Our club was a pioneer in the professionalisation of artistic swimming. Honorary member in memoriam Sisto Salera and long-standing honorary member Steffi Haeberli played a pioneering role in the 1960s. Their pioneering efforts led to the development of the first competition rules, which were introduced at the Swiss Championships in 1972 and later adopted by FINA (now World Aquatics).

Major milestones in the history of our club and artistic swimming worldwide:

• 1940s - André Grosjean (Olympic water polo player in London '48) founds the Ballet des Roses in Bern
• 1949 - First performance of the Ballet des Roses in Bern
• 1950 - Integration of the Ballet des Roses into the newly founded Polo Club Bern
• 1958 - Artistic Swimming is recognised as the 4th discipline of FINA
• 1972 - With the introduction of the competition rules, the first Swiss championships are held in Lancy
• 1973 - First FINA World Championships in Belgrade

• 1976 - First international competition (Swiss Open) in Dübendorf
• 1980 - First European Junior Championships held in Bern
• 1984 - Artistic Swimming becomes Olympic! First participation of Switzerland with our Bernese Edith Wälti & Karin Singer (FLÖS) 5th place
• 1986 - The Polo Club Bern is renamed Synchroverein Bern
• 2008 - Beijing Olympics: participation with our Ariane Schneider-Kirchhofer and her partner Magdalena Brunner (FLÖS) 12th place
• 2012 - London Olympics: participation with our Bernese athletes Anja Nyffeler and Pamela Nicod-Fischer (20th place)
• 2015 - Men are admitted to the World Championships for the first time
• 2017 - The International Swimming Federation (FINA) changes the name of Synchronised Swimming to Artistic Swimming
• 2023 - Drastic change to the rules and scoring system
• 2024 - SynchroBern is renamed to Artistic Swimming Bern