LEN President Paolo Barelli met State President of Hungary Janos Ader in the Duna Arena, during the evening session on the penultimate day at the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest. President Barelli thanked the support of Hungary to stage LENรขโฌโขs top event which proved to be an outstanding success.
รขโฌลItรขโฌโขs always great to stage our top events in a country where leaders are huge supporters of sportsรขโฌย President Barelli said. รขโฌลPresident Janos Ader, just like Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a great friend of aquatics, it was a pleasure to meet him once again and on behalf of the LEN Family I thanked him Hungaryรขโฌโขs never-ceasing support of European Aquatics.รขโฌย
Hungary is a record-holder in organising LENรขโฌโขs top events, the European Aquatics Championships have returned here for the 6th time (1926, 1958, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2021) and the stand-alone European Water Polo Championships were also held here three times (2001, 2014, 2020) already, besides several other LEN meets.
รขโฌลI told Mr Ader that LEN was really grateful for the enormous support these championships received from Hungary as the organisers created the largest bubble the sporting world has seen during this pandemic period with almost 4,000 participants insideรขโฌย the LEN President added. รขโฌลIt was a huge opportunity for the best European aquatic athletes to compete again on the highest level, in a world-class racing environment and also in the utmost safety. With one more day to go, I think we can state that our event is an outstanding success and a firm proof that sport shall always prevail, even in the most extraordinary times.รขโฌย
The European Championships have been broadcasted by 38 right-holders and the free live streaming offered by LEN and EBU has been followed by hundreds of thousands of swimming fans worldwide.
รขโฌลThis event demonstrated once more the power and quality of European Aquaticsรขโฌย Mr Barelli said. รขโฌลEven in this demanding period, our athletes, coaches, officials and national federations showed that talent, work-ethic, dedication and commitment always bring the desired results. Weรขโฌโขve witnessed fantastic races, great individual and team efforts รขโฌโ it was European Aquatics at its best. LEN is tremendously grateful for everyone whoรขโฌโขs made it possible to enjoy another memorable edition of the European Aquatics Championships.รขโฌย
The championships are to conclude Sunday evening with a flag-handover ceremony รขโฌโ the LEN flag will be passed to the representative of the next organiser, Rome 2022.
Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of MTI/Tamas Kovacs
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