Finswimming is one of the most exciting water sport ever. Finswimming is a sport belonging to the aquatic specialties which, using specific equipment (monofin, fins, snorkel or cylinders) allows the athlete to reach much higher speeds than swimming. There are indoor (swimming pools) and open water (sea, lake, rivers) championships.

To which federation belogs Finswimming?

The international federation to which fin swimming belongs is CMAS, the Confédération Mondial des Activités Subaquatiques, which is part of the ARISF, and is a discipline recognized by the IOC.

Is there an age limit to join Finswimming?

Finswimming is suitable for any age . In fact, there are competitions for very young people, for children and adults and for veterans, over 25 years old.

How can I find a Finswimming club?

You can find Finswimming clubs easily, just looking on the internet.

How can i stay updated with Finswimming News?

Finswimmer Magazine is the most comprehensive web site about Finswimming in which you can find events, updates and everything about Finswimming.

World Games Finswimming medals-history 1981-2009

We took from wikipedia [original page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finswimming_at_the_World_Games] the list of all the medals at the World Games since his first edition, taken in the far 1981 (I was 2 yo) in the city of Santa Clara (California). As you can see there are many races that are no more included into the WG Program.

Current events

Men

100m surface

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Sandro Sola (ITA)	Giuseppe Galantucci (ITA)
1985 London	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Fabio Bettazzoni (ITA)	Christian Molenaar (FRG)
1989 Karlsruhe	Sergey Achapov (USSR)	Konstantin Kudriyayev (USSR)	Robert Giors (HUN)
1993 Den Haag	Luca Tonelli (ITA)	David Landi (ITA)	Sami Somi (FIN)
1997 Lahti	Aleksandr Nechitaylo (RUS)	Sergey Achapov (RUS)	Li Yong (CHN)
2001 Akita	Yevgeniy Skorzhenko (RUS)	Sergey Achapov (RUS)	Huang Jiandong (CHN)
2005 Duisburg	Andrey Burakov (RUS)	Yuan Haifeng (CHN)	Aleksandr Panyutin (RUS)
2009 Kaohsiung	Miao Jingwei (CHN)	Dmitriy Sydorenko (UKR)	Andrea Nava (ITA)
2013 Cali	???	???	???

200m surface

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Valter Olander (SWE)	Sandro Sola (ITA)
1985 London	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Giuseppe Galantucci (ITA)	Fabio Bettazzoni (ITA)
1989 Karlsruhe	Sergey Achapov (USSR)	Konstantin Kudriyayev (USSR)	Christian Molenaar (FRG)
1993 Den Haag	Luca Tonelli (ITA)	Stephan Part (AUT)	Sven Gallasch (GER)
1997 Lahti	Aleksandr Nechitaylo (RUS)	Sergey Achapov (RUS)	Luca Tonelli (ITA)
2001 Akita	Sergey Achapov (RUS)	Andreas Utzmeir (GER)	Ilya Somov (RUS)
2005 Duisburg	Pavel Kabanov (RUS)	Nikolay Reznikov (RUS)	Viktor Panev (UKR)
2009 Kaohsiung	Stefano Figini (ITA)	Andrea Nava (ITA)	You Gyeong-Heon (KOR)
2013 Cali	???	???	???

400m surface

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	Giuseppe Galantucci (ITA)	Valter Olander (SWE)	Paolo Vandini (ITA)
1985 London	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Valter Olander (SWE)	Carsten Bertram (FRG)
1989 Karlsruhe	Konstantin Kudriyayev (USSR)	Sergey Achapov (USSR)	Frederico Ruggeri (ITA)
1993 Den Haag	Edwin Kanters (NED)	Martin Bočinský (CZE)	Anders Thomsen (DEN)
1997 Lahti	Norbert Savanya (HUN)	Hu Hailong (CHN)	Sergey Dokuchayev (RUS)
2001 Akita	Sven Gallasch (GER)	Gergely Juhos (HUN)	Ilya Somov (RUS)
2005 Duisburg	Nikolay Reznikov (RUS)	Ioannis Tsourounakis (GRE)	Lorenzo Minisola (ITA)
2009 Kaohsiung	Stefano Figini (ITA)	Sven Lutzkendorf (GER)	Denes Kanyo (HUN)
2013 Cali	???	???	???

50m apnea

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Sandro Sola (ITA)	Dario Broglia (ITA)
1985 London	Jürgen Kolenda (FRG)	Christian Molenaar (FRG)	Fabio Bettazzoni (ITA)
1989 Karlsruhe	Oleg Ananyev (USSR)	Gennadiy Syssoyev (USSR)	Dierk Kraft (FRG)
1993 Den Haag	David Landi (ITA)	Ari Palve (FIN)	Sami Somi (FIN)
1997 Lahti	Li Yong (CHN)	Liu Quirong (CHN)	Sergey Dokuchayev (RUS)
2001 Akita	Yevgeniy Skorzhenko (RUS)	Li Yong (CHN)	Zhao Ji (CHN)
2005 Duisburg	Yevgeniy Skorzhenko (RUS)	Nikolai Tover (EST)	Igor Soroka (UKR)
2009 Kaohsiung	Igor Soroka (UKR)	Yevgeniy Skorzhenko (RUS)	Lee Kwan-Ho (KOR)
2013 Cali	???	???	???

4x100m relay

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 London	West Germany (FRG)(???)	Italy (ITA)(???)	France (FRA)(???)
1989 Karlsruhe	Soviet Union (USSR)(???)	West Germany (FRG)(???)	China (CHN)(???)
1993 Den Haag	Italy (ITA)(???)	Finland (FIN)(???)	Denmark (DEN)(???)
1997 Lahti	Russia (RUS)(Sergey Achapov, Sergey Dokuchayev, Maksim Maksimov, Aleksandr Nechitaylo)	China (CHN)(Hu Hailong, Li Yong, Liu Quirong, Zhao Ji)	Italy (ITA)(Luca Guarnaschelli, Rubes Levada, Andrea Mangherini, Luca Tonelli)
2001 Akita	Russia (RUS)(Ilya Somov, Yevgeniy Skorzhenko, Maksim Maksimov, Sergey Achapov)	China (CHN)(Zhao Ji, Hu Hailong, Huang Jiandong, Li Yong)	Germany (GER)(Frank Wille, Sven Kaiser, Sven Gallasch, Andreas Utzmeir)
2005 Duisburg	Russia (RUS)(Andrey Burakov, Yevgeniy Skorzhenko, Aleksandr Panyutin, Pavel Kabanov)	Ukraine (UKR)(Dmitriy Sydorenko, Viktor Panev, Dmitriy Artemchuk, Igor Soroka)	Italy (ITA)(Riccardo Galli, Lorenzo Minisola, Cesare Fumarola, Andrea Nava)
2009 Kaohsiung	Ukraine (UKR)(Viktor Panev, Dmitriy Shekera, Igor Soroka, Dmitro Sydorenko)	Italy (ITA)(Stefano Figini, Cesare Fumarola, Gianluca Mancini, Andrea Nava)	Russia (RUS)(Andrey Burakov, Pavel Kulakov, Nikolay Reznikov, Yevgeniy Skorzhenko)
2013 Cali	???	???	???