On 10th December, the 17th World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) started in Budapest, Duna Arena. With this event, Budapest became the first city in the world that hosted all the World Aquatics swimming events and achieved the “Aquatic Grand Slam”.

The Duna Arena, for the first time shined in the 2017 World Championships, is now hosting brilliantly the short-course World Swimming Championships. With the use of modern technologies, this olympic-size pool has been modified to 25m for this event with the smallest effort.

The participating countries in the World Aquatics Swimming Championships 2024 have an event-record count, however, it’s not only the fact making this event a record notable. This world swimming championship will be kept in our minds and history with the count of the new world recordsets just in one day – unbelievably 7 new world records have been set during the first night. Summer McIntosh, Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass, and Noe Ponti were the ones bringing the new fastest time sets to the competition. Surprisingly Kate Douglass then set another World Record the same night. The other two fastest times are recorded by the United States brilliantly in both women’s and men’s 4x100m freestyle relays.

For the World Swimming Championships titles in Budapest, 985 athletes from 195 countries will be competing till 15th December 2024. Hungary, the United States, Australia, China are among the countries joining the competition with the highest number of athletes. There is also one country that stands out in terms of numbers. Poland joins the competition not only with strong athletes but also with strong fans. This country has a giant fan group joining the championships. A group of 60 enthusiastic Polish fans filling, a big area of fan seats, are promoting tourism to Poland under the Poland.Travel program. This fan group is established with the selection among the most talented young swimmers in the country. It is worth noting that next year’s European Short-Course Swimming Championships will be held in Poland in 2025.

Article/Photo: Nurlan Tahirli