More than 1 billion people around the world are expected to tune in to the 12th FINA World Championships, which began in Melbourne on Sunday.

Channel Nine's Wide World of Sports' is treating fans to 17 hours of live coverage during prime time as well as 10 hours of highlights.

The swimming events will be held in the Rod Laver Arena in the deepest temporary pool ever constructed. Every swimming final will be broadcast live from March 25th with Ray Warren joined in the commentary team by sports veteran Ken Sutcliffe and former swimming greats including Nicole Livingstone, Giaan Rooney and Duncan Armstrong.

But it's not just swimming events on show - diving, water polo, open-water swimming and synchronised swimming are also on offer with highlights packages on Nine and Fox Sports from March 19-24.

For full details of the events and television coverage see the schedule here.

For even more coverage, BigPond is showing live video coverage, results and highlights of all five disciplines through their BigPond Sport website and Omega has live timing and official results on their Omega Live Timing website.

See Also
  • Finals Program & Television Coverage

  • BigPond Sport - Swimming

  • Wide World of Sports

  • Omega Live Timing

  • 12th FINA World Swimming Championships Website

  • FINA Website