2022 World Aquatics Championships
The 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 19th edition of the FINA World Aquatics Championships, will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 18 June - 3 July 2022. In March 2022, after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FINA banned all Russians and Belarusians from competing at the championships. Host selection. The scheduled 2021 competitions were set to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, in the summer of 2022, after being postponed from 2021 to accommodate the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in that year. However, in January 2022, it was announced that the event in Fukuoka would be postponed  a second time to 2023 due to the current health impacts of the Omicron variant and the pandemic measures in Japan. This would have entailed a full four years between World championships, and only 1 global event between the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics On 7 February 2022, FINA announced that Budapest has been awarded as the host for an extraordinary out-of sequence Championships to be held from 18 June – 3 July 2022, in order to ensure that athletes have a global aquatics championship to target in the summer of 2022. It will be the second time Budapest hosts  this meet, 5 years after the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. Schedule. A total of 74 medal events were held across five disciplines. In view of the training and recovery challenges of a busy 2022 aquatics calendar, FINA decided to reverse the calendar,make an event on a smaller scale than previous years and with only the compulsory events of its program.Due this the schedule the swimming events for the first week, rather than the customary second half of the event.