This is a list of swimming competitions conducted in pool and open water environments. Pool competitions include long course metres (50 metre pool), short course metres (25 metre pool), and short course yards (25 yard pool) formats.
Olympic committee events
Olympic Games, pool since 1896, open water since 2008, for example swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics Youth Olympic Games, since 2010, for example swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics African Games, since 1965, co-organized with the African Union and Association of African Sports Confederations Asian Games, Olympic committee organized since 1982, 1951 to 1982 organized by the Asian Games Federation Australian Youth Olympic Festival, 2001 to 2013 European Games, 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, since 1991, for example swimming at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Indian Ocean Island Games, for example swimming at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games Pan Arab Games, since 1953 World Beach Games, open water since 2019, for example open water swimming at the 2019 World Beach Games
International swimming federation events
World Aquatics Championships (50 m pool, open water), pool since 1973, open water since 1991 World Swimming Championships (25 m pool), since 1993, for example 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) World Open Water Championships, 2000 to 2010, for example 2002 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships World Junior Swimming Championships, since 2006, for example 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships World Masters Championships, since 1978, 1978 and 1984 held by an organization other than FINA Swimming World Cup, since 1988, for example 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup Marathon Swim World Series, since 2007, for example 2022 FINA Marathon Swim World Series Champions Swim Series, since 2019 Aquatics Festival, open water since 2021, for example Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival
African events
African Aquatics Championships
African Swimming Championships, since 1974, for example 2021 African Swimming Championships African Junior Swimming Championships, since 1988 African Juniors Aquatics Championships African Masters Aquatics Championships
American events
Pan American Games, pool since 1951, open water since 2007
Junior Pan American Games, since 2021, for example 2021 Junior Pan American Games South American Games, pool since 1978, open water since 2006 South American Youth Games, since 2013 South American Aquatics Championships South American Swimming Championships, since 1929, for example 2016 South American Swimming Championships South American Masters Aquatics Championships South American Juniors Aquatics Championships South American Beach Games, open water since 2009 Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championships, since 1960 Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships, since 1976 CAMEX, since 1986 CARIFTA Swimming Championships, since 1985 Bolivarian Games, since 1938 Bolivarian Beach Games, open water since 2012, for example 2012 Bolivarian Beach Games
Asian events
Asian Swimming Championships, since 1980, for example 2012 Asian Swimming Championships Asian Age Group Swimming Championships Asian Open Water Swimming Championships South Asian Games (SAG), since 1984 Southeast Asian Games (SEA), since 1959 Southeast Asian Swimming Championships (SEA), since 1977 West Asian Games, since 1997, for example swimming at the 2005 West Asian Games South Asian Swimming Championships Central Asian Swimming Championships West Asian Swimming Championships Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, short course swimming, since 2005
European events
European Aquatics Championships (50 m pool, open water), pool since 1926, open water since 1995, for example 2022 European Aquatics Championships European Short Course Championships (25 m pool), since 1996, post-European Sprint Swimming Championships European Sprint Swimming Championships, 1991 to 1994, pre-European Short Course Swimming Championships, for example 1994 European Sprint Swimming Championships European Open Water Swimming Championships, 1989 to 2016 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships, for example 2012 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships European Junior Swimming Championships, since 1967 European Masters Championships, since 1987 Baltic States Swimming Championships, for example 2021 Baltic States Swimming Championships Open de Paris de Natation
Oceania events
Pacific Games, 1963 to 1979 and 1987 to present
Oceania Swimming Championships, since 1993, for example 2010 Oceania Swimming Championships Oceania Masters Championships