Swimming
- February 11 – Danyon Loader swims world record in the Men's 400m Freestyle, while Mark Foster betters the world record in the Men's 50m Butterfly and Sandra Völker swims a European record in the Women's 50m Backstroke.
- February 18 – Australia's Angela Kennedy breaks the world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly (short course): 58:77
- XII Pan American Games, held in Mar del Plata, Argentina (March 12 – 18)
- 22nd European LC Championships, held in Vienna, Austria (August 22 – 27)
- Germany wins the most medals (28), Russia the most gold medals (14)
- II. World Short Course Championships, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (November 30 – December 3)
- December 2 – PR China's Limin Liu breaks the world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly (short course): 58:68
- December 3 – Australia wins the most medals (26), and the most gold medals (12)
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Famous quotes containing the word swimming:
“Whenever parents become overly invested in a particular skill or accomplishment, a child’s fear of failure multiplies. This is why some children refuse to get into the pool for a swimming lesson, or turn their back on Daddy’s favorite sport.”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer missionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)