2015 World Aquatics Championships

The 16th World Swimming Championships will take place on 17 July 2015 to 2 August 2015, the Russian city of Kazan instead.

The World Swimming Federation ( FINA) missed the event on July 15, 2011 on its congress on the edge of the swimming World Championships 2011 in Shanghai. The application of Kazan sat down in the decisive vote against the candidacies of Guadalajara (Mexico ) and Hong Kong (China) by. Applications from Guangzhou (China) and Montreal (Canada) were withdrawn immediately before the vote. Russia will for the first time be with the host of the World Cup.

The swimming events in the pool will be held in Kazan Arena, which was built for the 2013 Summer Universiade. For two temporary 50 - meter swimming pool to be installed in the stadium with 45,000 seats. Flanked by additional grandstands will be built as a swimming stadium with 12,000 seats.