Athlete
Former Italian national team finswimmer: silver medal at the 1998 World Championships (4×200 m relay) and at the 1997 and 1999 European Championships.
About
An international finswimming network
FinSwim.World brings together clubs, associations and young federations to promote and develop finswimming at every level, from first lessons to world championships.
Our vision
A world where everyone can swim like a dolphin
We see finswimming recognised as a major aquatic sport and open to everyone: in every country, in every pool, for people of every age, ability and background. Strong, self-sustaining clubs and federations make the sport grow wherever there is water.
Our mission
We bring finswimming to new people and new places, and help the organisations behind it become strong enough to last.
We share the knowledge of a lifetime in finswimming, as athlete, coach and sport leader, with athletes, coaches, clubs and federations worldwide. We:
- teach the sport through open articles and tutorials, bootcamps, clinics and remote coaching;
- open the water to people with disabilities and from vulnerable groups, at any age, with free inclusive programmes and an equipment library;
- help clubs and federations become independent, through EU projects, fundraising and good management;
- reinvest everything we earn into the sport and the people it serves.
Team
Rubes Levada
Founder · Head coach · Sport project manager
Coach
Coaching since 2001 (Record Team Bologna, Geronimo Zagreb, Zagreb Diving Federation, Komet & Novi Jelkovec). Master Coach certification (2012). Athletes include world champion Filip Strikinac (2022) and world silver medallist Kristijan Tomić (2016).
Sport leader
President of Finswimming Team Komet. Co-founded finswimming federations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Romania, and has led more than 15 EU-funded projects, for the two clubs and for partner organisations, including Aurora and Mermaids for Inclusion.
Our clubs
The clubs behind FinSwim.World
FinSwim.World grows out of two Zagreb finswimming clubs: they are where every programme is tested before we offer it to others, and they hold the track record of our European projects.
Finswimming Team Komet
KPP Komet · Zagreb, Croatia · PIC 923584725
- Finswimming from beginner to competitive level, with inclusive and adapted programmes
- Croatian club champion 2016; silver medal at the 2016 World Finswimming Championships
- International bootcamps since 2013 in Spain, Tunisia, Tanzania, Kenya, Algeria, Bosnia and Kosovo
- Helped found national finswimming federations in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Romania
- Coordinator of Erasmus+ Sport projects (Mermaids for Inclusion, BalkanSplash, C-BEST) and partner in many others
Finswimming Team Novi Jelkovec
KPP Novi Jelkovec · Zagreb, Croatia · PIC 895844762
- Grassroots club born from the Komet community, active in the Svetice, Iver and Jelkovec pools
- Free and adapted swimming, para-swimming and finswimming for children and young people facing barriers
- Medals at Croatian championships; 5th place in the 200 m bi-fins at the 2025 European Senior Championships
- Erasmus+ Sport partner in Water Sports Festival, What Women Need and Ternary Categories in Sport; coordinator of the ESF+ project Valovi uključenosti
Track record: 11 EU-funded projects since 2018, about 1.15 million euros of project funding, partners in 8+ countries. Both clubs are members of the Croatian Diving Federation and work within the CMAS finswimming framework.
Network & partners
Clubs and federations in our network
Partnerships with clubs, associations and institutions are at the heart of what we do. Want to join? Get in touch.
KometCroatia
Edu BridgeGeorgia
SharksSweden
APYArmenia
CSYOAzerbaijan
Tanzania Finswimming AssociationTanzania
Kenya Finswimming ConnectKenya
Kampala FinSwimming AssociationUganda
Partner clubRomania
Partner clubBangladesh
Become a partner
NGOs working on sport, swimming federations and organisations that want to introduce finswimming in their country: let's build projects together.