World Life Saving Championships

The ILS World Life Saving Championships are the world championships for life saving sport events. They are sanctioned by the International Life Saving Federation (ILS), conducted every 2 years, and commonly marketed and known as the ‘Rescue’ series, for example – Rescue 2008.

The World Life Saving Championships incorporate - National Teams World Championships, Interclub Teams World Championships, Masters World Championships, Surfboats World Championships and IRB World Championships. Additional championships can include additional events such as March Past, Long distance Race. The World Championships typically attract between 3,000 and 5,000 competitors and officials, and are conducted over a period of 12 to 14 days.[1]

History

Prior to the amalgamation of WLS and FIS in 1993 to create ILS, both WLS and FIS conducted World Championship events in Life Saving Sports. Founded in 1971 WLS conducted ocean and beach based world championships for National Teams in South Africa in 1974 and Interclub World Championships in 1981 and 1983. The 1988, 1990, and 1992 Rescue series of World Championship events were also organised by WLS. Rescue 88, the 1988 World Championships were the first international championships to conduct both ocean and pool events. In 1956 prior to the advent of WLS, as part of the 1956 Olympic Games celebrations Surf Life Saving Australia (a founding member of WLS) hosted an International Lifesaving Championships at Torquay Beach in which teams from several countries competed against each other. It could be argued that this was the first World Lifesaving Championships for ocean and beach events. Founded in 1910, member nations of FIS agreed to conduct World Championships in pool life saving events. The first such championships were conducted in Paris, France in 1955 and were held sporadically over the next 40 years until the final FIS Championships in 1995. These contests were strictly for national representative teams only. Since 1996, World Life Saving Championships have been conducted solely by ILS every two years.

List of competitions

Year and DateChampionshipLocation
1955 FIS Paris, France
1956 FIS Mulhouse, France
1956 International contest Torquay Beach, Australia
1957 FIS Bordeaux, France
1958 FIS Châlons du Marne et Reims, France
1959 FIS Wiesbaden, Germany
1960 FIS Madrid, Spain
1961 FIS Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
1962 FIS Rome, Italy
1963 FIS Paris, France
1964 FIS Alger, Algeria
1966 FIS Rabat, Morocco
1967 FIS Salzburg, Austria
1968 FIS Trier, Germany
1969 FIS Rome, Italy
1972 FIS Vittel Neufchateau Contrexville, France
1974 WLS South Africa
1974 FIS Barcelona, Spain
1976 FIS Berlin, Germany
1978 FIS London, Great Britain
1981 WLS Interclub Bali, Indonesia
1981 FIS Sofia, Bulgaria
1983 WLS Interclub Hawaii, USA
1983 FIS Warsaw, Poland
1987 FIS Warendorf, Germany
1988 Rescue 88 Gold Coast, Australia
1990 Rescue 90 Lübeck/Travemünde, Germany
1991 FIS Jönköping, Sweden
1992 Rescue 92 Shimoda, Japan
1994 Rescue 94 Cardiff/Newquay, Great Britain
1995 FIS Valenciennes, France
1996 Rescue 96 Durban, South Africa
1998 Rescue 98 Auckland, New Zealand
2000 Rescue 2000 Sydney, Australia[2]
2002 Rescue 2002 Daytona Beach/Orlando, USA[2]
2004 Rescue 2004 Livorno/Viareggio, Italy
2006 Rescue 2006 Geelong/Lorne, Australia[3]
2008 Rescue 2008 Berlin/Warnemünde, Germany
2010 Rescue 2010 Alexandria, Egypt
2012 Rescue 2012 Adelaide, Australia[4]
2014 Rescue 2014 Montpellier and La Grande Motte, France
2016 Rescue 2016 Eindhoven and Noordwijk, The Netherlands[5]
2018 Rescue 2018 Adelaide, Australia[6]

References

  1. "Lifesaving World Championships - Rescue Series". International Life Saving Federation. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 Edwards, Allan; Gilbert, Keith; Skinner, James (2003-01-01). Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. p. 197. ISBN 9781841260983. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. "'Dream team' off to Australia". Independent Online. 16 February 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013.
  4. "Rescue 2012". Surf Life Saving Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  5. "Lifesaving World Championships 2016 - Netherlands - Eindhoven - Noordwijk". Lifesaving2016.com. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  6. "2018 Lifesaving World Championships". International Lifesaving Federation (ILS). Retrieved 5 July 2016.

External links

http://www.ilsf.org/

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