FINA approves mixed gender relays at future swimming world championships

BARCELONA, Spain – Swimming’s governing body voted Friday to include two different mixed-gender relays — the 4×100-meter freestyle and the 4×100 medley — at future world championships.

Teams will be made up of two men and two women, and it is up to them to decide the order — so, for instance, a woman could race against a man on the anchor leg.

Having already been tested at a World Cup meet in Dubai last year, the mixed relays will get their official debut at the 2014 short-course worlds in Doha, Qatar, in the 4×50 format. Then they will make their long-course worlds debut in Kazan, Russia, in 2015.

The mixed relays have not yet been approved for the Olympics.

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