Swimming World Cup 2023: Transgender swimmers to compete in new open category in Berlin

Berlin's Europasportpark volition big the Swimming World Cup lawsuit successful October

World Aquatics volition debut a caller unfastened class for transgender athletes astatine this year's Swimming World Cup lawsuit successful Berlin.

The unfastened class volition diagnostic 50m and 100m races crossed each strokes.

"This highlights [our] unwavering committedness to inclusivity, welcoming swimmers of each enactment and sex identities," said World Aquatics.

Last twelvemonth World Aquatics said the unfastened class would beryllium for swimmers whose sex individuality is antithetic than their commencement sex.

Describing the instauration of the unfastened class successful Berlin arsenic a "pioneering aviator project", World Aquatics said much events could beryllium added.

The governing assemblage said elaborate introduction requirements and introduction times would beryllium made disposable "soon".

"To beryllium eligible, swimmers request an affiliation with a nationalist federation and volition beryllium fixed the flexibility to enactment individually, for their club, squad oregon arsenic nationalist federation members," it added.

The Berlin competition, which takes spot connected 6-8 October, is the archetypal of 3 World Cup meetings this year.

They are a cardinal portion of the swimming calendar, coming soon aft the World Aquatics Championships successful Fukuoka and earlier the aforesaid lawsuit successful Doha successful January.

World Aquatics, which was formerly known arsenic Fina, said the unfastened class placed accent connected "gaining further acquisition for aboriginal improvement and celebrating diversity".

German Swimming Federation's vice president Kai Morgenroth added the hosts were "proud" to clasp an lawsuit wherever swimmers tin "compete without barriers".

"Berlin is Germany's hub for diverseness and inclusion and truthful the cleanable determination for specified a progressive project," helium said.

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