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From the University of Bath to the Paris Paralympics

  • Paralympics Pages

With just over three months to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, swimmer Suzanna Hext today became the first University of Bath athlete to be officially selected by Paralympics GB to compete at the Paralympic Games.

classification and won gold in the S5 50m freestyle and silver in the 100m freestyle at the Manchester 2023 Para Swimming

World Championships.She also set the qualification standard for Paris 2024 by swimming well inside the

qualifying time in the S5 100m freestyle at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships last month.She has

titles in a variety of disciplines and is a triple European Para Dressage gold medallist and World Para Swimming


IPC launches promotional film to mark 100 days until Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

One hundred days from today, Monday 20 May, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games get underway. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has released a film addressing the romantic stereotypes of what some people think the Paralympics represent versus the brutal reality of high-performance sport.

wheelchair tennis at Roland Garros, five-a-side football at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and Para swimming


WADA boasts "broad support" from members in Chinese positives case

  • Sports

Just as it sparred again with the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA), the global body updated its Foundation Board on the latest developments in the scandal involving the 23 swimmers from China in 2021 and insisted on food contamination as the source of the failed tests.

WADA executive committee member, wrote then.WADA receives support from Foundation Board on Chinese swimming


Breaking records at Paris 2024: The dream of many, achievement of a few

  • Paris 2024

From the swimming pool to the ever-improving athletics track, from the climbing wall to the basketball

summer.Kaylee McKeown competes in the Women’s 400m Individual Medley Final during the 2024 Australian Open Swimming

Either medal would tie the record for most Olympic medals won by a woman in water polo.The US men's swimming


SASCOC names Team SA and announces financial incentives for medallists

  • Olympics

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has released the first 39 members of the athletes that will be representing Team SA in the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer this Wednesday in Johannesburg.

#TeamSA🇿🇦 @Olympics #Paris2024🏅 #ForMyCountry✊ https://t.co/jq0IdOY7UV— Swimming South Africa (@SwimSouthAfrica


Two months before Paris, Summer McIntosh breaks her 400 medley world record

  • Paris 2024

Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh set a new world record in the 400 medley on Thursday, winning with a time of 4:24.38 in Toronto, after also claiming victory in Budapest and Fukuoka to qualify for Paris 2024.

The Canadian made her grand entrance into the world of swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (held


World Aquatics announces new elections for Tunisian swimming federation

  • Swimming

The world body has assigned a stabilisation committee that will temporarily manage the national entity after its leaders and anti-doping officials were arrested on Monday because of a controversy regarding the covering of a Tunisian flag.

World swimming chiefs drew up plans for said committee to run the affairs of the troubled Tunisian swimming

statement released on Thursday, World Aquatics explained the decision after a tough week for Tunisia swimming

best interests of all Tunisian athletes, the Stabilization Committee will ensure that the Tunisian Swimming

over the controversial covering of the country's flag during a championship organised by the national swimming


The First Effect: IOC and Deloitte launch inspiring global campaign

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee and financial management firm Deloitte have jointly launched a global media campaign documenting the impact of historic Olympic ‘firsts’. Debuted 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games, 'The First Effect' highlights some of the most trailblazing athletes whose achievements didn't make the podium. 

history are para-athletes Natalie Du Toit of South Africa, the first amputee to compete in Olympic swimming


Paris 2024: Olympics to unearth a new Paralympic star?

  • Paris 2024

As anticipation builds for the Paris 2024 Olympics, the spotlight shining on elite athletes and a question is being raised: Will this prestigious event reveal the next Paralympic sensation?

versatile athlete Cameron Leslie showcased impressive performance, rebounding from withdrawing from swimming

Demonstrating resilience, Leslie excelled at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, securing a gold


IOC launches "1 in 100 Million" ahead of Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

In support of the Refugee Olympic Team's journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unveiled the "1 in 100 Million" initiative.

12 diverse sports: athletics, badminton, boxing, breaking, canoeing, cycling, judo, sport shooting, swimming


World Aquatics unveils first-ever high-altitude pool

  • Swimming

World Aquatics has unveiled a first-ever high-altitude pool in Bhutan as part of their Pools for All Programme initiative launched in 2019.

Bhutan stands proudly at an impressive elevation of 8200 feet (2400 meters), marking it as the highest swimming

His Royal Highness expressed confidence that the swimming pool would become a central hub for aspiring

"The Pools For All facility not only opens doors for competitive swimming but also serves as a fantastic


Olympian Joanna Evans’ suspension increased to four years

  • Swimming

Bahamian double Olympian Joanna Evans expressed her frustrations with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday via social media. 

Clostebol.She claimed to have encountered it in September 2021 while competing at an International Swimming

“My swimming career has been destroyed by WADA’s legal team who disregarded the truth, misrepresented


2025 Tashkent Asian Youth Para Games: Sports programme unveiled

  • Athletics

The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) revealed the lineup on Wednesday of 10 sports scheduled to be showcased in the upcoming edition of the Asian Youth Para Games, set to occur in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from September to October 2025.

includes Para Athletics, Para-Armwrestling, Para Cycling, Goalball, Para Judo, Para Powerlifting, Para Swimming


WADA removes Tunisian Anti-Doping Agency from non-compliance list

  • Paris 2024

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has removed, with immediate effect, the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) from the list of Signatories not in compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code).

prosecutors arrested seven other sports officials on Friday for the absence of the national flag at a swimming

The officials of the Tunisian swimming federation and the national anti-doping agency were arrested on


Torch Relay Stage 6: Pride of place in Corsica

  • Paris 2024

The Olympic Torch first came to Corsica in 1992 for the Winter Olympics in Albertville. Now, 32 years later, it returned on Tuesday to highlight the natural beauty of the French island, 17 days after leaving Greece aboard the Belem.

people involved in the day-to-day development of sport on the island, including Lena Bardiot-Patroni, a swimming