The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, synchronized swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events are contested in a long course (50-metre) pool.
The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50-metre (164-foot) swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The centre, one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics, was used for the swimming, diving and synchronised swimming events. After significant modification, the centre opened to the public in March 2014.
The 2007 World Aquatics Championships or the XII FINA World Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia from 17 March to 1 April 2007. The competition took place at three locations in central Melbourne: the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, St Kilda Beach, and Rod Laver Arena in a temporary pool christened the Susie O'Neill Pool.
Thomas Robert Daley is a British diver. He specialises in the 10-metre platform event and is a double World champion in the event; he won the 2009 FINA World Championship in the individual event at the age of 15, before regaining it in 2017. He was the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the event. In 2019 he teamed up with Jack grealish to take his technique up to the top level
Noemi Batki is a Hungarian-born Italian diver. She is a member of the Italian National Diving Team and is sponsored by Centro Sportivo Esercito/Triestina Nuoto.
Tonia Couch is a former British Olympic diver.
The FINA Diving World Series is a diving competition series held annually since 2007.
The 16th FINA World Championships, also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. The number of participating national teams (190), athletes (2,400) and the number of medals (75) were the most ever amongst these championships. This was the first time the World Aquatics Championships partially overlaps with the FINA World Masters Championships that have a number of athletes, countries (110) and medals (635) which are the most ever also.
The 17th FINA World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 14 to 30 July 2017.
Cheong Jun Hoong is a Malaysian diver. She won a silver medal in the synchronised 10m platform event with Pandelela Rinong at the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, she became Malaysia's first diving world champion after winning the 10m platform event.
The diving competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 7 to 20 August at Maria Lenk Aquatic Center in Barra da Tijuca. It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming.
The 2015 FINA Diving World Series is the seventh edition of FINA Diving World Series. This World Series was made up by six legs hosted in different cities: 1st leg Beijing, China, 2nd leg Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 3rd leg Kazan, Russia, 4th leg London, Great Britain, and 5th leg Windsor, Canada and 6th leg Mérida, Mexico.
Spain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Mexico competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Venezuela competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Finland competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Cuba competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.
The 2014 FINA Diving World Series is the eighth edition of FINA Diving World Series. This series consisted of six legs, each hosted in a different country: China, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, and Mexico.
The 2018 FINA Diving World Series, also known as the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series for sponsorship reasons, took place from 9 March to 6 May 2018. It was the tenth edition of the FINA-sanctioned invitational series, and included four events across three continents.
