Bella Italia Sports Village in Lignano Sabbiadoro is the venue for the University World Cup, with competition due to take place in an Olympic-size swimming pool.

Surface finswimming, apnea finswimming and immersion finswimming are all on the agenda.

Racing begins tomorrow, with nine finals scheduled.

A further nine finals appear on the timetable for Saturday (April 2).

Ninety-one student-athletes, from 55 universities and representing 15 countries, are expected to compete.

Ukraine's Oleksii Zakharov - a surface finswimming world champion over 400 and 800 metres - is among them.

Consuelo Dametto, a world champion in open water, is one of the high-profile Italian swimmers due to race.

University World Cups eschew national delegations in exchange for university-versus-university competition.

An Opening Ceremony was held today before racing starts tomorrow.