By Nick ButlerOctober 23 - Official warnings have been issued by the International Swimming Federation

By Nick ButlerOctober 23 - There will be a total of 152 medal events in swimming at the 2016 Paralympics

 IPC Swimming came up with the programme after analysing the numbers of athletes, regions and countries

200m freestyle gold medal in the new S14 category at London 2012Jane Blaine, chairperson of the IPC Swimming

"This is the earliest we have ever announced our swimming programmes for both a World Championships and

By Nick ButlerOctober 23 - John Coates, the President of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), has combined with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in launching a "Campaign Rio" targeting a top five finish on the medals table at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Coutts, Melanie Schlanger, Brittany Elmslie, and Cate Campbell celebrate winning Australia's solitary swimming

of sports which Australia wins medals in so as to offset the impact of less medals being won by the swimming

I think we've had an over-dependence on swimming,'' he said.''

Australian swimmers tipped by Coates to bounce back at Rio 2016April 2013: Australia appoint former British Swimming

By Nick ButlerOctober 22 - The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay has been forced to undergo a further scheduling change as a result of the deteriorating political situation in the Maldives.

shortened to just two hours.The Baton was greeted at Malé International Airport by members of the Swimming

arrived in Singapore for the next leg of its journey two days ahead of schedule.Young members from the Swimming

By Gary AndersonOctober 22 – The third edition of the ParalympicsGB Sports Fest is set to take place at the University of Worcester Arena on November 24 and 25 where London 2012 medallists Josie Pearson and Dan Greaves are among the athletes confirmed to appear at the event.

nbsp;Cundy and Cockroft join to appear at ParalympicsGB Sports FestMarch 2013: BPA and British Swimming

By Paul OsborneOctober 21 - The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced today that it will

going to ask the taxpayers of Fort Lauderdale to subsidise the private operation of the International Swimming

By Paul OsborneOctober 21 - Four cities have been selected as finalist to host Swimming Canada's 2016

Olympic and Paralympic Swimming Trials, it was announced today.

"We have four strong contenders to host this marquee event, and that bodes well for swimming in Canada

," said Swimming Canada chief executive Ahmed El-Awadi."

Piscines du Parc Olympique, used in the 1976 Olympic Games and venue of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Swimming

Olympique, built for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, is among the shortlisted cities to hold Canada's swimming

stage the event if they are chosen.The winning bid is planned to be revealed by November 2015 after Swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 21 - Alfons Hörmann, President of the German Ski Federation (DSV), is set to replace Thomas Bach as head of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) but will face opposition from boxing official Ulrich Bittner.

Youth and President of the German Basketball Federation, and Christa Thiel, President of the German Swimming

By Paul OsborneOctober 21 - More than 400 youngsters, Olympic and Paralympic athletes and supporters from local communities gathered at 3Mills Studio today to mark the opening of the London leg of the Get Set to Make a Change (GSTMC) roadshow.

school we are hoping to plan sport taster sessions because we have great facilities like sport halls, swimming

By Gary AndersonOctober 21 - United States golfer Michelle Wie has been officially unveiled today as a Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Ambassador with just under 300 days to go until the start of the second ever staging of the Games.

writer of this story at [email protected] StoriesAugust 2013: London 2012 swimming

By Nick ButlerOctober 21 - Prince Feisal Al Hussein has been re-appointed to serve a third term as the President of the Jordan Olympic Committee (JOC) for the next four years following an election held in Al Hussein Sport City.

largest-ever delegation of ten athletes to London 2012, taking part in athletics, boxing, equestrian and swimming

By Emily GoddardOctober 20 - Baku is today marking the 600 days to go milestone to the European Games, being held for the first time ever in 2015 in the Azerbaijani capital.

5,600 athletes from the continent's 49 Olympic nations to compete across 18 sport competitions, with swimming

By Emily GoddardOctober 19 - Brazil topped the Parapan American Youth Games medal table as the event came to a close with a ceremony at the Plaza Seca National Centre for High Performance Sports (CENARD) in Buenos Aires today.

sent athletes to compete in athletics, boccia, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, swimming

By Paul OsborneOctober 18 - The International Swimming Federation (FINA) today announced an extension

means that IEC in Sport will distribute media rights in major FINA events, including the Synchronised Swimming

World Trophy Events included under the deal include to the FINA Swimming World Cup, FINA Diving World

Series, FINA Water Polo World League and FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy."

By Duncan MackayOctober 18 - A new online tool has been developed which allows youngsters to measure their sporting ability against some of the world's leading Paralympic athletes. 

their results from a series of basic sporting tests and compare them to the likes of 13-time Paralympic swimming