British Swimming presents a momentous year of aquatic events in the UK.

World-class aquatics will return for the 2013 season with events in Leeds, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

Leeds will raise the curtain on the swimming season at the John Charles Centre for the British Gas International Swimming Meet, 7 – 10 March.

Great Britain then plays host to the FINA/Midea Diving World Series for the first time in two years, Edinburgh 19 – 21 April.

Sheffield will deliver the British International Disability Swimming Championships 25 – 28 April, the national flagship disability swimming competition.

The 2013 elite season will close with British Swimming's first sudden-death trials for the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, the British Gas Swimming Championships, Sheffield 26 – 30 June.

The British Gas ASA National Age Group and Youth Championships see the nation's youngest talent bid to become future Olympians in Sheffield, 24 – 28 and 30 July – 4 August.