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World Aquatics Championships - Singapore 2025 and its schedule announced

  • Aquatics

The 22nd edition of the World Aquatics Championships will be held in the city-state of Singapore from 11 July to 3 August 2025, bringing all six sports represented by World Aquatics to South East Asia.

Held in the heart of Southeast Asia, this momentous event will include competitions in swimming, water

polo, diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving.The 22nd edition of the event is

sporting events, including World Cups in five of the six aquatic sports and the 2015 World Aquatics Junior Swimming

Championships.Singapore also hosted the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010, which included swimming


German Swimming Association with increasing membership numbers

  • Swimming

The membership numbers in the German Swimming Association DSV have risen again.

As of 1 January this year, 588.438 members were counted in German swimming clubs.

Most people join the clubs immediately after swimming training.

German Swimming Association hopes for more trained child swimmers.

GETTY IMAGESThe German Swimming Association represents the five Olympic swimming disciplines: swimming

, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming.



Indonesia's first Olympic gymnast encourages others to dream bigger

  • Gymnastics

Indonesian gymnast Rifda Irfanaluthfi's palms are covered in chalk as she swings between two uneven bars during intensive training just weeks before she makes history at the Paris Olympics. The 24-year-old is the first Indonesian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, let alone the first woman, and her mind is set on reaching Paris fully fit so she can etch her name into gymnastics legend at home.

. https://t.co/9encVKYQim— Japan Times: Sports (@jt_sports) June 8, 2024"Dream higher"Rifda started swimming



Arno Kamminga's Remarkable Return to Form: "Feels Like My Former Self"

  • Swimming

Dutch swimmer Arno Kamminga, a double Olympic medallist at Tokyo 2020, is returning to the pools in excellent form after suffering illness and burnout shortly after his success at the 2021 Olympic Games.

morning, I can hit the heights and that's a good feeling," the swimmer told the media specialising in swimming


Torch Relay Stage 25: Nature and tennis between the Loire and the Atlantic

  • Paris 2024

On Wednesday, the Olympic torch visited an area of great diversity and the collective relay was dedicated to tennis, led by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but also including actress Virginie Ledoyen and former footballer Christian Karembeu. Roger-Yves Bost, equestrian Olympic champion at Rio 2016, lit the ceremonial cauldron.

Christian Karembeu, winner of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Philippe Revillon, a four-time medallist in para-swimming

torchbearers are involved in sport on a daily basis, such as François Ance, who, after participating in Para swimming


American swimmer Kensey McMahon handed four-year doping ban

  • Swimming

Distance swimmer Kensey McMahon has received a four-year ban after testing positive for the blood-boosting drug vadadustat last July. The American protested her innocence, but an independent arbitrator found her "unable to establish through concrete evidence that her violation was not intentional".

Independent Arbitrator Imposes Four-Year Sanction on Swimming Athlete Kensey McMahon for Anti-Doping

I've offered my experience to both USA Swimming and USADA to advocate for change in testing and policy


A stadium converted into an Olympic swimming pool with sights on Paris

  • Swimming

The Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis will be the qualifying trials venue for the Olympic Games in the United States. It will be a perfect replica of the La Défense Arena that will be used in Paris but with twice the capacity. The US trials will be held from 15 to 23 June.

The same company that built La Défense Arena, the venue for the swimming trials at the Paris 2024 Olympic

 The Défense Arena has a capacity of more than 16,000, while the stadium converted into a swimming

 The Trials is one of the most popular events for swimming fans.

competition, with vouchers ranging from 475 to $2,234 (€2.053) and the desire to make it the most attended swimming

I think it opens up the possibility for a lot of people outside of swimming to watch the Olympic Trials


Para Taekwondo included in Tashkent 2025 AYPG sports programme

  • Taekwondo

Para Taekwondo will feature for the second time in Asian Youth Para Games programme in Tashkent 2025 after its successful debut in Bahrain 2021 Games.Para Taekwondo has been announced as one of the 10 sports to feature at the next edition of the Asian Youth Para Games to take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during September- October 2025.

programme are Para Athletics, Para-Armwrestling, Para Cycling, Goalball, Para Judo, Para Powerlifting, Para Swimming



World University Games to prepare Australian swimming for Los Angeles 2028

  • Swimming

Swimming Australia's head coach Rohan Taylor has confirmed that Australia will return to the World University

These sports, including swimming and athletics, are among the highest participation sports in Australia

The World University Games are a useful competition not only for swimming but as a broader, village-based

team on 2022 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide.GETTY IMAGESThe Australian coach, who was

previously the state head coach for swimming in Victoria and Tasmania, has led the team to great success

Games, the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest and the most successful World Short Course Swimming


Katie Ledecky: Faith in Olympic anti-doping at "all-time low"

  • Olympics

Olympic champion Katie Ledecky states that confidence in the anti-doping system has hit an "all-time low" due to the recent handling of a case involving Chinese swimmers by global regulators.

number of athletes calling for greater transparency regarding the case, which is expected to overshadow swimming


The Qatar Olympic Committee is now 45 years of age

  • Olympics

A ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel, attended by QOC President H.E. Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, celebrated nearly five decades of progress and achievement. Special recognition was given to Mohamed Suleiman, Qatar's first Olympic medallist, who won bronze in the 1,500 metres at Barcelona '92.

Doha has hosted major international events, the most recent being the World Swimming Championships -


Dubai will host one of the eight legs of the T100 Triathlon World Tour in November

  • Triathlon

Dubai will add another world-class event to its roster. The city will welcome a long distance triathlon competition of the highest calibre. The course will traverse the Crystal Lagoon in District One and surrounding areas. Meydan Racecourse will provide the backdrop. The event is scheduled to take place from 15-17 November 2024.

 The swimming leg will be at the Crystal Lagoon swimming complex in the District One residential