{"id":6508,"date":"2019-09-09T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2020-01-14T02:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:47:03","slug":"history-of-the-underwater-rugby-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/history-of-the-underwater-rugby-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf0e History of the Underwater Rugby World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory-177x118.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Sportalsub.net) &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/blog\/historico-mundiales-rugby-subacuatico\"> Leer en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Underwater rugby is a sport of great growth in recent decades. The first world championship of this sport was held in 1980 in Mulheim, Germany where 7 countries participated.<\/p>\n<p>After the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/underwater-rugby-graz-2019\/\">11th CMAS Underwater Rugby World Championship<\/a> held in Graz, Austria from July 27 to August 3, 2019, this has been the historical participation in the World Championships, with interesting data from each of the National Teams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11 men&#8217;s and 8 women&#8217;s world championships have been played in 8 different countries.<\/li>\n<li>23 countries have participated in the male category, 18 in the female category.<\/li>\n<li>In the men&#8217;s category, 16 teams from Europe, 5 from America, 1 from Oceania and 1 from Africa participated.<\/li>\n<li>In the women&#8217;s category, 11 teams from Europe, 5 from America and 1 from Oceania have participated.<\/li>\n<li>5 countries have been titled Men&#8217;s World Champions: Sweden 5, Denmark 2, Norway 2, Finland 1 and Colombia 1.<\/li>\n<li>3 countries have been titled Women&#8217;s World Champions: Germany 3, Norway 3 and Sweden 2.<\/li>\n<li>6 countries have won medals in men: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Colombia.<\/li>\n<li>4 countries have won medals in women: Germany, Sweden, Norway and Colombia.<\/li>\n<li>Colombia is the only non-European country to win a World Championship in both categories and achieve medals (1 gold and 1 bronze in male and 3 female bronzes) in the World Championships of this sport.<\/li>\n<li>Colombia is the only non-European country to host Underwater Rugby World Championships, with Cali being the only city in the world that has done it twice.<\/li>\n<li>Germany, where the first World Championship was held and which gave rise to this sport has not yet been able to start the Men&#8217;s World Champion.<\/li>\n<li>Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany are the only countries that have been present in all editions in both branches.<\/li>\n<li>The largest participation in the men&#8217;s category was in Graz 2019 with 17 countries.<\/li>\n<li>The largest participation in the female category was in Graz 2019 with 14 countries.<\/li>\n<li>In Graz 2019 they debuted in World Championships: Great Britain, Hungary, Slovakia and Luxembourg in the men&#8217;s category, while Austria, Great Britain and Canada debuted in the women&#8217;s category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>World Championships<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2019-09-06-at-09-30-49.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2019-09-06-at-09-30-49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Nations participations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/womenuwr.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/womenuwr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSisG7Y37Iq7PTEH9LGHNeDKDgXgvxmQ3kPUsfkh8z0xO4PcRvPGMrXxEjc8OTsqoCNNNByogorv2uA\/pubhtml#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See online charts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uv-sport.dk\/UVENG\/NIVEAU\/Uvaround.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">World of UW Rugby<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmas.org\/underwater-rugby\/championships-archive-120326221805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CMAS UW Rugby Championship Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sportalsub.net) &#8211; Leer en Espa\u00f1ol Underwater rugby is a sport of great growth in recent decades. The first world championship of this sport was held in 1980 in Mulheim, Germany where 7 countries participated. After the end of the 11th CMAS Underwater Rugby World Championship held in Graz, Austria from July 27 to August 3, 2019, this has been the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71,43,92,26,47,42,55,48,54,93,39,145,41,51,44,139,116,33,40,86,87,17,89,69,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-austria","category-canada","category-colombia","category-czech-republic","category-denmark","category-featured","category-finland","category-germany","category-hungary","category-italy","category-luxembourg","category-norway","category-peru","category-russia","category-slovakia","category-south-africa","category-spain","category-sweden","category-switzerland","category-turkiye","category-underwater-rugby","category-united-kingdom","category-usa","category-venezuela"],"modified_by":"sportalsub","views":8243,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/uwrugbyhistory.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59VZb-1GY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":974,"url":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/national-teams-prepared-in-cali-for-underwater-rugby-world-championship-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":6508,"position":0},"title":"\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 National teams prepared in Cali for Underwater Rugby World Championship + Photos","author":"sportalsub","date":"July 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"( Sportalsub.net \/ Special UWR Cali 2015) -\u00a0Espa\u00f1ol From Monday July 27 to Saturday August 1 will be held in the city of Cali, Colombia the official matches of the X CMAS Underwater Rugby World Championship, however most selections of the 13 participating countries (12 male and 9 female) are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Australia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Australia","link":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/category\/where\/oceania\/australia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/afiche.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/afiche.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/afiche.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1629,"url":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/underwater-rugby-open-youth-germany-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":6508,"position":1},"title":"\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Underwater Rugby Open Championships for Youth and Juniors Germany 2016 Results","author":"sportalsub","date":"June 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Sportalsub.net \/ CMAS \/ VDST) - Leer en Espa\u00f1ol 21 times the German youth and junior uw-rugby-players met to find out their national champions in olderclass U 15, U 18 and U 21. 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