The European Junior Swimming Championships is an annual swimming competition for European swimmers organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation and held over five days. The competitor age for females is 15 to 16 years-old; males is 17 to 18 years-old.
Until 1989 the European Junior Diving Championships was held together with European Junior Swimming Championships, has sometimes been co-hosted with the European Junior Swimming Championships, for example in Palma de Mallorca in 2006.
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