MEDIA BOOK Updated on January 30, 2006 Before the seventh meeting in New York Edited by FINA Communications Department Avenue de l’Avant-Poste 4 – 1005 Lausanne – Switzerland TEL : +41 – 21- 310 47 10 – FAX : +41 – 21 – 312 66 10 Internet site : www.fina.org - E-mail : [email protected] MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 CONTENTS 3 - INTRODUCTION 3 - CALENDAR 4 - FINA REPRESENTATIVES 4 - COMPETITION PROGRAMME 5 - RULES AND REGULATIONS 13 - HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 15 - CHRONOLOGY OF WORLD RECORDS SET AT WORLD CUP MEETS 18 - WORLD CUP WINNERS 29 - WORLD RECORDS (25m) 29 - Women 31 - Men 33 - WORLD RECORDS DURING FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 34 - WORLD CUP RECORDS 35 - SWIMMING WORLD CUP VENUES 35 - Chronology 40 - By country 42 - CONTACTS 43 – 2005/2006 Edition event by event 43 - November 11-13, 2005 Durban RSA 44 - November 19-20, 2005 Sydney AUS 45 - November 24-25, 2005 Daejon KOR 46 - January 17-18, 2006 Stockholm SWE 47 - January 21-22, 2006 Berlin GER 48 - January 25-26, 2006 Moscow RUS 49 - February 3-4, 2006 New York USA 50 - February 10-12, 2006 Belo Horizonte BRA 2 EDITED BY FINA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT – UPDATED November 28, 2005 MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 INTRODUCTION By Mustapha Larfaoui, FINA President Year after year, the FINA Swimming World Cup has had a strong impact on the development of the Sport, and certainly a considerable influence on two important decisions made by FINA some years ago: the recognition of world records set in 25m pools (back in 1991) and the introduction of the FINA Swimming World Championships in 25m pools. Its first Super Final took place in Palma de Mallorca, in 1992. Through the FINA Swimming World Cup swimmers have more opportunities to compete at high level, thus increasing their international experience; swimming enjoys a greater exposure and coverage by the media and, thanks to the quality of results, which often impress the public opinion, the attention of the sponsors – whose role is of paramount importance in sport today – may be increased. The current edition of the FINA Swimming World Cup has a similar programme to the previous one. Swimmers will visit the five continents with Africa first and then Oceania, Asia, Europe and the two last meetings in America. All meets will take place solely in 25m swimming pools (short course). This document is aimed to help the journalists in their coverage of the major events. The Meet Organisers, the Meet Speakers, the Team Managers and other Officials and the Swimmers themselves will find the information contained in this publication of interest. CALENDAR Eight meetings will be held in the following continental zones: Africa / Asia / Oceania, Europe and Americas Zone 1: Africa / Asia / Oceania November 11-13, 2005 Durban RSA November 19-20, 2005 Sydney AUS November 24-25, 2005 Daejon KOR Zone 2: Europe January 17-18, 2006 Stockholm SWE January 21-22, 2006 Berlin GER January 25-26, 2006 Moscow RUS Zone 3: Americas February 3-4, 2006 New York USA February 10-12, 2006 Belo Horizonte BRA 3 EDITED BY FINA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT – UPDATED November 28, 2005 MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 FINA REPRESENTATIVES EVENT TSC (1) SPORTS MEDICINE (2) PRESS SWC Director 1. Durban, South Africa Soren KORBO Dr. Mohamed KOUIDRI Chaker BELHADJ Harold CLIFF 11 – 13 November 2005 2. Sydney, Australia Don BLEW Dr. Brian SANDO Russel MCKINNON Mike UNGER 19-20 November 2005 3. Daejeon, Korea Shigeo OGATA Dr. Khwaja AZIZ Russel MCKINNON Harold CLIFF 24-25 November 2005 4. Stockholm, Sweden Andrea THIELENHAUS Dr. Eide LUBS Elena VAITSEKHOVSKAYA Mike UNGER 17.18 January 2006 5. Berlin, Germany Michel SALLES Dr. Mohamed KOUIDRI Elena VAITSEKHOVSKAYA Mike UNGER 21.22 January 2006 6. Moscow, Russia Andriy VLASKOV Dr. Eide LUBS Elena VAITSEKHOVSKAYA Mike UNGER 25.26 January 2006 7. New York, USA Carol ZALESKI Dr. Margo MOUNTJOY Nick THIERRY Mike UNGER 3-4 February 2006 8. Belo Horizonte, Brazil Don BLEW Blanco HERRERA Francisco J. LOPEZ Mike UNGER 10-12 February 2006 (1) TSC: FINA Technical Swimming Committee (2) Doping Control Representative COMPETITION PROGRAMME The programme of the FINA Swimming World Cup will consist of the following individual events for both women (W) and men (M): - Freestyle 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m (W), 1500m (M) - Backstroke 50m, 100m, 200m - Breaststroke 50m, 100m, 200m - Butterfly 50m, 100m, 200m - Individual Medley 100m, 200m, 400m In the events of 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m there shall be heats and finals. The 400m Individual Medley, the 800m and/or 1500m Freestyle, may be swum as timed finals, with the slow heats in the preliminaries session and the fastest heat in the finals session. No semi-finals shall be swum. 4 EDITED BY FINA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT – UPDATED November 28, 2005 MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 RULES AND REGULATIONS of the FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005 – 2006 SERIES 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 1.1 The FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005/2006 SERIES will consist of eight (8) meetings. 1.2 The FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP shall be open to all swimmers from the FINA affiliated Federations. All the events included in the FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP will be conducted according to FINA Rules. 1.3 The designation should be made by the FINA Bureau. 1.4 The Meet Organiser must be the National Federation or Member of the National Federation and must agree to abide by the Rules of FINA. 1.5 Each FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP Organiser must sign a Contract with FINA in which duties and rights of all parties are listed. 2. FINA SWC 2005/2006 MEETS The FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005/2006 meets are distributed in three zones (Zone 1 - Asia/Oceania/Africa, Zone 2 - Europe, Zone 3 - Americas) as follows: Asia / Oceania / Africa November 11-13, 2005 Durban, South Africa November 19-20, 2005 Sydney, Australia November 24-25, 2005 Daejon, Korea Europe January 17-18, 2006 Stockholm, Sweden January 21-22, 2006 Berlin, Germany January 25-26, 2006 Moscow, Russia Americas February 3-4, 2006 New York, USA February 10-12, 2006 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 3. VENUE REQUIREMENTS 3.1 The Venue capacity should be a minimum of 2’000 seats 3.2 The meets will be organised in 25m swimming pools with minimum eight (8) lanes. 3.3 At each venue there must be an additional warm-up pool (minimum of 25m and 6 lanes) 5 EDITED BY FINA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT – UPDATED November 28, 2005 MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 3.4 Seating for: spectators, sponsors, media, etc. Seating for athletes in accordance with FINA Rules. Seating positions along the side of the pool shall be provided for all competitors, team officials and unassigned technical officials, from which they may properly observe training and competitions. 3.5 Timing: Automatic Officiating Equipment should be available together with semi- automatic back-up timing in accordance with the FINA Rules. 3.6 Technical equipment for the competition must include: Scoreboard(s) and Video board(s). The scoreboard control unit must have a minimum of ten (10) lines containing thirty-two (32) digits (or scoreboard as described in Rule FR 4.7.1). The scoreboard must be able to display all recorded information and the running time. 3.7 Press/photographers areas. Media facilities and procedures for press and photographers should comply with the FINA Media Guide. 3.8 The Meet Organiser must provide adequate liability insurance for the event, venue, swimmers, officials and spectators. 3.9 TV fit out (location, total surface area) as stated in the FINA TV Guidelines. 4. SWIMMERS ENTRIES & PROTOCOLS ● The Organising Federation shall be obliged to enter a minimum of four (4) swimmers to each meet of the Series. Each Federation hosting a World Cup Meet will use its best efforts to send its top swimmers to the meets. In case of a non-appearance, the FINA Executive may impose a fine of up to US$ 15,000. ● The Host Federation shall inform the FINA Office of all nations entering or expected to enter the Event, including the size of the teams. ● Except for clubs within its own country, the Host Federation shall correspond with, and accept entries, only from Federations, which are members of FINA, and not with clubs, coaches or individual swimmers. National Federations may choose to send either a national team or club representatives but not both. (a) Preliminary Entries Are to be announced to the Meet Organiser no later than six (6) weeks prior to the competition (preliminary entry form). (b) Final Entries Are to be announced to the Meet Organiser no later than fifteen (15) days prior to the competition (final entry form). The OC cannot guarantee any logistical assistance for those delegations that do not meet this deadline. (c) Costume Protocol The swimming costumes must be in accordance with the FINA Rules GR 6 and GR 7, as decided by the FINA General Congress to be held on July 22, 2005 in Montreal (CAN). 6 EDITED BY FINA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT – UPDATED November 28, 2005 MEDIA BOOK FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2005-2006 5. TRANSPORTATION (a) International Transportation ● Each National Federation is responsible for the travel expenses of their swimming team delegation. ● FINA will pay for international travel expenses for the representatives designated by FINA to attend each meet. (b) Transfers and Local Transportation The Meet Organiser is to provide local transportation from and to airport / railway station and between hotel(s) and venue(s) (shuttle system every 20 minutes) free of charge for the following persons for the duration of the event and two days prior thereto, plus the day after the conclusion of the event: • FINA Representatives – five (5) persons • Referee and Starter • Swimmers • Officials The OC must welcome teams and officials at the airport, confirm flights of delegations and indicate departure time from hotel for return flight provided the arrival and departure information is supplied to the OC.