The sport of artistic swimming (synchronized swimming) is governed by World Aquatics (AQUA), formerly known as the Federation Internationale de Natation.
Learn more some of the major changes:
2025 season:
- Set Numbers of Required Elements for Routines (2025-)
- An Overview of the Updated Artistic Swimming Rules and What They Mean For The 2025 Season
- Technical Required Elements (TREs) for all technical routines
2023-2024 seasons:
- What Is Changing With the New Artistic Swimming Rules?
- Set Numbers of Required Elements for Routines (2023-2024)
- Understanding the Degree of Difficulty in Free Hybrids
- Changes to the Hybrid Difficulty and to the Factors (June 2023)
- Updates to the Free Hybrid Difficulty and Apnea Time Limits (March 2024)
- Understanding the Degree of Difficulty of Team Acrobatics
The rules and regulations are revised every four years, after the World Championships following the Olympic Games.