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About

An international finswimming network

FinSwim.World brings together clubs, associations and young federations to promote and develop finswimming at every level, from first lessons to world championships.

Our vision

A world where everyone can swim like a dolphin

We see finswimming recognised as a major aquatic sport and open to everyone: in every country, in every pool, for people of every age, ability and background. Strong, self-sustaining clubs and federations make the sport grow wherever there is water.

Our mission

We bring finswimming to new people and new places, and help the organisations behind it become strong enough to last.

We share the knowledge of a lifetime in finswimming, as athlete, coach and sport leader, with athletes, coaches, clubs and federations worldwide. We:

  • teach the sport through open articles and tutorials, bootcamps, clinics and remote coaching;
  • open the water to people with disabilities and from vulnerable groups, at any age, with free inclusive programmes and an equipment library;
  • help clubs and federations become independent, through EU projects, fundraising and good management;
  • reinvest everything we earn into the sport and the people it serves.
Young finswimmer with a monofin in the pool

Team

Rubes Levada

Founder · Head coach · Sport project manager

Athlete

Former Italian national team finswimmer (1994–1999): 4×200 m relay silver at the 1998 World Championships in Cali, Colombia, and at the 1997 and 1999 European Championships, plus two relay bronze medals at the 1997 World Games. Awarded the Italian Gold Medal for Athletic Valour (Medaglia d'Oro al Valore Atletico, no. 2230) for the 1998 World Championships in Cali, where Italy won the team world title (source). Still racing as a masters swimmer.

Full results
  • 1994 European Juniors, Hungary: silver, 4×100 m relay
  • 1995 World Juniors, Slovakia: 4th 4×200 m relay, 7th 50 m surface, 8th 100 m surface
  • 1997 European Championships, France: silver, 4×200 m relay
  • 1997 World Games, Finland: bronze, 4×100 m and 4×200 m relays
  • 1998 World Championships, Cali, Colombia: team world champion with Italy; silver, 4×200 m relay
  • 1999 European Championships, Greece: silver 4×200 m relay, 7th 200 m, 6th 400 m
  • 2015 Masters World Cup, Ravenna: 1st 100 m surface (43.70), 2nd 50 m surface (20.12)
  • 2020 European Masters, Lignano: silver, 100 m surface M3 (53.10)
  • 2021 European Masters, Lignano: 4th, 50 m apnoea M40+ (19.56)
Rubes Levada with his medal at the Halluda Games, Sharm el Sheikh, 1998
Halluda Games, Sharm el Sheikh, 1998.

Coach

Coaching since 2001 (Record Team Bologna, Geronimo Zagreb, Zagreb Diving Federation, Komet & Novi Jelkovec). Master Coach certification (2012). Athletes include world champion Filip Strikinac (2022) and world silver medallist Kristijan Tomić (2016).

Sport leader

President of Finswimming Team Komet. Co-founded finswimming federations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Romania, and has led more than 15 EU-funded projects, for the two clubs and for partner organisations, including Aurora and Mermaids for Inclusion.

Our clubs

The clubs behind FinSwim.World

FinSwim.World grows out of two Zagreb finswimming clubs: they are where every programme is tested before we offer it to others, and they hold the track record of our European projects.

Komet finswimming team logo Since 2011

Finswimming Team Komet

KPP Komet · Zagreb, Croatia · PIC 923584725

Komet was founded in 2011 by the finswimmers of Diving Club Geronimo, where it had started as the finswimming section. From 2011 to 2015, with the support of the City of Zagreb, it ran the "Zagreb Finswimming Saturdays": seminars with world-class finswimmers and coaches, the Croatian club championship and international training camps with athletes from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.

  • Finswimming from beginner to competitive level, with inclusive and adapted programmes
  • Croatian club champion 2016; the same year Kristijan Tomić won world silver and, with Adrijan Omićević, reached the World Championship finals in three events
  • International bootcamps since 2013 in Spain, Tunisia, Tanzania, Kenya, Algeria, Bosnia and Kosovo
  • Helped found national finswimming federations in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Romania
  • Coordinator of Erasmus+ Sport projects since 2018 (Aurora, Aurora Adriatic, Mermaids for Inclusion, BalkanSplash, C-BEST) and partner in many others, such as SPOT
Partner profile (PIF, PDF) Project portfolio (PDF)
Klub plivanja perajama Novi Jelkovec logo Since 2017

Finswimming Team Novi Jelkovec

KPP Novi Jelkovec · Zagreb, Croatia · PIC 895844762

  • Grassroots club born from the Komet community, active in the Svetice, Iver and Jelkovec pools
  • Free and adapted swimming, para-swimming and finswimming for children and young people facing barriers
  • Medals at Croatian championships; 5th place in the 200 m bi-fins at the 2025 European Senior Championships
  • Erasmus+ Sport partner in Water Sports Festival, What Women Need and Ternary Categories in Sport; coordinator of the ESF+ project Valovi uključenosti
Partner profile (PIF, PDF)

Track record: 11 EU-funded projects since 2018, about 1.15 million euros of project funding, partners in 8+ countries. Both clubs are members of the Croatian Diving Federation and work within the CMAS finswimming framework.

Network & partners

Clubs and federations in our network

Partnerships with clubs, associations and institutions are at the heart of what we do. Want to join? Get in touch.

KometCroatia
Edu BridgeGeorgia
SharksSweden
APYArmenia
CSYOAzerbaijan
Tanzania Finswimming AssociationTanzania
Kenya Finswimming ConnectKenya
Kampala FinSwimming AssociationUganda
Partner clubRomania
Partner clubBangladesh
Flag of Kosovo

Kosovo

  • KSU Otrila, Prishtina: project partner
  • Swimming clubs and swimmers from Prizren, Ferizaj and Pejë

They all took part in the Erasmus+ project Mermaids for Inclusion (2023–2024): finswimming presentations and pool sessions in Pejë (January 2024) and Prishtina (April 2024), and the final event in Sarajevo (November 2024), where Kosovo swimmers and coaches raced alongside clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Australia.

Coaches and masters athletes from Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Australia on the podium in Sarajevo, November 2024
Sarajevo, 17 November 2024: coaches and masters athletes, with KSU Otrila on the right.

Become a partner

NGOs working on sport, swimming federations and organisations that want to introduce finswimming in their country: let's build projects together.

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