Swimming was contested at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima Big Wave Pool, Hiroshima, Japan from October 3 to October 8, 1994.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Alexey Khovrin  Kazakhstan	23.12	Jiang Chengji  China	23.24	Sergey Borisenko  Kazakhstan	23.25
100 m freestyle details	Yukihiro Matsushita  Japan	51.09	Sergey Borisenko  Kazakhstan	51.26	Alexey Yegorov  Kazakhstan	51.28
200 m freestyle details	Taihei Maeda  Japan	1:51.08 GR	Kazunori Hikida  Japan	1:52.75	Woo Won-ki  South Korea	1:52.80
400 m freestyle details	Bang Seung-hoon  South Korea	3:54.72 GR	Hisham Al-Masri  Syria	3:55.86	Masayuki Fujimoto  Japan	3:56.16
1500 m freestyle details	Hisham Al-Masri  Syria	15:29.70 GR	Masato Hirano  Japan	15:31.91	Fu Tao  China	15:34.46
100 m backstroke details	Hajime Itoi  Japan	56.08 GR	Eiji Komine  Japan	56.45	Lin Laijiu  China	57.04
200 m backstroke details	Ji Sang-jun  South Korea	2:00.65 GR	Hajime Itoi  Japan	2:01.34	Ryuji Horii  Japan	2:01.66
100 m breaststroke details	Akira Hayashi  Japan	1:02.04 GR	Wang Yiwu  China	1:03.42	Chen Jianhong  China	1:03.94
200 m breaststroke details	Wang Yiwu  China	2:14.56 GR	Akira Hayashi  Japan	2:14.91	Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand	2:16.52
100 m butterfly details	Jiang Chengji  China	53.97 GR	Hajime Itoi  Japan	54.27	Mitsuharu Takane  Japan	55.05
200 m butterfly details	Xue Wei  China	2:01.47	Mitsuharu Takane  Japan	2:01.64	Osamu Mihara  Japan	2:01.70
200 m individual medley details	Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand	2:04.16 GR	Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan	2:05.77	Tatsuya Kinugasa  Japan	2:06.19
400 m individual medley details	Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand	4:20.03 GR	Tatsuya Kinugasa  Japan	4:29.85	Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan	4:30.53
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Japan Hiroshi Fukuda Makio Endo Masakatsu Usami Yukihiro Matsushita	3:23.80 GR	Kazakhstan Alexey Khovrin Alexey Yegorov Sergey Ushkalov Sergey Borisenko	3:25.12	Uzbekistan Oleg Tsvetkovskiy Vyacheslav Kabanov Oleg Pukhnatiy Aleksandr Agafonov	3:28.58
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Japan Taihei Maeda Yukihiro Matsushita Masayuki Fujimoto Kazunori Hikida	7:27.18 GR	South Korea Ji Sang-jun Woo Chul Woo Won-ki Bang Seung-hoon	7:33.61	Thailand Vicha Ratanachote Dulyarit Phuangthong Pawin Kohvathana Torlarp Sethsothorn	7:39.76
4 × 100 m medley relay details	Japan Eiji Komine Akira Hayashi Hajime Itoi Yukihiro Matsushita	3:41.70 GR	China Lin Laijiu Wang Yiwu Jiang Chengji Qiu Jieming	3:45.28	Kazakhstan Sergey Ushkalov Alexandr Savitskiy Andrey Gavrilov Sergey Borisenko	3:47.35

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Naoko Imoto  Japan	26.29 GR	Sumika Minamoto  Japan	26.59	Robyn Lamsam  Hong Kong	26.95
100 m freestyle details	Shan Ying  China	54.40 GR	Naoko Imoto  Japan	56.67	Sumika Minamoto  Japan	56.68
200 m freestyle details	Le Ying  China	1:59.77 GR	Eri Yamanoi  Japan	2:00.30	Suzu Chiba  Japan	2:00.33
400 m freestyle details	Suzu Chiba  Japan	4:15.64	Sachiko Miyaji  Japan	4:15.82	Jeong Won-kyung  South Korea	4:22.16
800 m freestyle details	Luo Ping  China	8:31.57 GR	Tomoko Goza  Japan	8:43.73	Sachiko Miyaji  Japan	8:48.29
100 m backstroke details	He Cihong  China	1:00.71 GR	Miki Nakao  Japan	1:03.12	Mai Nakamura  Japan	1:03.16
200 m backstroke details	He Cihong  China	2:09.46 GR	Liu Bichun  China	2:13.46	Miki Nakao  Japan	2:14.42
100 m breaststroke details	Dai Guohong  China	1:09.87 GR	Masami Tanaka  Japan	1:10.96	Hitomi Maehara  Japan	1:11.54
200 m breaststroke details	Yuan Yuan  China	2:28.34 GR	Dai Guohong  China	2:29.72	Masami Tanaka  Japan	2:31.10
100 m butterfly details	Liu Limin  China	58.38 GR	Qu Yun  China	58.70	Joscelin Yeo  Singapore	1:01.62
200 m butterfly details	Liu Limin  China	2:06.77 GR	Hong Shu  China	2:10.25	Mika Haruna  Japan	2:10.30
200 m individual medley details	Dai Guohong  China	2:15.42	Hitomi Maehara  Japan	2:15.73	Hideko Hiranaka  Japan	2:18.78
400 m individual medley details	Lin Li  China	4:40.47	Dai Guohong  China	4:45.64	Hitomi Maehara  Japan	4:46.42
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Japan Sumika Minamoto Naoko Imoto Eri Yamanoi Suzu Chiba	3:46.41	Hong Kong Lau King Ting Fenella Ng Vivian Lee Robyn Lamsam	3:54.36	South Korea Lee Bo-eun Bae Yun-kyung Lee Jie-hyun Jeong Won-kyung	3:56.92
4 × 100 m medley relay details	China He Cihong Dai Guohong Liu Limin Shan Ying	4:07.69 GR	Japan Miki Nakao Masami Tanaka Mika Haruna Suzu Chiba	4:10.87	South Korea Lee Ji-hyun Byun Ju-mee Lee Dong-sook Lee Bo-eun	4:22.11

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	15	8	3	26
2	Japan (JPN)	10	18	16	44
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	4	7
4	Thailand (THA)	2	0	2	4
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	2	3	6
6	Syria (SYR)	1	1	0	2
7	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
8	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		31	31	31	93

• New Straits Times, October 3–9, 1994
• Results

• Olympic Council of Asia