European Swimming Championships for Salvamento

Riccione hosts the European swimming championships for salvation

The swimming stadium in Riccione hosts the European lifesaving championships from 17 September to 1 October. There will be competitions in the pool, at the swimming stadium, and trials at sea and on the beach, at Bagni 7 on the seafront that leads to Misano.
This edition of the European championships, the twelfth, has already set a record number of participating nations, 23, and sees Italy among the big favorites and a sure protagonist in the pool and at sea.

Furthermore, the Europeans are a prelude to the upcoming world championships of salvation, which will be held again in Riccione, from September 14th to October 3rd 2020, and which return to Italy for the second time in history, after the 2004 edition Livorno and Viareggio, which was attended by 5,000 athletes from 45 nations, representing an extraordinary record.

The official ceremony will be held on 19 September for the day of swimming for safety and safety in the water, with the execution of the hymn of Mameli accompanied by a flight over the Frecce Tricolori. The 10 Aermacchi MB339 Pan return to the Riviera, however, for a perpendicular overflight (therefore not a real performance) at the Palazzo del Turismo in Riccione where the conference "Sport, Water and Water is scheduled from 2 pm until late afternoon the Prevention ". The passage of the Frecce Tricolori is scheduled for 5.00 pm just before the swearing in of sport judges and athletes who will compete until October 1st.

The competitions are divided into categories: starting with the masters (250 athletes), then starting September 20 there is the most important phase dedicated to the absolute and youth national teams (350 athletes) also transmitted in streaming on the website www.federnuoto.it and closes with the clubs involved in the last week (430 athletes).

Thursday 19 September is the day of the event, the one that best represents the nature and spirit of this sport, one of the very few in the world to combine high-level competitive activity with the work of preventing and safeguarding human life. The program of Thursday 19 September presents three key events: at 2 pm at the Palazzo del Turismo is the international congress on water culture that covers the themes of preventive information, assistance and rescue at sea and that will end with the delivery of the merits to the lifeguards who have distinguished themselves in actions and relief works. At 5 pm the opening ceremony of the XII European lifesaving championships begins with the parade of nations from Viale Ceccarini and the athletes' oath at the arrival in Piazzale Roma. sea ​​and beach and stunts with jet skis and hydro jets.