2025 World Aquatics Championships


The 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the 22nd edition of the World Aquatics Championships, were held in Singapore from 11 July to 3 August 2025. It was the first city in Southeast Asia to host the World Championships.
WWW worldaquatics-singapore20...

Host selection

On 21 July 2019, World Aquatics selected Kazan, Russia as the host of the championship; the same day as Budapest, Hungary was selected for the 2027 edition. However, on 9 February 2023, Singapore was selected to replace Kazan as host city due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Venues

Most of the competitions were held at the Singapore Sports Hub built for the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.
Organisers initially considered hosting the swimming events at the National Stadium or the Singapore Indoor Stadium, but eventually decided to build a temporary venue on the site of Car Park G for the swimming and artistic swimming events.

Symbols

Theme

The theme of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships was "Water Shapes Us".

Mascots

On 2 April 2025, the mascots were announced as Ollie, an otter, and Dewey, a dugong.

Schedule

The initial competition schedule was announced on 18 June 2024. The detailed competition schedule was released on 12 December 2024.
●Opening ceremony●Preliminaries●Finals●Closing ceremonyMMen's matchesWWomen's matches

July/August10111213141516171819202122232425262728293031123Total
Ceremonies●●–
Swimming4455556842
Open water swimming22217
Artistic swimming●212211211
Diving22221111113
High diving●●112
Water poloWMWMWMWMWMWMWM2
Total000000202422222237676667977
Cumulative Total0000002248101214161820233036434955616877-

Participating federations

203 countries, plus the Athlete Refugee Team and two Neutral Athletes teams competed.
Participating National Federations
Afghanistan|2025 World Aquatics Championships|1

Broadcasting

The Championships were broadcast on the World Aquatics website which can be accessed worldwide. The competition was broadcast through the rights-holding broadcasters in various countries and regions:
RegionBroadcasterCountries/Territories
AfricaSuperSportAngola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Africa, Saint Helena & Ascension, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
AmericasUnited States, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
AmericasCBCCanada
AmericasGrupo GloboBrazil
AmericasDirecTVArgentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
AsiaTV AsahiJapan
AsiaCMG / CCTV-5China, Macau
AsiaChinese Taipei
AsiaSky SportsRepublic of Korea
AsiaMediacorpSingapore
Asiai-Cable Hong Kong
EuropeEurovisionPan-Europe
EuropeORFAustria
EuropeBHRTBosnia and Herzegovina
EuropeBNTBulgaria
EuropeHRTCroatia
EuropeCYBCCyprus
EuropeCTCzechia
EuropeYleFinland
EuropeFrance TélévisionsFrance
EuropeARD / ZDFGermany
EuropeERTGreece
EuropeMTVAHungary
EuropeRÚVIceland
EuropeThe Sports ChannelIsrael
EuropeSky Italia / RAIItaly
EuropeLRTLithuania
EuropeRTCGMontenegro
EuropeNOSNetherlands
EuropeRTVNorth Macedonia
EuropeRTPPortugal
EuropeTVRRomania
EuropeRTSSerbia
EuropeRTVSSlovakia
EuropeRTVSLOSlovenia
EuropeRTVESpain
EuropeSVTSweden
EuropeSRG SSRSwitzerland
EuropeTRTTurkey
EuropePBCUkraine
EuropeAquatics GBUnited Kingdom
EuropeMatch TVRussia, Belarus
OceaniaNine NetworkAustralia