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Australian swimmer Magnussen ready to dope for record and $1 million

  • Swimming

Former Australian swimming star James Magnussen is set to use performance-enhancing drugs to break a

 "If someone had asked me to do this during my swimming career, my answer would have been very different

Magnussen has a personal best of 21.52, set at the 2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming.


Kuwait may have sponsored Musallam's World Aquatics presidency campaign

  • Aquatics

A major scandal is engulfing the Asian Swimming Federation (now Asia Aquatics) over alleged mismanagement

February 6, 2024Husain Al-Musallam, President of World Aquatics, a prominent figure in the Kuwaiti Swimming

 The message, from the president of the Kuwait's Swimming Association to the foreign minister, reveals


Registration for SELL Games 2024 opens next week

  • FISU Section Pages

The 39th SELL Student Games, to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, from 16-19 May 2024, will open the registration process on 16 February 2024.

Basketball, 3×3 Basketball, Mini-Football (7x7), Badminton, Table Tennis, Powerlifting, Athletics, Swimming


Thai Para swimmer Worawut Marnnok - two-year ban for anti-doping violation

  • Swimming News

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Para swimmer Worawut Marnnok for a period of two years for committing an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) in violation of the IPC Anti-Doping Code (Code).

matter was then referred to the IPC, as the International Federation for the athlete's sport (Para Swimming

World Para Athletics, World Para Ice Hockey, World Para Powerlifting, World Shooting and World Para Swimming


Former head of Hungarian Swimming - "incitement to premeditated murder"

  • Swimming

Tamás Gyáfás was sentenced by a Budapest court on Thursday. He was convicted of ordering Jozef Rohac to murder businessman Janos Fenyo in 1998. The judge sentenced him to seven years in prison.

Tamás Gyárfás, the former head of Hungarian Swimming, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday


Paris 2024: New swimming pool opens in La Courneuve

  • Paris 2024

The new facility is located in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the Annette Kellermann complex. It will be used as a training venue for water polo teams during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. There will also be outdoor 7-a-side rugby pitches.

Last Tuesday, a brand new swimming pool was inaugurated in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), which will

The new swimming pool covers an area of 4,600 square metres. 1,600 square metres of this will be used

for competition (eight lanes), swimming lessons, leisure and wellness.The pool will be located in the

GETTY IMAGEAnnette Kellermann invented the first women's swimsuit that allowed free swimming," he recalled

It has 60 square metres of swimming pool space per 10,000 inhabitants, compared with 160 square metres


Fresh investment for Scotland's sports scholarship programme

  • News

Following a new injection of funding from sportscotland and the Scottish Funding Council, Scotland's national sports scholarship programme for talented student-athletes has been relaunched as "Winning Students 100".

with notable alumni including Olympic medallists Laura Muir (a great star in athletics), Duncan Scott (swimming


Doha 2024 ambassadors inspire students at Oryx International School

  • Swimming

To promote the World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024, the Local Organising Committee has worked with ambassadors, including former World Champions, Olympic medallists and star athletes who will be competing from 2-18 February 2024.

 Spain's Ona Carbonell is an icon of synchronised swimming.

I enjoyed my visit to the school, and I hope the students were inspired to take up artistic swimming


Singapore to host World Para Swimming Championships in 2025

  • Swimming News

World Para Swimming (WPS) and the Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC) have announced that Singapore

will host the 12th edition of the World Para Swimming Championships in October 2025.

Singapore will host the highest-level Para Swimming event outside the Paralympic Games from 3-9 October

The premier Paralympic swimming event for 2025 will be hosted at the prestigious OCBC Aquatic Centre

This event will coincide with Singapore's 60th anniversary celebrations, and the World Para Swimming

SDSCCraig Nicholson, Head of World Para Swimming, said: "We are delighted to announce that next year's

Singapore will host the Citi Para Swimming World Series for the first time in 2019, and since then we


13th ASEAN Para Games 2025 in Thailand set to break records

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Thai organisers are preparing for the January 2026 event in Korat, a city about 300 kilometres from the capital Bangkok. The Games will feature 19 different sports for people with disabilities. It will also be the most attended edition.

scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur in 2027 and Singapore in 2029.The aquatic centre is the venue for swimming

chess, para-cycling, football 5-a-side, CP football, goalball, judo, para-powerlifting, shooting, para-swimming


Doha 2024: World Aquatics Championships opening ceremony

  • Swimming

The World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024 Opening Ceremony promoted peace and unity through sport as it showcased Qatar's deep connection with water during in an immersive and exciting show at the Aspire Dome.

the sea and images of the six aquatic disciplines that will be contested during the championships: swimming

, artistic swimming, open water swimming, diving, high diving, and water polo.


New dates for 20th Mediterranean Games Taranto 2026

  • Mediterranean Games

A change to the final dates of the 20th Mediterranean Games, with the Opening Ceremony on 21 August and the Closing Ceremony on 3 September 2026, has been announced by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games in collaboration with the Taranto 2026 Organising Committee..

and a further €125 million will be allocated in the future for the construction of the new Olympic swimming


World Aquatics Championships: Records to be broken at Doha 2024

  • Swimming

Doha 2024 is set to break the records for the highest number of participating athletes and countries represented at the World Aquatics Championships when Qatar hosts the flagship event for the first time from 2-18 February 2024.

Four of the sports will see a record number of participating countries, including swimming, and three

 The athletes include are USA artistic swimming World champion, Bill May; defending high diving

 The action in Doha kicks off on 2 February with artistic swimming and diving before the Opening

The first week of competition will also feature open water swimming, followed by high diving and swimming

, high diving, water polo, artistic swimming and open water swimming.


World Para Swimming and Citi launch "Swim Together"

  • Swimming News

World Para Swimming, with the support from Citi, has announced the launch of Swim Together, a learn to

Developed by World Para Swimming, Swim Together enables participants to access swimming safety education

The educational material is aimed at people with little or no swimming experience and the curriculum

covers three key learning areas: Swimming Basics, Water Safety and Safe Rescue Skills.

 Craig Nicholson, Head of World Para Swimming, said: "Learn to swim programmes are an important

Our aim is to increase knowledge and skills in swimming and water safety, raise public awareness and


Brasília gets ready for high diving

  • Swimming

Brasília is preparing to host both the World Aquatics High Diving World Cup and the Junior World Aquatics High Diving Championships this year.

FINA, the International Swimming Federation, has become World Aquatics following a vote at an Extraordinary

is the governing body founded in 1908 that currently regulates five different aquatic disciplines: swimming

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