With the official announcement that the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships are moving to July of 2023, we can devise a seemingly ever-changing calendar of events for the next 2+ years.
Below are the major elite international events as we know them to be at this time, with the caveat that things are still in flux and this may look different as time passes.
2022
- April 26th – April 30th – U.S. International Team Trials
- May 5th – 16th Southeast Asian Games
- June 25th – July 5th – Mediterranean Games
- June 26th – July 7th – World University Games
- July 5th – July 10th – European Junior Swimming Championships
- July 24th – July 30th – European Youth Olympic Festival
- July 26th – July 30th – U.S. National Championships
- July 28th -August 8th – Commonwealth Games
- August 11th – August 21st – European Championships (50m)
- August 23rd – August 28th – World Junior Championships
- August 24th – August 27th – Junior Pan Pacific Championships
- September 10th – September 25th – Asian Games
- November 29th – December 3rd – U.S. Open
- December 17th – December 22nd – FINA Short Course World Championships
2023
- May – Southeast Asian Games
- May 6th – May 21st – Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Games
- July 14th – 30th – FINA World Championships (50m)
- July – USA Swimming National Championships
- August – FINA World Junior Championships
- October 20th – November 5th – Pan American Games
- November – European Short Course Championships
- November 29th – December 2nd – U.S. Open
- TBD – 2023 African Games
2024
- January – FINA World Championships (50m)
- June 23rd – June 20th U.S. Olympic Trials
- July 26th – August 11th – 2024 Summer Olympic Games
- August – Junior Pan Pacific Championships
- December 17th – December 22nd – FINA Short Course World Championships
Why has swimming so few competitions? It’s the beginning of the year and the first major competition is 5-6 months away.
FINA’s first rule should be not to bump events for a previous event’s delay.
US Trials and US Championships are “elite international events” now. Ok.
I’ll take the few comments with flak for including them rather than what would have ensued had I not.
Ah yes, because US Trials is an international competition…
The XVI Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) will be held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia from 24 to 30 July 2022.
Junior pan pacs is still on this year? At exactly the same time as junior worlds?
Any word on International Team Trials? Are they still going to happen in April without any meets to select from Trials?
No word.
The World Juniors team still needs to be selected.
2023 SEA Games is May 5th-16th 🙂