Event management is a set of skills and knowledge necessary for a successful experience for everyone involved in a certain manifestation. The topic of this Master's Thesis is to explain the specifics of management events such as a swimming competition. Swimming is an individual sport for everyone and it allows the individual to develop psychologically and physically and success is visible in the swimming results competitions. In order to connect management and swimming, it is necessary to work out the theoretical ones in detail determinants of event management, communication channels through which the public is familiar with event and the achievement of a key goal. The purpose of this Master's Thesis is based on the collected primary and secondary data to show the importance of event management for swimming competition, which aims to achieve National, International and European records, information, connecting top sportsmen and women, but also profit. The data available on the official websites of the competition organizers will be analyzed, information obtained from the media and financial statements. A comparative analysis will be conducted case studies on the example of two swimming competitions, International Competition Mladost and International Competition Zlatni medvjed through in-depth interviews with the organizers of the competition and Gordan Kožulj. In-depth interview with to the organizers will consist of three groups of questions. The first group of questions will be questions about the organization of the competition itself, the second group of questions will include a comparison of the previous competition with the last held competition, while the third group of questions will focus on financial statements. The in-depth interview with Gordan Kožulj will consist of two groups of questions. The first group will be questions about the Mladost Competition, the second group of questions will be questions about the Zlatni medvjed Competition and the interview will end with a comparison of the two swimming competitions and the current situation event management of swimming competitions in Croatia.