Jose Pep Amengual, a spearfishing legend, has received recognition at the City Hall of Palma de Mallorca for his 50th anniversary of winning his first world title. Celebrating such a milestone is a testament to his dedication and achievements in the ...
Chile will host the Panamerican Championship
The IX CMAS Panamerican Spearfishing Championship will be held in Antofagasta, Chile, from 10th to 13th October 2024. The championship will be organized by the Asociación de Deportes Submarinos de Antofagasta (ADESUBA). Particular rules will be publi...
Stefano Bellani will compete in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro's Yacht Club will be the home of the 2nd CMAS World Cup for Clubs in March 2024 Among the many well-known athletes, ex-world champion Stefano Bellani will compete alongside Maurizio Ramacciotti and Marco Paggini."It was not a tough dec...
Davide De Ceglie: A brilliant career
The Italian champion Davide de Ceglie is considered as one of the best finswimmers of his generation, a specialist of long distance finswimming. After 28 years of activity he is retiring from competitive finswimming. We had the occasion to talk with ...
The World Games Athlete of the Year 2023
It's that time of year again - when you can support Szymon Kropidlowski by voting in The World Games Athelte of the Year poll. Yearly, more than 500,000 votes are cast in the race for the title. Szymon Kropidlowski (21) came to the fore at The World ...
Skills courses for instructors were held in Egypt
The CMAS Technical Committee (CMAS TC), in collaboration with the Egyptian Diving and Lifesaving Federation (EDLF), held skills courses to update instructor's qualifications. Mr Flemming Holmes (CMAS TC President), Mr. Abdelaziz Rezik (Director of St...
CMAS - Anti-Doping Education Webinar 1
We are sending the last reminder for the specific webinar organised for the CMAS Family by ITA in the field of education program mandatory for all the IF.This webinar is organised Thursday, the 30th of March, with two slot times in the morning and af...
2023 Ordinary General Assembly
CMAS Ordinary General Assembly of 2023 will be held in Crowne Plaza.5* Hotels & Resorts, Belgrade (Serbia), on the 6th to 9th April, 2023. CMAS World members will gather for 3 days to discuss the future objectives.
Huali Yao: “Olympic motto “Higher, Faster, Stronger, Together”
At the end of the 2023 season, we had a pleasant surprise fromthe Chinese athlete Huali Yao. She achieved two new World Junior Records in 50 apnea with a performance of 15.71 s and in the 100 Immersion with 35.05 s. We had the opportunity to meet her...
Palma de Mallorca prepared for champions
As always, the first spearfishing competition in the new year will be the traditional Semana Master in Palma de Mallorca, organized by FBDAS, FEDAS, and CMAS.There are four different competitions – for the first time, the Master's World Cup for athle...
Alexandria Underwater Archaeological Field School
CMAS has joined forces with the Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage, a CMAS Scientific Diving centre, to run the Alexandria Underwater Archaeological Field School which will take place in Alexandria, Egypt, fro...
Raul Astorga will defend his title from Tunis
The second edition of the CMAS World Cup for Clubs will be held in Rio de Janeiro from March 7th to March 10th, 2024. The competition and zone of the Tijuca islands on the coast of Rio de Janeiro already attracted more than 20 teams from around...
Particular rules for Euro-African championship are published
The Particular rules for XXXIV Men and third Women CMAS Euro-African championship that will be held in Avsa island from May 29th till June 2nd 2024. are published on CMAS website. Technical delegate for the competition will be Parco Paggini from Ital...
Finswimming never stops: Angelo Sesana and his 50+ years career
One of the great protagonists of the 4th CMAS Masters Finswimming Open Water World Championship was Angelo Sesana. The eighty-year-old - yes you read that right- Italian athlete managed to win a total of four gold medals. 1km Bi Fins, 3km Bi Fins, 3k...
Rules for World Cup for Clubs are published
The Particular rules for the II World Cup for Clubs that will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from March 7th to March 10th, 2024. are published on the CMAS website. Because of the limited number of boats, only 30 teams can participate so teams that...
1st World Para Finswimming Championship
The World Underwater Federation in cooperation with FIPSAS organizes the 1st World Para Finswimming Championship.By including persons with disabilities, CMAS sports also provides opportunities for innovation and recognizes the range of diversity with...
Nikol ORTEGA: I was surprised at my capabilities
The 18th Junior World Championship took place in June, from 19 to 24, in Cairo, Egypt. The future stars of the discipline participated in a very high-level event. An athlete that really shined was Nikol ORTEGA from Colombia, with three World rec...
The CMAS 7th Freediving Depth World Championship 2023 in Roatan Honduras
The CMAS 7th Freediving Depth World Championship 2023 in Roatan Honduras in the Caribbean Sea is over, after 4 very successful competition days.Day 1 (Aug 21) CWT:The competition started with the discipline of Constant Weight (monofin) where for the ...
Axolotls from Mexico City, on the way to start playing Underwater Rugby.
An enthusiastic former National Team Colombian player, Isabel Botero is fully determined to have an UWR team playing in a few months. Isabel started the team a few years back in 2019, they were playing 3 times per week, and even, they had the o...
Men World Championship title goes for second time in a row to Colombia.
Colombia dominated the competition by keeping a clean sheet during the whole championship.Group A had an interesting starting position with Colombia, Germany, and Denmark in there. During the group stage Colombia drew its game versus Germany but mana...
