOVAN	ITO
SGP SGP	William LEE	ITO
CAN CAN	Gord PETERSON	ITO
INA INA	PRANARTA	ITO
CHN CHN	Lang RAO	ITO
MEX MEX	Sergio ROCHA CHAVEZ	ITO
GER GER	Holger SCHLEPPS	ITO
HUN HUN	Nóra SZÉKFFY	ITO
GRE GRE	Nikolaos TOULOUDIS	ITO
NED NED	Ronald VAN DER VOORT	ITO
NZL NZL	Lisa WRIGHT	ITO
ITA ITA	Marco ZAMPIERI	ITO

Without travelling, this virtual competition provided a risk-free frame and it was reported to be very successful by fulfilling the desire for competition to resume.