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ZIMBABWE will send four swimmers to the extraordinary Fina World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
The championships will feature swimming, diving, water polo, open water and artistic swimming. The swimming events will be held from Saturday up to June 25 at the Duna Arena.
The Zimbabwe team is made up of Donata Katai, Nomvula Mjimba, Liam Davis and Denilson Cyprianos.
Cyprianos is based in the United States of America where he is being coached by Douglas Humphrey at South Dakota University.
Mjimba is also based in the United States at Gannon University under the mentorship of Jacqueline Michalski while Davis is based in Edinburgh, Scotland under coach Ross Douglas.
Katai is with the Sharks Swimming Club in Harare under renowned local coach Kathy Lobb.
Masi Takaedza from Peterhouse College has been appointed coach of the four-member team.
Fina wants to maximise racing opportunities for established and emerging aquatics athletes alike in the next four years.
Budapest previously hosted the Fina World Championships in 2017 where 12 records were set in the pool in an event that drew record-breaking numbers of spectators and television viewers.
Fina will continue to work towards similar event programming for high dive athletes and masters’ competitors.
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