Swimming
- Eighth FINA World Championships, held in Perth, Australia (January 8 – 17)
- Second European SC Championships, held in Sheffield, United Kingdom (December 11 – December 13)
- December 1 – American swimmer Jenny Thompson breaks her own world record in the women's 100m butterfly (short course): 56:90
- December 13 – Mark Foster twice breaks the world record in the men's 50m freestyle (short course) during the European SC Championships in Sheffield, clocking 21.31 eventually.
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