The sport of artistic swimming (formerly synchronized swimming) is governed by World Aquatics (AQUA), formerly known as the Federation Internationale de Natation.
Learn more about the rules and regulations of the sport:
2027 season and on:
2025-2026 seasons:
- Set Numbers of Required Elements for Routines (2025-2026)
- 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)
- Technical Required Elements (TREs) for all technical routines
- Understanding the Degree of Difficulty in Free Hybrids
- Understanding the Degree of Difficulty of Team Acrobatics
- Changes to the Hybrid Difficulty and to the Factors (June 2023)
- Updates to the Free Hybrid Difficulty and Apnea Time Limits (March 2024)
Documents available on World Aquatics:
The rules and regulations are usually revised every four years, after the World Championships following the Olympic Games.
However, the community overwhelmingly requested minimal changes for the 2026 season, so nothing was updated after the 2025 World Championships like it normally would have. The newest updates will be from 2027 on.