FINA member Federations voted Saturday in support of a new FINA policy on gender inclusion Camiseta Ajax presented at the FINA amazing general Congress 2022.
The vote, which was 71.5 percent in favour of the new policy, took place after Congress heard speeches from representatives of a working group that was set up in November 2021. This working group consisted of three specialist groups – an athlete group, a science and medicine group, and a legal and human rights group.
After analysing the conclusions of these groups, FINA developed a new policy that will apply in any way FINA events. The policy will also be followed for world record ratification, wherever the competition took place.
The full FINA gender inclusion policy can be found here.
Included in the policy are proposals for an open competition category. FINA will establish a new working group that will spend the next six months checking out the most effective ways to set up this new category.
Commenting on the policy, FINA president Husain Al-Musallam said; “We have to secure the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to secure competitive fairness at our events, especially the women’s category at FINA competitions.”
The FINA president added: “FINA will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will indicate that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so FINA will need to lead the way. I want all Camiseta Tigres UANL athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process.”
The Camiseta PSV Eindhoven new FINA gender inclusion policy comes into effect on 20 June 2022.
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