How And When To Watch/Stream The 2022 World Aquatics Championships

by Ben Dornan 57

June 17th, 2022 International, News

2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2022 World Championships will take place in Budapest, Hungary from June 18 – June 25, 2022. With a few days to go until the meet begins, FINA has released a list of which TV channels and websites will be broadcasting the meet in various countries. This coverage guide (shown below) lists how people in nearly every country on the globe can get access to the meet.

Prelims sessions for the swimming events will begin at 9 AM local time and finals will start at 6 PM local time. You can check out what that time corresponds to in various cities here:

Prelims/Finals Start Times

CITY
PRELIMS START TIME
FINALS START TIME
Budapest, HUN 9:00 AM 6:00 PM
Omaha, NE 2:00 AM 11:00 AM
New York City 3:00 AM 12:00 PM
Austin, TX 2:00 AM 11:00 AM
Los Angeles, CA 12:00 AM 9:00 AM
Honolulu, HI 9:00 PM 6:00 AM
Brisbane, AUS 5:00 PM 2:00 AM
RĂ­o de Janeiro, BRA 4:00 AM 1:00 PM
Tokyo, JPN 4:00 PM 1:00 AM
Toronto, CAN 3:00 AM 12:00 PM
Montreal, CAN 3:00 AM 12:00 PM
Beijing, China 3:00 PM 12:00 AM
Cape Town, South Africa 9:00 AM 6:00 PM
Naples, ITA 9:00 AM 6:00 PM
Paris, FRA 9:00 AM 6:00 PM
London, ENG 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Berlin, GER 9:00 AM 6:00 PM

The following list, courtesy of FINA, shows where to watch the meet on a country-by-country basis:

Africa

Country Coverage
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa Republic, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé e Príncipe Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Socotra, St. Helena & Ascension, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Chad, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia (including Somaliland), Sudan, South Sudan SuperSport
Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tunisia beIN Sports
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia Eurovision

The Americas

Country Coverage
USA NBC Sports (Swimming Finals only) & FINA Facebook Page for other competitions
Canada CBC
Brazil Globo/SporTV
Argentina, Anguilla, Antigua, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, Venezuela,

Antartica, Aruba, Netherland Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, Saint Eustacius), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Uruguay

ESPN Latin America

Asia

Country Coverage
Japan TV Asahi – tv-asahi.co.jp
China & Macau China Media Group (CCTV5)
Malaysia & Brunei Astro
South Korea CJ Media – cj.net
Hong Kong i-Cable
Taiwan ELTA TV
Indonesia TVRI
India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka FINA Facebook page
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine (including the Gaza Strip), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Syria, Jordan & Lebanon beIN Sports

Europe

Country Coverage
Bulgaria BNT
Croatia HRT
Cyprus CBC
Estonia ERR
Finland YLE
France (including overseas territories: French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Reunion, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, St Pierre & Miquelon, French Southern & Antarctic Lands, Wallis & Futuna) FT
Georgia 1TV (Men’s Water Polo only)
Greece ERT
Hungary MTVA
Iceland RUV
Israel Sports Channel
Italy RAI Sport
Lithuania LT
Montenegro RTCG
Netherlands (including overseas territories: Aruba, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Martin, Saint Eustatius) NOS
Poland TVP
Serbia RTS
Slovakia RTVA
Slovenia RTVS
Spain (including overseas territory: The Canary Islands) Eurovision All Aquatics
Sweden SVT
Switzerland SRG (SRF/RTS/RSI)
Turkey TRT
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia Arena Sport
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark (including overseas territories: Faroe Islands, Greenland), Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Norway (including overseas territory: Spitsbergen), Portugal (including overseas territories: The Azores, Madeira), Romania, Russia, San Marino, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican AllAquatics

Oceania

Country Coverage
Australia NineNetwork

In addition to watching live, as always, make sure you check back in on SwimSwam before, during, and after each session to get full coverage, results, and analysis of this meet.

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Robert DePaolo
7 months ago

Why not put the event on traditional TV -must every thing be “nerded” from now on. People stiil do watche on regular channels and you’re losing half your audience

Joao
1 year ago

Many thanks for the information. Now I can see it in Portugal. Cheers

JJ J
1 year ago

This is just pathetic that without cable I can’t even do a pay-per-view, From comments below, my only option is to put my faith in a VPN, trust that it isn’t a shady operation that will steal my data, and watch a foreign broadcast. Shame on FINA for making such a Draconian agreement with NBC that makes it so difficult to watch in the USA, and shame on NBC for locking down coverage so tightly that people without cable can’t even watch it. This ought to be on network OTA TV instead of stupid golf.

joanietheswimmer
Reply to  JJ J
1 year ago

And I am still trying to figure out exactly what is “live” in Omega Live Timing! It is the worst delivery for results…and doesn’t even include prelim times when they finally do issue the results, later.

mcswammerstein
1 year ago

I like how theres multiple random cities in the same time zone rather than just saying the times zone…

coach
1 year ago
Swim Fan
1 year ago

Doesn’t seem Facebook is an option for US watching. Any alternatives for prelims?

NB1
1 year ago
Sherry Smit
1 year ago

Can you use a VPN and use CBC,

Greg
Reply to  Sherry Smit
1 year ago

Yes, of course