By Gary AndersonThe Copper Box Arena at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been announced as the host venue for next year's inaugural World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

14 nations competing in nine adaptive sports - archery, athletics, road cycling, sitting volleyball, swimming

By Gary AndersonUSA Swimming along with nine industry partners are launching a summer-long campaign called

The campaign is being described as "light-hearted" and proclaims swimming as the "funnest sport there

Industry Report claims parents whose children had never tried swimming perceived it to be less fun than

I started swimming as a kid and it gave me skills I've used throughout my life," said the 47-year-old

, Swimming World magazine, the National Swimming Pool Foundation and the American Swimming Coaches Association

The sport of swimming is about family," said USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wieglus."

this role now seems to have been usurped unexpectedly, at least to me, by denizens of the 50-metre swimming-pool.When

the Baltimore Bullet returned to competitive swimming at the Arena Grand Prix in Mesa, Arizona last

his fifth gold medal of the Athens 2004 Olympics in the 100m butterfly.And I am not even much of a swimming

put in, the more you get out".His main line of thinking, though, focused on two characteristics of swimming

that could, or so one might construe, make it particularly taxing to quit competitive swimming when

Champions though those now cast into the financial wilderness, like basketball, water polo and synchronised swimming

came away from that representation with a good outcome and of the six remaining, one [synchronised swimming

By Nick ButlerElisabeth Walker-Young has been appointed Chef de Mission of the Canadian team for the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games, it was announced today. 

37-year-old Walker-Young, who was born in Toronto, was formerly a member of the Canadian Paralympic swimming

By Gary AndersonNew Zealand has named a nine-strong squad for this year's Pan-Pacific Para-Swimming Championships

Jesse Reynolds, who made his major Championships debut at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

size of this team really shows the work that been going on behind the scenes with the New Zealand Para-swimming

We believe we have a high chance of success following on from recent results at the NZ Open Swimming

The 2014 Para-Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are due to take place from August 6 to 10.The last edition

Zealand ChampionshipsAugust 2013: Pascoe and Fisher set to lead New Zealand medal charge at IPC World Swimming

By Nick ButlerRio State Government officials deny the scale of plans to tackle water pollution in the city ahead of Rio 2016 have been reduced, amid an insistence appropriate action is being taken to ensure the sailing test event in August goes ahead as planned. 

levels in the waters of the sailing venue on Guanabara Bay, as well as the triathlon and open water swimming

2016 Organising Committee, insist the part of the bay where sailing will be held has a safe level for swimming

By Nick ButlerA five-strong shortlist spanning three different continents has been unveiled by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for its Athlete of the Month award for April.

The 36-year-old, who has won 11 Paralympic gold medals in total across swimming and cycling events, set

By Emily GoddardAndrey Korneyev, who swam to an Olympic bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 200 metres breaststroke event, has died of stomach cancer at the age of 40.

, and another 4×100m relay gold and 200m silver in 1997 in Seville.He was also a Short Course World Swimming

By Gary AndersonParalympics Ireland President Jimmy Gradwell has told the organisation's Annual General Meeting (AGM) he is disgusted by the International Paralympic Committee's decision to drop some athletics events at Rio 2016 because it will lessen chances of Irish success at the Games. 

success at international level which has seen Irish athletes secure 15 medals in athletics, cycling and swimming

Olympic Games until Beijing 2008 when South Africa's Natalie du Toit took part in the 10 kilometres swimming

By Emily GoddardApril 30 - World number one Rob Davies has been named to lead a 14-strong British Para table tennis team heading to the Slovenia Open and Slovakia Open next month.

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By Nick ButlerApril 30 - "Campaign Rio", Australia's attempt to improve their Olympic and Paralympic fortunes at Rio 2016, has ramped up a level with the announcement of team leaders across 10 different sports, alongside a speech by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove outlining the significance of both teams. 

both indoors and outdoors to contribute to an "outstanding result" in Rio de Janeiro.Michael Scott in swimming

By Zjan Shirinian April 29 - Ten coaches have been appointed to work with Britain's Paralympic swimmers in the lead-up to Rio 2016.

British Para-Swimming began its search for world class coaches at the end of last year.British national

names in the sport in their home programmes.The Britons will have the task of bettering the team's swimming

London 2012, when 44 swimmers won 39 medals, including seven gold, putting the team seventh in the swimming

It was our intention at British Para-Swimming to put together a bespoke coach education package for coaches

2013: Britain appoints Olympic medallist as new Paralympic national coachOctober 2013: British Para-Swimming

By Gary AndersonApril 29 - Competitors hoping to secure a spot on the British team for the inaugural Invictus Games later this year have been paid a visit by the event's chief supporter Prince Harry today, as more than 25 service personnel begin the selection process for the wheelchair rugby, cycling and indoor rowing events.

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