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competitive swimming

water-based sport
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Summary

competitive swimming is a type of sport[1]. It draws 5,310 Wikipedia views per month (type of sport category, ranking #68 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: water sport[3], swimming[4], Olympic sport[5]
  • Commons category: Competitive swimming[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Competitive swimming[7]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Swimming[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=swimming[9]
  • Described by source: Green Map Icons[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11]
  • Uses: swimming pool[12]
  • Record or record progression: list of world records[13]
  • Practiced by: swimmer[14], swimming coach[15]
  • Regulated by: World Aquatics[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
  • P14470: Concepts/Swimming[18]
  • P14541: 4JtfWM[19]
  • P14692: Colón[20]

Why It Matters

competitive swimming has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000233
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Colón
    Practiced by → swimmer, swimming coach
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Swimming
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Swimming, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Competitive swimming
    Regulated by → World Aquatics
    Topic's main wikimedia portal → Portal:Swimming
    Uses → swimming pool
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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