The aquatics will include open water swimming and will be staged on Loch Lomond. The event will bring together the existing European Championships of athletics, aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon with around 3025 athletes coming to Scotland. A further 1500 athletes will compete in Berlin in the European Athletics Championships.
Loch Lomond was chosen to host the open water swimming following the success of the Great Scottish Swim, which brings thousands of swimmers to the Loch each year.
Gordon Watson, Chief Executive at Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, said: “We are honoured to be hosting the open water swimming element of the inaugural European Championships in 2018. We have seen an incredible growth in open water swimming, with people from around the globe travelling here to compete in events like the Great Scottish Swim, which had a record 2,600 participants in 2015. Hosting the European Championships will give us a fantastic opportunity to showcase the National Park as a wonderful place to swim and visit, to the millions of people who will watch the games coverage across Europe.
Funded jointly by the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council, the new event will be run in partnership and allow Glasgow and Scotland to continue to build on the economic and sporting legacy achieved by staging the Commonwealth Games.
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