16th FINA World Masters Championships
August 5 – 16, 2015
August 5 – 16, 2015
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For Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming and Open Water you must be at least 25 years old. You must consider the age at 31th December, 2015. Hence, everybody born in the year of 1990 or less can participate in these sports.
For Water Polo, minimum age is 30 years old (born in 1985 or less).
No, only people registered with clubs affiliated to the National Federation of the country can participate. You have to provide your Master affiliation card to complete the registration.
Anyone complying with the minimal age and affiliated to a club can participate.
In order to be accredited for the Masters Championships as a participant it is necessary to pass online registration. Accreditation will open on February 17. To learn more, please follow this link.
Spectators (accompanying persons) can either register and pay the fee to receive an accreditation valid for all the Championships and have the advantages provided with the accreditation.
The system allows you to come back to your profile anytime you want. You just have to login with your email and password to access your account. Then you will be able to make the additional registrations or change the information you want.
You can have only one account per person, so if you have the function of an athlete and coach, you have to register as an athlete. Your accreditation will give you all access to practice your coach function.
The online registration must be done through the FINA GMS following the link: https://registration.fina.org.
A detailed guide to assist you with the registration is by clicking here.
The registration was officially opened on February 17, 2015 and will close on June 30, 2015. No late entry will be allowed. However, Sport Entries registration will remain open until July 2, 2015 for people already registered.
Yes, if you want your children to receive an accreditation, they must be registered.
There are 4 main steps:
1. Create an account
2. Complete your profile information
3. Register yourself for the championships and pay your Registration Fee
4. Make your Sport Entries and pay the Sport Entries Fee
1. A valid email to create your account
2. An electronic passport photo fulfilling the FINA photo requirements
3. Your passport copy (passport must be valid at least until February 20, 2016)
4. A copy of your Master affiliation card or Master licence (proof of your affiliation to a Masters Club)
5. A credit card (Visa or MasterCard) to pay your Registration and Entry Fees
An active e-mail address is mandatory for the registration. You can create one using the most popular service (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.).
Your e-mail address will be your username. It will also be used to send you the Letter of Invitation to apply for your visa and to contact you with important information about the Championships.
The photo is necessary to create your profile and will be used for your accreditation.
Registration is mandatory for:
The following people can also register through the system to receive an accreditation:
The photo guidelines are available by clicking here. They are also available when you make the registration underneath where you upload your picture in the GMS.
You have to click on the button NA, meaning "my club is not on the list". FINA will then check if your Club is affiliated with your National Federation.
You can already start the registration process now. The registration remains open until June 30, 2015 and you will be allowed to modify your profile any time until it is not submitted. So you will be able to make the necessary changes.
Yes, you can represent the Club you want as long as you are a member of this Club and this Club is affiliated to the National Federation.
All people successfully registered through the FINA GMS will be granted:
Please click on "forgot password?" on the account page. A link for resetting your password will be sent to your email.
Please make sure that your password is composed of at least 6 characters.
Yes, it is mandatory. You will not be able to register without an entry time compliant with the qualification standard.
The system allows you to come back to your profile anytime you want. You do not have to make all your entries at a time. You can come back and add, delete or change the events until June 15, 2015. However, no changes or additions will be accepted after the deadline of June 15, 2015.
Individual entries must be submitted and paid by June 15, 2015. However, you will have time until July 2, 2015 to correct your entry time if necessary.
As soon as you have paid your registration fee, you will see a new tab called Sport Entries. This is where you will be able to make your individual entries by sports.
Yes, for Swimming Individual Events, there are qualification times. You will see the entry time for each event by age category when registering. You will not be allowed to enter a time slower than qualification times.
No, there are no qualification standards for the other disciplines.
Each discipline has its own rules and limitations in the number of events you can enter. You can find all the information in the Entry Booklet.
You need to put your best time in 50m pool – LCM – ideally swum within the last year.
You can use conversion tables that you will find on the web. They will convert your times from yards to meters or from 25m to 50m (LCM).
Only coaches and/or captain are able to register a team. For this, you have to be registered as a coach or as an athlete with additional function of coach/captain. This will give you the ability to see a specific team entry tab where you will be able to see the people of your club and create a team.
The deadline for relays/team events registration is July 2, 2015. Only those registered for the World Championships by deadline of June 15 will be able to register for relays.
Once the person has registered for the FINA World Masters Championships, they will be directed to the payment page to pay their Registration Fee. Until this first payment is made, it is not possible to go further with the registration.
Afterwards, the person will be allowed to make Sport Entries (individual and team registrations), each Sport Entry will generate a fee to be paid (all Sport Entries made in the same time will generate one single invoice). Sport Entries will be validated only, once the specific fees are paid.
The only method of payment accepted is by a credit card. Visa and MasterCard are the only brands accepted.
Fees are divided into two categories:
1. Registration Fee which is a fixed amount of 60 USD for athletes and 40 USD for coaches and accompanying people
2. Entry Fee which is paid for each registration by event
The detailed information on fees can be found in section 3.2 of the Entry Booklet.
Anyone registered through the FINA GMS has to pay the fees.
All fees paid are not refundable. You may change events within a discipline (prior to the registration deadline) but you will not be able to get a refund.
Please ensure that when registering, all information is entered correctly to avoid mistakes.
Yes, inside the discipline, the fees paid are transferable. For example, if you registered and paid for 50m freestyle, but later decide that you prefer to compete in 200m backstroke instead, you will not have to repay an Entry Fee. However, fees paid in one discipline are not transferable to another discipline (e.g. from Open Water to Swimming). Changes can be made up until 15 June 2015.
To get the accreditation for accompanying persons, it is necessary to pass online registration through the FINA GMS following the link https://registration.fina.org/ and make an online payment for the accompanying individual. Accredited accompanying persons receive accreditation badges at the same Accreditation Centre as the athletes.
All participants (athletes, coaches, managers, team representatives and other accompanying persons) should visit the Accreditation Centre upon arrival to go through the accreditation procedure and receive accreditation badges.
Accreditation Centre address: Main International Centre of the Athletes’ Village.
Distribution of accreditation badges to the participants starts on August 1, 2015, 24/7.
Personal identification document indicated in the registration form should be presented when receiving an accreditation badge.
A full set of Championships results will be released after the event and put on the Championships website – masters.kazan2015.com/en. The results will continuously be updated on the website as well as posted at the sports information stands at the venues throughout the Championships.
Information about the training schedule can be found in the Entry Booklet.
Competitions will be held at the following venues:
Information on trainings and competitions is available in the Entry Booklet for the Championships will be prepared for each sports.
Information about the training schedule at the competition venues can be found in the Entry Booklet.
A simplified procedure of obtaining Russian visas is intended for the confirmed participants of the Masters Championships.
A single-entry humanitarian visa valid during the period between July 15, 2015 and August 20, 2015 will be issued by the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation on the basis of an official Letter of Invitation provided by the Organising Committee.
The Letter of Invitation is the official invitation letter issued by the Organising Committee that declares and confirms the participant’s intention to participate in the Championships and allows getting the Russian entry visa. The Invitation Letter is required during the visa application procedure to be done by the individual at the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation in the country of residence.
The Letter of Invitation provided by the Organising Committee is not valid for travelling and entering the Russian Federation and by no means will be considered by border control authorities. The aim of the Letter of Invitation is solely to initiate and support official visa application procedure.
The participant must apply for the official Letter of Invitation through the FINA General Management System (FINA GMS) by the deadline June 15, 2015 at 21:59 (GMT).
Upon receiving the Letter of Invitation, the participant is to collect all the documents in accordance with the requirements of the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation and submit them to the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation no earlier than May 1, 2015 together with the Invitation issued by the Organising Committee.
For any questions related to the visa assistance please contact the Organising Committee using the following e-mail address: visa.support@kazan2015.com.
Yes, provided departure from the territory of the Russian Federation is by August 20, 2015.
The visa issuing process is proposed to be free of any consulate or visa fees provided that the visa application is made through the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation.
Please note that all the fees charged by the agencies as well as all other expenses related to the visa application are to be paid by the applicant and will not be refunded by the Organising Committee.
Detailed information on the documents required to apply for a Russian visa is available on the website of the Embassy/Consulate of the Russian Federation of the city where the participant intends to apply for a visa.
Application terms and conditions may vary from one country to another. Every Embassy/Consulate reserves the right to require additional documents to process your application.
The passport must be valid for at least 6 months after the expiry date of the visa, i.e. until February 20, 2016.
The single entry humanitarian visa will be valid for the period between July 15 and August 20, 2015.
The accompanying persons will be also provided with the Letter of Invitation to apply for a Russian visa if they are registered for the Championships and the registration fees are paid in full through the FINA GMS.
Please note that if an accompanying person is not submitted to the FINA GMS or the registration is not accepted by the Organising Committee, he/she should apply for a tourist visa and the Organising Committee does not provide any assistance on this matter.
The official arrival and departure points for those attending the Championships are the following ones:
The transit arrival and departure points in Moscow are as follows:
Sheremetyevo - Kazan:
Domodedovo-Kazan:
Vnukovo-Kazan:
Total: 16 daily flights
A one-way ticket is approximately 6,000-8,000 roubles.
There are daily flights from Kazan to Saint Petersburg.
There are daily trains from Kazan to Saint Petersburg.
Schedule can be found in travel search systems as well as on the official website of the Russian Railways.
Istanbul-Kazan: Turkish airlines – 1 daily flight;
Dubai-Kazan: FlyDubai – 4 flights per week;
Helsinki-Kazan: Finnair – 3 flights per week;
Prague-Kazan: AkBarsAero – 1 flight per week;
Sharjah-Kazan: AirArabia – 2 flights per week
All information is valid for autumn-winter 2014/2015 schedules.
There might be possible changes.
No. The Organising Committee does not cover the expenses for the transfer between airports. The fastest way is to take the Aeroexpress to railway stations and metro stations in Moscow.
The Organising Committee provides a free return transfer from the official points of arrival to the Accreditation Centre.
The information on arrival should be submitted to the Organising Committee no later than 1 month prior to the event.
The schedule of shuttle bus times is drawn based on the data entered by participants in the FINA GMS.
Representatives of the Organising Committee will be working at the airports of Moscow and Kazan to help participants out with any questions they have.
Russian, English.
Thanks to the location of the Athletes' Village, guests can quickly and easily get to the city centre (10 min), Kazan International Airport, and the sports venue (Aquatics Palace) (20 min).
The following services could be found on the territory of the Athletes’ Village:
Only accredited participants may stay in the Village. If the participant pays accreditation fee for his/her family, then they could also be accommodated in the Village.
The room rates for the Athletes’ Village accommodation:
Single - 49 USD
Double - 79 USD
Triple - 108 USD
We kindly advise you to stay in the Athletes’ Village. You can contact the Official Tour Operator of the Championships - Kazan Committee for Tourism, calling +7 (843) 292-47-21; e-mailing booking.masters@kazan2015.com.
The Organising Committee is proud to present the Athletes’ Village as the primary place of accommodation for the Championships participants to ensure the most comfortable and secure stay. The Village consists of 28 buildings intended for the participants’ accommodation and offers a large panel of services and a comfortable residential zone.
The Athletes’ Village check-in procedure for delegates will commence on August 2, 2015.
The Athletes’ Village reception service will be open from 00:00, August 2 until 23:59, August 20, 2015. The service will operate in each residential building 24/7.
Accommodation booking for the 16th FINA World Masters Championships 2015 has started, please send your requests in a free form to the Official Tour Operator's mailbox booking.masters@kazan2015.com.
Participants booking a hotel through the official tour operator will be provided with accommodation at a special rate.
Wi-Fi access is guaranteed free of charge at all official places of accommodation.
The Organising Committee offers the participants of the Championships free of charge transportation services from July 29 until August 18, 2015.
Transportation services include the following:
1. Return transfer from Kazan International Airport as well as the Kazan-1 and Kazan-2 railway stations to the Accreditation Centre.
2. Transportation from the Athletes’ Village to all competition and training venues in accordance with established route and schedule.
3. Free public transport.
4. Return transportation from the Athletes’ Village to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Medical services include provision of the medical care at:
In case of emergency, participants and guests of the Championships should dial 112 or 030 to call an ambulance.
The Organising Committee advises all participants and guests to have health insurance.
The participants and guests of the Championships will be able to order accredited, fixed-rate taxis. The service will operate 24 hours a day. The average taxi fare within a city is about 300 roubles. The contacts of the accredited taxi service could be found later on the official website of the Championships.
Electricity and plugs
Voltage: 220 V
Frequency: 50 Hz.
Plug types: CEE 7/4, CEE 7/7, CEE 7/16, CEE 7/17, Schuko.
You may have to bring adapters or transformers for electrical appliances.
Kazan offers tourists a wide assortment of souvenirs and national products: tubeteikas, soft leather boots ichigi, horsemeat sausages, sweet chak-chak and much more. A lot of souvenir shops are located on Bauman street, the main pedestrian street of the city.
There is a metro in Kazan consisting of 10 stations. The average cost of a trip is 20 roubles.
There are a lot of modern shopping centres in the city. The most popular are as follows:
The rouble (code: RUB) is the official currency of the Russian Federation. One rouble is equal to one hundred kopeks.
Coins: 1, 5, 10, 50 kopeks, 1, 2, 5, 10 roubles
Banknotes: 10, 50, 100, 500, 1 000, 5 000 roubles
The average temperature in summer is +17 to +20°C.
Summer is warm or hot with plenty of sunny days.
July is the warmest month of the year, the average temperature is +20°C.
820 km east of Moscow (1 hour flight)
Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan and a major port, is located in the European part of Russia.It is one of the largest cities in the Volga region. The population of Kazan is 1 190 850 people represented by more than 100 nationalities.
FINA Water World Park is a special area located between the Kazan Arena Stadium and the Aquatics Palace. Marketing stands of the Masters Championships will be located here. The Park will also be a major cultural site of the Championships available for visitors and guests from 12:00 till 22:00.
The Opening/Closing Ceremonies will be held at the FINA Water World Park.
The Opening Ceremony will be held on August 10 at 20:00.
The Closing Ceremony will be held on August 16 (the time is yet to be announced).
The Ceremonies are held at the FINA Water World Park. Admission to the Park is free.
No tickets are to be sold to sporting events of the FINA World Masters Championships. Admission is free for all.