Monday, January 11, 2010

FINA(WORLD SWIMMING FEDERATION)

FINA was founded on July 19, 1908 in the Manchester Hotel in London, UK at the end of the 1908 Summer Olympics by the Belgian, British, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish Swimming Federations.

Number of national federations by year:

1908: 8
1928: 38
1958: 75
1978: 106
1988: 109
2000: 174
2008: 197

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