Doha 2024 set to host the World Aquatics Championships.
The World Aquatics Championships is a major international sporting event that features six aquatic sports. Traditionally held on a biennial basis, the event brings together elite athletes from around the world to compete in swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving. The World Aquatics Championships was first organized in 1973 by the World Aquatics with the aim of promoting and developing water sports worldwide.
The World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 will be taking place in Doha for the first time after the country successfully hosted multiple World Aquatics events over recent years. Taking place from 2-18 February 2024, the event will feature around 2,600 athletes from 190 nations, kicking off with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, 2 February 2024.
Opening Ceremony
Unlike swimming competitions in the pool, open water swimming competitions take place over long distances in natural bodies of water such as the open ocean, rivers and lakes. Also called water marathons, the competition distances range from 5km to 10km in the individual races in addition to the Mixed 4x1500m Relay event. Because open water swimmers compete in natural conditions, it is a grueling sport that requires knowledge and experience as well as technique. The competitions will be taking place at the Doha Port for everyone to watch for free. To get more information about the venue access please visit the official web page.
Artistic Swimming
The Aspire Dome will host the Artistic Swimming competitions; an aquatic event that at a competitive level requires a large variety of highly refined athletic skills. Many of these skills take place while athletes hold their breath underwater. Routines are the artistic expression of the sport. A routine is a choreography of music performed in the water. In routines, athletes demonstrate their mastery in skills combining techniques to create movements that match with the selected music.