Fédération Internationale de Natation

Fédération Internationale de Natation
Founded	1908
Place of foundation	London
president	Julio César Maglione
Members	202 national swimming federations
Association headquarters	Lausanne , Switzerland
Homepage	http://www.fina.org/

The Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) ( German  International Swimming Association ) is the umbrella organization of all national sports associations for swimming , open water swimming , synchronized swimming , water polo and diving . He was born on July 19, 1908 on the sidelines of the Olympic Games in the Manchester Hotel in London by representatives from Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Great Britain , Sweden and Hungary under the name Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur , from which the until today common abbreviation derived from, founded. The aim of the founding was to accelerate the standardization of the swimming competitions, which were sometimes quite bizarre.

At the beginning of 2010, FINA had 202 national member associations spread across five continental swimming associations. The association is based in Lausanne . The current president of FINA is Julio César Maglione from Uruguay.

The association organizes numerous international competitions, including the swimming world championships since 1973 and the short course world championships since 1993 . It is also responsible for the recognition of records, although today only competitions organized directly by member associations are evaluated, while in the past sometimes times were also recorded by third-party organizers who had approval from a member association.

Continental member associations

Structure of the continental swimming federations (as of April 2008)

country	Member association
Africa	Confédération Africaine de Natation (CANA)
America	Unión Americana de Natación (UANA) ( English Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas , ASUA)
Asia	Asian Amateur Swimming Federation (AASF)
Europe	Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN)
Oceania	Oceania Swimming Association (OSA)

President

FINA presidents

Surname	country	Term of office
George Hearn	United Kingdom	1908-1924
Erik Bergvall	Sweden	1924-1928
Émile-Georges Drigny	France	1928-1932
Walther Binner	Germany	1932-1936
Harold Fern	United Kingdom	1936-1948
Rene de Raeve	Belgium	1948-1952
ML Negri	Argentina	1952-1956
Jan de Vries	Netherlands	1956-1960
Max Ritter	Germany	1960-1964
William Berge Phillips	Australia	1964-1968
Javier Ostos Mora	Mexico	1968-1972
Harold Henning	United States	1972-1976
Javier Ostos Mora	Mexico	1976-1980
Ante Lambasa	Yugoslavia	1980-1984
Robert Helmick	United States	1984-1988
Mustapha Larfaoui	Algeria	1988-2009
Julio César Maglione	Uruguay	2009-2021

World championships

See also

• FINA country code

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.fina.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2011 ; Retrieved October 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Fédération Internationale de Natation: PR 2 - FINA Bureau Meeting in Bangkok (THA) - Main decisions ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 19, 2011 (English) 
3. ↑ FINA refuses swimmer's Outgames records ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gaynz.com, June 4, 2011  
4. ↑ ^{a b} FINA Honorary Life President Lic. Javier Ostos Mora passes away at 92 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
5. ^ Holger Schmidt, Thomas Eßer: Maglione re-elected as FINA President. In: fr.de. July 23, 2017, accessed December 12, 2019 .