Open water Swimming Club Primorje

founded March 13th, 2010. It is a private collaborative company of public utility, and therefore, not-for-profit. It has its own legal status, and full capacity to exercise the purposes and powers within its competence, as governed by The Law on Associations 74/14 and by The Law on Sports 19/16 by the provisions in force of the Croatian sport legislation, by its Statute, General Regulation and the remaining internal standards required in exercising its competencies. In addition to its own competencies, OWSC Primorje exercises public administration under the supervision and guardianship of the National Open Water Swimming Federation, and Sport Association of the City of Rijeka. OWSC Primorje is, first of all, part of the local aquatics association Primorje’08 established in 1908, and in addition, it is affiliated with the national Open Water Swimming Federation, and through it integrated into the Croatian Olympic Committee. The main aims of the Club are: 1. Advancement and development of distance and marathon swimming as one of the Olympic sports; 2. For the recreational swimmers to improve their swimming techniques, their psycho-motoric abilities and their participations in competitions and recreational swimming manifestations. (activities). During nine years of its existence, the Club (Primorje) has organized more than 100 OWS events, including the LEN Aquatics Day founded in 2013 for the whole of Croatia, when LEN established the European day of aquatic sports, as a swimming competition that includes other LEN aquatics sports.