TOMSK, Aug 1 – RIA Tomsk, Evgenia Plankina. The international Internet Olympic Channel will broadcast the Finswimming World Championship, which will be held in Tomsk in 2020, the director of the Center of Water Sports named after V. A. Shevelev Evgeny Skorzhenko told journalists on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that the World Underwater Federation (CMAS) supported the application of the Tomsk region to hold in Tomsk in 2020 the CMAS Finswimming World Championships 2020. It has to take place from 9 to 15 July. In 2017 Tomsk already hosted the 15th Finswimming World Junior Championships. About 300 junior athletes from 25 countries participated in the competitions. The Russian national team took 35 medals.
Skorzhenko specified that in Tomsk in 2020 will take place the 21st Finswimming World Championships. More than 40 world teams are expected to participate. On the eve - in 2019 - Tomsk will host the 50th championship of finswimmers of the Russian Federation, where swimmers will compete for the right to get into the national team.
"Already today there are agreements with the Olympic Channel on the fact that it will broadcast the 21st World Championship in Tomsk. It means a lot, because this channel - is a special family of sports, which today include ours. For Tomsk it is for the first time", - Skorzhenko said at a press conference in the media center of RIA Tomsk.
He specified that the Olympic Channel - is a channel of the International Olympic Committee, which is broadcast on the Internet. According to him, Tomsk citizens intend to begin preparations for the World Championships-2020 this year with the meeting of the organizing committee."Our work will be directed not only to meeting guests and sportsmen with dignity, but to ensure a good picture. All practices of media, volunteers, teams and judges will work to ensure top level broadcasting. We fight for our viewer", – Skorzhenko told.