The USA Swimming House of Delegates, consisting of 438 coach, official and athlete members, voted to implement new swimsuit requirements, beginning on October 1. While this earlier implementation date has created some challenges, it was put in place to both avoid interrupting our short course season and protect the integrity of our competitions in the summer of 2010.
The new swimsuit requirements are very specific and technical in nature, but deal primarily with silhouette and material of the suits.
FINA will be the ultimate judge of which materials will be acceptable. However, in an effort to provide clearer guidance to its membership, USA Swimming asked the major suit manufacturers, in good faith, to indicate which of their suits meet the specified criteria. The list of those suits is below.
Please note, none of these suits should be considered “FINA approved” until FINA issues its list of 2010 suits.Once FINA publishes its list, some of the suits below may no longer be acceptable.
Reference List for Allowable Swimsuits
Aqua Zone
Aqua Zone Fast Flow Jammer
Aqua Zone Fast Flow Female Knee Suit V Back
Aqua Zone Fast Flow V Back
Aqua Zone R1 jammer
Aqua Zone R1 Female classic cut
Aqua Zone R1 Female Jammer
Aqua Zone R2 jammer
Aqua Zone R2 Female classic cut
Aqua Zone R2 Female Jammer
ARENA
ARENA X-FLAT
a) Woman full body short leg open back
b) Woman Normal Suit (Classic)
c) Man Jammer
d) Man Brief
ARENA POWERSKIN
a) Woman full body short leg open
b) Woman Normal Suit (Classic)
c) Man Jammer
ARENA POWERSKIN R-EVOLUTION
a) Woman full body short leg open back
b) Man Jammer
AgonSwim.com
The following styles from Agonswim.com in the fabrics Paper, Streamline, Lycra, MaxResist, PolyRidge, Speedline, Duramax, Knit Polyester, PBT and Mesh meet the requirements.
Male styles
Brief
Brief Euro
Jammer
Splice Jammer
Training suit
Training suit euro
Female styles
Freeback
Freeback Youth
Knee Length Proback
Proback
Sprintback
ThinStraps
Thin Straps Youth
ThinStraps 1X
Thin Straps 2X
U-Back
BikiniBack Top
BikiniBack Bottom
BlueSeventy
Will provide a list when it is available
Diana
The below Diana suit models have received FINA approval
Diana Submarine 201M pants-short men
Diana Submarine 213W full-knee Women
Diana Submarine 243W full-knee women
Dolfin
All suits in the Dolfin LTF series