World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships 2018 of Budapest may be the best of all time – video

Three hundred young artistic swimming talents from 39 countries in 9 different categories started to compete today at the FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships 2018. The venue is, of course, the Duna Arena and the championship will last until July 22^nd. The Hungarian team is interested in 7 categories – reported nemzetisport.hu. Today and tomorrow entrance in the morning is free!

The Olympic athletes and probably champions of the future in Budapest!

In fact, several representatives of the artistic swimming mentioned on a press conference yesterday that

they quasi come home to Budapest to compete.

This is because, as we already reported, Budapest has the honour to host two prestigious swimming competitions this year. These are the 16th FINA Artistic Swimming World Series and the National Senior, Junior, and Masters Artistic Swimming Championships. The latter took place between the 18th and 20th of May while the former started today.

‘My phone automatically connects itself to the wifi when I arrive in the Arena’ – added Lisa Schott, chairwoman of the FINA Artistic Swimming Technical Committee.

According to FINA official site, in the opening speech FINA Artistic Swimming Technical Committee Chairwoman Lisa Schott praised the accomplishments of the organisers, and said that the Duna Arena of Budapest is one of the most attractive aquatics world’s venues.

“There is no doubts, we will stage a very successful FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships-2018 here,

– she commented. – We have in place everything might be needed: great facilities at the host arena, traditional hospitality of the Hungarian capital and excellent job done by the well-trained Organising Committee. Hungarian Synchronized Swimming Federation and Municipality of Budapest are very reliable partners of FINA, and we are grateful to them for fruitful collaboration. It is always a big pleasure personally for me to come back to the city, which has been at our map for many many years to now. We are delighted to confirm, that everything is well ready for the kick-off and, hopefully, 300 competitors will appreciate the preparations done”.

“We are grateful to FINA for being entrusted to host such high-level competitions for the second year to go, – responded LOC Chairman, Hungarian Synchronised Swimming Federation President Sándor Balogh. – In 2017 we staged FINA World Championships and it was a hit with the public. Hungarians love aquatics, and artistic swimming is one of the most fascinating and beautiful sports. I believe, that junior championships is always interesting to watch as they show the future trends of the sport, the future stars and we hope to see some drafts for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic rosters”.