Underwater has one discipline offered in The World Games: Finswimming. Finswimming is the progression with monofin or with two (bi-)fins either on the surface using a snorkel or underwater by holding one's breath, by means of the swimmers' muscular force only and without use of any mechanism, not even muscle powered.

There are 3 categories of Finswimming events in The World Games: Apnoea, Surface and Bi-fins.

Athletes swim as fast as possible from one side of the pool to the other side, completing the pre-defined distance in the specific event.

- No qualifying rounds. All events will have straight finals.

- The best three athletes or teams of each competition will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Before the start of competition, athletes will prepare for the starting from a starting block. A long whistle is followed by the starter commands and the start signal for all athletes to dive into the swimming pool.

APNOEA (2 Events)

Apnoea swimming is underwater swimming using a mask or goggles, a monofin and by holding one’s breath. Races are held for the distance of 50 meters. A swimmer’s face must be immersed for the duration of the race, or they risk disqualification.

BI-FINS (4 Events)

Bi-fins swimming is an event where athletes swim on the surface of the water with a mask or goggles, snorkel and a pair of fins using a crawling style. Races are held for distances of 50 and 100 meters. Swimmers must remain on the surface of the water at all times for the duration of the race, except when starting or making turns at the end of the swimming pool (where an immersion of a distance of 15 meters is permitted).

SURFACE (10 Events)

Surface swimming is swimming on the surface of the water using a mask or goggles, snorkel and monofins. Races are held for distances of 100, 200, 400, 4 x 50 and 4 × 100 relay (meters). Swimmers must remain on the surface of the water at all times for the duration of the race, except when starting or making turns at the end of the swimming pool (where an immersion over a distance of 15 meters is permitted).

In all races, swimmers must at each turn make physical contact with a part of the body or the equipment with the extreme end of the pool.

In apnoea, the immersion in apnoea is only permitted in swimming pools. The judge must be able to follow the movement of the swimmer visually. While in apnoea, the face of the swimmer must be underwater during the whole distance.

In surface swimming, immersion is only permitted over 15 meters after the start and after each turn. The snorkel or the head of the swimmer have to go out from the water before the end of the 15 meters strip. Outside the 15 meters zone, a part of the swimmer or the equipment must always emerge from the water surface.

The swimmer who loses part of his/her equipment, fin(s), snorkel, breathing apparatus during the race is disqualified on arrival.

At the relay races, a team is disqualified if the feet or the fins of the next starting swimmer have already left the starting block before the arriving swimmer has touched the wall of the pool; the team isn’t disqualified if the starting swimmer notices his mistake and returns to the wall and starts again. It’s not necessary to climb onto the starting block.

Any swimmer crossing his/her lane or who hinders another swimmer by any other means will be disqualified. If this behaviour is intentional, the chief judge must report the matter to the CMAS Technical Delegate and to the national federation of the swimmer.

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Pavel KABANOV (RUS)
2. Castillo FERNANDEZ (COL)
3. Dong Jin LEE (KOR)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Ye Sol JANG (KOR)
2. Gain KIM (KOR)
3. Kateryna DYELOVA (UKR)

Bi Fins 100m Men

1. Dmitry GAVRILOV (BLR)
2. Gergo KOSINA (HUN)
3. Jakub JAROLIM (CZE)

Bi Fins 100m Women

1. Petra SENANSZKY (HUN)
2. Krisztina VARGA (HUN)
3. Iryna PIKINER (UKR)

Bi Fins 50m Men

1. Andrey ARBUZOV (RUS)
2. Jakub JAROLIM (CZE)
3. Dmitry GAVRILOV (BLR)

Bi Fins 50m Women

1. Petra SENANSZKY (HUN)
2. Min Ji CHOI (KOR)
3. Krisztina VARGA (HUN)

Surface 100m Men

1. Dmitrii ZHURMAN (RUS)
2. Max POSCHART (GER)
3. Pavel KABANOV (RUS)

Surface 100m Women

1. Ekaterina MIKHAILUSHKINA (RUS)
2. Chengjing SHU (CHN)
3. Anna BER (RUS)

Surface 200m Men

1. Dmitrii ZHURMAN (RUS)
2. Max POSCHART (GER)
3. Dmitrii KOKOREV (RUS)

Surface 200m Women

1. Valeriya BARANOVSKAYA (RUS)
2. Ekaterina MIKHAILUSHKINA (RUS)
3. Anastasiia ANTONIAK (UKR)

Surface 400m Men

1. Denes KANYO (HUN)
2. Max LAUSCHUS (GER)
3. Davide de CEGLIE (ITA)

Surface 400m Women

1. Yiting SUN (CHN)
2. Bo Kyung KIM (KOR)
3. Anastasiia ANTONIAK (UKR)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team ITA
3. Team GER

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team RUS
2. Team COL
3. Team KOR

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Taekyun KIM (KOR)
2. Pavel KABANOV (RUS)
3. Mauricio FERNANDEZ CASTILLO (COL)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Camille HEITZ (FRA)
2. Huanshan XU (CHN)
3. Margaryta ARTIUSHENKO (UKR)

Surface 100m Men

1. Cesare FUMAROLA (ITA)
2. Pavel KABANOV (RUS)
3. Alexandre NOIR (FRA)

Surface 100m Women

1. Lilla SZEKELY (HUN)
2. Margaryta ARTIUSHENKO (UKR)
3. Grace FERNANDEZ CASTILLO (COL)

Surface 200m Men

1. Max LAUSCHUS (GER)
2. Stefano FIGINI (ITA)
3. Dmitrii KOKOREV (RUS)

Surface 200m Women

1. Valeriya BARANOVSKAYA (RUS)
2. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
3. Yana TROFYMEZ (UKR)

Surface 400m Men

1. Max LAUSCHUS (GER)
2. Evgeny SMIRNOV (RUS)
3. Stefano FIGINI (ITA)

Surface 400m Women

1. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
2. Yana TROFYMEZ (UKR)
3. Bo Kyung KIM (KOR)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team COL
3. Team UKR

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team RUS
2. Team UKR
3. Team CHN

Immersion 50m Men

1. Igor SOROKA (UKR)
2. Evgueni SKORJENKO (RUS)
3. Kwan Ho LEE (KOR)

Immersion 50m Women

1. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)
2. Huanshan XU (CHN)
3. Yana KASIMOVA (RUS)

Surface 100m Men

1. Jingwei MIAO (CHN)
2. Dmytro SYDORENKO (UKR)
3. Andrea NAVA (ITA)

Surface 100m Women

1. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)
2. Yaoyue LIANG (CHN)
3. Saerom CHOI (KOR)

Surface 200m Men

1. Stefano FIGINI (ITA)
2. Andrea NAVA (ITA)
3. Gyeongheon YOU (KOR)

Surface 200m Women

1. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
2. Valeriya BARANOVSKAYA (RUS)
3. Olga SHLYAKHOVSKA (UKR)

Surface 400m Men

1. Stefano FIGINI (ITA)
2. Sven LUTZKENDORF (GER)
3. Denes KANYO (HUN)

Surface 400m Women

1. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
2. Jiao LIU (CHN)
3. Olga SHLYAKHOVSKA (UKR)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team UKR
2. Team ITA
3. Team RUS

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team CHN
2. Team KOR
3. Team RUS

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Evgueni SKORJENKO (RUS)
2. Nikolai TOVER (EST)
3. Igor SOROKA (UKR)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Anastassia GLOUKHIKH (RUS)
2. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)
3. Galija SATTAROVA (EST)

Surface 100m Men

1. Andrey BURAKOV (RUS)
2. Haifeng YUAN (CHN)
3. Alexander PANIOUTIN (RUS)

Surface 100m Women

1. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)
2. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
3. Qi LIU (CHN)

Surface 200m Men

1. Pavel KABANOV (RUS)
2. Nikolay REZNIKOV (RUS)
3. Viktor PANOV (UKR)

Surface 200m Women

1. Vasilisa KRAVCHUK (RUS)
2. Valentina ARTEMEVA (RUS)
3. Qi LIU (CHN)

Surface 400m Men

1. Nikolay REZNIKOV (RUS)
2. Ioannis TSOUROUNAKIS (GRE)
3. Lorenzo MINISOLA (ITA)

Surface 400m Women

1. Xiaoping CHEN (CHN)
2. Ekaterina POLITKO (RUS)
3. Carolin STUT (GER)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team UKR
3. Team ITA

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team RUS
2. Team CHN
3. Team KOR

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Evgueni SKORJENKO (RUS)
2. Yong LI (CHN)
3. Ji ZHAO (CHN)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Anastassia KOCHNEVA (RUS)
2. Tatiana KOMAROVA (RUS)
3. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)

Surface 100m Men

1. Evgueni SKORJENKO (RUS)
2. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
3. Jiandong HUANG (CHN)

Surface 100m Women

1. Qi LIU (CHN)
2. Tatiana KOMAROVA (RUS)
3. Baozhen ZHU (CHN)

Surface 200m Men

1. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
2. Andreas UTZMEIR (GER)
3. Ilia SOMOV (RUS)

Surface 200m Women

1. Anastassia GLOUKHIKH (RUS)
2. Lidia GORIATCHEVA (RUS)
3. Suzanne JENTZSCH (GER)

Surface 400m Men

1. Sven GALLASCH (GER)
2. Gergely JUHOS (HUN)
3. Ilia SOMOV (RUS)

Surface 400m Women

1. Elena GRACHEVA (RUS)
2. Anastassia GLOUKHIKH (RUS)
3. Bettina MUELLER (GER)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team CHN
3. Team GER

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team RUS
2. Team CHN
3. Team GER

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Qi LIU (CHN)
2. Yong LI (CHN)
3. Alexandre NETCHIATAILO (RUS)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Shaozhen LI (CHN)
2. Xia ZHU (CHN)
3. Youlia TCHIRIKOVA (RUS)

Immersion 100m Men

1. Yong LI (CHN)
2. Qi LIU (CHN)
3. Serguei DOKOUTCHAEV (RUS)

Immersion 100m Women

1. Shaozhen LI (CHN)
2. Youlia TCHIRIKOVA (RUS)
3. Helena KOCOURKOVA (CZE)

Surface 100m Men

1. Alexandre NETCHIATAILO (RUS)
2. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
3. Yong LI (CHN)

Surface 100m Women

1. Xiaohui WU (CHN)
2. Shaozhen LI (CHN)
3. Svetlana GANZHA (RUS)

Surface 200m Men

1. Alexandre NETCHIATAILO (RUS)
2. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
3. Luca TONELLI (ITA)

Surface 200m Women

1. Xiaohui WU (CHN)
2. Yan WANG (CHN)
3. Natalia MOUZYTCHENKO (RUS)

Surface 400m Men

1. Norbert SAVANYA (HUN)
2. Hailong HU (CHN)
3. Serguei DOKOUTCHAEV (RUS)

Surface 400m Women

1. Yan WANG (CHN)
2. Beata BOZSO (HUN)
3. Oksana KOROLEVA (RUS)

Surface 50m Men

1. Alexandre NETCHIATAILO (RUS)
2. Andrea MANGHERINI (ITA)
3. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)

Surface 50m Women

1. Shaozhen LI (CHN)
2. Svetlana GANZHA (RUS)
3. Xiaohui WU (CHN)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team CHN
3. Team ITA

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team CHN
2. Team RUS
3. Team HUN

Surface Relay 4x200m Men

1. Team RUS
2. Team HUN
3. Team ITA

Surface Relay 4x200m Women

1. Team CHN
2. Team RUS
3. Team HUN

Apnoea 50m Men

1. David LANDI (ITA)
2. Ari PALVE (FIN)
3. Sami SOMI (FIN)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Zuzana MANDIKOVA (CZE)
2. Lorena BALDI (ITA)
3. Beata BOEMISCH (HUN)

Immersion 100m Men

1. Ari PALVE (FIN)
2. Sami SOMI (FIN)
3. Sven GALLASCH (GER)

Immersion 100m Women

1. Myriam VILETTE (FRA)
2. Astrid BERNARD (EST)
3. Celine CAREL (FRA)

Surface 100m Men

1. Luca TONELLI (ITA)
2. David LANDI (ITA)
3. Sami SOMI (FIN)

Surface 100m Women

1. Lorena BALDI (ITA)
2. Kristiina NURK (EST)
3. Beata BOEMISCH (HUN)

Surface 200m Men

1. Luca TONELLI (ITA)
2. Stephan PART (AUT)
3. Sven GALLASCH (GER)

Surface 200m Women

1. Kristiina NURK (EST)
2. Marika THEMELI (SWE)
3. Zuzsa CSIK (HUN)

Surface 400m Men

1. Edwin KANTERS (NED)
2. Martin BOCINSKY (CZE)
3. Anders THOMSEN (DEN)

Surface 400m Women

1. Myriam VILETTE (FRA)
2. Kristiina NURK (EST)
3. Marika THEMELI (SWE)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team ITA
2. Team FIN
3. Team DEN

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team EST
2. Team HUN
3. Team FRA

Surface Relay 4x200m Men

1. Team DEN
2. Team FIN
3. Team CZE

Surface Relay 4x200m Women

1. Team HUN
2. Team ITA
3. Team FRA

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Oleg ANANYEV (URS)
2. Ghennady SYSSOYEV (URS)
3. Dierk KRAFT (GER)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Larissa BUTENKO (URS)
2. Shi-Yu ZHENG (CHN)
3. Svetlana FROVLOVA (URS)

Immersion 100m Men

1. Jun LIANG (TPE)
2. Oleg ANANYEV (URS)
3. Ghennady SYSSOYEV (URS)

Immersion 100m Women

1. Fang XIE (CHN)
2. Shi-Yu ZHENG (CHN)
3. Svetlana FROVLOVA (URS)

Surface 100m Men

1. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
2. Konstantin KOUDRIAEV (URS)
3. Robert GIORS (HUN)

Surface 100m Women

1. Larissa BUTENKO (URS)
2. Fang XIE (CHN)
3. Tatiana MELNIKOVA (URS)

Surface 200m Men

1. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
2. Konstantin KOUDRIAEV (URS)
3. Christian MOLENAAR (GER)

Surface 200m Women

1. Tatiana MELNIKOVA (URS)
2. Elena SADOVIK (URS)
3. Eva FABO (HUN)

Surface 400m Men

1. Konstantin KOUDRIAEV (URS)
2. Serguei AKHAPOV (RUS)
3. Frederico RUGGERI (ITA)

Surface 400m Women

1. Tatiana MELNIKOVA (URS)
2. Eva FABO (HUN)
3. Elena SADOVIK (URS)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team urs
2. Team GER
3. Team CHN

Surface Relay 4x100m Women

1. Team urs
2. Team CHN
3. Team HUN

Surface Relay 4x200m Men

1. Team urs
2. Team GER
3. Team HUN

Surface Relay 4x200m Women

1. Team urs
2. Team CHN
3. Team HUN

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Christian MOLENAAR (GER)
3. Fabio BETTAZZONI (ITA)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Anne GOURMOUX (FRA)
2. Silvia GRUNER (GER)
3. Katalin TOTH (HUN)

Immersion 100m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Fabio BETTAZZONI (ITA)
3. Clemens FRANK (GER)

Immersion 100m Women

1. Ildiko MAGYAR (HUN)
2. Katalin TOTH (HUN)
3. Emanuela IMPERATORI (ITA)

Immersion 400m Men

1. Clemens FRANK (GER)
2. Sylvain FLORIO (FRA)
3. Gyula GURISATTI (HUN)

Immersion 400m Women

1. Katalin TOTH (HUN)
2. Ildiko MAGYAR (HUN)
3. Pascale SCHAEDERLE (FRA)

Surface 1.500m Men

1. Paolo VANDINI (ITA)
2. Valter OLANDER (SWE)
3. Istvan KUBINA (HUN)

Surface 100m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Fabio BETTAZZONI (ITA)
3. Christian MOLENAAR (GER)

Surface 100m Women

1. Emanuela IMPERATORI (ITA)
2. Barbara NANNI (ITA)
3. Eva FABO (HUN)

Surface 200m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Giuseppe GALANTUCCI (ITA)
3. Fabio BETTAZZONI (ITA)

Surface 200m Women

1. Eva FABO (HUN)
2. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)
3. Barbara NANNI (ITA)

Surface 400m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Valter OLANDER (SWE)
3. Carsten BERTRAM (GER)

Surface 400m Women

1. Eva FABO (HUN)
2. Edit GINCZINGER (HUN)
3. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)

Surface 800m Men

1. Paolo VANDINI (ITA)
2. Valter OLANDER (SWE)
3. Sylvain FLORIO (FRA)

Surface 800m Women

1. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)
2. Eva FABO (HUN)
3. Edit GINCZINGER (HUN)

Surface Relay 4x100m Men

1. Team GER
2. Team ITA
3. Team FRA

Surface Relay 4x200m Men

1. Team GER
2. Team FRA
3. Team SWE

Apnoea 50m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Sandro SOLA (ITA)
3. Dario BROGLIA (ITA)

Apnoea 50m Women

1. Cristina COVONI (ITA)
2. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)
3. Anne MENGUY (FRA)

Immersion 100m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Dario BROGLIA (ITA)
3. Thierry LASBLEYE (FRA)

Immersion 100m Women

1. Cristina COVONI (ITA)
2. Anne MENGUY (FRA)
3. Marina BECK (GER)

Surface 1.500m Men

1. Paolo VANDINI (ITA)
2. Giuseppe GALANTUCCI (ITA)
3. Valter OLANDER (SWE)

Surface 100m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Sandro SOLA (ITA)
3. Giuseppe GALANTUCCI (ITA)

Surface 100m Women

1. Anne MENGUY (FRA)
2. Cristina COVONI (ITA)
3. Anne-Marie ROUCHON (FRA)

Surface 200m Men

1. Jurgen KOLENDA (GER)
2. Valter OLANDER (SWE)
3. Sandro SOLA (ITA)

Surface 200m Women

1. Anne-Marie ROUCHON (FRA)
2. Anne MENGUY (FRA)
3. Marion COLLOT (FRA)

Surface 400m Men

1. Giuseppe GALANTUCCI (ITA)
2. Valter OLANDER (SWE)
3. Paolo VANDINI (ITA)

Surface 400m Women

1. Anne-Marie ROUCHON (FRA)
2. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)
3. Marina BECK (GER)

Surface 800m Women

1. Anne-Marie ROUCHON (FRA)
2. Marion COLLOT (FRA)
3. Monica CROVETTI (ITA)

• Camille HEITZ(FRA): 1. in TWG2013, 3. in TWG2009
• Stefano FIGINI(ITA): 2. in TWG2017, 6. in TWG2017, 7. in TWG2017, 2. in TWG2013, 3. in TWG2013, 1. in TWG2009, 1. in TWG2009, 2. in TWG2009
• Mauricio FERNANDEZ CASTILLO(COL): 2. in TWG2013, 3. in TWG2013
• Anastasiia ANTONIAK(UKR): 3. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2017, 2. in TWG2013
• Yichuan XU(CHN): 6. in TWG2017, 7. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2013
• Malte STRIEGLER(GER): 3. in TWG2017, 4. in TWG2017, 7. in TWG2017
• Max POSCHART(GER): 2. in TWG2017, 2. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2017
• Paula Alejandra AGUIRRE JOYA(COL): 2. in TWG2017
• Juan David DUQUE JIMENEZ(COL): 2. in TWG2013
• Grace FERNANDEZ CASTILLO(COL): 2. in TWG2017, 4. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2013
• Juan Fernando OCAMPO LOZADA(COL): 4. in TWG2017, 2. in TWG2013
• Viviana Paola RETAMOZO OLAYA(COL): 2. in TWG2017
• Chengjing SHU(CHN): 2. in TWG2017, 7. in TWG2017, 8. in TWG2017
• Iryna PIKINER(UKR): 3. in TWG2017, 4. in TWG2017
• Hugo MEYER(FRA): 6. in TWG2017
• Krisztina VARGA(HUN): 2. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2017
• Csilla KAROLYI(HUN): 4. in TWG2017, 8. in TWG2017
• Ye Sol JANG(KOR): 1. in TWG2017, 3. in TWG2017, 5. in TWG2017, 2. in TWG2009
• Dong Jin LEE(KOR): 3. in TWG2017
• Min Ji CHOI(KOR): 2. in TWG2017, 4. in TWG2017
• Petra SENANSZKY(HUN): 1. in TWG2017, 1. in TWG2017