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135 relations: Africa, Algeria, Americas, Angera, Argentina, Armenia, Asia, Asian Indoor Games, Athens, Atmosphere of Earth, Australia, Austria, Beijing, Beirut, Belarus, Belgium, Boat, Bolivarian Games, Brazil, Cali, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, César Cielo, Chile, China, Colombia, Competitive swimwear, Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, Core stability, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Da Nang, Denmark, Diving cylinder, Diving mask, Diving regulator, Diving suit, Dunaújváros, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Europe, Finland, Finswimming, Finswimming World Championships, France, Freediving, ... Expand index (85 more) »
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Angera
Angera (Angleria) is a town and comune located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Asian Indoor Games
The Asian Indoor Games were a multi-sport event that was contested every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia.
See Finswimming and Asian Indoor Games
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats.
Bolivarian Games
The Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos, full name Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos) are a regional multi-sport event held in honor of Simón Bolívar, and organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (Organización Deportiva Bolivariana, ODEBO).
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Cali
Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by DANE in 2023.
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.
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César Cielo
César Augusto Cielo Filho (born 10 January 1987) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer who specializes in sprint events.
See Finswimming and César Cielo
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Competitive swimwear
Competitive swimwear refers to the swimsuit, clothing, equipment, and accessories used in the aquatic sports of swimming, diving, artistic swimming, triathlon, and water polo.
See Finswimming and Competitive swimwear
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition.
See Finswimming and Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
Core stability
In kinesiology, core stability is a person's ability to stabilize their core (all parts of the body which are not limbs).
See Finswimming and Core stability
Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Da Nang
Da Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons (Đà Nẵng,, Hán Nôm: 陀㶞) is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Diving cylinder
A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations.
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Diving mask
A diving mask (also half mask, dive mask or scuba mask) is an item of diving equipment that allows underwater divers, including scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers, to see clearly underwater.
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Diving regulator
A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving.
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Diving suit
A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment.
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Dunaújváros
Dunaújváros (also known by alternative names) is an industrial city in Fejér County, Central Hungary.
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Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Finswimming
Finswimming is an underwater sport consisting of four techniques involving swimming with the use of fins either on the water's surface using a snorkel with either monofins or bifins or underwater with monofin either by holding one's breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment. Finswimming and Finswimming are underwater sports.
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Finswimming World Championships
The Finswimming World Championships is the peak international event for the underwater sport of finswimming.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Finswimming and Freediving are underwater sports.
See Finswimming and Freediving
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Hanover
Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.
Homologation
Homologation (Greek homologeo, ὁμολογέω, "to agree") is the granting of approval by an official authority.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
See Finswimming and International Olympic Committee
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
List of world records in finswimming
The following is the list of world records in finswimming recognised by the sport's governing body, Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS).
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List of world records in swimming
The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international governing body of swimming.
See Finswimming and List of world records in swimming
Locarno
Locarno (Ticinese: Locarno; formerly in Luggarus) is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno (of which it is the capital), located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps.
Luxembourg
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.
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Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Monofin
A monofin is a type of swimfin typically used in underwater sports such as finswimming, free-diving and underwater orienteering. Finswimming and monofin are underwater sports.
Montenegro
Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
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Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Nitrox
Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen.
Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Olympic-size swimming pool
An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (fomerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships.
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Open-water diving
Open water diving is underwater diving in an open water environment, where the diver has unrestricted access by way of a direct vertical ascent to the breathable air of the atmosphere.
See Finswimming and Open-water diving
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Plyometrics
Plyometrics, also known as jump training or plyos, are exercises in which muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time, with the goal of increasing power (speed-strength).
See Finswimming and Plyometrics
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
San Marino
San Marino (San Maréin or San Maroin), officially the Republic of San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) and also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino), is a European microstate and enclave within Italy.
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Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Scuba set
A scuba set, originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure.
SEA Games
SEA Games, officially known as the South East Asian Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia.
Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Short course
In competitive swimming, the term short course (abbreviated SC) is used to identify a swimming pool that is in length.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
Snorkel (swimming)
A snorkel is a device used for breathing atmospheric air when the wearer's head is face downwards in the water with the mouth and the nose submerged.
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Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Sport of athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.
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State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia, encompassing the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, within the larger historic Palestine region.
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Strength training
Strength training, also known as weight training or resistance training, involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve strength and endurance.
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Swim cap
A swimming cap, swim cap or bathing cap, is a tightly fitted, skin-tight garment, commonly made from silicone, latex or lycra, worn on the head by recreational and competitive swimmers.
Swimfin
Swimfins, swim fins, diving fins, or flippers are finlike accessories worn on the feet, legs or hands and made from rubber, plastic, carbon fiber or combinations of these materials, to aid movement through the water in water sports activities such as swimming, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, float-tube fishing, kneeboarding, riverboarding, scuba diving, snorkeling, spearfishing, underwater hockey, underwater rugby and various other types of underwater diving.
Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.
See Finswimming and Swimming (sport)
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
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Underwater environment
An underwater environment is a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer.
See Finswimming and Underwater environment
Underwater orienteering
Underwater orienteering, also known as scuba orienteering is an underwater sport that uses recreational open circuit scuba diving equipment and consists of a set of individual and team events conducted in both sheltered and open water testing the competitors' competency in underwater navigation. Finswimming and underwater orienteering are underwater sports.
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Underwater sports
Underwater sports is a group of competitive sports using one or a combination of the following underwater diving techniques - breath-hold, snorkelling or scuba, usually including the use of equipment such as diving masks and fins.
See Finswimming and Underwater sports
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
World Aquatics
World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA (Fédération internationale de natation; International Swimming Federation), is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports.
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World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games.
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World Games sports
The World Games sports comprise all the sports contested in The World Games.
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World Scholar-Athlete Games
The World Scholar-Athlete Games or WSAG was an event organized by the Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island.
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1981 World Games
The 1981 World Games were the first World Games, an international multi-sport event, and were held in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 2004), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (label) and officially branded as Athens 2004 (Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2013 Summer Universiade
The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade (XXVII Летняя Универсиада; XXVII Җәйге Универсиада), was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade.
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2015 European Games
The 2015 European Games, also known as Baku 2015 or Baku 2015 European Games (Bakı 2015 Avropa Oyunları), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the European Olympic Committees.
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See also
Underwater sports
- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Finswimming
- Freediving
- Monofin
- Obstacle swimming
- Octopus wrestling
- Omer (submarine)
- Sport diving (sport)
- Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's underwater swimming
- Underwater Bike Race
- Underwater cycling
- Underwater football
- Underwater hockey
- Underwater ice hockey
- Underwater orienteering
- Underwater photography (sport)
- Underwater rugby
- Underwater sports
- Underwater sports at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
- Underwater target shooting
References
Also known as Apnea finswimming, Apnoea finswimming, Fin Swimming, Fin swimmer, Finswimmer, Immersion finswimming, Scuba finswimming.