FINA motto:

Water is Our World

1. Swimming in Asia 2. An Overview of Swimming in China

3. Effective Measures for the Fast Development of China’s Swimming Sports

4. Challenges Asia Faces in its Development of Swimming Sports

5. Recommendations

Start from a New Point and Create a Bright Future

Asia has already become one of the major forces in world swimming in recent years and has hosted more and more major international sports and swimming events.

With rapid economic development, Asian countries have put more investments in swimming, strengthened the training of their reserves, increased construction of sports facilities and stridden forward in competition skills.

Shanghai Oriental Sport Center Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia in 2008 Beijing Olympic

The Asian Swimming Federation has been devoting itself to pushing forward the wide spread of swimming in Asian countries and regions.

The Indian pose gold medal at the Asian Swimming Championships

Syria swimmers Saleh Mohammad

The Chinese government has consistently attached great importance to sports undertakings and has strived to carry out the coordinated development of the two targets-“Winning Honor for Olympics” and “the National Fitness Program” actively in the whole country.

the National Fitness ProgramWinning Honor for Olympics

Competitive Swimming Sports

Swimming Open Water Swimming Diving Synchronized Swimming Water Polo

The development of swimming for all

Up until now, the number of people who regularly participate in swimming has reached some 100 million and the number of professional swimmers who have registered with the Chinese Swimming Association has reached a notable increase than that in the past.

• Organize domestic events well and actively host international events

• Strengthen international exchanges

• A well-organized association devoted to all its duties

2006 FINA Swimming World Championships (25m),

FINA Diving World Series,

FINA Diving World Cup,

FINA Synchronized Swimming World Cup,

FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup

From 2003 to 2009, China had hosted 27 events.

In recent years, the Chinese Swimming Association has further expanded international exchanges.

The China Swimming Association has 16 sub organizations, like the competition committees, equipment committee and winter swimming committee.

•Asian swimming still large behind;

•large population VS. low participation;

•Not so friendly environment;

•Other sports attract kids;

•Diving, synchronic swimming still not popular in Asia;

•Swimming pools not enough yet.

The challenges

1. To encourage exchanges among national federations;

2.To boost the transfer of knowledge:

a) Providing with necessary assistance for both coaches and athletes in developing countries;

b) Improve the professional level of coaches, judges and supporting staff.

3. To give more support to Asian member federations to accelerate the development of water polo and synchronized swimming in Asia;

4. To provide with necessary financial support to member federations especially those in developing countries, meanwhile setting up an effective financial monitoring system.