광주세계수영선수권대회 6개 종목 및 주요 선수 소개<br /><br />Staying with the 2019 FINA World Championships.<br />Some of the events are already underway.<br />Our Won Jung-hwan outlines what fans can look forward to... during the 17-day competition.<br />Around 2-thousand-6-hundred athletes from over 190 countries will be vying for 76 gold medals in 6 disciplines,... from July 12th to the 28th.<br />Two of those 6 sporting events have already kicked off,... and the competition is fierce.<br />Preliminaries for the men's 1-meter dive have begun at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, the main venue of the 2019 Gwangju Championships,... showcasing some acrobatic performances.<br />There are a total of 13 gold medals up for grabs,... and China, the world's No.1,... is once again likely to sweep most of the medals.<br />Besides the diving,… both solo and duet technicals for artistic swimming,... have also begun at Yeomju Gymnasium in Gwangju.<br />There 10 gold medals to be won,… and the defending champion, Svetlana Kolesnichenko of Russia... is the odds-on favorite to add to her tally of 13 world titles.<br />On Saturday,… two other disciplines - Open Water and Water Polo - will also get underway.<br />Open water is an outdoor swimming competition that is widely known as the marathon of swimming.<br />The open water discipline is the only event which will be held outside of Gwangju,... namely Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park which was the site of a 2012 global expo in Yeosu.<br /><br />Another event that is due to kick off over the weekend will be,... only ball game in swimming,… water polo.<br />7 players from each side will try to put a ball inside their opponent's net. A total of 16 teams in both the men's and women's side will compete for a gold medal.<br />The two remaining disciplines high diving and swimming will take place later in the championship calendar.<br />With a jam-packed schedule of events,... the largest-ever competition in FINA's history will provide global fans to cool off during the summer.<br />Won Jung-hwan, Arirang News.<br />
