been paid following the death of Lino Cândido Lourenço, the first ever member of the International Swimming

He served as secretary general of the the Angolan Swimming Federation between 1993 and 2012 and played

2008 and London 2012.After becoming a member in 1991, he was appointed vice-president of the African Swimming

By Nick ButlerApril 28 - Celebrations took place today to mark 200 days-to-go until the 4th Asian Beach Games in Phuket, an event which has special significance as the forerunner of the inaugural World Beach Games which is currently being proposed. 

A visit was then paid to one of the two main venue clusters on Karon Beach, where marathon swimming,

By Gary AndersonApril 27 - World champions Bogdan Bondarenko and Olena Pidhrushna picked up the 2013 Ukrainian sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards at a special ceremony in the National Sports Complex in Kyiv attended by President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Sergey Bubka.

award was given to Olga Sviderska after her exploits at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

By Gary AndersonApril 26 - Australian swimmer Hayley Morris has had her hopes of competing at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games dashed after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) ruled she is ineligible to compete in international events.

IPC classifiers who deemed her disability was not severe enough, despite her getting clearance from Swimming

Australia and the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC).Morris had competed in the recent Australian Swimming

Chinese divers continued their almost total monopolisation of gold medals in this year's International Swimming

By Paul OsborneApril 25 - French triathlete Laurent Vidal is in hospital after suffering a heart attack while training.

The 30-year-old complained of chest pains while swimming at the Fonquerne Sète pool in Sète, forcing

Sport.Other reasons for investment, such as the ability of sports like water polo and synchronised swimming

By David OwenApril 24 - David Sparkes, British Swimming's chief executive, has appealed to private individuals to put their hands in their pockets to ensure that Great Britain's in-form women's water polo team can prepare as well as possible for a make-or-break European Championships in Budapest.

I am not allowed to steal some swimming or diving money and reallocate it," he said."

The British Swimming chief executive also confided that "the view we have formed is that if the ladies

performing well within the top eight in Rio 2016 and targeting a medal performance in 2020".British Swimming

water polo's funding axe set to have knock-on effect at planned new Manchester baseMarch 2014: British Swimming

By Paul OsborneApril 24 - Disabled people across England will once again be given the chance to try out a host of Paralympic sports as Manchester gets set to hold the third ParalympicsGB Sports Fest.

hockey, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, athletics, equestrian, judo, powerlifting, shooting, swimming

Paralympic gold medallist Pearson joins ParalympicsGB Sports Fest line-upMarch 2013: BPA and British Swimming

By Nick ButlerApril 24 - Jason Hellwig will be Chef de Mission of the Australian Paralympic team at Rio 2016, repeating the role he undertook at London 2012, it has been announced. 

ImagesAustralia won 85 medals at London 2012, including 32 spread across athletics, cycling, equestrian, sailing, swimming

By Zjan ShirinianApril 24 - Swimmer Michael Phelps claims he has not decided whether he will make his comeback to the sport permanent, after coming second in his first race since retiring.

tenths behind countryman Ryan Lochte in the 100 metres butterfly final, with a time of 52.13sec.Phelps, swimming

With what he's done for the sport of swimming and him leaving kind of broke my heart a little because

retirement as he eyes Rio 2016 gloryNovember 2013: Phelps returns to drug testing to raise hopes of swimming

By Nick ButlerApril 23 - Holding a Rio 2016 test event on the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay in barely three months' time will be "difficult", a senior official from the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has admitted. 

Concerns also remain in open water swimming, where pollution fears have grown since Copacabana Bay hosted

events during the 2007 Pan American Games ©Getty Images International Swimming Federation (FINA) executive

insidethegames they are liaising with all the relevant authorities to ensure improvements at the open water swimming

cannot say at this stage that there are any health risks but in the event that there are, the marathon swimming

By David Owen at the Manchester Aquatics CentreApril 23 - UK Sport's decision to withdraw funding for the British women's water polo team has been called into question after they beat world champions Spain 9-7 in a hard-fought contest here.

rather than their illustrious visitors who struck decisively in the final stages of the International Swimming

water polo's funding axe set to have knock-on effect at planned new Manchester baseMarch 2014: British Swimming

thoroughly unsportingMarch 2014: Exclusive: UK Sport critics are "crazy" claims PascoeFebruary 2014: British Swimming

By David OwenThere was more than one sports story in Manchester on Tuesday.At the city's Aquatics Centre, a couple of miles down the Stretford Road from the Old Trafford stadium where David Moyes, the Manchester United football manager, had just finished clearing out his desk, Great Britain's women's water polo team recorded a noteworthy - and, who knows, possibly life-changing - victory.Through 32 minutes of supreme collaborative effort, no little skill and bucket-loads of guts and bloody-mindedness, the 13 white-capped dervishes succeeded in upsetting world champions Spain by a 9-7 scoreline.

Swimming's decision last month to pursue an appeal against the withdrawal of funding from synchronised swimming

Britain has named a squad of 31 athletes for the upcoming International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

Slater are also included in a strong line-up announced following the conclusion of the British Para-Swimming

International Meet at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow yesterday.The meeting acted

on final day in GlasgowApril 2014: Britain's Slater sets European record on day two of British Para-Swimming

International MeetApril 2014: British trio secure medals on opening day of British Para-Swimming International

MeetJanuary 2014: Eindhoven announced as host venue for 2014 IPC European Swimming Championships