Antigua and Barbuda's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 believes that breaking the country's Commonwealth Games medal duck would be a "big, big thing".

Kingston in 1966.Rayne is due to oversee 10 athletes in Birmingham - in athletics, boxing, cycling and swimming

Obstacle racing is due to be part of a modern pentathlon competition for the first time next month after a test event in Ankara was confirmed.

UIPM has claimed that obstacle athletes now have a route to the Olympic Games, if they are able to add swimming

Antigua and Barbuda has never won a medal at the Commonwealth Games, so if they were to break their duck at Birmingham 2022 it would be a momentous occasion.

 "A lot of athletes are going for other sports like track and field, swimming, basketball and volleyball

 "The aquatics centre where swimming will take place is also a magnificent legacy pool which I was

Paralympics Ireland has held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Sport Ireland Sports Headquarters at Abbotstown, where it reflected upon its preparation and performance for the Tokyo 2020 Games.

O'Reilly finished third in the men's road time trial H5.Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner were Ireland's swimming

France and Brazil have concluded the International School Sport Federation (ISF) Gymnasiade level at the top of the medals table on golds and total medals won.

Three Para sports - athletics, judo and swimming - were also held for the first time."

Two-time Olympic artistic swimming medallist Mikako Kotani is seeking to protect sportswomen from being

impossible as "that’s just the way things were".During her athlete career, Kotani competed in synchronised swimming

- which was renamed artistic swimming by the International Swimming Federation in 2017 - and she went

Japan’s first female Opening Ceremony flag bearer.Kotani was the national champion in solo artistic swimming

Back then I was just happy synchro swimming was on the cover, but later I realised there are people who

Six Tokyo 2020 individual Olympic medallists have been selected in Australia's 46-member swimming team

Australian Championships and has booked his place on the team.Now 25, Simpson had spent a decade away from swimming

sentence, but the CAS threw out those appeals in September 2021, freeing Jack to resume her competitive swimming

drugs test.Australia's Chef de Mission Petria Thomas, a nine-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist in swimming

The 46-member swimming team joins the 27 athletes already selected to compete in Para swimming competitions

at Birmingham 2022.The 54 swimming and Para swimming events at Birmingham 2022 are scheduled for July

The Alexandri sisters topped the podium again as they finished the International Swimming Federation

Artistic Swimming World Series Super Final in style in Athens.

bagged bronze with 85.8000.Emma Garcia and Pau Ribes claimed another gold medal at the FINA Artistic Swimming

A number of Commonwealth Games medallists and Olympians have been added to a mentoring scheme in Scotland which provides guidance to young athletes and coaches.

Sanders is set to mentor young athletes and coaches in Scotland ©Getty ImagesCameron Brodie, who earned swimming

Austria and Spain have achieved double golds at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Artistic

Swimming World Series Super Final in Athens in Greece.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has insisted that there is "no one-size-fits-all" solution to transgender participation in sport as he urged organisations to make decisions based on scientific evidence.

to ban transgender women from competing in female competitions.The Australian Olympic Committee and Swimming

Australia last month threatened legal action after an activist group used pictures of three Olympic swimming

Vasiliki Alexandri has led Austria to a gold medal on the opening day of the International Swimming Federation

(FINA) Artistic Swimming World Series Super Final in Athens in Greece.

to score 86.1525 which was superior to Israel’s 83.4367 and Kazakhstan’s 79.2041.The FINA Artistic Swimming

On this day in 2003, Annika Sörenstam became the first woman in 58 years to play the PGA Tour - an honour previously accorded to sporting polymath Babe Zaharias, winner of two golds and a silver in athletics at the 1932 Olympics.

asked which events he would watch, the 27-year-old stated: "Probably the events like track and field, swimming

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has issued a warning to athletes who support Russia’s military assault on Ukraine, insisting they will "draw the necessary consequences".

Bach backed the actions of International Swimming Federation (FINA) and the International Gymnastics

demonstrating support for the invasion of Ukraine during an FIG Apparatus World Cup in Doha.Double Olympic swimming

Melbourne has been announced as the replacement host of the World Swimming Championships (25 metres)

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) began a search for a new host in March.The governing body

FINA is delighted that the proud swimming nation of Australia will host the FINA World Swimming Championships

Australia has a great swimming tradition and we’re looking forward to coming back to Melbourne."

Australia will host the World Swimming Championships 25m for the first time ©Getty ImagesThe Melbourne

1,000 athletes from in excess of 180 countries will compete across the six days of competition.The Swimming